A Trivial Reality
The name's James. To your obvious surprise, I'm 17. Nothing fantastic regularly happens in my life, so don't expect anything fascinating or stimulating from my blog. I love to chat about anything and everything, so feel free to chat to me, especially about my beliefs! Other than that I'm just extremely fantastic. +
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Things I am good at:
- Procrastinating
- Researching things that are totally irrelevant to what I should be doing
- Playing video games for hours
- Making myself snack foods
- Getting angry at things
- Having a terrible sleeping schedule
- Getting distracted
- Being confidently not funny to groups of people
- Having a steady amount of followers
- Thinking up good ideas and images of things in my head but never actually being able to recreate them
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
For 75 years, Finland’s expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It’s like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world’s lowest infant mortality rates.
It’s a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it’s designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they’re from, an equal start in life.
The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers.
It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress.
With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby’s first bed. Many children, from all social backgrounds, have their first naps within the safety of the box’s four cardboard walls.
Mothers have a choice between taking the box, or a cash grant, currently set at 140 euros, but 95% opt for the box as it’s worth much more.
The tradition dates back to 1938. To begin with, the scheme was only available to families on low incomes, but that changed in 1949.
(From BBC)
Socialism at work.
I would rather my tax money pay for this than drone missiles.
What ISN’T Finland good at? Geesh
Hamjet
It’s from our English class, we we’re being stupid and ‘Hamlet’ was put up a few times in a row as the hangman word. Then Nick changed it to Hamjet one time, it was funny.
Something cool I found:
If you’re answering a question from your inbox, hold down your ‘alt’ / ‘option’ key and it’ll give you the option to queue or save as draft instead of just posting.
Anonymous asked: What is the strangest thing you've done this week?
I was gonna say talk about something that I do while driving by myself but then realised this is actually a stranger thing:
We had Geography today, and I turn up late due to doing music stuffs and I walk into the class, all 5 of the other students are sitting round quietly doing work, writing notes and such, reading the textbook, etc. Then I realise, there’s no teacher at all, he just didn’t turn up today. We sat in class for the entire period actually doing work from the textbook and discussing the topic even though our teacher just didn’t turn up at all.
And as per usual, James ends up telling a story the shows how much of a loser he is. Yup.
The cruelest thing to do in a conversation
Is tell someone you know someone you know something but then refuse to tell them what it is.
This totally didn’t happen to me today what?
I’d rather just not know anything honestly.
