The United Nations says that a worker has more chances of dying in his place of work than in a war. Also, chances are he won't get a medal.
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It says here that more and more girls in their teens are smoking and drinking today. Isn't this the reason why more and more teeners are getting preggy today?
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A society matron says she finds it in bad taste for women to show their armpits on TV. "It's a dirty practice," she says. Dirty?" They're showing them up close on cam because they're clean. Or so says the TV commercial.
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Ban plastic bags? These bags will always be around. Most, if not all, have plastic bags at home which they reuse in giving something to someone. Yesterday, someone gifted me with a bunch of top-quality bananas. It was in reused or recycled plastic bag from a known shopping mall.
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Try buying a few kilos of rice. The vendor would put it in a paper bag. The buyer would then pull out from his or her pocket a used plastic bag and put in the rice contained in the paper bag.
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A Cebuana returnee (balikbayan) from Sydney, Australia, reports that taxi drivers in that city are mostly "courteous and helpful" to their passengers. They always give an extra mile, so to speak, like getting out of their cab to help a passenger load her purchases in the trunk. Or helping in any way a passenger with physical impairment. (We call it here Person With Disability or PWD).
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I have been home more than a year already she said. "But I have yet to meet one taxi driver with the same attitude as the cabbies in Sydney." This Cebuana returnee (for good) has a walking defect.
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My friend Noy Temiong called me up early Tuesday morning to inform me that a Pinoy worker in Libya had been beheaded. The only reason was, the headcutters found out that he was not a Muslim unlike his two companions who were spared.
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Noy Temiong sounded excited because he had always warned Pinoys going to Arabland to always use their head. "If you don't use your head, you'd lose it," he warned.
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OVERHEARD. Boxing champion and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao has been ordered to post a P3.29-billion cash bond or P4.04-billion surety bond if he wants lifted the garnishment order issued by the BIR. Comment by a reader: "Iya pa lang nang gihatag ang binilyon sa mga pobreng biktima sa linog ug bagyo, duna pay daghang mohangyo ni Lord nga padag-on siya sige sa iyang pamoksing."