At first I thought it was a parody of the Free Britney thing, but that started in 2009, two years after this one originally ran. Could be a reference to the Free Children of War conference in Paris in 2007, but considering that the US didn’t join (and allow children to join their military) that would be quite weird.
Still a bit annoyed that Chicago got the Oscar instead of Gangs of New York. Funny thing is, Gangs of New York is a classic nowadays while Chicago is mostly forgotten.
Here smoke breaks are deduced from your regular lunch break (well, atleast that’s the law here). I once worked for a company where that was actually enforced and the smoking breaks were deduced from the time worked.
Actually, the saddest thing is when somebody dies and there’s nobody to feel anything.
I loved my grandfather, but I think when he died most in the family felt a sigh of relief, because his last year (or his last two years) was awful. He wasn’t in pain (as far as I know), but got dementia, and his whole personality shifted into a negative version of himself. He was terrible towards the nurses my mother and her siblings hired (there were three or four nurses total on a rotating schedule, they would switch every three months, it got so bad that one nurse quit early and the service had to send a replacement and another refused to return to him after her three months) and also started terrorizing my mum and her siblings, especially after he wasn’t able to walk anymore. He wasn’t terrible towards us grandkids, I think he was afraid that we’d stop visiting. His last few months got especially bad, I am not sure how much he still realized and how far gone he already was.
At first I thought it was a parody of the Free Britney thing, but that started in 2009, two years after this one originally ran. Could be a reference to the Free Children of War conference in Paris in 2007, but considering that the US didn’t join (and allow children to join their military) that would be quite weird.