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Aussie, I have got in a lot of trouble in the past for pointing out this is a business - including fairly vile abuse from certain people who had their heads in the sand. I talked about bonuses etc., and what I said about them has been proven almost 100% correct. I merely approach from the side of thinking if I was running a business what would I do? Clearly a lot of girls on the Barcelona side required a lot of incentive and it was clear when that was happening and how it stepped up. The Roommates which was kind of a halfway house and the Couples also seemed to have changed but nothing so definite I would be able to guess at RLC's exact strategy. When we talk about The Goddess you are talking about a special person because she so easily attracts people whenever people are watching and honestly there is more variety, more that makes her worth watching, than with any other girl with the possible exception of Nelly but I don't think I'm being controversial when I say there is more The Goddess to look at. RLC have needed to be clever with her. I know she was a bit disappointed about the path the Barcelona took and maybe things would not have changed so much if they had not but RLC is a business and needs maximise its profits. They have used The Goddess as the clickbait (clickbate) for this site. Now I'm not saying they have got their maths right over this because I have had experience of companies where the MD's (or owner's) feeling have often trumped common sense - it's not an exact science, it is complicated and is subject to gut feeling - but they maybe got to a point where they thought that her value as advertising was less than as an incentive to join. I'm not going through the apartments but those that do have some free access did not extend to GRs so as freeloaders we have been very lucky. IMO it would have been sensible with The Goddess and Barcelona to at least leave something even it is just the main LR camera and/or the kitchen (obviously the previous kitchen cam for this apartment as the newer one maybe gave a bit too much access) where nudity for most apartments and more happens only sporadically. Advertising can be done by showing highlights or the free cams. The thumbnails once they became blurred don't really work in that respect. We could hope it is an experiment but I won't be visiting RLC until at least there is something of The Goddess for me to watch although, like Amy said, I might well stick around on CC.

I wish people would post her a bit more. We can see on my BREXIT thread people have strong feelings but I feel this is the place to put them. People are very forthright in the US political threads but the BREXIT thread was supposed to be about information. Here I am more inclined to give opinion.

We'll see but I am disappointed to see all the negative comments about The Goddess. To me she has been magnificent. I would say that she has evolved partly because of learning new ways to pleasure herself but also given the competition elsewhere in RLC. If you have ever watched Barcelona you know what goes on now. The girls come in with pressure on them to perform straight away whereas in the past they was clearly less of it. This possibly has a knock-on effect for the couples' apartments. We have certainly seen some of the girls (and guys) feeling pressure. I am not going to quote specific instances but I could. Going back to the Goddess I can't remember a time when a large amount weren't watching her whatever she did. She's very watchable even when Paul is home. People complain there's too much of that, too little of this but the plain fact is as not everybody wants the same thing she can't please all of the people all of the time. Naturally then everyone has a subjective point of view. I just hope all of this is The Goddess's choice and even if it is then I don't see why any criticism should be laid at her door and if it isn't then no criticism can be! Yes I am not watching now but I don't regret one minute of watching her for the last 4 years or so.

Well look who it's by!

The last 2 posts belong in the General European political thread.

Well at least someone knows the reference 😀

No but I have subscribed in the past for over a year and I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for The Goddess. She is the best advertising they could possibly have I might have been motivated to subscribe earlier if there had been less free cameras but I wasn't going to say that while so much was free but for nothing to be free is a real pity.

Again this is General politics but since the discussion on the next PM is important and Brexit seems to have stalled entirely. Another 3 candidates (there are 11 in all): Jeremy Hunt, famously called Jeremy Cunt by a famous BBC news presenter which is appropriate as I think most doctors refer to the ex Health Secretary that way, is the current Foreign Secretary (No 3. in the UK government hierarchy). I remember when he was put in charge of media he kept bumping into one of Murdoch's cronies. He has a lot of money but said more study should go into homeopathy as a health option. Homeopathy is scientific bollocks. It is not that it does not work. It literally cannot work. Should a person like that be making decisions about health? Rich. Sayid Javid, Home Secretary (No 4.), had a fairly impressive career as a banker so in theory should be able to grasp the financial aspects. Has got where he has by hard work and ability rather than his family like several of the others but still maybe his ambition is a bit too blatant. Esther McVey ... Well she is from my part of the country even more so than Javid but I really do not like the woman. I would describe has the ex Minister against the Disabled since she spent her entire time looking for ways to take money off disabled people and has misled parliament but that's nothing new for a politician. She used to be a TV presenter on some religious programme. Her right wing politics belie her disadvantaged Irish Catholic background but the fact that she was a Deputy Whip shows she has a ruthless strong side. Tends to have relationships with colleagues. To balance this Boris tends to have a relationship with anything in a skirt. Be surprised if any of those win but who knows in this crazy world.

The end of an era for me. I'm sorry I won't see The Goddess again and while I like Chloe and other girls I am not motivated enough to be bothered watching any more. Sad day for me and many others. I wish The Goddess all the best but unless I have a sudden upturn in my finances which allows me justify paying over £500 a year (because without Replay ...) for watching 1 or 2 hours a day then I doubt very much if I'll ever be back. GOODBYE TO THE GODDESS AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

You are aware of time, I take it. You know things change. They have changed. What you are doing is equating the situation post Dasha with the situation pre Dasha which was very different. Masha is very unhappy now for obvious reasons.

Sometimes Kitty can be very difficult to deal with.

Still posting your version of the truth Donzi. I'm not going to waste my time but you try flogged this narrative to death years ago and ignored all the times I pointed out you were wrong. You see what you want to see, you show you want to show. You have probably even convinced yourself of its truth even if Masha and Sasha were to come to you and tell you what was actually going on, you wouldn't believe them.

Just be grateful I didn't go into more detail 😉😀

Well you knew I'd give a longer one - with me, that is guaranteed 😉🙄😀

LOL

Yes that is fair. The UK only ever wanted a trading area but Germany wanted something closer to a federal Europe and apparently UK politicians knew this back in the early 1970s when we voted to join but didn't tell the public. Every time there has been a suggestion of closer union, the UK has flinched. If I might get personal for a second. I have always been suspicious about the level of the democracy in the EU, a suspicion realised when I saw the level of debate in the European parliament. However the world is an uncertain place and I would prefer to stay close if not in to the EU as these are the closest countries to us not only geographically, but economically and philosophically. I am an internationalist and leaving the EU personally makes me very sad. The Germans are probably very sad that we are leaving; the French are probably amused.

I feel it is likely to be Boris Johnson. The experts say he has an advantage in a short campaign because he has such a massive public profile although I think that might be irrelevant before the final stage. Most MPs don't want Boris but if he makes the final 2 he is guaranteed. Also in the running are: Dominic Raab who nobody had heard of until he was made Brexit Secretary, a post he resigned from fairly quickly, when he revealed he had not understood how many goods actually came through Dover - which made people think he lacked basic knowledge; Michael Gove the joint leader of the main Brexit campaign, an ex-journalist and publically well known. He's seen as clever but a bit weaselly and isn't posh like Johnson. Rory Stewart, Eton educated diplomat - seeped in diplomacy, governed part of Iraq and helped set up the Iraqi constitution - and a dark horse but better known than Raab. Angela Leadsom ... hmmm Speaker John Bercow has suggested she's not too bright and I would say that she'd be a worse choice than Boris and that is saying something. Penny Mordaunt, current Secretary for Defence, who is most famous for appearing on a reality TV show in a swimsuit. Has credentials but does appear to be a bit jolly hockey sticks (not a Sarah Palin phrase) but maybe that's unfair. There are several others but that's probably the top 6 who MPs will narrow down to 2. If you ask me I would favour Stewart then Gove. The UK will leave the EU and possibly with NO DEAL now which sounds crazy to me and many others. As for a trade deal with the US, clearly Trump would favour Boris. Stewart would be the toughest.

Well now this will get political but not too much I hope. History first because it explains May's problems. Just like there has always been a hardcore of left-wingers in the Labour Party, there has been a hardcore of right-wingers in the Conservative Party. John Major, a mild mannered man, called them bastards. Virtually all the right and the extreme left want to leave the EU because it is one more level of government which isn't in the way of the idealistic views. Now successive Tory leaders had managed to hold off this wing - they flirted going to the right during their 13 years in opposition but when they elected Cameron it was an attempt to steal the centre ground. UKIP happened - with unclear sources of funding but probably not from residents of the UK - and fuelled by the discontent due to the crash of 2008 gained momentum. Now the growing right wing of the Tory Party had a natural home in UKIP but only a coupled jumped ship because the Tories were after all in power and they had seats anyway. Now Cameron was an arrogant gambler who had just about got away with the Scottish referendum. He felt he could stave off UKIP and appease the right of his party - never give into terrorism - he put a commitment for a referendum into the Tory manifesto in 2015: the Conservatives would probably not have a majority and therefore he would have to abandon the plan; fully believing he would win it anyway. To everyone's surprise the Conservatives won a majority and then you know what happened next. So while the leaders of the Brexit campaign stabbed themselves in the front leaving only the inexperienced and under talented Angela Leadsom to stand from that side. Now May had given a speech which was, in the manner of Corbyn, supposed to be her pitch for Remain but what she ended up as saying was the EU was not very good but may be better than the alternative. Leadsom opened with the opinion that May was not fit to lead because she had no children ... The battle lasted one day and as May was the last one standing she won. May decided to call an election to giver her a mandate. The Conservatives led the polls by 20 points but it quickly became clear May was a massive liability and she decided to hide during the campaign even making Corbyn look statesmanlike. Labour did much better than expected, so well in fact the Tories lost the majority earning the wrath of her own party. This is not a good background to start Brexit negotiations with but she carried on as if nothing had changed - she did lie to The Queen about exactly how the Northern Irish DUP were actually on board. When she made the ill judged appointments of David Davis as Brexit Secretary and Boris Johnson as foreign secretary it was briefly thought to be a plan to show her opponents as incompetent. They were and fortunately both resigned but this did not seem to weaken them. The right wing ERG (European Reform Group) now had a lot of power. These were the seeds John Major's bastards had grown. Before all this a lot of people were behind May but as time wore on the country became frustrated with her strict adherence to the deal. Her only method of persuasion seemed to be promising to end her premiership sooner and sooner. In the end a concrete promise was enough to persuade the leading right wing figures to back her as although they might not have got everything they wanted, the opportunity to control the trade negotiations was too good to turn down as well as a chance for personal ambitions to be realised. But she lost again and after a hiatus during which there was a belated attempt (the Tory chief whip, the guy responsible for party discipline, said it should have happened in 2017 after she lost her majority) to negotiate with the Labour Party, which has its own Brexit problems. These talks collapsed but once more May stubbornly went on with a plan no-one supported - with her imminent departure, members of the ERG had stopped any support they had for her. To answer your question, it is felt she had an impossible job but she had run out of cards to play so she was just occupying the position. People have sympathy for her - I do over Brexit as I said many times they should vote for her deal, but not her career in general - but pretty much everybody in the country had lost patience with her inability to move anything on.

Thanks Nathan and of course xanadu.

Embarrassingly I missed this - I was in hospital Tuesday and Wednesday - so could some kind person reup this, please? This must be the best free view of the wonderful Chloe ever.

Gracias amigo Hope.

Any chance of a reup?

It's very confusing ... just imagine if someone in the apartments were actually called Pasha 😉

Hello Loki, although I suspect you aren't really Tom Hiddlestone, but the problems are: 1. People don't want to because of the risk of losing their RLC subscription - there are a few ways RLC have of identifying the content maker. 2. I suspect that more recent events might begin to be a bit too visible in CC for RLC's comfort and I'm guessing both parties want to maintain a good relationship. Some people do post stuff from the past but if you notice the hosting sites tend to take this content down very quickly.

He did (*) and he was which means we can't complain when Trump does it now. I think from Obama's POV it strengthens the hand of the West as a whole and we should be joining together to fight China but Trump doesn't see a war he sees individual battles and against EU and against UK, the US position is strengthened. To continue your metaphor when we sat down there was some glue on part of the seat called the Irish Border. Every single party has let the UK down but we certainly don't want a couple of new parties whose only policy is GET OUT and STAY IN. When asked about other policies the Brexit Party said that they weren't really important and they'd make some up in time for the election but I'm willing to bet that it will look very like a British version of the Tea Party ... an irony that won't be lost on Americans. * Mainly because Cameron asked him to because of making a ****ing stupid mistake but then as someone who allegedly stuck his cock in a dead pig's head who should be surprised? The one good thing about Cameron - apart from his extraordinary ability to deliver a speech without notes without hesitation - was that he called out Putin on how macho he was challenging him to swim in ice cold water which VP turned down.