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I nuked my original 14-year old Vital account and took a one-year self-imposed sabbatical. Best thing I ever did----hopeful it made me a better contributor, on the whole.
Feel free to finish the faces. Way past my pay scale.
But seriously, Hurry Backmon !
The Shop
The best threads on here were some of the good old photoshop classics, Kdub comes to mind!, it was all fun, then the world changed and I guess everything else did too. Shame.
I was a mod on a U.K. Moto site and sadly it was a nightmare.... Things would spiral out of control so quick that people would try and climb into the Internet to get at each other, and when they realised they couldn't, it just got dark.
If this place shut down, seriously if it did, how would you feel that first time you went to log in and see what's going down, to find nothing....if the boss said fuck it, would you say thank you for everything you did, or be pissed at him for taking all this away from you?...
"No Ragrets" Harry, enjoy the break!
Just weeks after slamming the door on Buckingham Palace, declaring their suffering as wealthy, pampered, world-famous senior royals so unbearable that they must take their leave and flee to the Canadian woods in search of privacy, humility, a slower way of life, time to think about which noble eco-warrior causes to support (while flying private, of course) and to create normalcy for themselves and their baby, Harry and Meghan are out on the stroll, selling their goods and services — whatever those may be — to the highest bidder.
You’d think, for appearances’ sake, they would have held out a little longer. It’s not as if they’re suddenly destitute. Harry and Meghan are, after all, still on the royal payroll through at least May, after which Prince Charles has vowed to support them.
And since decamping Britain, they’ve been freeloading, staying indefinitely at a $14 million Vancouver mansion (a deal brokered by music producer David Foster) and at Serena Williams’ Palm Beach estate during a recent trip to Florida.
That trip, by the way, was to attend a summit hosted by JP Morgan Chase. Harry, a 35-year-old man who knows little of the real world, let alone macro- and micro-economics or likely how to work an ATM, spoke to an audience including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and architect Sir Norman Foster.
Neither side will say whether he was paid, though experts say it’s likely he was compensated substantially. And to speak of what exactly?
The grief he still suffers from his mother’s death 20 years ago.
To get this right: Harry, as he said in his last public statement as a working royal, had “no other option” given the “many years of challenges” he has faced, the result of losing his mother, his forced march behind her casket as a 12-year-old boy, and the ongoing mental health challenges from which he suffers.
“Every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash,” he said last year, “it takes me straight back.”
So, as he said in his farewell speech, he was forced to “step my family back from all I have ever known, to take a step forward into what I hope can be a more peaceful life.”
But for the right price, he’ll dredge up all that deeply personal emotional chaos, held sacred for decades, to a room full of global powerbrokers — despite zero chance any of it will elucidate or ameliorate a single real-world problem.
To cap off this inaugural foray into life as working commoners, Harry and Meghan reportedly had dinner with two of the most philanthropic and publicity-shy people on the planet, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.
Now they’re reportedly house-hunting in LA and New York City — exactly where celebrities seeking seclusion go — and have been in talks with Goldman Sachs since at least November, months before announcing their plans to “step back.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Netflix may want to work with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
It’s been estimated that such vague partnerships could net the couple a billion-dollar empire. Clearly, the only difference between life inside and outside palace walls is a profit margin.
The argument that they can do so much more now for their dearest causes, freed from palace restraints, is nothing but a cynical fiction.
Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, did more to change public attitudes towards AIDS patients as a working royal than anyone, and it was precisely because she was doing things no royal had ever done — handhold and hug and kiss those dying from the disease — that her activism had such enormous impact.
And when Diana did something else a future queen of England had never done — get a divorce — she didn’t commodify her brand or sell her secrets. She recognized her platform as inherently rare and valuable, made more so by her refusal to monetize it
Contrast his mother’s approach with the recent video, since taken down, of Harry cornering Disney chief Bob Iger at a private event, begging him to hire Meghan for voiceover work while Beyoncé looks on, mortified.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's relationship started out like a fairytale
When, as a royal, you literally put yourself in supplication to a titan of capitalism, you have shown no scruples, no self-awareness, no shame. Now you’re just another hustler out to make a buck, and there’s nothing special about that
Oops... Wrong Harry 😜
Pit Row
I could be the one of the longest original members on this board, but I am almost never on the OG list. Lol I have been on here almost every single day since Fresh Dirt started. I am not controversial enough to get remembered online happily. Never argued with anyone online except my friend Wombat a time or two. I have had a talking too before deservingly. I love moto but no one in my area had bikes until recently so FD, MotoDrive and Vital were my only moto friends for many years and I thank you for that.
I have met GuyB a few times and he is a great guy with a lot on his plate. Deciphering the context on questionable posts can't be the easiest job.
I always thought Maverick would be a perfect moderator as he is on top of answers and solutions to most questions here and very level headed.
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