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Lord Reith’s dictum, “Inform, Educate, Entertain” (in that order) remains valid. The BBC has cast it aside.
They see it all right, but they want it to happen, or at least the real and/or hidden ruling circles do.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
“...Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe’s policies on immigration in order to create a “populace devoid of identity” which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite.“
[Wikipedia].
The present Conservative Party thoroughly deserves to lose the 2024 General Election, but anyone who thinks that Labour-label, under a pack of Jewish-lobby puppets (Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc) is going to be even slightly better is sadly deluded.
As for Yvette Cooper herself, she was an outright fraudster during the main MP expenses scandal, along with her husband, Bilderberg attendee Ed Balls, and is totally in the pocket of the Israel lobby. She wants even more non-white immigrants (migrant invaders) to arrive. Dead eyes, dead voice, dead soul.
Were I in Putin’s shoes, I should first of all destroy Ukraine’s rail system, then its electrical-generation and distribution system (the Russians are now, very belatedly, doing that), then go all-out to eliminate Zelensky and his cabal, something that should have been done on day 1 of the war.
So far, most of Kiev has not been heavily attacked.
A pleasant tweet. The animal kingdom has more potential than most people realize.
If so, and/or if proven, WW3 gets even closer.
Biden got there first, and on his own!
Obviously, only a small section of Philadelphia will be like that, but it should not exist at all. I believe, from what I have read, that those “zombies” are users of the drug Fentanyl, but for me, looking at their degradation, the mystery is why they use it at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl.
I recall when I was first in the USA as an adult, in 1989, asking a Federal employee (later my first wife), as we drove through some unpleasant section of Harlem in New York City, why there were so many suspicious-looking, mainly black, individuals congregating on corners, pretty obviously dealing drugs, without being moved on by the police. The answer? Constitutional right of free assembly (First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution).
For me, the law (including constitutional law) is there to serve the people, “for the welfare of the people is the supreme law” [Cicero]: salus populi lex suprema esto. If the law does not do that, it must be changed, however old and venerable it is.
I only heard of Charlotte Proudman recently. What a very strange woman, and I published recently on the blog one or two of her tweets.
What puzzles me is why the new Chief of the Bar Council, one Nick Vineall KC, has endorsed what seems to be a “woke” agenda. I have to say that he himself looks rather odd: https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/chair-of-the-bar-2023-nick-vineall-kc.
Vineall has, I read on Twitter, attacked some tweets or other comments which have been critical of Charlotte Proudman.
Well, there it is. I do not regret that I decided to cease practice at the Bar in 2008 (though my wrongful and unlawful disbarment, at the instigation of a pack of Jews, did not happen until 2016).
The Bar of England and Wales, looking at it overall, is now little better than a dustbin, like much of England itself.
Another secular pseudo-saint…
A reminder that the appeal fund to support Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), both while he sits in prison and upon his release (sometime next year), is still running.
From the newspapers
What has Britain become?
I blogged about that ghastly place, Northstowe, before: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2023/01/17/diary-blog-17-january-2023/
It was alleged that a possibly corrupt local councillor, a Nigerian woman, was (and is) partly to blame (see the above-linked blog post).
“Drummond Street, a south Asian hub, is under threat from HS2 works at Euston station in London but now moves are afoot to revive the area.“
I used to eat there occasionally in the 1980s, along with two now-deceased people: Ig Avsey, lecturer in Russian and noted translator of Dostoyevsky, and Guy Churchill, retired academic and one-time SAS soldier (mainly in Malaya in the 1950s).
I think that I have blogged about the pair before: Ig a good friend and one-time teacher of mine (at the nearby language school, part of the University of Westminster, which I attended p/t in the 1980s), and Guy Churchill, a mixture of resigned though amused cynicism and English eccentricity.
Guy surprised me (and Ig, I think, with whom he was more friendly) by suddenly getting separated and/or divorced at (?) maybe 70 (he looked older), while Ig surprised me even more by later getting married, a second marriage, to a young Russian woman he had met at, I think, a bus stop in Riga. My wife and I attended the wedding reception in 2002, where the bride, 20-something, looked out of place among the guests, 40-something and older (many 50+ or 60+).
I was already acquainted with a few of the other guests, including Gerald Brooke, who was exchanged in 1969 for the Krogers (Cohens), long-term Soviet KGB “illegals” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy)]
Brooke had spent 4 years in Soviet custody; in the Lubyanka, and then at Vladimir prison, about 100 miles east of Moscow.
Both Ig and Guy were rather eccentric. Ig’s main room was full of huge railway clocks, while Guy’s fridge (in the old person’s apartment in Vauxhall Bridge Road he took on after his separation/divorce c.1989) contained only a 6-pack of lager beer. Guy also had another odd habit, one I have never seen anyone else display— he would break off the filter tips from cigarettes before smoking them.
Strange to think back on times past, though it is probably a bad habit when one does it as much as I do (and have always done). Saturn in Scorpio…
As for Drummond Street, there is a similar street in Manhattan, E. 6th St. All Indian restaurants, or was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Row]. I visited that street too, once only, around 1990 or so.
[Strange synchronicity: after I wrote the above, including the sentence about the Krogers, I turned on Talking Pictures TV, and they were showing Ring of Spies, a 1963 British film (released 1964) about the Krogers and the Portland spy case (1953-1961). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Spies.
Not a bad film in a low-key way, and it keeps pretty much to the known facts of the case.
Also interesting from a social history point of view are the bits of London shown, that now look very different compared to how they were in 1963. Examples include the area of the Tolworth Tower near Surbiton, outer London (the building is still under construction in a scene from the film), and the 1.5-acre public roof garden of the old Derry & Toms department store in Kensington, which later became a nightclub, and later still a restaurant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolworth#Tolworth_Tower; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_%26_Toms; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Roof_Gardens].
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Good God! Terrible. I recently saw again one of Monty Don’s fine garden shows, which covered some gardens in and around Athens.
Strange to see various talking heads on msm terribly pleased at the terroristic attack on te Crimean Bridge, an attack which left a young girl injured and orphaned, her parents having been killed. I suppose that the talking heads would not be so happy were a bridge in, say the Bristol Channel or Humber Estuary to be blown up.
Good grief. Looks like they need a sergeant-major…
I agree with tweeter no.2. As to tweet no. 1, that is quite a force (if it exists)— 100,000 men, and 900 tanks (about 3x the number of tanks Rommel had, at max strength, in North Africa in 1942).
Lambs to the slaughter. I regret that, despite the fact that I recognize that this is a war Russia has to win, whatever “victory” looks like.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Rolls-Royce when it was a British company used to produce cars of considerable class and elegance. Now, look at it under the ghastly ownership of Germany’s BMW! They have ruined it as was predicted and all the models I have seen since look pretty ugly.
Is it any wonder why selfish, self-centered, black, criminally inclined yobs like Marcus Rashford now buy them?
When it was a British company, footballers used to stay clear of them but as the elegance and classy nature of the cars has effectively disappeared they now flock to purchasing one!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Japanese Toyota or even Honda would have made for a better owner.
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John:
All cars have lost their individuality, as you say even Rolls, and Bentley. Computer-aided engineering etc. Impressive in terms of reducing air drag etc, but the look suffers.
I think that the most beautiful cars were in the 1930s. Rolls, Mercedes, Bugatti, maybe Lagonda and others; some American marques as well. I am not a car person, and only had a driving licence from 1999 (and a UK one only from about 2003), but I do appreciate the style of those 1930s cars.
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Volkswagon haven’t done too bad a job with Bentley. Most of their models still look classy and elegant and if you didn’t know the truth you would think the company was still British.
However, that is sadly not the case with BMW and Rolls-Royce.
I bet even Japan’s Toyota or Honda would have respected Rolls-Royce more if they had purchased it.
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From looking at that picture of Philidelphia no one should be surprised why Singapore but also some other countries like Japan take drug dealing so seriously even to the extent of using the death penalty on dealers in Singapore and LIFETIME INCARCERATION MEANING PRECISELY THAT in Japan.
The drug situation in Philidelphia and some other US cities like San Francisco is utterly horrific and is causing numerous deaths, other health problems, and adding a large contributory factor towards other serious crimes being committed.
Both Singapore and Japan don’t want the drug abuse situation in those countries to become that bad and have degenerate druggies roaming the streets hence their tough stances on dealers.
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The death penalty might well be considered to be a bit ‘extreme’ to use on drug dealers but from reading some of the stories on them from putting in the words London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester etc and drug dealers into Google image search box it is clear that very large numbers of these miscreants really don’t give a monkeys about the health or the LIVES of other people so long as they can make some money from dealing. They are utterly blatant about their activities and have no fear of the police, authorities etc.
So why not execute them in order to SAVE more lives and lives of more value?
For those who are a bit squimish we could send them away to prison for LENGTHY periods of at least twenty years plus and, for the worst cases, imprison them for effective life sentences of fifty, sixty years plus.
Mind you, lengthy prison terms do cost a lot of money whereas the hangman’s noose is cheap as in Singapore.
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John:
You know my view: eliminate the users, who drive the trade. Eliminate users, and you effectively eliminate the dealers, wholesalers, importers and growers/chemists.
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You have to attack this problem from both angles ie demand AND supply.
I see no reason why drug dealers should be given a free pass and effectively left alone. Drug dealers are profoundly immoral scumbags and consciously CHOOSE to inflict serious harm not just upon individual drug abusers, the abusers’ families but ALSO society as a whole and on their own communities in which they live. We ALL suffer from them.
Drug dealing is a serious matter that should concern ALL of us.
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John:
I have no problem with drug dealers being prosecuted etc, but if all the users are killed, the dealers will have no customers and will stop, i.e. go out of business.
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Contrary to popular opinion here, Singapore doesn’t just execute or incarcerate for life drug dealers. That would be simplistic and wouldn’t work.
Instead, the death penalty and ultra-long prison terms for the dealers are part of a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach to target both the demand for drugs and their supply involving things like education in their schools teaching youngsters the dangers of taking drugs, programmes to get drug users to quit their abuse ect.
It is an approach virtually the entirety of Singaporean society takes part in.
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Perhaps, instead of ordering the police in London to utterly ridiculously waste god knows how many man hours chasing Stop Oil protestors onto tube trains, our utterly effing useless with an overly large gob, Indian Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, should, instead, order them to pursue London’s REAL criminals ie drug dealers, rapists, serious assaulters and the capital’s legions of manic stabbers.
How typical is it that a foreign Indian Home Secretary NEVER does what she is supposed to do but orders the Tory Party’s private militia (what WAS a police force) to abuse British people’s civil right to protest.
Why can’t the supremely ugly Indian loudmouth, useless bitch just eff off somewhere or drop down dead?
She is DESPISED by millions in this country from thick lefties who think, totally falsely, that she is doing something effective to sort out this country’s immigration crisis to GENUINE ‘Right-wingers’ like us who KNOW she IS NOT and who don’t like to see an ethnic foreigner trash into the dust traditional British civil liberties.
That sort of thing may be acceptable in India but it shouldn’t be here.
Just GO, Suella Braverman, and take the rest of your virulently anti-British, useless, globalist, Tory nation wreckers with you!
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John:
I cannot agree with any idea that the Just Stop Oil idiots should be allowed to block roads at will, and/or cause other mayhem.
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They are peacefully protesting as far as I can see. The only reason to arrest them would be if they blocked ambulances, police cars attending an emergency, fire engines ect.
Suella is a person who has absolutely no respect for basic British civil liberties. Basically, she is a hateful, ethnically Indian tyrant with quasi-fascist tendencies although, saying that last point, quasi-fascists normally have a good record at controlling little things like a country’s borders and real crime rates which her record on is a total national disgrace.
If she and the government think Just Stop Oil are so wrong then why do they not have a debate with them on tv?
The fact they appear to be so unwilling to do this indicates that they, deep-down, think Just Stop Oil may have a valid point to make.
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John:
Just Stop Oil are sub-terrorists, blocking roads, attacking great works of art etc. Blocking roads is not “peaceful”. People are being impeded to make a stupid and wrongheaded point. The people want action.
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They have a valid cause and are certainly not idiots. That word would be better used for this government’s ministers who are contemptuously ignoring THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT’S scientific advisors on climate change which is basically this Just Stop Oil’s group’s issue.
Still, the average Tory member is 60 years plus old and many of their voters are even older with senile dementia affecting a great number of them so climate change doesn’t concern them as they won’t live long enough to see its worst effects.
Hence, the hateful Suella Braverman and her quasi-fascist tactics to shut-up people she has not got either the IQ level or the bravery to debate with.
I have visited Just Stop Oil’s website and think it is deplorable and frankly, disgusting, that two of them have been imprisoned for 3 years for using non-violent civil disobedience YET drug dealers who do REAL harm are very unlucky if they get a five year sentence let alone the ten years, or better still, considerably more than that, terms they should get.
This is just another illustration of this government’s twisted priorities.
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A few, non violent protests blocking roads for a few minutes is not much ‘mayhem’ when compared to the REAL mayhem and huge environmental degradation that is to come if this terminally thick government of utterly useless turds and totally ignorant, Grade A WANKERS doesn’t listen to esteemed scientists INCLUDING THEIR OWN about new oil licenses and climate change.
But then as Tory Party members are geriatric old biddies in the main and many of their voters are (with added senile dementia) who won’t be long on this earth they won’t see the climate change hence their profound ignorance and Suella’s bigotry and quasi-fascist actions to remove the civil liberties of these Just Stop Oil people.
It is very easy to take Suella’s and the Daily Mail’s intolerant attitude of stirring-up hatred to these protestors when you are 80 years old like many Tory voters/members are and will not live much longer.
Still, WHEN has this government EVER listened to ‘experts’? I seem to remember utter degenerate Coke Head Michael Gove denouncing ‘experts’ only a few years ago about Brexit.
Or is that ‘Brexshit’ as that is yet another issue that this government has shown its utter incompetence with!
What with that issue and its contempt for the real issue of climate change it is no wonder the Tories have just 15% of young voters supporting them nowadays which must be a record low.
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I bet that probable The Scum ‘reading’ moron who having ‘read’ that gormless rag or the anti Just Stop Oil rants in the Daily Mail attacked the Just Stop Oil protestor was arrested for violent assault but I bet he wasn’t.
It is high time the police done their REAL job and protected people from violent, thuggish, The Scum and Daily Mail ‘reading’ yobs like that.
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Yes, as it looks almost certain Labour will ‘win’ the next fraudulent, inherently rigged due to the archaic FPTP electoral system, British general election, we will have Yvette Cooper to preside over the ever dysfunctional Home Office.
She is, at least, genuinely British but she clearly thinks Israel’s interests should come first instead of our own.
Anti-British Globalists everywhere in British politics from both Labour and Tory. Is it any wonder this country is in such a deplorable state and never makes any kind of real progress?
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Hello! A couple of questions:
A) What happened at the “Wimbledon’s Final” that several tweets have it attached those words as a hashtag?
B) Who is the idiotic asistan to Reagan in “Spitting Image”?
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Claudius:
I do not follow sports and do not know what happened at Wimbledon. I presume, the final match.
I think that the assistant was Ed Meese but am unsure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Meese
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Hello Ian. It’s been a while since i’ve been on here, i hope you’re well. Re the Conservative party. That idiot Cameron tweeted earlier about one of his “greatest achievements.” It’s the ten year anniversary of the gay marriage law changes….
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EnglishBrit89:
Hello. Long time no hear. Thank you— I am well, despite the continuing and tiresome Jew-Zionist persecution (I am likely to be put on trial at “their” instigation later in the year —Autumn/Winter— as you may have read).
David Cameron-Levita is a silly little man, of course: part-Jew, and did great harm to the UK, not least by conspiring with that corrupt little half-Jew Sarkozy in overthrowing Gaddafi. Result— massive migration invasion of Europe.
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Yes i saw the “CAA” have been pressuring the CPS. It’s no surprise to me the lengths these people will go to.
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EnglishBrit89:
God’s Will be done…things may well not go their way (but of course I cannot write about the case prior to any trial)
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Not just silly but also profoundly arrogant. Why else was he so supremely confident the EU referendum would be won by Remain? So arrogantly confident infact along with his equally arrogant and idiotic Chancellor of The Exchequer, George Gideon Oliver Osbourne, that they failed to instruct the civil service to prepare for the possibility of a Leave victory. The silly man also came perilously close to losing Scotland in 2014!
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It may be that the Conservative Party is finding it hard to trend in the opinion polls close to 30% plus due not just to the economic situation etc but also due to the party upsetting its core vote for the last thirteen years ie the continuing migration-invasion and very socially liberal changes like gay marriage.
Large numbers of Tory members thought gay civil unions/partnerships were sufficient and there was no need to have gay marriage. They said as much at the time the change was going through parliament. Cameron ignored them.
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That creature called Marcus Rashford is a perfect example of one of the many things which are hateful and unacceptable in today’s society. In this case, semi-illiterate low-lives being paid obscene amounts of money for running and kicking a ball during 90 minutes.
Incidentally; have you noticed how horrible the Rolls-Royce have become? The bastards from BMW ruined it completely. Until 2002, under the control of Volkswagen, the cars retained those beautiful, elegant lines that distinguished Rolls-Royce. The last beautiful Rolls-Royce was the “Corniche V” built between 1999 and 2002.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Corniche_%282000%29
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Claudius:
I liked to see different car marques having different personalities. That has largely disappeared.
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I remember the time when BOTH Rolls-Royce and Bentley fell into German ownership. This was in 1998. Blair’s repellent anti-British government did little to nothing to stop the finest British-owned and symbols of British national pride marques and effectively the last ones we had going to foreigners.
Perhaps, due to our EU membership and its rules it couldn’t have been prevented. I wouldn’t be surprised if that had been the case though even it had been possible to save them as British marques it is doubtful Blair’s government would have undertaken that action.
Japan’s Sony Corporation is a potent symbol of Japanese national pride and their postwar economic miracle so I would imagine the Jap government would step-in and try and save it as a Jap company if a foreign corporation had it in its future ownership sights.
Yes, Rolls-Royce cars nowadays really don’t look as elegant and classy as they used to do. BMW has certainly ruined their looks in this regard, their insides often feature barely-concealed parts from BMWs and have a certain tackiness about them, especially the wood veneers which were very elegant under British ownership.
Furthermore, even though the brand is still made here, BMW has seen fit to have a German heading the company.
Volkswagon has done quite a good job with Bentley though. The design ethos of them is pretty much consistent with how I imagine they would look if the company was still in British hands. The traditional Bentley ‘look’ both outside and inside them is still clearly recognisable and I think the head of the company is still British though I could be wrong on that.
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Hello again! I am watching a video about Little Venice by a beautiful English girl that looks like a model out of a poster from the III Reich (LOL) The only problem is that she tends to talk too much. The video really starts at 8.30 and ends at 25.00
There are some large barges in the canal (8.30) and I assumed people live in them. At 15.15 she shows the barges moored there and says that the average price is £250.000 which seemed expensive to me until she said that a 3-bedroom flat costs £750.000 😲 😲 😲
At 19.25 she goes into a nice garden centre (Clifton’s Nurseries).
The overall impression I have is that is a nice neighbourhood but I think it must be dangerous living there, especially if you live in a barge. I think anyone walking in London after dark is a fool tempting Providence. I bet the streets are full of untermenschen on the prowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfSf-YnfWI
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Claudius:
London has changed. I lived on and off in London from 1976 to 1998, and spent the majority of my time in London in Little Venice, which is not only quite pleasant and scenic but also convenient for the West End of London which is not far away.
Of course, I am not fully aware of the crime situation there now, but as a 20-something (late 1970s/mid-1980s) and up to the late 1990s, I walked alone through many parts of London, inc. Little Venice, often at night. Never had *serious* trouble.
I know Clifton Nurseries, and have been there many times, though not for about 25 years. Richard Branson once lived across the street from there. I do not want to spoil it for you, but it is or was (I think still is) owned by one of the Rothschilds…
ps. re. the canal barges: the cost of the barges factors-in the cost of the mooring. Moorings in London are very hard to find, so a quasi-permanent mooring is very valuable.
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the girl you like is, I think, Australian, judging by her accent. Not a strong accent, but quite noticeable at the start. Not 100% sure, but I think so.
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Amazing! I thought she is 100% English (That shows how much I know) 😂 😂 😂 I told my wife not to be jealous and she said “Jealous? You could be her father; besides, you don’t have a penny, do you think she will look at you?” 😂 😂 😂
Seriously, I liked the place and I am nor surprised it may be so expensive, it is in a wonderful location between Hyde Park and Regent’s Park. The fact that was a cold and grey day did not help, but I think it must be beautiful in springtime/summer.
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Claudius:
“No man is a hero to his valet”, it was said. Maybe “wife” can often be substituted for “valet”.
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Good morning, Ian! Wonderful words! 😂 😂 😂
My wife has a great sense of humor and we tease each other constantly. From time to time, I say: “How dare you to talk to me like that?” only to laugh later on. 😂 😂 😂
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Claudius:
Glad to hear it.
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