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I thought I did. Can't you click on the link. If not, blame Lucky. He taught me how to post an article. LOL

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/world/africa/cape-town-table-mountain-fire.html?action=click&module=In Other News&pgtype=Homepage As an historian myself, I feel for the people of South Africa and the southern African region for the loss of so much precious history. Apparently, they had just started digitizing their collection of books and films. Now so much has been lost forever. I am looking around my kitchen as I type this and my walls are covered by African artifacts, priceless to me. I can't imagine the size of the loss occasioned by this massive fire in Cape Town.

I luv using their names when having sex. It makes it more the BFE. One escort I was with went by the name Jacob (I believe his real name) and I asked him whether I should call him that or Jake. He said either was fine. I replied "you'll know which I prefer when you are climaxing." It was Jake. And I called that out over the 3 days we were together quite a few times.

Toronto is in some ways worse off than Montreal in terms of the pandemic but does not have a curfew. They are now preventing interprovincial travel for non essential purposes so I couldn't go to Montreal even if I wanted to, which I don't. This must be hurting some escorts as the travel limitations are cutting off some of their clients.

In those days there was no air conditioning so the summers were awful. They had to get permission to go to the US mainland, even Miami, which was only 20 minutes away by plane. Sir Harry Oakes, their rich friend until he was murdered in 1943, would summer with his family in Bar Harbour, Maine. Wallis went crazy feeling isolated in Nassau. It couldn’t have gone well for David (Edward).

I was trying to be fair and didn’t mean to imply he was not royalty. In fact it has been pointed out he was more Royal than the Queen, who had a commoner for a mother. Both Philip’s parents were of royal descent. I think it was because he was no hero in the eyes of the majority of Britons. From the abdication to his sympathies for the Nazis, Edward VIII was a big disappointment, considering the promise and popularity he enjoyed in his youth. Apart from his brief reign in 1936 of some 10 months, the only time he had to show his stuff as a ruler was when he was put in charge of the Bahamas during the war. And he made a hash of that too. Apart from his gross mishandling of the Oakes' murder, he was revealed to be a racist in how he treated the Blacks of the island colony. The Queen Mother also probably had a say in how the Duke was treated by Queen Elizabeth, as there was no love lost between the sister in law and brother in law.

Your mother must have been hard on him.

That raises the question; when does one stop being elderly and become just plain old?

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.