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RE: Noteworthy News
January 6, 2023 at 12:48 am
Ovidio Guzmán, son of "El Chapo", and coincidentally the person who was released from custody after a wave of retaliatory cartel violence, recaptured this morning in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
https://abc7.com/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-e...tid=Zxz2cZ
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 7, 2023 at 4:55 pm
(July 20, 2021 at 6:23 pm)Helios Wrote: Quote:Prince Harry is writing a book about his life and how he was mistreated while growing up in Buckingham Palace! I can already see some tear-jerking paragraphs: "William was allowed to ride the awarded brown pony for a whole hour, while I could only ride it for 45 minutes! And they always combed pony's mane before William rode it, but I always had to ride it with an uncombed mane! And no wonder that everyone would praise how William looked dashing on the horse, with its mane waving on the wind, while nobody looked at me on a horse with a tangled mane!"
And "The butler would bend over to serve William by turning his bottom toward me and farting into my face! When I tried to protest, my dad, Prince Charles, would tell me to calm down, but what does he know?! He never got a fart into his face, none of them did because they are all contenders to the throne, except for me! I was always a spare tire, an appendix, a COMMONER that they couldn't wait to get rid of!"
and "Whenever we raced in the pool, all of the servants would always cheer for William and give him bubbly champagne when he got out while mine never had bubbles!"
"Whenever we went fox hunting, the staff would always praise how William has such a good aim that his foxes always died instantly without any pain, but then they would cringe at my dead foxes and nag me around how I tortured them by shooting them into the stomach!"
This is kind of an unfair characterization. Sure Harry has grown up in wealth and privilege but that doesn't mean he's never had any legitimate problems. From what I understand the book isn't about him whining about being mistreated but more about why he gave up on being a royal, And frankly there are some legit things he could criticize.
1. The putting him on public display his entire life and essentially planning out his life for him.
2. All the bullshit that went on in regards to his mother's death.
3. How his wife and children were treated.
4. He's made his outrage about Prince Andrew and his family's unwillingness to cut ties him known.
So it seems it is about the whining after all.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 7, 2023 at 7:21 pm
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(January 7, 2023 at 4:55 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: (July 20, 2021 at 6:23 pm)Helios Wrote: This is kind of an unfair characterization. Sure Harry has grown up in wealth and privilege but that doesn't mean he's never had any legitimate problems. From what I understand the book isn't about him whining about being mistreated but more about why he gave up on being a royal, And frankly there are some legit things he could criticize.
1. The putting him on public display his entire life and essentially planning out his life for him.
2. All the bullshit that went on in regards to his mother's death.
3. How his wife and children were treated.
4. He's made his outrage about Prince Andrew and his family's unwillingness to cut ties him known.
So it seems it is about the whining after all. Actually it's anything but.
Nothing in the book negates how poorly the royal family handled his mother's death in regard to her kids
Nothing in the book negates some of the messed up ways they raised those boys
Nothing in the book about how his wife and child were treated
Nothing in the book excuses Prince Andrew
This recent book doesn't change much. Because all that was already known.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 9, 2023 at 5:47 pm
I found this article and can’t stop smiling. Enjoy!
Two Men Set Themselves On Fire Trying To Burn Down An Immigration Centre
Quote:As one of the men continued to spread the fuel, the second squatted over a puddle of the accelerant and tried to light it on fire, the video shows. The fire ignited violently t and the man sprinted away with his leg on fire. The second man panicked and fell down twice, and like his comrade, sprinted away from the scene of the crime on fire.
Quote:Another worker said that the suspects dropped their phones as they fled the fire and they are now in the hands of authorities.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 9, 2023 at 10:08 pm
It turns out that Andrew Tate has a powerful ally: the motherfucking Taliban.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 9, 2023 at 10:19 pm
(January 9, 2023 at 10:08 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It turns out that Andrew Tate has a powerful ally: the motherfucking Taliban.
We live in a clown world ....
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 10, 2023 at 6:16 am
I had no idea that you could arrest people who tried to overthrow your government on the very same day that they tried to overthrow your government. Well done, Brazil.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 10, 2023 at 3:24 pm
More unrest in Brazil. The good kind.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 10, 2023 at 8:57 pm
"Change was inevitable"
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 10, 2023 at 9:25 pm
(January 6, 2023 at 12:48 am)Jackalope Wrote: Ovidio Guzmán, son of "El Chapo", and coincidentally the person who was released from custody after a wave of retaliatory cartel violence, recaptured this morning in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
https://abc7.com/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-e...tid=Zxz2cZ
And since it looks like the fighting in the streets of Culiacan seems to be between criminals this time and not the President's security forces, it looks like shit's working out this time.
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