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The Good Place Appreciation Week Day 6: Favorite Lesson/s

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This show was the best. 💕

myvintagevogue

Juilliard 1947

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All from myvintagevogue.tumblr.com

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do any of these work?

honeyrenaissance

My professor talked about how women aren’t used to asking for things in the work place, such as raises, because we’re conditioned to downplay our achievements and hold off on asserting our value. She discussed how, even now at this stage in her career (a published doctrate), she shakes when she askes to be considered for a raise and about the first time she was really successful at getting one. After class I asked her what she asked her boss and she winked at me, took me to her office, and asked me to take notes.

She said she practiced this technique like 5 times in her office before she requested a meeting with her boss. I’m gonna share it with you guys because I really loved it.

You start off by thanking your employer for their support (whatever that means in the context of your work environment). You then say that you would like to take some time to discuss next year’s salary. You say, allow me to refresh your memory regarding some of my accomplishments or contributions from the past year, and you present a written summary of all that you’ve done. You close by saying, I hope that next year’s salary reflects this list of contributions and you thank them for their time and see yourself out.

I just loved how she made it seem so much less daunting of a task. She said not to underestimate your achievements as women have a tendency underreporting what they’ve done.

The fact that she shared this with me really meant a lot as well as women really need to be there to empower each other and help guide each other towards success. So if you end up using this, let me know! I want to see how it works for you ^_^.

niqabisinparis

!!!

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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2006, dir. David Frankel

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i’ve reached the phase of the pandemic where i feel the need to revive my latent fandom tendencies and my tumblr usage along with it lol

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Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)

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Emilia Clarke by Dom Hemingway for TIFF’s Portraits (2013)

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You know you're European when:

They have to defuse a WW2 bomb in your city and nobody is really concerned because that happens from time to time.

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WHAT #noteuropean

lynnerdo

dude there’s entire fields in the west part of Belgium that just has a small “Watch out, mine field” on it, and sometimes farmers don’t know and put cows on it and they get blown up. Shit happens. #WW2

scienceoftheidiot

Happens because of WW1 (WW2 too but there’s less stuff left) in northern France too.

Almost walked on a non explosed pair of shells while looking for mushrooms.

scyllaya

I was born in a small town in south Hungary… they didn’t just find one WW2 bomb somewhere around the town… they found 1200 bombs right outside the town in 2014.

Yes, around 1200 German SD-1 fragmentation bombs… only found in 2014!

wordsformurder

I love those radio announcements. This part of the city, along with this highway and also, all trains going through, are going to be shut down on Saturday afternoon because bomb.

And all anyone bitches about is the detour they’re forced to take because if it didn’t blow up the past 71 years, they could have waited another week to defuse it, couldn’t they? Eugh.

pheuthe

there’s a flood? oh hello forgotten WWII ammunition in large quantities you go take a walk in the forest? oh hey WWII mine! kids play football in a field? good thing they didn’t kick that mine they found. someone actually looks through the old metal parts in a salvage yard? anti-aircraft mines! tbh nobody usually makes a great fuss because it very rarely actually hurts someone. but yeah until now I was always like ‘lol another one’ and never thought about it much XD

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There’s a roadblock in the middle of the city? Oh no worries it’s just a bomb. A whole block gets evacuated? Oh no worries. Bomb. #LifeinGermany

duncan-rohanne

same in czech… we literally have closed forests where no one can go, because mines everywhere and lol, our neighbor was building water well on his garden last year and he is digging and digging and then he hits something solid, surprise it’s a wwii bomb…

magog83

Here’s one being detonated in Yorkshire in 2009 (from WW2)

dshfgwrwfbdwawfuewgsfdbl

Wtf are you guys ok

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Yeah it’s fine, this shit is essentially gossip material and nothing more

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We had one in our city recently(ish). If I recall right they evacuated a student accommodation or something, and they watched it get detonated.

It was more like a social event than trouble.

kakumei-no-tomoshibi

You all sound so surprised that we still have some bombs around from being LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF TWO WORLD WARS.

nestofstraightlines

I feel like the US - and fair enough - don’t quite get how present and clear the effect of the world wars is in Europe.

Like I was in TK Maxx in Balham today failing to find any decent bras. As I went in I glanced around and noted not for the first time how there’s this really distinct break in the style of buildings along that road. This is why:

At 8.02pm on 14th October 1940 a German bomb was dropped directly on Balham Underground station. The torn-off shopfronts are where the TK Maxx is now.

My other stop before getting home was at the Lidl on the corner of my street. Why was there space to build a supermarket there in the first place? Because it was a bombsite.

London was a bombsite.

That’s every explosion in London during the Blitz.Around 10% of dropped bombs are estimated not to have exploded. They’re still digging them up all the time. Last year London City airport had to be closed down while two unexploded V2s were dealt with

There are areas in northeastern France which are still off-limits to humans because of the huge number of unexploded shells and mines the toxicity of the soil from World War One, called Red Zones.

War really fucks a place up.

xantissa

I feel like people really don’t understand the difference between a war some county is waging somewhere else and a war that happen right on top of you.

Any bit of grassland or field you dig in Europe or in my example Poland will yield you some ammo or a piece of a bomb within first 15 min of digging.

There was this American show about treasure hunters working with metal detectors that wanted to shoot an episode here looking for some meteorites. They gave in after the first day because the detectors kept wailing non stop. They found a lot of ammo and rusted out guns.

It’s not just bombs, it’s also things like : oh, bus fell into a hole!

The hole turned out to be a secret ww2 bunker that nobody knew existed that caved in.

nightwatched

Happened in my city and someone just picked it up and put on the bin

knuffeltrein

Back in 2011, they went to add a new part to my town. And shortly after breaking ground they found 4 1000 pound bombs. And then another five. That was literally like, a few hundred metres behind my house. So logically they pulled out the ignition. And invited ppl to come look at them. Before eventually destroying them.

As it turns out a plane want down there, and it dumped it’s bombs there in a line.

Later they also found remains of Neolithic settlements there

aerospace-agenda

a few years back, there was some construction work near me (as in, about 5 minutes walk away) that dug up about a 1-tonne bomb

it literally shook the house i was in when they detonated it, heh

there were also the times that my schools got evacuated because of nearby bombs being unearthed

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primarybufferpanel

Yeah, last month or so there was an archery competition in the forest and when searching arrows about 10 meters behind a target they found a box with ~140 anti-tank grenades. War leaves shit behind in all sorts of ways.

nibi-nix

#I feel like this is hard to fully grasp for Americans and people in other countries where war has never come to them#it leaves deep traces in the earth and in the minds (x)

iverna

My mother’s friend’s dad was a bomb disposal guy. He said there are enough bombs left in Germany for another 200 years of work for the disposal squads. If there’s building work to be done, it’s something you have to watch out for because chances are you will find something if you dig up the ground. It takes a long time to properly clean up after a war. But it’s just routine by now, honestly if you were going to freak out every time they find one you’d never stop freaking out.

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Oh hey I haven’t yelled about voting in a while

dancinbutterfly

Reposting this because some of y’all need a reminding.

prismatic-bell

Another reminder:

VOTE YOUR WHOLE BALLOT.

A Democratic President does nothing if Congress is controlled by Republicans. Your local elections are important, too. (It took us 20 years, but you notice we don’t have issues with our sheriff out here in Phoenix now we’ve voted out Joe Arpaio.)

Don’t skip any. Look up names on your phone while you’re in the ballot booth if you have to. VOTE YOUR WHOLE BALLOT.

dinosaurrainbowstarfish

A PSA because a lot of people don’t know this: You CAN take your phone into the ballot booth, no one will stop you. You CAN google names from inside the ballot booth, no one will stop you. The only time you can get in trouble is, in some states, if you take a photo of your ballot. You CAN also take a long time voting. There are lots of booths usually, don’t worry about the line if you need to think about anything. Voting is not a high school exam. You’re allowed to bring your phone. Please do that in case there’s something on the ballot you don’t understand!

blondejaneblonde

Even better; register for an absentee ballot! You can do that online through your county board of elections website. Have your ballot mailed to you and look up candidates for school board elections while sipping coffee and listening to podcasts!