Uh.... it's ok sir, you can just keep the money.
Some of the servers have been getting overloaded, could it just be bad timing?
This probably won't be popular here, but I recently listened to the audiobook Spare, Prince Harry's autobiography. I'm not a fan of the monarchy, I think the whole thing is weird and awful.
However, there's no denying Prince Harry has lived a unique life so I was curious. I thought it was pretty good overall. We're only getting one side of the story but god his family is fucked up.
Their nicknames for him and his brother, growing up, were Heir and Spare. He was told from a young age that if his brother ever needed an organ or anything, he was expected to step up.
He also grappled with his mother's death for his whole life and missed her dearly. He made up different conspiracy theories that she was somehow still alive to deal with the trauma.
And the queen seemed kinda ok overall, which surprised me a bit. She had her stuffy downsides but she seemed much better than the fucked up messes that his father and brother were.
Also, being famous from the time you're born sounds terrible. He inherited a lot of amazing things, but not all sound great.
While it wasn't the best book ever, it was interesting and I'm glad I checked it out (literally from the library, lol).
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If you're on ios, I've been hearing good things about wefwef.
Glad you asked.
Short answer: gambling
Long answer: us kids were starting high school and he knew college was after that, so he needed to figure out how to come up with some money to help us. He was good at math, so someone suggested he play the stock market.
He started off investing "fake" money (just his own personal ledger) and did pretty good. So he invested small amounts and continued to do well. He finally decided to borrow money from the bank, which is how the story came about.
He actually did REALLY well; paid off the loan, got a bigger one, paid that off, etc, until he had enough of his own money to keep investing. He beat the S&P every year, he had a talent for it.
But he really didn't enjoy it, he said it was a lot of work to keep up with the markets and how they interacted with each other. He kept it up for a few years after we finished college until he had a comfortable nest egg and quit.
He only paid for half our college, as a matter of principle he wanted us to come up with the other half. I still have loans to pay off but it was a huge help.
Now he hates capitalism and doesn't do any investing at all. He used to have some safe mutual funds but he's jaded about the state of the world, he doesn't want any part of the system.
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I stopped going to a dentist because her office looked like Trump campaign headquarters. Signs and shit everywhere. She otherwise seemed nice and competent but hell no.