HE LEETLE FEETSYS

very glad to see this post reduced everyone else mental capacity for communication as well

You ever see something so cute it renders you useless?

Saying that man and woman are the only genders is actually LESS nuanced than saying that earth, water, air, and fire are the only elements.

This is fantastic.

When I, of all people, have watched the entirety of something and you haven’t Brit... you know that things are bad. lol Come on, it’s SUPER GAY and has GREAT MUSIC!!!

ohmightysmiter is the best, most hardworking writer and friend on the planet, y’all don’t even know! So bitches stop askin’ when the next chapter be, she on top of it.

@ohmightysmiter 

Maybe this is the ominous post about you?

@ohmightysmiter I came out to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling a little attacked right now!

There’s a real-life Model T under that sheet y'all.

@princeofmorley You can still get a genuine Ford Model T for a not unreasonable price. In the 19 year run of the Model T (1908-1927) a grand total of 15,007,033 were built, a record not beaten until the VW Beetle in 1972! Even today the Model T is the 8th most sold car in history and at it’s height accounted for fully 50% of all cars on Earth! So despite their extreme age they are among the most common antique cars to buy. Ford was still building Engines for the Model T until 1941 in order to service and replace the millions that were on the road. Their top speed was a modest 45 MPH, and if that isn’t enough power for you, they were a popular choice for Hot Rods either modifying their original engines or putting in bigger and better engines. looking around on Antique Auto sellers, you can find running originals in the $8-$12 thousand range. 

Han… Solo? is that… Spanish?

Considering Mexican independence wass as much won by Americans as Mexicans… know what? I answered my own question here. American public education has failed. Mexican public education is literally a television hooked up to a VCR in most of the country and they learn more about their independence in year eight than Americans do by their second year in college.

But Pee-Oh-Seas™ do love to rattle on about how things they know nothing about are offensive.

Happy Cinko de Drinko, Murrica.

I know that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican independence day, for one.

Independence day just sounds better than “Mexicans decided not to pay their bills so Americans had to come save their asses” though, doesn’t it?

I don’t know, is that what the French make Americans call it?

What debts did Americans not pay which caused outside nations to attack us? We refused to pay taxes without proper representation in Parliament, were refused representation and revolted. Hence the name, Revolutionary War. We didn’t have some internal conflict about how involved the Catholic Church should be in our government which caused us to go broke and stop paying our bills. In fact, at the time of our civil war we didn’t have debt.

Ha ha, I love it.

“I erroneously think Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day” —> 5 minutes on Wikipedia—> “How, then, does Mexico’s mounting debt over import/export markets citation below?”

Seriously, though, even in those days countries didn’t usually attack each other over debt, that debt was an excuse for Napoleon to take a chunk out of Mexico for his empire.

Hey, speaking of imperialism, let me reframe your question a bit. “What deals did Americans not honor that caused outside actors to attack us?”

Here, I’ll get you started: https://www.wikipedia.org

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Sadly after the 1470′s I don’t have much interaction with the Ottoman state beyond the basic outline. So i can really be of much help. If you attend the Toga party, I will happily tell you the tale of how Armenia was the the hottest piece of real estate on the planet for nearly a millenium and a half.

where are those startups that are disrupting the glasses industry

zenni and it’s amazing and i love it 40 dollar bifocals fuck yeah

Hey I’m reblogging this again because if you need glasses here’s what I do:

I can’t articulate how many literal headaches Zenni has saved me because I just used to wear my old prescription until I had trouble keeping my eyes open from the strain. Now at the first hint of eye strain it’s like “Not today, Satan!” and I can plan for the $100 expense that’s going to last me potentially years.

As an ophthalmic tech and part time optician, I agree with everything here EXCEPT do not measure your own pupil distance (PD) and being off by a few millimeters can make a huge difference depending on the prescription, being off by a centimeter is a REALLY BIG DEAL.

Most adults have a binocular PD of between 60 and 75mm. So if you have a 65mm PD and you accidentally measure it at 75mm, the optical centers of your lenses are going to be in the wrong place. If you have a fairly light prescription, not a big deal. But if your eirhwr very nearsighted, very far sighted, or have a large amount of astigmatism, you won’t be able to wear glasses if the optical centers aren’t in the right place. And 5mm doesn’t seem like a huge deal, but considering how close the spectacle plane it, it can make you miserable. It can make you dizzy, make your vision blurry, and give you awful headaches.

Generally, walking into ANY optical shop and asking for a PD measurement shouldn’t be a big deal. And any optician who refuses to give you a PD? Is a dick.

^^^^^Good info. I’ve asked four times and only had one optician actually give me the measurement.

If you *can’t* get them to give you the measurement because they’re dicks (and sometimes they are and you can’t take another day off of work to go to a different optical center) there is an infographic that goes into more detail about how to get an accurate reading if you can’t find a non-jerk at the optician’s office: https://www.zennioptical.com/measuring-pd-infographic

Warby Parker also now exists for glasses. They started in your heavy duty plastics and have just moved to titanium. They also have steel frames. All their prices include lenses.

If there’s anything I can finesse, it’s a resume, interview and pay rate. 

Please help? I need these skills?

Come my child…

LIE. LIE. LIE. (By lie, I mean embellish) I’m going to tell you why. I lied on my resume to get the job that made it so I didn’t have to embellish anymore. By embellish I mean make your positions seem more important than they are. Chances are you’re not getting paid enough for what you do anyhow. The system is definitely going to play you so you gotta make a move too. 

Use businesses that are no longer in business (Finesse #1) Everyone has those establishments in their cities that went out of business; Fridays, hospitals, dennys, etc. USE THEM. I’m a HR Manager, I’m not going to dig for a reference from a closed business. Not in this lifetime.

Use your friends who are employed in corporate America as references. (Finesse #2) List them as former supervisors or managers. Pick your friends with professional phone voices who can gas you up in a corporate manner.

Research the pay rate for the company, city and position. (Finesse #3) They may be offering you 25K to be a store manager when in reality store managers in your exact city (or their employment averages) are making 35K. Do not be afraid to challenge a salary. It shows that you also did your homework on the position and the company. 

Chaotic good. 

Hershey’s Finesse Catalog

Cashier? Customer Service Manager

Human Resources Assistant? HR Generalist II 

Food Service Worker? Hospitality and Beverage Manager/Operator

Janitor? Sanitation Inspector

Dishwasher? Health and Sanitation operator

Shopback? Retail Inventory Manager

Stockroom? Inventory and production operator

@thisisnotanadultparty !!!! Per your request. 

She’s actually a genius! She should write a life book I would buy! Always the plug!

@kimreesesdaughter oh snap I’m going to tweak up my resume 😂👌🏾 do you recommend that I use a PDF form for a resume?

Yes! Definitely use a PDF. I say this because, just in case you overlook any typos or errors, they won’t be as obvious. When recruiters open resumes in Word, here come all them damn squiggly red lines 🙄

what about background checks? thats gonna show us all for who we really are

Y'all are honestly overthinking this. You either take the tried and proven advice or you don’t and continue to make minimum wage at a job that should be paying you $16/hr.

Adulting is a finesse. If you don’t learn how to make things work for your advantage, you will not survive in this world or live the way you want to.

& one more time, BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE FOR CRIMINAL HISTORY! The only thing I would tell you to never lie about. You can go to any staffing agency and they would tell you to hype up your resume.

GOLD

Now how would YOU finesse an interview

I posted a video on it!

Key point: Practice!! How do you practice for an interview? Glassdoor.com (USE THIS). Look at common interview questions for the position/field you’re trying to get into. Practice answering questions using the S.T.A.R method.

Situation (explain the issue)

Task (describe YOUR responsibility with the issue)

Action (what did YOU do?)

Resolution (what was the end result?)

Research competency and behavioral based interviews and questions. Prepare examples from your previous jobs!

I hope that helps ☺️

contemporary roman writers slutshamed julius caesar that’s your ides of march fact for today

what an absolute unit ol’ iulius was

how could you write this and not say WHY he was getting slutshamed

julius ‘husband to all wives and wife to all husbands’ caesar was a thirsty, thirsty bottom

suetonius: i heard that caesar was a big slut and also he liked buttsex and oral

cicero, to the gathered senate: CAESAR TAKES IT UP THE ASS

for historical context, cicero publicly called out jc for bottoming for king nicomedes of bithynia. they first met when caesar was 20, the king was at least twice his age. i am not saying sugar daddy but sugar daddy. the sex was so good that when nicomedes died he left his entire kingdom to rome, i am not making this up this is  t r u e

listen it’s one thing to slut shame Caesar, but Cicero went around speculating in public about Caesar and the king doing it on a “golden couch arrayed in purple” where “the virginity of the one sprung from Venus was lost in Bithynia” so I don’t think good old Iulius is the only one who’s got to ask himself some serious questions here.

@theprof739 you’ve got some ‘splaining to do

@kateybug Well Tumblr certainly follows in the tradition of Suetonius when it comes to biography, telling only the juiciest gossip. I won’t delve into the fact that Caesar was pretty well known for cheating on his Wife, so I will skip those accusations. So let’s talk about Caesar and Nicomedes IV. As a young man Caesar had some damn good reasons to stay the hell away from Rome (Which makes me think a short bio of why Caesar’s life is so crazy would be fun,) so Caesar got himself attached to a military campaign in Asia. So as a part of his service he was sent as an ambassador to King Nicomedes IV, who was an old friend of the Romans (twice prior to this Nicomedes had been forced out of his kingdom and needed the Romans to restore him to power,) to obtain a naval fleet to aid in the Romans’ actions in Asia. Caesar spent some time in the court of Nicomedes, such that he would refer to Nicomedes as a guest-friend (Greeks and Romans valued the reciprocal relationship between a host and their guest as a form of friendship. In the Iliad the Greek hero Diomedes does not fight the Trojan Glaucus because they learn their grandfathers were guest-friends and thus they two are also bound by friendship and they exchange armor.) Caesar’s mission was successful and Nicomedes gave naval assistance to the Romans and Caesar would continue on with his career. So what about the gossip, well certainly during Caesar’s lifetime there were rumors of a sexual liaison between Caesar an Nicomedes but that is just to sort of rumors that you find hurled around about figures during the time. Cicero Claimed that Clodius slept with his sister and that Piso’s Epicurean philosophy made him addicted to orgies. One need only read his orations against Catiline to see what sort of invective Cicero could throw around. The above quoted source if you read it fully argues that these Rumors were exactly the sort of thing you’d expect for a prominent Roman man to face. It could have happened, but I’d certainly like to hear it from sources that weren’t opponents/detractors of Caesar or gossip artist Suetonius writing some 160 after his death. As to the thing about Nicomedes leaving his Kingdom to the Romans because of the Sex; well I would argue that Nicomedes bequeathed his kingdom to Rome for a number of reasons:

1. As far as I know Nicomedes had no direct heirs.

2. Nicomedes was a great friend of the Romans and owed them his throne.

3. Mithridates VI of Pontus (who was a major enemy of Rome at the time) was greedily eyeing the lands of his neighbor, Nicomedes. 4. Nicomedes was following the example of King Attalus III of Pergamon who had bequeathed his kingdom to Rome upon his death in 133 BC. These seems much more valid reasons than some really great sex the king had once some 6 years earlier. 

Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with

[[*TNG theme song plays* *Patrick Stewart runs outside and shouts* YOU MOTHERFCKERS ARE GONNA KILL ALL MY LILIES *shoots guns twice* PEST CONTROL! *TNG theme song*]]

@captainmalbrooke

18thC Dog Collars

not gonna lie, these collars look like bdsm collars.

Oh

My

God

HOLY SHIT

i literally threw my computer across the loveseat when i heard this. its so epicly beautiful.

Excuse me, I have to go embark on a quest. I don’t know to what end but I have a ferocious need to be a badass. 

Play this on a loop at my funeral.

I feel the immense need to go beat up shit again.

I just…. this is the mashup we do not deserve but so desperately need.

I’VE LITERALLY BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. THEY ARE THE SAME SONG.