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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.

Unfortunately the link you provided did not permit watching unless one subscribed to the source. However, in order to comment, I can draw on my own life experience. In early 1980’s I was a gay man living in Europe and travelling annually several times between there and North America. I was aware of the disease that was killing young gay men from 1980 onwards. This was before we knew the HIV link to the disease. In 1984, an American friend of mine, who lived in the same city in Europe, called me to ask if he could bring his brother who was visiting and who was infected with the virus, to a party I had organized for about 25 of my friends. I replied yes but said I would inform my invitees in advance if they wanted to back out themselves. None did and I was very gratified with their response. My boyfriend and I did everything we could to make everyone comfortable but I must admit I took precautions such as limiting access to a single bathroom adjacent to the living room and foyer and closed off the other part of the apartment where there were two other bathrooms. During the party the American guest was the focus of the party. He sat on a sofa surrounded by my friends, who were not reluctant to touch him and embrace him on arrival and departure, as Europeans are wont to do. Afterwards, I did a cleansing of the washroom like things are done today with COVID. Lots of bleach and washing of all surfaces. He died in 1986, in Los Angeles, where I visited him a week before his passing. By that time we knew how the virus was transmitted. I was happy that we as a gay family group had handled the situation in a humane and mature way.

I knew I knew of her, just couldn’t think of any tunes associated with her until you listed them. I guess she got drowned out by the disco craze of the 70’s and early 80’s.

Gman The only change I see is the proliferation of tattoos on muscle guys.

I’m afraid I used the Internet search mechanism to find those two references. But I did catch the age reference in his ad. I do have a Wedgwood dinner service but could not quote its style number without looking it up. Lol.

Don’t be. Language is a living thing. I still am jolted when I see access and now surface used as verbs.

X3890 apparently stands for the world’s most popular flight tracker. It’s also a pattern number for a Wedgwood design for dinner plates.

Well he’s 34 yo. The hard part is figuring out 3840.

I don't recall that study. I lived through that whole period and was in San Francisco four times during that period for vacations lasting two weeks or so. I did get around but dodged the bullet somehow.