been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and
1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks
2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this
ppl keep reblogging this and asking “well what are the medicine ads like in your country” and like…there aren’t any? It’s literally illegal to advertise prescription medicine here?
All of America: God I wish that were me
So who’s gonna tell the Not America part of the world about our legal ads for class action lawsuits against drug companies.
*deep breath* the whAT NOW?
Yep. The ads run on tv like
“Hi. This is Rathford and Tyson law firm. We’re representing a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who were prescribed sybelifex for their asthma. It turns out that sybelifex can cause spontaneous bleeding from every orifice and also super cancer. If you or a loved one has been affected by sybelifex, please contact us at xxx-xxx-xxxx or go to our website at sybelifexmurderedmydog.com.”
Those are totally normal here.
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A while ago, I offered a pancake to my Goddess [as an offering]. I was delighted to find, the next morning, that the pancake was gone. Which normally means that the offering was accepted.
I’ve told quite a few people about my pancake offering… and almost all of them have a problem with me offering my Goddess a simple thing. They call it silly. They call it flat. They call it absurd. They call it me being mentally ill.
Listen: the gods, unless they have specifically asked for something, do not care what you offer them. It could be a pancake, or water, or milk, or the smoke from your cigarette, or a daily walk, or even an offering of the breath you breathe. What matters is that your offering…. Comes from your heart.
The gods don’t want anything half-assed, this is what I have come to understand. You could offer your goddess or God all the things a recipe for devotion [found online or in a book] says that he/she likes… and your offering not be well-met or accepted.
Believe it or not, I’ve had this happen.
I used to take recipes and make devotions and offerings.. and the next day, I KNEW that they were not accepted, nor appreciated. Why? Because it didn’t come from me.
Sure, I made the items/meals/etc, but there was no personal touch to the offering or devotion. There was no piece of me.
When I threw the recipes away and started offering my goddess what I had, what I could give, of ANYTHING [yes, even a pancake], I found that She almost always accepted the devotion. I had taken the time to decide what to give Her, to prepare it for Her. I put myself into my devotion, no matter what it was.
And THAT’S THE POINT OF AN OFFERING: to give a little bit of yourself [or all of yourself] to the gods. They don’t need money or food or spirits. 1) they aren’t human and their lives don’t depend on what ours do and 2) THEY GAVE ALL OF THIS TO US.
So… next time you make an offering to your gods, try something a little personal, a little mental, a little crazy.
Offer them something from YOU… even if it’s a pancake.
So for my AP United States History class we have to write a research paper; my topic is the gay rights movement in America. Today I began reading one of the books that I chose as a source
And I opened it up to the dedication page and found this
And if you don’t think that’s one of the sweetest and most romantic things ever then get out of my face
@ElaheIzadi:’Beauty and the Beast’ to have Disney’s first-ever ‘exclusively gay moment’ @HeatherMatarazz: I thought it was when I popped out the closet in “Princess Diaries 2”
also this
She definitely legalized same-sex marriage in Genovia
My biggest pet peeve is being talked to AS SOON as i wake up. I hate that shit. Stop tryin to communicate with me. Stop askin me questions. Im tryna understand the universe all over again dont talk to me yet ur gonna confuse me and piss me off.
⚠️ MORNING PEOPLE DO NOT INTERACT! ⚠️
I tell people that I am not a morning person and what they hear is ‘I purposely chose to stay up til the wee hours and then it’s my own fault for not getting enough sleep when I am awakened at a normal time when normal people should be up, and I just need to correct this failing to live a happier life’.
What I am ACTUALLY telling them is ‘I have delayed sleep phase disorder, where in my circadian rhythm is different from theirs and my brain does not produce melatonin the way theirs does. When I am forced to get up before I have had a full 9 hours sleep–especially if I am awakened during sleep cycle–I am working at an extremely reduced ability level and will be unable to work at my peak efficiency and effectiveness until the afternoon.
‘As a result, I may rely on caffeine and other stimulants for the first 5 hours of the day, which also contributes to insomnia, and burnout in the late afternoon means I may snack on carbs for the energy boost. It is the equivalent of having permanent jet lag such as when you are 5 hours off from everyone around you.
‘It is not something that can be cured, only a condition to manage, and requires the people around me to make reasonable accommodations such as not trying to force me to interact with them and be decisional when I first wake up.
‘I also have ADHD, which means I have difficulty working when there is noise and chatter preventing me from being able to concentrate. I need calm quiet to be able to do my best work, and the only time I actually have calm quiet is when the rest of the world is asleep.
‘During the day, I artificially create this quiet during the day, using noise-cancelling headphones when I am forced to work in a noisy environment, or by working alone in a quiet space. And when you deny me that quiet, I expend a tremendous amount of energy just trying to focus. And I am much more likely to miss steps, or make errors, affecting the quality of my work as well as how long it takes me to complete.’
And what people hear is ‘I am lazy and unwilling to change,’ when in reality THEY are the ones unwilling to change because it is inconvenient, or requires them to be considerate of others.
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