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In 45 years of owning houses or condos, I’ve never had a warranty program either. I go for the best furnaces that have 10 year warranties and have only had two furnaces in all that time which were new when I bought each house, without any issues. I buy the cheapest appliances and when they cause a real problem, I get a new one. Some of these have lasted forever and two or three only lasted 5 or 6 years. Throwing out a $600 6 year old clothes dryer doesn’t cause me any loss of sleep. As a result I have never had to deal with a repairman.

Another point often overlooked is that with the two vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, it is not known yet whether they prevent transmission of the virus even if they stop the infection from resulting in the disease COVID? The new one now being distributed, AstraZeneca, has shown in trials that it is up to 67 percent effective against transmission of the virus from an asymptomatic vaccinated person. It follows that even vaccinated people still need to wash their hands, wear masks and social distance, n’est ce pas? Or have I got that all wrong?

Another point often overlooked is that with the two vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, it is not known yet whether they prevent transmission of the virus even if they stop the infection from resulting in the disease COVID? The new one now being distributed, AstraZeneca, has shown in trials that it is up to 67 percent effective against transmission of the virus from an asymptomatic vaccinated person. It follows that even vaccinated people still need to wash their hands, wear masks and social distance, n’est ce pas? Or have I got that all wrong?

Yeah, since I clicked on his ad on RM, he contacted me on Tuesday unsolicited about doing a webcam, saying he’s 29, educated (his messages were very literate) and easy to get along with. I told him we were in lockdown and then he replied he was in Dubai, where it’s 20 degrees C currently. So I wasn’t surprised when I saw the review posted after our convo. Can you imagine, paying to watch someone sleep on a cam. There must be some desperate people in these desperate times.

Yeah, since I clicked on his ad on RM, he contacted me on Tuesday unsolicited about doing a webcam, saying he’s 29, educated (his messages were very literate) and easy to get along with. I told him we were in lockdown and then he replied he was in Dubai, where it’s 20 degrees C currently. So I wasn’t surprised when I saw the review posted after our convo. Can you imagine, paying to watch someone sleep on a cam. There must be some desperate people in these desperate times.

Hi there, I would assume it’s just the business but maybe includes some unused lease, which would be valuable in normal circumstances. Not sure if that’s the case now since vacancy rates for commercial premises are higher as a result of many business closings and rents have probably declined. You’re right about the amount. The building would add hundreds of thousands more as there are also rental units above the restaurant as I remember.

Hi there, I would assume it’s just the business but maybe includes some unused lease, which would be valuable in normal circumstances. Not sure if that’s the case now since vacancy rates for commercial premises are higher as a result of many business closings and rents have probably declined. You’re right about the amount. The building would add hundreds of thousands more as there are also rental units above the restaurant as I remember.

You appear to be agreeing with everything I said in my first post on this subject.

There’s a guy in Canada by the name of Grabher, and he put it on his vanity plate on his car. Now he is fighting to get it back because someone complained that it was misogynistic and the government cancelled it.

I look to all sources available to me to form my opinions about various subjects. On the subject of the common flu and colds this year, there is widespread evidence that incidence is much reduced, here in Canada, at least. There is also ample evidence that people are generally washing their hands more and sanitizing their environments as well to deal with the COVID pandemic. Later we will undoubtedly learn about incidence of these other ailments this year but my sense is that we will see a marked reduction.

People mostly remember Tony Bennett for his singing career, but I read many years ago that he turned to painting pictures as another artistic outlet. Am I correct in thinking that?

I actually think that the extra sanitizing we have been doing, along with wearing masks when in proximity to strangers, has helped reduce the common flu and colds so prevalent at this time of year. So even if surface contamination is not a major route of COVID transmission, I would not say the extra precautions taken for hygienic reasons have been useless.

That’s always been my thinking on the subject. Since I started thinking about it many years ago. Haven’t seen anything to change that yet.

It is a very nice place to have a casual meal and always full during the busy hours, when many of its competitors were almost empty. I felt comfortable dining by myself or with friends, including escorts who would accompany me. It would be shame if it shuttered its doors completely if a new owner is not found. There are already many chain restaurants in the Village who will survive no matter what. They’ve had an incredible run since the 1990s and made a lot of money for their owners, who are probably getting to the age when they want to cash out. The pandemic has probably hastened that decision. Over the years, many restaurants like this have closed in the Village. I will mourn it’s disappearance if that is what happens. But I still love Montreal and it’s joive de vivre.

Since 2000, all prime minister candidates here in Canada (we actually vote for the local rep but most of us are thinking of who will lead the government) have been younger to much younger than I am (think Justin Trudeau, young enough to be my son). In the States, most presidential candidates have been older, with the exception of Gore, Bush 2 and Obama. I’m now so old I never expect to vote for a leader older than myself. So I don’t even think about it. If I were an American, I wouldn’t vote for someone older than myself, which would have left out both Biden and Trump.

Thanks for the clarification. I was commenting off the top of my head and forgot about Willy being an in-law.?

Queen Victoria also married a German prince so that just reinforced the German blood in the family line. Her progeny included Tsar Nicholas of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and George V of Britain, who all looked alike. In World War One, they were on opposite sides, two to one. It was Wilhelm who held Victoria as she lay dying. He certainly became the black sheep within a dozen years.

Haha. I actually hadn’t paid him at that point and he said it over dinner before we got to the fun stuff. It was an overnight so I guess he was trying to create a nice ambience where I would feel good about myself and him as well for being so appreciative of the older male across the table from him.

On the men’s side they were all Germans. Battenberg and Saxe Cobourg. Had to change their names during WWI to sound English in order to keep their jobs. Lol.

I know. I haven’t updated my profile on RM for some time so now it shows I’m younger by a couple of years. I’m not in any hurry to update it especially since the last escort I saw a month ago said I looked a lot younger than my age (he quoted the outdated age he had seen). Lol.

How many years? He says he’s only 29.

Apparently. They were both incredibly good looking people, like you would see in the movies at the time. Hard to believe he was Prince Charle’s uncle, who lost out in the looks department.

Some straight men had sex with thousands of people too in that period. George’s Simenon, the Belgian author of the Maigret detective series, wrote about having sex with over a thousand women during his career as a popular writer. It seems they couldn’t resist him.

A famous example of a promiscuous couple at the apex of society in the first half of the twentieth century (he was Britain’s last Viceroy to India in 1947 when it became independent) was Lord Mountbatten and his wife, the beautiful Edwina, an heiress who had more money than him. He was the uncle of Prince Charles. At one point he confessed “we spent most of our lives jumping into and out of bed with other people’s spouses” or words to that effect.

In my Zoom sessions, where I am alone with my dog, who doesn’t take much interest, the only thing I have seen are the backgrounds of my colleagues’ living rooms, kitchens or offices with the occasional child walking by in the background. Lol.