Oprah’s recent interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry drew record ratings and made Worldwide front page news for weeks. Cunning and smart, the big brained billionaire knows how to spot an opportunity, and then brilliantly exploit it.
The very British Carole Malone writes:
OPRAH WINFREY is one of the smartest women on the planet. It’s why she’s a billionaire. It’s why when Harry and Meghan invited her to their wedding she went like a shot.
Not because she was overcome with excitement at being a royal wedding guest (although she must have been curious).
And not because of Meghan, who was a two bit actress in a Netflix soap opera at the time. But because, even back then, Oprah, always alert to the main chance, had her beady eye on the Big Interview. She wasn’t Meghan and Harry’s friend back in 2018, having met them just once before the wedding, and I suspect she isn’t now. But everything she’s done to help them, e.g. get their first home in LA, introduce them to all the right people, will have been done with a view to the big prize. And now she’s got it.
Source: What Meghan and Harry are doing is despicable, Oprah interview betrays Queen; Express; March 4, 2021
Love that line “went like a shot” especially when spoken by a British woman. I just picture Oprah’s private jet flying like a speeding bullet to the UK wedding while using her nearly 2000 cc cranium to calculate how to lure the couple into the interview of the century: The way to get it, is to pretend I don’t want it.
During the interview, the couple made the explosive claim that an unnamed member of the royal family was concerned that they might produce a dark skinned baby. This caused British gossip Pierce Morgan to go absolutely ballistic. Even though Meghan and Harry clarified that the alleged royal racist was NOT the Queen or Prince Phillip, Morgan took this as a personal attack on her majesty.
However Meghan’s co-ethnic struck back, driving Morgan off the set of his own show. It’s unclear whether he quit or was fired, but after thousands of viewers and Meghan herself complained about his behavior, he never returned.
Meanwhile on the other side of the pond, talk show host Sharon Osbourne defended her friend Morgan against accusations of racism. This led to allegations that Osbourne herself was racist, and after being allegedly ambushed on her own show, she too was removed from TV indefinitely.
Queen Elizabeth released a statement saying she will address Meghan and Harry’s accusations in private. The palace has also opened up an investigation into whether Markel bullied palace staff. Many are asking whether the monarchy can survive this.
Meanwhile the real Queen sits somewhere in her $100 million Santa Barbara mansion, watching all the chaos she unleashed.
Pumpkin Person 
Mug of Piss are you an incel zoomer?
all you ever wanted to know about women can be learned from fags.
women are fags.
Reminds me of an episode of “Queer as Folk” where a lady said she loved big dicks or something to that effect and her gay son said “Mom you are such a fag!”
I’m too young to have appreciated Oprah before I started reading this blog, but she really is very powerful. Must have been interesting watching her shape things when her show was still on.
The UK press has a terrible reputation in North America now, and rightfully so. The press has bullied many into killing themselves, Caroline Flack being the most recent one that I know of. Piers pretends he doesn’t believe Meghan was suicidal because, allegedly, she rejected his advances. Apparently, he’s expecting a job in America or with Andrew Neil’s new TV channel.
I wonder which royal was stupid enough to make the skin colour comment? I would guess William. I’ve also heard that Meghan didn’t want to give up her American citizenship, despite the taxes, because she wanted to eventually run for office.
I can’t wait to see what happens next, though it might take a while.
PP, Your obsession with oprah is bordering on the level of childishness. I hope this is the last time you talk about oprah.
So now we know Puppys real name is Carole Malone.
LOL
I love that PP has a fetish for large-headed women. You don’t see that every day.
I do think the interview was detrimental to the royal family mostly by being one more thing, instead of it being super important on its own. It’s 2021, monarchies look more and more silly to most people, Prince Andrew was recent very bad piece of press for the family and now this.
Charles is in my city right now, by the way. I can’t move freely because of safety measures. And the lockdown lol.
Royalty or not, no respect for pliable cucks like Harry who sell out their families without so much as batting an eye.
I suspect Harry was blindsided by Meghan revealing the alleged skin colour conversation Harry told her about in private. When Harry was asked about it he had to admit it lest he paint his wife as a liar, but he refused to elaborate.
“Royalty”
As if that makes them inherently different from their “subjects.”
He didn’t get the memo. Miscegenation is for the masses. Such hypogamy on his part was treacherous in itself. Bloke courted a negress either to piss off his family or because he selfishly wanted to reduce the odds of having red-haired kids.
mearsheimer explains why every good person with an IQ above room temperature is a [redacted by pp, March 26, 2021]
after seeing that bobby fischer vid i tried it myself. so far my record is 31 seconds. 90% of the time i can do it in under 60 seconds. fischer did it in 17 seconds according to the vid, but i’d like to time it myself. the online version should be easier to do because only using arrows not moving actual sliding pieces.
try it yourself.
https://15puzzle.netlify.app/
here the best or second best blitz player, half white half jap nakamura tries to beat fischer’s record.
What’re everyone’s MBTIs?
I normally come out INTJ, but I’m pretty much 50-50 in all 4 categories. My biggest split is between T and F.
INTJ for me as well. When I was younger I was an INFJ
intp iirc and the only one of those that was unusually strong was p.
no. now i think it was ISTP. i remember it was the same as clint eastwood’s supposed type.
and harrison ford has been put on the list too.
so it was ISTP.
eastwood and quarter jew ford seem very “intense” and authentic.
there are no homosexual ISTPs.
in other words the difference between ISTP and an INTP, or switch any of the first three letters, was small…except for the P.
or so the psychology lady told me.
INTP/INTJ. I > E, N > S are very clear; T > F is clear and J>=<P isn't as clear. Think an INTP with introverted intuition + INTJ with introverted thinking combined.
INFP
MBTI is as much bullshit as IQ tests but I consistently get INTJ.
99% of AIDS deaths prior to 1985 were INTJs.
or so the psychology lady told me.
FAMOUS INTJ: PATRICK COWLEY.
The connection between mood + energy level and frequent exercise is NOT new age bullshit. For me at least it’s completely real.
30 minutes of intense stuff, 5 times per week is all you need. Walking 10k steps in addition to this on the other 2 days is even better.
If you’re trying to slim down, following up a 30 minute cardio session with a 15-20 minute cooldown walk is very valuable. If it’s hot outside, even better. Anything to keep your heart rate elevated after you work out for as long as possible.
Doing so can earn you 1500+ incremental calories every week.
Does anyone have any thoughts on cold showers? I have an italian bodybuilder friend who swears by them, but I don’t want to do something like that without being certain about what to expect.
I tried it for around a month. My skin improved a bit and made me feel more “alert,” but I suspect that was actually just stress from the cold. Wasn’t worth it to me though, I didn’t feel comfortable during or after cold showers.
I’m considering trying ice swimming next year after reading some articles praising it recently. If there are any benefits to cold water, I’d rather have a fun concentrated dose less often.
PP I need some guidance—who’s more evolved?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22044-z
Definitely not whoever spent this much time categorizing plants.
How many splits did he have in his evolutionary tree?
Just guessing, but humans. Maybe there is a magnitude for each split. And if you summed these magnitudes for each species, our path would probably be greatest.
OK so do it.
I can’t because I don’t know how to measure the quality of each split.
Well PP can do it since it’s his theory that more splits equals more evolutionary change equals “more evolved”—so I’m waiting for him to chime in on who’s most evolved in this chart.
My theory is that on average more splits equal more evolutionary change so I’d predict Amorphea are less evolved than Diaphoretickes and Excavata
That’s what you “predict”—but how do you KNOW?
“If you’re the first branch, and you don’t do anymore branching, then you are less evolved than higher branches.”
You realize you just said that humans are “less evolved”, right?
The tree you posted suggests that humans belong to a less evolved super group, but not sure that tree is scientifically accepted. This is the more accepted way of organizing things:
It’s published in Nature Comms so… Just because the other one fits your “more evolved” “theory” you accept that over the more comprehensive one?
According to wiki, humans belong to the animal kingdom & the animal kingdom belongs to the Eukarya domain. Amorphea does not appear to be a widely recognized taxon.
Haha what are you talking about? Homo sapiens in that chart is in Obazoa, which is in the Amorphea taxonomic subgroup.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphea
It’s an unranked taxon. It’s not recognized though might be in the future.
Haha what are you talking about?Amorphea or Obazoa is an “unranked taxon”? Come on man, this is getting really embarrassing for you. Amorphea is a well-recognized supergroup. Melo, check out these PP mental gymnastics.
This taxon groups opisthokonts (animals, fungi, and their respective unicellular relatives) with the amoeboid protists of Amoebozoa (e.g., Amoeba and most ‘slime molds’ among many). Amorphea now also includes two small lineages of heterotrophic flagellates, the breviates and the apusomonads, that cluster with the opisthokonts to form the Obazoa [34,55]. Amorphea is robustly supported in most phylogenomic analyses, with the caveat that the position of the root remains uncertain (Box 3), and a placement within Amorphea has been inferred in some cases [66], which would make Amorphea paraphyletic.
https://libgen.is/scimag/10.1016%2Fj.tree.2019.08.008
What do I have to be embarrassed about? The wiki article you linked to says it’s unranked. What’s its rank if it’s ranked?
It’s a Domain with Diaphoretickes. Are you going to go back to university and take a basic biology 101 course or what?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6492006/
Diaphoretickes is unranked my little dumb-dumb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants%2BHC%2BSAR_megagroup
I just gave you a 2019 reference, my little Wiki-reader.
Everyone agrees eukaryotes are a domain of life. But it’s typically divided into at least 3 major kingdoms: plants, animals, and fungi. But your tree has a weird amorphea taxon that lumps animals & fungi together.
^^^ Most autistic convo in human history
Do you even know what “unranked” means here?
Unranked means they don’t know its taxonomic specificity. Domain is a very broad rank, species is very specific. Race would be even more specific than species but scientists avoid it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank
It’s only weird to you because you’re not up to date on the latest taxonomic classifications. Do you know what “unranked” means here, PP?
It’s only weird to you because you’re not up to date on the latest taxonomic classifications.
That’s possible.
indeed. rr thought that by looking like a mop with sunglasses he could fool people into thinking he wasn’t the only arberesh autist in history.
he failed.
No—“unranked” means it’s not a part of the traditional Linnean taxonomy.
Species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain, life is the classification (lowest to highest, of course in a taxonomic sense not denoting superiority or inferiority)—and amorphea is a Domain.
Not part of it for what reason? Amorphea is arguably a sub-domain.
Traditionally we said animal and fungi are kingdoms within the eukaryote domain, but in the future we might say animals and fungi are kingdoms within Amorphea which is arguably a subdomain within the eukaryote domain.
As I said in my previous comment: “No—“unranked” means it’s not a part of the traditional Linnean taxonomy.”
Sure in the future when it comes to taxonomic classification anything can change—but current consensus is what I’ve previously cited.
So humans are less evolved.
Thanks for the info. I look into it in my most recent article.
“Not part of it for what reason?”
Modern taxonomists increasingly don’t use linnean taxonomy because it cannot account for the enormous amount of monophyletic groups that exist. Hence where these unranked classifications come from.
They are very much real and very much valid.
Since apparently you don’t like criticism, I’ll just say that if you want to be taken more seriously, then do actual research on the philosophy of taxonomy. Because this “debate” you keep wanting exists specifically there and you might find the confirmation bias you so desperately need.
Also look into “parsimony.”
[redacted by pp, march 31, 2021]
there are as many and as few branches as you like.
[redacted by pp, march 31, 2021]
her precious chinapeople might be represented on a human tree as coming after fewer branches than mezzogiornese or after fewer than calabrians or after fewer than taranto-ans.
one might put jackals, coyotes, wolves, and dogs on 4 branches or one. they can all interbreed.
The fact that taxa are so arbitrary makes the correlations I’ve found between branching and brain size even MORE impressive not less. The true relationship must be even stronger if I found a signal in the face of such noise:
if wayne gretzky started his own political party with a single plank in its platform: make wayne gretzky dictator of canada…
it would win 85% of the vote.
It amazes me so many people even care about the royal family. Crazy!
Celebrity worship is incredibly toxic.
Meanwhile the real Queen sits somewhere in her $100 million Santa Barbara mansion, watching all the chaos she unleashed.
why Santa Barbara and not like Laguna Niguel or La Jolla? It’s very chilly up there most of the year.
you people need to stop with the more or less evolved stuff, all comments about group characteristics are straw manned by this ‘more evolved’ verbiage.
cowley and baker are examples of “the sociology of death”…so to say…
as far as the wiki goes the death of patrick cowley and lenny baker are the same…
NO evidence…that they were from AIDS.
just ’cause he was young and did gay stuff and lived in the castro and died from a mysterious disease…
the wiki doesN’T mention that his cause of death was one of the AIDS defining illness-es.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Rite#Degree_structure
why isn’t rr outraged at the stereotyping of deaths?
Puppy and RR should have a debate about what the word debate means. I would pay to see that.
Pill you desperately need to watch INDUSTRY on HBO.
It’s about people working in the same field and place as you. And on last week’s show the Indian lady implied her black employee had won the lottery because he was black and smart. LMAO
Except this posh gay guy who fall in love with a married blond(e), everyone is completely heartless and void in this serie. There is no one with an ounce of selflessness or kindness. Despite that, it’s quite an entertaining little serie.
I also saw « It’s a sin » where there are some very nice characters among the lot. I thought the hero’s mother was horrible and almost a hangwoman but my girlfriend thought she was fine ! And there is also an IQ + attractiveness hierarchy among all the characters wich is very rough. Certainly the anglo-saxon world plus the sexual gay marketplace wich seems unforgiving.
I liked this short serie despite it being so close to the Swedish Don’t ever write tears without glove and of a lesser quality. It looks like gay movies are improving a lot and there are many quite entertaining.
Hope everything fine for all !
I’m surprised you get the show in France
PP,
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/earliest-south-american-migrants-had-australian-melanesian-ancestry
What happened to my last comment?
It’s there now.
thanks 🙂