CuriousByNature

13 hours ago, Thomas_Belgium said:

 

Sorry, I don't use Google because in my opinion Google isn't giving good results when I search for gay porn.

May I ask what one(s) you use?  I'm not too tech-savvy, and use Google for almost all internet searches.  Thanks

15 hours ago, samhexum said:

 

For dozens of explorers, Amelia Earhart is the one who got away — seemingly permanently.

However, a commercial real estate investor from Charleston, South Carolina, believes he might finally have found a vital piece of the 87-year-old puzzle.

The pioneering female aviator, a household name at the time, disappeared with her flight navigator on what was to be a record-setting trip around the world in 1937.

Despite many attempts and millions of dollars spent over nine decades, neither Earhart’s remains nor the wreckage of her plane have ever definitively been located.

But Tony Romeo, a pilot and a former US Air Force intelligence officer who sold all his commercial properties to pay for his search, told The Wall Street Journal he thinks he found part of Earhart’s plane resting on the ocean floor.

Romeo says that his sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object in the Pacific Ocean may well be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra — and experts who have viewed the image say it’s worth investigating.

“This is maybe the most exciting thing I’ll ever do in my life,” Romeo told the Journal.

“I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.”  

Romeo and two of his brothers, all pilots, felt they would have better luck finding Earhart than the slew of past adventurers, many of whom were sailors.

“We always felt that a group of pilots were the ones that are going to solve this, and not the mariners,” Romeo told WSJ.

They tried to game Earhart’s flight path by studying her direction, location and fuel levels based on radio messages received by Itasca, the US Coast Guard vessel stationed near Howland Island to assist Earhart in landing and refueling.

They then drew up a search area based on where they thought Earhart was most likely to have crashed. 

Romeo spent $11 million to fund the trip and the high-tech gear.

Key to the search was an underwater “Hugin” drone.

His 16-person expedition launched in early September from Tarawa, Kiribati, a port near Howland Island, aboard a research vessel. 

The team’s unmanned submersible scanned 5,200 square miles of ocean floor, and after about a month, it captured a blurry image of an airplane-like object 5,000 meters beneath the surface within 100 miles of Howland Island.

However, the Earhart hunters didn’t find the intriguing drone image until three months into their trip, and by then it wasn’t feasible to backtrack, Romeo said.

He told WSJ he plans to make another excursion to get better pictures to hopefully help experts solve the decades-old mystery.

Dorothy Cochrane, a curator in the aeronautics department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, told the outlet the area where the image was taken lines up with where Earhart scholars believe she might have been before she vanished.

“Until you physically take a look at this, there’s no way to say for sure what that is,” Andrew Pietruszka, an underwater archaeologist who helms deep-ocean searches for missing military aircraft and their soldiers, told the Journal.

On July 2, 1937, Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator, took off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, and planned to refuel on uninhabited Howland Island. A runway and refueling station had been built for them so they could journey on to Honolulu and Oakland, Calif., their final destination.

The two encountered a strong headwind in Lae, and operators monitored Earhart’s radio messages as she flew toward Howland — until she went silent.

After 16 days, the US Navy and Coast Guard ended their search for the missing trailblazer, who was declared dead on Jan. 5, 1939.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/27/news/plane-shaped-sonar-image-may-be-vital-clue-in-amelia-earhart-mystery/

 

I still think she wanted a singing career and disappeared to undergo extensive plastic surgery, only to return in the 1960s as Keith Richards.   Though some sources speculate Richards was born before Earhardt.  😂

4 hours ago, Walt said:

Abraham Lincoln was also there with his "roommate" as was that uber-hot Dothraki warrior, Khal Drogo

I had no idea that Daniel Day Lewis and Jason Momoa hung out together.  Cool.

10 hours ago, harlow said:

Oh no certainly didn’t mean anything bad by my comment. I LOVE the show and I like how they depict the lives of all racial groups and social classes. I think it’s an excellent show and the acting is great 

Oh, I wasn't thinking you meant anything bad at all.  :)

It may not be historically accurate in every detail, but it still transports me to a time and place I have always found interesting.  The manipulating and maneuvering performed by characters in the show, as a means of climbing the ever-important social ladder, is probably not too different from that done by robber baron families during the actual Gilded Age.  I don't watch it as a history lesson or as a social commentary, but rather, as an escape from my less-than gilded existence - at least for one hour a week!

1 hour ago, Redwine56 said:

We're talking about the guy Austin Butler, not the city in Austin. TX.  😉

LOL

On 1/24/2024 at 9:35 PM, Redwine56 said:

Just curious what you guys think of Austin.  

Never been, but I hear it's a nice place.  Same with San Antonio.

Yet another age-shaver... lol

6 hours ago, Diamante said:

What “Classically Handsome” guys all have in common are chiseled jaws, deep set eyes and broad foreheads. To me they look like these guys:

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When I read the description you gave about 'chiseled jaws, deep set eyes and broad foreheads', my mind immediately went to these guys - who are also always hard as a rock.

12 hours ago, robberbaron4u said:

 Somebody told him he was beautiful; he believed him; and, that is that. . . 

Words have power.  Someone told him he was beautiful, and he believed him.  When I was in school someone told me I wasn't attractive, and since then I don't leave my home without a paper bag over my head... lol

4 hours ago, lanyc said:

This is a big one. Any thoughts?
 

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Never met him, but he used to go by a different name - sorry I can't remember what it was.  I think it was Dmitry something or other, maybe.  His previous profile had many more photos, and if I recall he may be Russian, or speaks Russian?

1 hour ago, BSR said:

He lost me at "in the dance of life."

1 hour ago, The Big Guy said:

Hard to take that seriously.  I guess he realizes some sex would be a part of the harmony, tapestry, dreams and aspirations?

I hope he uses a thimble when he's doing the tapestry.  Can't be too careful.

30 minutes ago, rvwnsd said:

What does that even mean?

Clearly he's into the BFE 🤣.   With the added bonus of perforating your lower intestine and bruising other internal organs.  Charming.

Do you get to choose between a table massage and a grand piano massage?

7 hours ago, Km411 said:

I don’t view H’s security as a perk. H did not elect notoriety, he was born into a government institution that imposed it. With that came security risk, and not merely hypothetical risk. I believe the government therefore has a moral obligation to maintain his security.

Well hopefully H&M will remain safe, and can live a happy and productive life away from the obligations that had been expected of them as royals.  I imagine the royal life is extremely suffocating, and despite the luxuriousness of it, not everyone is cut out to be part of that lifestyle.  And hopefully the rifts that exist can mend over time.

3 hours ago, SouthOfTheBorder said:

wrong - most of the negative stories about them are planted by un-named sources, meaning Palace insiders.  While they don't comment officially - it's an ongoing effort  to destroy them, exactly like they did to Diana.

It's true - no outsider knows what really happened.  Except that H&M wanted to leave & then he was financially cut-off & security removed.  Thats been reported by  several legitimate sources with no pushback from Palace....just because it couldn't be covered up with British official agencies involved.  Who cuts off security protection from a globally known person & family with credible threats on their lives ????  Truly awful corrupt evil people that's who.

The bottom line is they are terrified H&M will eclipse the boring lot left in London and/or spill the real juicy stuff.  He's got way more to tell if he so chooses. Lots of skeletons in those closets & Harry knows where they are.

The British Royal Family is on borrowed time anyway.  Unlike the Scandinavian monarchies that enjoy wide support & popularity - nobody cares about Charles & Camilla. 

I would disagree that unnamed sources or palace insiders mean the royal family - but there is probably no way to confirm it one way or the other.  I also don't think anyone was out to 'destroy' Diana.  Diana sadly destroyed herself, and this was a huge loss for many people around the globe.  She never deserved having to be second fiddle in her own marriage, but I also don't think any of the conspiracy theories generated by the Al Fayed family hold any water.  Hers was a tragic story, in any case.

As for being cut off financially and having security removed, I think it's important to remember that H&M are millionaires many times over, and there was never any fear that they would suffer financially after breaking away from 'the firm'.  They have more than landed on their feet, and live a lifestyle more luxurious than the vast majority of people.  The security detail was taxpayer funded, and it was tied to H&M being working royals.  When they chose to leave that role, it is understandable that they would also have to give up some perks.  Security was not simply removed - it was security paid for by the public taxpayers that was removed.  Like a number of other members of the family, H&M now need to pay for their own security.  They can more than afford it.  One of the big arguments against the royal family is how much they cost British taxpayers. I personally think their value outweighs the cost, particularly when QEII was still alive.  But to keep paying for the upkeep of H&M, who made it very clear they did not want the responsibility of being working royals, would be a slap in the face to British taxpayers.

The royal family has been a boring lot for a very long time.  One only needs to look at the lives of some of the former monarchs to see how tame the current royal family has become.  Ever since Victoria, the royal family has tried to portray themselves in a superior light and as moral guideposts for the nation.  It isn't realistic at all.  

I'm not sure the royal family is on borrowed time.  I thought they would be after QEII died, but it seems that things are modernizing slowly under Charles III, albeit slowly.  I expect that by the time William is king, the royal family will be closer to the Scandinavian royals in terms of character.  Far fewer on the public payroll, far fewer in the public eye.  They can't continue on as they did for the past century and expect to have any relevancy to anyone.

1 hour ago, Km411 said:

The public knows nothing about the interpersonal dynamics of the royal family or the reasons for the choices that H&M made (even with the so-called tell-alls). What we do know is that his black sheep image sells news and props up the images of HRHs. It’s a storyline as old as the monarchy itself. In my view, it’s impossible to have an informed option about any of it.

All we have is one side of the story - the side that H&M have provided and that the media laps up eagerly.  There is always another side, but in this case it is unlikely it will ever be offered because traditionally, the royal family doesn't hang out their laundry for the world to see.  

17 hours ago, SouthOfTheBorder said:

On any given day - there are at least a dozen new stories about Harry & Meghan.  Overwhelmingly negative and not something they are seeking out.  The latest one is the Queen didn’t like H&M naming their daughter after her….the story is from a new book by a former Palace aide. Any remotely positive story about them is challenged or denigrated by “unnamed palace sources” 

where  do all these stories come from & what is the purpose ?  Well, when you have an outdated hereditary monarchy built upon centuries of looting former colonies & slavery, along with a relatively unpopular & temperamental new King - then it’s much easier to divert  the public attention on Harry & Meghan. That’s the game.

I feel sorry for Harry - he had no choice in being born a Prince & was used as a prop for Day 1.  There is no escape for him in this lifetime.  When he tried to walk away, they’ve done everything in their power to destroy him - including abruptly removing his security when they knew there were credible threats against the lives of him & his family. They are out to destroy him just like they did to his mother.  What a bunch of truly awful people. 

H&M crave attention, money, and relevance - and were more than happy to spill the beans and launch accusations about things they knew the Royal Family would remain silent about and not attempt to defend.  He did not try to 'walk away' - he could have done so, like other members of the family had done, but he chose to stomp out in a way that dragged his family through the mud.  He has a gigantic chip on his shoulder, which may be understandable given his unusual circumstances as the son of a monarch and the expectations that entails, but he mishandled his exit from royal life miserably.  Harry unfortunately bit the hand that fed him, and then expected to be continuously fed by that same hand under his terms and conditions.  With so much real suffering in the world I still can't fathom how so many people manage to give their attention to two people who remain more privileged and pampered than 99% of society.

11 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

I'm sure someone will say that's politically incorrect or offensive... Too much sensitivity nowadays. Some High schools are even thinking about getting rid of gym classes because out of shape kids could feel embarrassed. 

So far no one dislikes the terms hetero or heterosexual although some might have an issue spelling it. 

and people would need to know the difference between 'hetero' and 'homo', which might be a challenge for some people these days

2 hours ago, Ziya said:

Be cumming like a teenager again since getting off Wellbutrin lol go figure…

Wellbutrin is pretty hit and miss from what I've heard.  I'm glad you could come off it and hope that whatever you may be taking is very effective for you.

2 hours ago, musclestuduws said:

When did some people start thinking that swollen, ridiculously plumped up lips are sexy and attractive? People look like cartoons of themselves. Such a huge turn off for me. I have seen so many beautiful people ruined their faces by doing this. Sorry to go off topic and vent my frustration 😁Carry on guys. 

It may have started as trend in the 1970s with the advent of characters with extraordinarily full lips. 🤣

On 12/30/2023 at 2:22 PM, Luv2play said:

Is that revere or reverse? I would think the latter.

It could be revere if its a midnight ride.  And if you're with an English man and the British are coming.

6 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

Their love story has about 40 holes in it.  Too soon?

And they never got married.  Not even a shotgun wedding.

11 hours ago, samhexum said:

 

Plot twist Reunite Bonnie and Clyde! Robbers' relatives want duo buried together 90 years after their deaths

The lovers died during their robbery spree but their wish to be buried together was ignored.

Their love story has about 40 holes in it.  Too soon?