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Dana

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Just a light hearted general interest thread. Sometimes I come across a snippet in the news or on the internet and can’t find anywhere to place it…except…to create a new thread each time and that is too time consuming for me. So here goes, my first entry:

I love both Harry and Meghan and can’t wait for their interview with Oprah to be aired. Have no idea when that will be in Australia, but here is a preview:


An afternoon spent with Harry and James …

 

The other day I watched a movie with a much older Arnold Schwartzenegger in it and it got me wondering why Arnold still has his Austrian accent. I mean, neither my mom or dad could speak English when they started public school, but by the time I came to be, neither of them had a trace of a foreign accent. Turns out Arnold doesn't either. He goes to a language coach to keep it up for his movies and his fans.
 
Judycat said:
The other day I watched a movie with a much older Arnold Schwartzenegger in it and it got me wondering why Arnold still has his Austrian accent. I mean, neither my mom or dad could speak English when they started public school, but by the time I came to be, neither of them had a trace of a foreign accent. Turns out Arnold doesn't either. He goes to a language coach to keep it up for his movies and his fans.
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Wow...that's a surprise. How sneaky!
 
St Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and celebrations will mark the day…pubs will throw their doors wide open. But, you may be surprised to learn that all the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick’s Day is associated with many things: wearing green, breaking Lent, making an attempt to try out your cupla focal (few words you know in Gaelic) and of course drowning the shamrock.

Up until the 1970s, Irish law prohibited pubs opening on March 17 as a mark of respect for this religious day. It was feared that, leaving the pubs open would be too tempting for some during Lent and would lead to a disrespectful amount of drunkenness on this most solemn day. Anyway there is no smile as charming as an Irish one, be it on St Patrick’s Day or any other day ..

 
tbeltrans said:
Hmmm. Thorough testing is usually a part of a software release process. I could see the roomba acting odd in specific, difficult to reproduce circumstances, but not widespread under normal usage.

On the comical side, I have seen youtube videos of cats riding on these devices. I bet the new software gave such cats used to riding these, quite the ride. :)

Tony
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Well, it provided me with a good giggle today. I had considered getting one!
 
hollydolly said:
I saw the video of Harry & James the other day and it made me laugh out loud......


OTOH the British Press are asking for the Video with Oprah to not be aired until after prince Philip has recovered from his heart operation and is released from hospital..and I think that should be respected.
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I understand the BBC has refused to air it.
 
Dana said:
I understand the BBC has refused to air it.
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no it's ITV ( Independant Television ) who bought the rights... it's due to air in a few days so we'll see if they'll bow to the media and not air it until PP is well again.. at almost 100 years old with a heart condition, he doesn't need any shocks..
 
ITV has today been branded 'deplorable' after it bought up the Duke and Duchess and Sussex's 'grossly insensitive' two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey for £1million despite warnings its broadcast could detonate a 'diplomatic bomb' if the Duke of Edinburgh's health deteriorates, it was revealed today.

Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A Primetime Special will be shown in the UK at 8pm on Monday, March 8, around 24 hours after it is first shown in the US on Sunday night.

The deal is said to have cost ITV around £1million, having beaten Sky to the rights after talks with ViacomCBS were completed yesterday. It was an open field after the BBC declined to broadcast it.

The sit-down, which Oprah promises will be 'shocking', has been extended by half an hour, from 90 minutes to two hours, to allow CBS to rake in more money from advertising - a 30-second slot is reported to be costing $200,000, around £144,000.

ITV will also set to try to cash in on the deal by charging advertisers similar amounts, giving them up to 24 minutes of advertising time during the two-hour programme.

Commentator Richard Fitzwilliams, who was editor of International Who's Who for 25 years, told MailOnline today: 'ITV’s decision to purchase the rights to Harry and Meghan’s highly sensational interview with Oprah is deplorable. Who knows how matters linked to the Duke’s health will play out over the coming days. ITV have made the wrong decision and they would do well to await events before deciding when to screen it here'.

But the couple's decision to sign up with a commercial broadcaster means they are unlikely to be able to stop it.

Royal expert Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited Harry and Meghan in their Own Words said: 'They can only hope and pray that the Duke recovers and goes home. If something happens to him it would look terrible. Even if Harry and Meghan wanted to stop it they probably can’t and it’s out of their hands’.
 
hollydolly said:
ITV has today been branded 'deplorable' after it bought up the Duke and Duchess and Sussex's 'grossly insensitive' two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey for £1million despite warnings its broadcast could detonate a 'diplomatic bomb' if the Duke of Edinburgh's health deteriorates, it was revealed today.

Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A Primetime Special will be shown in the UK at 8pm on Monday, March 8, around 24 hours after it is first shown in the US on Sunday night.

The deal is said to have cost ITV around £1million, having beaten Sky to the rights after talks with ViacomCBS were completed yesterday. It was an open field after the BBC declined to broadcast it.

The sit-down, which Oprah promises will be 'shocking', has been extended by half an hour, from 90 minutes to two hours, to allow CBS to rake in more money from advertising - a 30-second slot is reported to be costing $200,000, around £144,000.

ITV will also set to try to cash in on the deal by charging advertisers similar amounts, giving them up to 24 minutes of advertising time during the two-hour programme.

Commentator Richard Fitzwilliams, who was editor of International Who's Who for 25 years, told MailOnline today: 'ITV’s decision to purchase the rights to Harry and Meghan’s highly sensational interview with Oprah is deplorable. Who knows how matters linked to the Duke’s health will play out over the coming days. ITV have made the wrong decision and they would do well to await events before deciding when to screen it here'.

But the couple's decision to sign up with a commercial broadcaster means they are unlikely to be able to stop it.

Royal expert Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited Harry and Meghan in their Own Words said: 'They can only hope and pray that the Duke recovers and goes home. If something happens to him it would look terrible. Even if Harry and Meghan wanted to stop it they probably can’t and it’s out of their hands’.
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Thanks holly, last we heard over here is that the BBC would not touch it. Perhaps the Palace wil keep all that away from Prince Philip.
 
Well, from all the pre-released snippets of this interview, it is embarrassing to both the U.K. and the U.S. Imagine Oprah asking Markle if she was silent or silenced? What, it the Windsor family the new Mafia? Shameful. Markle stating that royal living was unsurvivable? Really? All that pampering and luxurious living and you cannot survive? Then Harry going on about how Diana had to go it alone. Diana was not tossed out of the palace on her ear, never to be heard from again, for heaven's sake. She had a cozy life with body guards, et al. These two are a tawdry mess and I'd have had much more respect for them had they just done what they maintained what they planned to do. Go their way and lead a private life. Instead they are hell bent on destruction of themselves. Just look at what happened to Edward and Wallis once the novelty wore off.
 
Lewkat said:
Well, from all the pre-released snippets of this interview, it is embarrassing to both the U.K. and the U.S. Imagine Oprah asking Markle if she was silent or silenced? What, it the Windsor family the new Mafia? Shameful. Markle stating that royal living was unsurvivable? Really? All that pampering and luxurious living and you cannot survive? Then Harry going on about how Diana had to go it alone. Diana was not tossed out of the palace on her ear, never to be heard from again, for heaven's sake. She had a cozy life with body guards, et al. These two are a tawdry mess and I'd have had much more respect for them had they just done what they maintained what they planned to do. Go their way and lead a private life. Instead they are hell bent on destruction of themselves. Just look at what happened to Edward and Wallis once the novelty wore off.
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Many may already know this…

A rare painting by Dutch impressionist master Vincent van Gogh of a street scene in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montmartre will be publicly displayed for the first time before its auction at the end of the month.
Sotheby's auction house said the work, painted in 1887, has remained in the same family collection for more than 100 years - out of the public eye.

It will be exhibited in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Paris ahead of an auction scheduled on March 25 in the French capital. How I would love to see it...for the time being however, this will have to suffice.

 
I love this story….
The first bone cancer survivor to become an astronaut. The first person with a prosthetic body part to visit space. And the youngest American ever to orbit Earth.
These are the impressive firsts that could soon be attributable to 29-year-old Hayley Arceneaux.
In January, the physician assistant was picked to join the crew of the world's first all-civilian space mission.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56159726

 

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