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Wow. That's an impressive figure.

I met old Japanese people in Hawaii occasionally including women, men, and couples.

They were fascinating. The were so gentle.

@realplayer Oh, no worries.

My palate has never been accused of being sophisticated.

I'm glad your career brought you to Lugano, and that you enjoyed the cheese!

@RealPlayer said:

Cheese! Far more than just the generic Swiss.

It's my favorite. Blasphemy!

@steve-miller , Couldn't see a picture.

Anticipating knowing place!

Yay!

How great.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland.

My maternal grandfather (so my late mother and myself as well) was directly descended from German speaking Switzerland.

Basel, 1300's, church records. He had genealogy work done. I verified it to see what I thought. Easy to follow. Birth, marriage, and deaths recorded. Copies provided.

My mother's maiden name was Swiss-German.

I'm Swiss-German and identity strongly with this line of my ancestors.

"Basel is primarily German-speaking, making it part of Deutschschweiz (German-speaking Switzerland).While the official written language is Standard Swiss German, the local spoken dialect is Baseldytsch (Basel German), a distinct variety of High Alemannic. Because of its location directly on the border with France and Germany, you will also hear a lot of French and English spoken throughout the city."

It's a beautiful a beautiful place of the world as everyone in the world knows.

I'm looking forward to your travel reports and pictures!

Be safe.

Apparently, that's real news. So there might not be a United Kingdom.

Also, there's news the EU has invited Canada to become an associate member of the EU, and it looks like Canada will accept.

Oh, he fled from US immigration because there was a problem with his paperwork (stated he had not used drugs, then published statements in his book about use of marijuana and psychodelics).

He and his wife are no longer together.

His children were born by surrogates.

Their DNA? Open question.

He's 40 million in debt.

I just read Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are in joint talks about breaking from the UK.

Fake news? Actual news? I don't know.

But I'll say this, at this point, I believe they will put Andrew in prison, put Harry in some adequate but not stupid expensive, or borrowed, or financed "safe space" house in the country, reign in the the corruption (if that's even possible), downsize their budgets massively, and demonstrate their ability to survive without being treated like gods on eath, or it won't last long.

William and Catherine might be able to save it in a downsized form, but it looks like it's on life support to me.

it doesn't play.

Link to video

It didn't play in the US.

Titles in abeyance?

I've said this before but William will strip them.

People say "You need Parliament, blah, blah".

What did Parliament have to say about Andrew?

Yes, exactly. Nothing.

"All honors stem from the font of the sovereign."

Harry. Pretending to be who he used to be.

Now pretending in the face officialdom.

And for the 2nd time, since he violated all of the agreements he made at Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Summit.

Ok, demolish the building.

Burn it to the ground.

See what that does.

Ok, it's an open book test.

The answer is nothing.

The last day of summer is near.

I'm glad.

You see people like that in the City. Or you used to. All the time. But you know that.

Lol! Good one!

This myth confuses me a lot.

I've been trying to understand it better for a long time.

I don't mean the myth when used in psychological analysis.

I mean the actual myth.

My confusion is- Echo.

Who was Echo? What was Echo doing? Warning? Echo was an echo of whom or what? Echos are said to die out. Was Echo dying?

This confusion feels like a headache to me. I don't know why but it's almost visceral.

I get the young man in love with his own reflection.

Ok. He's in danger. He might fall in the water because of his vain carelessness.

But where did Echo come from or go to?

And why did Echo have be there in first place?

I'd appreciate any thoughts.

If you can read a teleprompter at Fox you are qualified to be the Secretary of War.

Bus drivers here are great.

The transit system not so much.

But it is $5 a day.

Assuming your body doesn't collapse due to old bones or exhaustion when hiking it from Address: 123 Any St. to your next connection (the distance can be impossible and they have a limited contract with Uber to connect certain stops to certain hubs), and don't miss your stop and end up crossing the county line, wondering where you are and how (and if) you can get home safely, using the system in reverse, it's all good.

I love my car (a post on that and pictures of my new home this autumn) but driving is not the same as back when by a very wide margin.

I'm older, slower, blinder, 15 yrs without driving, and the traffic is almost unbelievably fast. Not aggressive. Just drivers driving incredible speeds (illegally of course).

There's also changes to the roadway system that can be seen from space from the last time I lived here, and constant construction.

My father told me a car is to get from point A to point B.

I have to factor in for myself at my age and at this time what you always have to factor in with driving.

You don't get from point A to Point B if you are seriously injured or killed, or worse, if you seriously injure or kill someone else in an accident.

I really don't want to to be the proximate cause of this kind of tragedy. Of course never did never would. And I have to believe the psychological and spiritual trauma would be overwhelming.

I've been told by my NY relatives why didn't I "just take the bus". 3

All of them live in the country.

Well, technically, one lives in a small city.

All of them only have the option of driving.

One doesn't lock the doors.

One also grew up in a house where the house keys were gone and not missed again.

One is veteran and has a guard dog and a pistol.

Now I have veered (sic) down yet another rabbit hole.

I'll stop. * snort *

And here's here spinel segment. Apparently it was only added in 2016.

Link to video

@andyd Your last picture- great!! Wow.

Grifters pay for nothing.

That's why they're called grifters.

So no. I'm vindicated! Lol.

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@jon-nyc. 4.91

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