Marc in Calif

In American English, yes. But they don't capitalize all letters of acronyms in British English: Aids, Nato, Covid, Unesco, etc.

What I find really suspicious is that he rarely comments again after he starts his many threads. He doesn't even seem to thank responders or even acknowledge their posts. 😲

It's part of a national chain: https://thenowmassage.com/silver-lake/

There's no protocol at all. Just don't ask if they provide MT and a HE -- and you'll be fine! ☺️

He also calls himself "Jeff" (and "Jeffrey"): https://www.masseurfinder.com/massage-therapists/36330/

The description of their place is a bit awkward: AN EXCLUSIVELY MASSAGE SPA DESIGNED BY MEN FOR MEN Well, it's not "exclusively massage" that they offer. There's also waxing, trims, facials, Manual Lymph Drainage (😲), and so on. So it could be either of the following: An Exclusive Massage Spa Designed by Men for Men A Massage Spa Designed Exclusively by Men for Men (or something similar)

In my experience, mutual nudity and a HE are definitely possibilities.

The iPad "keyboard" sucks! Maybe look into getting a small-ish external keyboard for it?

IM? 😇

First of all, geologists and seismologists would never say "you will see." The more appropriate phrases are "you frequently see, "you might see," or "you sometimes see." But much more important is the fact that the earthquake in Turkey and Syria was a 60-mile rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian tectonic plates -- nothing to do with the North American plate at all. (There is no "Atlantic plate"; maybe you're thinking of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?) "Southeast Turkey and northwest Syria are prone to dangerous seismic activity because they lie on the junction of three enormous tectonic plates — the African, Anatolian, and Arabian — whose collisions and snaggings cause earthquakes. Monday's quake likely came from the East Anatolian Fault, where sections of the Arabian and Anatolian plates can become locked together by friction." https://www.livescience.com/why-was-the-earthquake-that-hit-turkey-and-syria-so-deadly What seismological research also tell us is this: Powerful Earthquakes Can Trigger Other Ones on Opposite Side of Earth, New Research Shows When an earthquake does trigger other quakes on the opposite side, it is most likely to induce those quakes "within 30 degrees of the original quake’s antipode — the point directly opposite it on the other side of the globe." I might point out that Guatemala and Buffalo are nowhere near 30 degrees of the Turkey quake's antipode. The antipode of Istanbul is in the South Pacific ocean: French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, and New Zealand. So the original claim that the Buffalo earthquake was probably a random coincidence is much closer to the truth.

May I ask if he drew his testicles way up for those really high notes? 🎼 🎶

https://blo.org/blythely/ Blythely Ever After May 6, 2022 | 7:30 pm Boston Lyric Opera Directed by John Jarboe Music and Arrangements by Daniel Kazemi Co-written by John Jarboe & Stephanie Blythe Featuring: Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio Blythely Oratonio’s Band “The Fluffers” Opener Sapphira Cristál Runtime 90 minutes

Blythe said she has had in her vocal register a “C below the middle C” for a long time, but she’s never used it. Now she’s putting it to good use. “I don’t see why when a woman’s voice changes that all of a sudden she has to be considered ‘less than.’ The bottom (range) has always been my bag. I’m happy now to have the opportunity to explore this.” Blythe is working with several composers to write songs that capitalize on her lower range for future concerts. She also recently sang the tenor role of Don Jose in a concert version of Bizet’s “Carmen” with Chicago Opera Theatre. She is now much in demand for concerts by her comically pompous but uber-talented alter-ego “Blythely Oratonio.” Blythe created the drag character Blythely — an over-the-top opera tenor she performs in a false beard and mustache — for a fundraising concert for Opera Philadelphia in 2017. Blythely how has his own PBS special, recorded at New York’s Lincoln Center last year, titled “Blythely Ever After.”

Was that fact written in the program notes? I'd never heard or read it before. In Mozart's day, castrati did perform in operas such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito. But in Figaro, the character of Cherubino was definitely conceived as a female role. From a musicological study: Mozart composed Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (1786) for Dorotea Bussani (1763–after 1810). This kept with stage directions from Beaumarchais’ play that Cherubino “can only be played… by a young and very pretty woman” and also continued the employment of female travesti roles. As this practice continued, a fascination with sexual and vocal reversals on stage emerged. We know that “not only was travesti as common a feature of seventeenth-century plots as it was in the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, but further oddities were gratuitously introduced in the writing for the voice and in the casting.

I have a ticket to see Mr. Flores in recital in Barcelona in late May: "songs and opera arias." 🎶 Keeping fingers and toes crossed! 🤞

Please be cautious about responding to the OP's question. He's been on these forums only a short time but seems to be compiling a whole bunch of information from hiring providers to graphic descriptions of provider services. On another thread, a member commented that "it sounds like someone is writing a book...." Again, try to be cautious — unless you actually do want to see the specifics you wrote here eventually appear in print or online. And even if the details aren't published, I'd think twice about satisfying a mostly silent voyeur's fetishes.

I think 24 hours is a bit too soon to expect responses. ☺️

I'm glad you're receptive to this very clinical description. ☺️

I think this means that you're "The One"! 🥰

I am forever in debt to you. I hope I can "sync" up my issue with an effective solution. 😁

Or sacrilegious either? 😇

I'm using ExpressVPN on my laptop, so it's the desktop version. In the Advanced settings menu, I see only this option. There's nothing about the built-in password manager.

Yes, being safe on public Wi-Fi is a primary reason to use a VPN app. But people also use VPN to help mask their real location on certain websites — for a variety of reasons. And people use VPN when using mobile data.

Starting this week, my ExpressVPN app has had companyofmen.org blocked through the firewall as spam. So I have to disable ExpressVPN, get on companyofmen, and then enable the VPN again. My usual VPN location is listed as California.

Could you please give us just the basic view that he expressed in that tweet? I don't want to go to his Twitter account (which isn't listed in his profile).