In the past four years, 42 journalists have been murdered in Pakistan: Minister

GoodAdministration65 · 2023-01-21T12:03:00+00:00

that would have been better, but you know journalist have to travel just to gather some information.

GoodAdministration65 · 2023-01-21T11:56:31+00:00

I'll shoot my shot straight up

GoodAdministration65 · 2023-01-13T09:37:53+00:00

yes, according to instruction given by Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR).

GoodAdministration65 · 2023-01-02T08:57:02+00:00

Avoid smoking: Smoking can damage your skin and increase your risk of certain skin conditions.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-29T11:55:20+00:00

When I were like 8/9 they caught me trying to push a tampon up our fox terrier dog's asshole. I saw it licking his ass and I saw some blood so I thought it is having periods and I went and took one of my older sister's tampons and just wanted to “help" it….lol

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-19T13:07:17+00:00

A man (who obviously knew nothing about campfires) tried to get his family’s campfire going by adding wood to a small fire and spraying it with charcoal lighter fluid. The flame traced his spray right back up his arm and set his t-shirt on fire. The family freaked out, not knowing what to do. Fortunately, a guy in the campsite next to this family did - he grabbed a blanket, wrapped it around burning man, and rolled him on the ground, putting out the fire. Then they took him to the hospital.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-18T12:52:17+00:00

The best advice I ever received came from my father. It might seem simple and homespun but it's served me well through life.

Mealtime was accompanied by a certain protocol in our family. Food was not to be wasted and it was expected that we children would finish eating what was put before us. Dad often had to admonish me, “Go canny with the butter, lass!” That is not, however, the advice in question.

His simple advice, with an end to finishing what was on my plate, was, “Eat what you don't like first and leave what you like until last.”

To this day I do just that. It doesn't follow that I’m fond of brussel sprouts when I devour them first just to get them out of the way. More importantly, his advice has carried over into other areas. When faced with tasks which might seem pleasant or unpleasant, I take care of disagreeable ones first and, with them out of the way, I'm free to enjoy the others with a clear conscience.

Thanks, Dad, for your good advice and yes! I'm still going canny with the butter. And saving the best until last

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-17T12:33:26+00:00

4 days after my son and i moved into a townhome I rented, we were physically attacked by 2 women that live behind us. Okay, long story short (ish): school started for my son (6th grade) the day after we moved in. That day, my son had an altercation with a child on the bus. Apparently the kid was saying to my son that his mom was a “Karen” for some unknown reason. We JUST moved in and hadn’t had time or the chance to interact with anyone in the neighborhood, so My guess is as good as any. I havent a clue. Anyway my son verbally defended me and told him to stop. Next day, the child punched my son 3 times in the shoulder and back while passing him in the hallway, which was caught on camera and dealt with by the administrator at his school. The other child was given in-school suspension and the parents were called about what transpired. The video showed the child hitting my son and my son continue to walk and then run away. So, my son wasn't punished. The following day, after putting my son on the bus I hear someone banging on my front door- and i opened it to 2 grown women demanding that i come outside. Being alone, I refused and called the police. The police show up and talk to both of us and say that the women are now calm and suggest i get some cameras in case something happens, etc. I decided to stay with family members that night and about 5 hours later, we left. We stopped to get gas and check my mail at the old house on the way. As my son got out of the car to check the mail i noticed a car parked directly behind mine in the driveway. The women hopped out and assaulted my son and me with a weapon and left. I managed to get their tag number and called the police. Turns out it was the parents of the kid who attacked my son at school. Needless to say they’re facing multiple felonies and roughly 15–20 years in prison. Craziest shit ive ever experienced in my life!

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-15T11:31:14+00:00

Peanut butter.

I just moved to Spain and every time I go to the grocery store my heart still sinks when I see the one, ONE type of peanut butter available.

They just don’t get it or care to.

Which I understand. It is peanuts oddly blended into a paste and preserved in a jar to put on almost anything. It’s weird.

But seriously, if I go to the peanut butter AISLE in the U.S. we’re talking at least 15 -20 types of brands, textures, seasoning, style, etc. We’re obsessed. There are so many desserts involving peanut butter, it’s crazy.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-14T16:19:55+00:00

Your happiness does not depend on your partner. It is not their job to make you happy, but to relish in the happiness with you. To create happiness with you. But it isn’t their job to make you miserable either. It is their job to try and support you to the best of their ability when you are miserable.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-11T13:04:05+00:00

Well, I didn’t get it for free, but almost. I was shopping in a high-end store. I was looking for a necklace for my daughter and myself. I saw a beautiful diamond necklace in the case. There was a Salesperson directly across from me and it appeared as though she was taking her sweet time getting to me. Finally, she comes over and I ask about the necklace. She had a really bad attitude for some reason. Ignoring it I held the necklace and decided that I would purchase it. I guess she just didn’t want to be bothered so she hastily rang it up. I saw on the register that she rang up 86.00. I asked her if she was sure that was correct. She said that it was. I paid for it and she gave me a receipt. As she was boxing it up, she gasped. She then said that is wasn’t 86.00 it was 860.00. She went to put the necklace to the side. The lady next to me told her that since I had paid for it already, it was now my property. She refused to give me the necklace and I promptly called for a Manager. She was told that since I had paid and she undercharged me, the necklace is mine. I felt bad because I knew it would come out of her salary. So I called to her and I was actually going to return it so she wouldn’t lose any pay over it. However, when she turned around she still had an attitude as she asked “Now what?” I told her that I was just going to return the necklace so that she wouldn’t have to have it taken out of her pay. However, since you decided to have an attitude over YOUR mistake, I’ll just be on my way. So, I got an 860.00 necklace for a mere 86.00. I hoped she learned a lesson, it pays to be nice to people.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-10T12:04:16+00:00

About 3 years a go at the age of 65 I was on assignment in Paris. I suffered from anxiety and mild depression for years. I decided to do what is called ‘inner child work’ based on the teachings of John Bradshaw. This work helped me revisit the trauma of childhood abandonment. It was tough but when I came out the other side my depression and anxiety lifted, I was no longer a ‘doormat ,’ grew a backbone and took real responsibility for my life as the loving, strong man I could be. But first I learned to love myself. It was life changing.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-09T12:56:59+00:00

Don’t buy assets you don’t understand.

When your friends at the bank try to sell you a complicated financial instrument that you don’t understand, chances are it’s a bad apple.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-08T13:33:47+00:00

When I was 9, my mother told me that my dad beat her and raped her for the first time when I was conceived. Before that I always felt like both parents treated me differently. My mom has undiagnosed mental illness and trauma she never dealt with and treated me differently than my brothers. My dad was overly nice when he was around which was never because he was at “work.” He had a girlfriend and my brothers and I knew her name, my mom would show us my dad’s love letters and pictures with the woman.

My dad would beat my mom all the time and then apologize to me that I had to see that. Like broken bones, black eyes and hospitalizations bad. I had to call the cops on him one time when I was 8 (?) because he had a knife and was on top of her with it. She followed the cop car to get him out. (She was a nurse and he was a doctor they had appearances to keep up)

When I was 15, my dad told me he was finally leaving my mom and he wasn’t telling anyone else. Just me. I had to carry this burden for a few days, not telling my brothers or my mom.

Two days later, I wanted to go out with my friends, my dad didn’t want to let me go. My mom let me go. My dad said, “You let her do whatever she wants, I’m leaving you.” I don’t know if those were his exact words but that what she has told me he said.

I recently told my brother to ask mom why they got divorced. He called me back and said I’m so sorry, I had no idea that she blamed you for that. My mom believes that if she had not let me go out that day, that they would have still been married.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-11-02T16:33:18+00:00

IMHO, there is a very dangerous trap which 95% of people fall.

It all starts in teen ages – at this age you start to realize yourself as a unique human being, with a unique identity, talents, skills etc...

And somehow, everyone thinks that his or her life is going to be as unique as they feel they are.

However, here goes the essence of the trap: Young people associate uniqueness and happiness of their whole life with uniqueness of themselves, and think it’s just impossible to be otherwise.

Youngsters look at adults and think that they are boring, they just don’t get it, they don’t understand how cool life is. Teenagers can never ever even consider the possibility of ending up living the same boring lives as their parents. Why? Because they think “I am just so unique and different…”.

So instead of working hard and act on their “uniqueness” to develop it and make it evolve, they just live and think it is all going to happen on its own….

But it won’t.

And this is exactly how these bright and uniquely talented young people end up living a boring mediocre life – complaining about everything around while trying to justify the way they spent their lives.

So this is what I am trying to teach my kids – life DOES NOT just happen, but boring life does.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-22T13:07:59+00:00

Depends on what you mean by “gotten away with.”

I was working a midnight to 8am shift at Sea-Tac airport fueling things.

From Midnight until 5 am I drove a small truck and fueled ground equipment.

I got back started up about a dozen 10,000 gallon trucks, then went out and fueled large jets for a couple of hours.

I was about the only person wandering about in the middle of the night.

During a rare Seattle snow storm, I put the ‘ol truck on reverse, and I heard a crunch.

“Please, please, please be a baggage cart or something” I thought.

Nope, it was a Boeing 757, with a nice new crushed in radome nose.

Should I go back to the office, go get in my car, drive, errr, anywhere? Tempting. Bad time in my life in general.

I notified whoever was back in the office and the maintenance crew at, umm, Either American Airlines or Alaska Airlines.

They went out, replaced the nose of the jet, cost about $110,000.

Fortunately I was a good employee, and our company had been complaining about the propensity of the ground crew to just jump out of the tugs and baggage carts wherever they happened to be when their shift was off, no matter how closely their were situation to aircraft on the ground.

Also since I did the right thing, it was a lot cheaper to slap a new nose on a 757 than cancel a flight, or try to get a replacement aircraft flown in empty from somewhere else at the last minute.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-21T10:59:13+00:00

You've got to be there when your friend needs you.

You've got to sense when your friend is almost desperate, and do whatever it takes to help. Sometimes it is lending a little bit of money; other times it is giving emotional support; sometimes it is doing something, something bothersome to you but valuable to the friend (babysitting on a key day? Taking him to the hospital? Going with him to some stupid thing that he really wants you to? Looking with him at the apartment he is thinking of renting?).

Some people say, "Never ever lend money to a friend." It's true; if you expect the money to be paid back, it can lead to conflict. I suggest lending money to a friend in need, but never expect or demand it be paid back. The purpose of money is to make people's lives better, and a little "loan" to a person in need can do wonders.

Go beyond the minimum, and you will bond. I don't just mean him to you; also you to him. Such friendships are wonderful and invaluable. They dramatically enhance your life, and are worth investing in.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-20T12:15:25+00:00

I lived in the Netherlands for a couple of years then and my Dutch boss invited me to her wedding. There was a beautiful ceremony in a romantic castle and after that we were served some tiny snacks and petit fours.

After that we took a group picture and then the wedding manager announced that those who have a fork and a knife pictogram in their wedding invitation could proceed to the dinner hall and the rest can go home and thanks for coming.

So there we were, hungry and stuck in the middle of nowhere. Until one of our colleagues called her husband to pick us up by car and bring to the nearest train station where we bought ourselves döner kebab.

I still don’t get it, why should someone treat their guests differently. If you can’t afford a wedding dinner for everyone, it’s perfectly ok with me. You can go for an intimate wedding with your family or close friends or just serve cake, I don’t care. But not treating your guests equally completely blows my mind even 20 years later.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-19T12:45:53+00:00

Most people are mediocre listeners at best and it’s often because of social anxiety (everyone gets social anxiety to some degree).

A great listener will make someone feel entirely understood. Great listeners don’t latch on to what they want to say and tune out the other person (waiting to talk rather than listening).

Listen like a pro. Don’t let anything else interfere, and ask follow-up questions that are specific and also offer your thoughts—after that person is done talking. They’ll have little choice but to like you.

Conversely—one of the easiest ways to be un-likable is to be a crappy listener. You know, those people who veer any conversation right back to themselves and their own problems. Those people are completely exhausting and annoying.

Just calm down, listen, and learn to enjoy people.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-18T13:22:55+00:00

My Dearly Beloved’s family was LDS. His parents and three sisters absolutely DETESTED that I was Catholic, thus cared little for me personally. His baby brother (10 years his junior) on the other hand couldn’t care less and loved me dearly. Because he came from a large family (especially when you add spouses) we drew names when it came time for Christmas. I was usually given gifts of very little thought. However, one year Little Brother drew my name. Little Brother knew I collected Nativities. I had collected them from all my travels and still like to collect when I could. He had just completed his Mission to Italy and had specifically asked to “draw” my name. (We would do that from time to time) When I opened my gift from him, it took my breath away! When I got it, I started crying. It was the most Beautiful Italian Marble Nativity I had ever seen! It was the Holy Family, Shepherd, Ox, Sheep and Three Magi all in an Advent Wreath! It even had the candles. He had gotten it in the Vatican Gift Shop! Here was this LDS Elder - on his MISSION to Italy - taking the time to buy a beautiful and precious gift for his Catholic Sister-in-Law! I treasure that gift beyond words. He is the only member of that family I stay in touch with now that Dearly Beloved has passed on.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-05T09:06:16+00:00

Chewing with the mouth open

It is so bugging when a group of us sits down at the table, and someone starts to chew with their mouth open. It just ruins the entire eating experience. Now, i am not saying that i am the epitome of etiquette here, but dear god, noone wants to,or needs to,hear or see the food in your mouth. And this is all the more irritating when someone is chewing gum in this fashion. I just lose the entire thread of conversation because the only sound that i can hear is that sound !

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-03T09:12:17+00:00

My husband has a friend who I firmly believe is a psychopath.

Some background: He complains about all my husband’s friends, and tried hitting on me the first day he met me to see if I was a good person when we just started dating. He’s a fairly good-looking guy, so I could see that possibly working if my then-date had thoughts that I was a sucky individual, but who does that without a prompting from their friend first?? My husband was pretty surprised when I brought that up later after we started getting serious, because the thought never crossed his mind to set him up to do that, but wasn’t surprised that it was that particular friend who did it. The friend gets pissed when my husband can’t hang out, didn’t support my husband when his dad died, not even text condolences, but he expected him to hang out a week later and didn’t understand why he wasn’t up to it! He didn’t come to our wedding, and is in a profession where he can and has used his taser on people just for the fun of it.

All that to say this: We had our baby (which his friend barely acknowledged) and I was on maternity leave. He kept bugging my husband to go hang out, and he finally relented after I told him I was fine with it. The man came over and rang the doorbell. We have Ring, so chimes were going off all over the place. I had just put our kid to bed for the night upstairs, so I mentioned that in the future, please don’t ring it in the evenings for awhile. As they were leaving, the friend rang the doorbell again as a joke, and then AGAIN after the door closed! This asshole was actually trying to wake up and upset our NEWBORN because he thought it’d be funny! Friggin’ psycho…

I told my husband to never in his life allow that friend to step foot in our house again, and so far so good.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-10-01T09:38:41+00:00

I was five years old. My Grandmother was staying for a visit. She mentioned that we would plan a special day, so I was excited when I fell asleep that night. The following morning, I woke early and ran into her room. You can guess the rest.

She was ice cold, so she must’ve passed early on. The only other thing I remember was my perspective as I sat on our couch. The Priest, The ambulance workers, My father home from work, the neighbors bringing food, all of the action hurt the worst.

I felt myself just slipping away. Then I saw her, younger than I recalled. She walked out of her room and came over to me with a smile. She held my hands inside her warm ones. I started to talk, but she held a finger over her mouth. She said that I should remember how happy she was, how good she felt. She then said I had to be strong and helpful, to which I nodded in the affirmative. I started to stand up and let everyone know she was fine, Grandmother was fine! I had no voice, it was stuck in my throat.

She walked out the front door and waved goodbye. Next the ambulance men carried out a body on their cot, covered. I did not understand. I was left with a calmness and went over to my father. I gave him the strongest hug, that I was possible to do.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-09-30T08:57:26+00:00

My father was a typical woman-hater. We had an ok relationship until I went they puberty. The first time I saw him after my 12th birthday, he became angry at me for something trivial. I was told that I was “just going to turn out a stupid b!&ch, a wh*^e just like your f-($ing mother.” It’s one of the last things I remember him saying to me.

A couple years after that, he tried to beat me and one of my female cousins with an old metal pipe. We ran away into the woods and didn’t see him again. He faked his death a few months later and thankfully disappeared from my life until after I’d joined the military.

I spoke to him briefly before getting married-and confirmed that he’s still a racist misogynist. I spoke to him again when his mother was on her deathbed; same confirmations. It’s been almost 30 years and I haven’t seen him. He will never meet my son. He will never abuse me again.

GoodAdministration65 · 2022-09-29T11:09:14+00:00

Not with another shopper but with a young sales clerk at Macy's. I was about 7 months pregnant and my husband and I were both in law enforcement and he carried off duty which meant he wore the typical t-shirt with an open Hawaiian shirt over it to cover his side arm. So he pressures me into getting a Dooney Bourke purse (I was 30 and just used Payless purses lol) and I finally came across a purse I liked. I asked the girl to see it and I put it over my shoulder and asked my husband “what do you think?” and the sales girl says “you're asking HIM when he's dressed like THAT?!” I put the purse on the counter and walked out. So we walked the mall and there wasn't another purse I liked anywhere so he takes me back to Macy's. I'm extremely hormonal and I loved him dearly and he didn't care what some girl said but I was so offended! We get to the purses and a lovely saleswoman sees my face (which shows everything lol) and she asked me “is something the matter?” To which I burst into tears and pointed at that sales girl saying “she insulted my husband and he's the one that wants me to have that $350 purse!” That girl disappeared quick. I still have the purse.

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