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Olympian Jutta Leerdam Learns Her Fate After Exposing Her Underwear During Ice Event
UKGrandad
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1 day ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Olympic officials have broken their silence..." can we stop with this 'breaking his/her/their silence' obsession every time somebody makes an announcement about something?

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“Math Is Math” - Mr Incredible
'The Big Bang Theory' Star Kunal Nayyar’s GoFundMe Revelation Draws Shockingly Bleak Response
UKGrandad
Community Member
4 days ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Keep quiet about charitable deeds and you're vilified as just another rich ásshole hoarding wealth. Tell people that you use your wealth to support charities and you're vilified as a self-serving ásshole seeking praise. Dámned if you do, dámned if you don't.

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anon reply
Not maybe as old as other discoveries, but I'm consistently disturbed by all of the children they are finding buried at old residential schools across Canada and the United States. Thousands and Thousands of children. Buried and hidden from history until now.
DragonflyWing reply
Mine seem trivial after reading the other stories here, but they sure felt cruel to me, so here you go.

My ex and I used to do custody exchanges in a parking lot halfway between our homes. One day early in the divorce proceedings, my 3 year old accidentally locked my van doors before getting in her dad's car, and I got locked out. My ex had a spare key on him, but instead of unlocking my car, he said "you reap what you sow, I guess," and drove off with the kids, leaving me stranded. It was 96 degrees, and the nearest store was closed. If I hadn't had my phone in my pocket, I would have been screwed. I had to call the police to come unlock my car, and they almost refused because the title was in my ex's name. Thankfully, I had a copy of the court order on my phone saying that I had use of the vehicle. My poor kids spent the whole day with their dad worried that I was still sitting in the hot parking lot, because he told them I had no way to get home.

Later in the divorce, when he was trying to "prove" that I was unstable and an unfit mother, he found one of my old journals (I had left with only what I could fit in my van, so most of my things were still in our house) and entered it as evidence in court. So I had to listen to them read all my depressed 17 year old thoughts and feelings in court, in front of both my family and his family. Ultimately the judge and other court officials agreed that a 20 year old journal had absolutely no bearing on my parenting abilities or current mental state, but the whole point was cruelty, and in that he succeeded. The guardian ad litem, who had to go through the whole thing because it was entered as evidence, said she felt dirty reading it because it was such an unnecessary violation.

I'm so glad I'm not his wife anymore.
Earonn -
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3 days ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Him handing in that journal should have been treated as evidence against him by the court.

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Mom Ends Daughter's Life Then Her Own In Las Vegas Hotel After Missing Cheer Competition
BrownEyedGrrl
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5 days ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is there a missing poster when it was known they were in a hotel? Also, f*** you Tawnia for murdering your child.

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Thankful Family
Iva Kazalova
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2 days ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This Chris Lund is a rock star, that’s his second post in this thread

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Wall In Brazil (2021)
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In 2016/2017, they unearthed something like 900+ remains of babies who died or were k****d by nuns in Tuam (two-um) Galway, Ireland. It was the septic tank of an old site where a laundry used to be.

This is a place you were sent if you'd a baby out of wedlock or your family cared too much about how the neighbours thought of them. You washed clothes until you have birth and your baby went to an orphanage. Wealthy Irish, British and American couples came to help the poor babies who's mother was well and alive in the laundry. Obviously sadly some babies never made it to the orphanage.

I always say it. Priests are now known to have done horrific things but the nuns are worse. They hide things and do things like Tuam.
StrangeOne
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5 days ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"you had" It was called Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. Ran from 1925-1961. Nuns were not allowed to actually tend to the births until 1936. So, no help for the birthing mothers and their babies, as they were not allowed to go to the hospital or go home for the birth. A maternity was built in 1929, though. However, the babies were forcibly kept separate from the mothers, so they could be adopted. The mothers had no say if they wanted to keep their child. Illegal adoptions were common there. The work the mothers did was unpaid and considered in favor of the "services" of the nuns. In 1947, inspectors found children and babies were malnourished, too thin and not thriving. but the investigation determined it wasn't a diet or care issue from the nuns, apparently. In 2012, Catherine Corless dug up death certificates stating deaths caused by TB, measles, whopping cough, influenza, convulsions, malnutrition (marasmus). Only 2 children were buried in marked graves. The rest in unmarked graves, like the septic tank.

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He’s Just Shy
BeesEelsAndPups
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2 days ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will sell you my used underwear for $50. I've got some with holes in them, I'll take $75 for those. For $100 I'll add some streaking, that will get that man stench good and rancid

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