Luv2play

Thank you for saying that. Charles and I are less than a year apart in age and I thought I had slipped over to old age, not still very, very late middle age. You have made my day! Unless you meant that Charles would be in old age in a few months. LOL

Maybe she thought she might go first.

I also think the funeral was pitched with just the right amount of solemnity and pageantry kept to a low key. After all, Prince Philip. besides being the father of the future king, had no real role other than as a helpmeet to the Queen. He is not part of the royal line of descent, since that passes through Elizabeth from her father to her children. He only became prince 10 years after their marriage. Still, he fulfilled his role admirably, better than Charles has managed to do.

I doubt it. She has always looked comfortable in a crowd, including her family affairs. I think she was placed in a "bubble" to ensure "God Save the Queen" would have a better chance of working.

Jerusalem the hymn also gets me going. Interesting they played it as the Anglican Church removed it from their hymn book a few years back. And yet when I go to funerals of friends who are Anglican, they invariably choose it to be played.

I am puzzled by your reference to the Windsor genes being strongly reflected in Prince Andrew. I’ve always thought the Windsor genes were not particularly desirable and those branches of the Royal family that married commoners fared better in their offspring. Historically there was a lot of intermarriage in the British Royal family and it produced unfortunate results. Like Edward VIII. I came across a document a few weeks ago and it was written in 1936 shortly after he had become king. A caption underneath his photo tried to convey the thought that he had a determined look fitting for the role he had just assumed. When you looked at his facial features, all you saw was the irresolute weakness of a man-child staring out from the page. In my view, Charles is not much better. Many of us in Canada are dreading the day he becomes king.

I’m certain the Royal household is going to do everything in their power to ensure she survives this period of mourning. They would face a real dilemma if the Queen were to die during this pandemic and the funeral was restricted to 30 people.

This thread got me thinking of an escort I met last year who was a couple of years less than half my age but whose father was born 5 years before mine. And I’m in my 70s. Funny to think about.

Maybe Prince Philip but don't know about Louis, who was known to swing both ways, along with his wife Edwina.

At the time there were unfounded rumors that Andrew was a "love child". Despite the appearance the royal couple lived together all the time and were inseparable, there were many times they were separated for weeks or longer.

I saw it and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I thought it was a hack.

I just checked the NYTimes world tracker data which shows Mexico with a current rate of infection of 3.2 per 100, 000. The US and Canada, the two other countries that occupy North America, are above 20 per 100.000. Mexico would appear to be doing very well compared to many other countries as well. I have 2 friends who are in PV and they are staying over for a few extra months. Normally they would be coming back to Canada around this time. I’m somewhat envious.

I remember very vividly the time when the Madoff scandal was unfolding I was an active investor in the markets at the time and I thought that the victims of Madoff had ignored two basic and time honoured tenets of investing money in the markets. The first is diversify, don’t put all you investable money into one instrument. Have a basket of investments that can withstand a shock to one class such as bonds, stocks or money market funds or even different markets such as foreign investments. Secondly, if you have an investment that yields good returns no matter what the market conditions are generally, then look into what is going on. Markets are never static, they fluctuate constantly, no matter what the underlying instrument is. If you are getting 10 percent on your investment, year in and year out, something is probably amiss. And that is what Madoff’s clients were getting. A steady return through good markets and bad markets. When it seems too good to be true it probably is.

He fucked an escort who fucked me (at different times). Does that count? They were doing a porn film so both got paid. I did the paying in my case. So I couldn't compare the experience.

Actually he was best known for ripping off his friends and acquaintances in Palm Beach and Manhattan.

To say nothing of the lost wages for the female models. I think I read somewhere they make more than male models so maybe this is a way of economizing by the haute couture firms. Ugly handbag, BTW.

Actually while we had a bad start with the vaccination rollout because of supply issues, we are now third in the G7 countries after the UK and US. The planning by the federal government had to deal with the fact we had no domestic supplier capable of manufacturing the dosages required.

They must be doing something r They must be doing something right. They enjoy a very high standard of living, are very well educated, have great health care and live longer than almost any other nationality. Very homogenous population however, which makes it rather uninteresting.

I actually have rich relatives who live in South Africa (their ancestors left Canada in the 1860’s) and they have expressed no interest in coming back.

I think your comments contain certain exaggerations. For instance, awful climate for 7 to 8 months does apply to Labrador (I worked there as a student one year) but not to Southern Ontario or Quebec, where 90 percent of the population of those provinces live. We aren’t shovelling snow 6 months of the year. This winter we had exactly 3 storms that required that (3 mornings). I have been eating my evening meal in my back yard gazebo since early April ( including this evening where I am currently writing this). The weather has been hitting highs of around 70F most days this month and during a week in late March. On the other hand we have extremely pleasant summers and only a few days when we are driven to air conditioning. Many parts of the US are becoming insufferable in the summer without retreating indoors. And climate change is occurring faster than many anticipated. Canada will at least be spared for a few decades longer. I remember when I spent my winters in Florida talking to people from the Northern US states who said, like you, they wouldn’t go back to live in the North. This included Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and other cities that experience much the same climate as major Canadian cities. Having lived in Europe ( Geneva specifically) and spent time on four continents, I have experienced beautiful natural and man made surroundings in many places. But for living in a tolerant, well educated, civilized and peaceful country, I’ll take Canada any day.

Frankly, if you have a lot of money, living anywhere is great. It’s what the average person enjoys that counts in these sorts of surveys.

Nice clip. The go-go boy is just like Pete the Greek, my favorite escort.

I don't think it likely before the fall at earliest.

Yeah, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy at this time, as we are currently locked down pretty much.

Well, I just knew it! LOL