
I’d also like this! Um, I wear a small.

I’d also like this! Um, I wear a small.

Oh god, I want this.

Oh, the emails I come home to.
Life’s full of cloudy skies. Its up to you to make them colourful.
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You say that you miss me and write sappy blog posts about it, yet as soon as I try talking to you, you’re either too busy, or completely ignore me. Just when things can’t possibly get better, you make plans and always bail at the last minute.
Make up your god damn mind already.
More than 1,000 years after she was carted off to Germany to marry an ambitious Saxon duke, experts believe they have identified the body of Princess Eadgyth.
Bristol University in western England said Wednesday that, should scientific tests on her bones prove conclusive, that would make Eadgyth (pronounced ‘Edith’) the oldest member of the English royal family whose remains have survived. The bones were found in Magdeburg, Germany.
Eadgyth was born at the dawn of the 10th century, when England was still divided into a patchwork of Anglo-Saxon and Viking fiefdoms. Her brother King Athelstan kicked the Vikings out of York and routed the Scots and Irish in a massive battle around 937.
Historians consider him the first king to effectively rule of all of England.
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Jesus Christ, this sounds a lot like me. OOF!
via BBC News:
South Korean government workers are being given an unusual instruction — go home and multiply.
At 1900 on Wednesday, officials at the Ministry of Health will turn off all the lights in the building.
They want to encourage staff to go home to their families and, well, make bigger ones. They plan to repeat the experiment every month.
The country has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, lower even than neighboring Japan.
Boosting the number of newborn children is a priority for the government, which is staring into the abyss of a rapidly aging society, falling levels of manpower and spiraling health care costs.
The Ministry of Health, now sometimes jokingly referred to as the Ministry of Matchmaking, is in charge of spearheading this drive, and it clearly believes its staff should lead by example.
Generous gift vouchers are on offer for officials who have more than one child, and the department organizes social gatherings in the hope of fostering love amongst its bureaucrats.
But critics say what is really needed is wide scale reform to tackle the burdensome cost of childcare and education that puts many young people off starting a family.
It says something about Korean civil servants that sending people home once a month at 1900 is early. However the likelihood of this resulting in a change is slim. There are plenty of diversions between the office and home. Korea is a very social country where after work dinner/drinking parties are more the norm than exception. It is entirely probable that this effort could have quite the opposite effect than intended.
This issue may also have something to do with the long working hours endemic to the cities of Korea, where the majority of the population now live. Late nights at the office means social evenings are either spent drinking with work colleagues or put off altogether because people are too tired — neither of which are ideal baby-making conditions. The intense study culture as well as mandatory military service for men means many Koreans put their potential family life on hold until much later, often well into their thirties. Until Korean workers feel it’s okay to go home before their boss at least once a week, they simply won’t have time for match-making.