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How fun! Thanks for the review, @foxy. It's on my list of "next times."

I'm also too young for that version of RMcD, @Unicorn. It would likely scare me or, at the very least, be so unappealing it would repel me.

I use TunnelBear when I want to see RM reviews. I don't use it for other sites because sites think I am outside of the US and block me or stored passwords and settings don't work.

$105/month for freakin' MasseurFinder? They certainly aren't investing any of that money in the site. Given the number of expired and sketchy ads on MintBoys, you are wise for not paying. I rarely check out MasseurFinder anymore. They had a period where the site was so wonky it became more frustrating than it was worth. I stopped using it and never looked back.

I met a few great guys from men4rentnow. The few times I put myself out there asking for escorts I was bombarded with replies from guys who didn't live in my city. I started using it for amusement until it became boring. Yes, it was a free hookup website, but they also had a "premium" membership. Although I can't remember what, the free membership restricted members from doing certain things. I met exactly one guy from there. Both of us tried it on a lark and ran into each other on the site.

His nom de escort is Draiden (he uses it in his ads) and I found this old thread about him: I thought there were more, but upon searching by his name and various escort names this is the only one I could find.

Eight to eight and a half is ideal, but six to seven is what I typically get.

No, I was told to come back for dose # 2 in four weeks.

I also just looked and the only option is HIV status. Wonder if they removed it in the US but kept it elsewhere.

I'm 6'4" and when I see an XL pair of pants with a length of 34" I laugh. My inseam is 36. There's no way I could buy that. Underwear is even worse. It's no fun to slip on a pair of boxers that fit like a bikini. All that being said, it is great that you found a small business to support, @Pensant.

Having lived in San Diego I can give you a few insights: A large proportion of the population is flaky (as you learned) The escort market has historically been "not great," and it is likely clients are hypersensitive to the slightest indication an escort might flake on them (not saying you would, @Jarrod_Uncut ) People take forever to respond. It applies to escorts and clients, again as you learned.

I hired him many, many years ago (I think 2008). Those pics were dated then.

He has six 5-star reviews and two 1-star reviews, which averages to 4.0 stars.

There's one thread with links to older, now closed threads: https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/139020-411-for-lamusclevip-and-some-old-threads/#comment-2066675

I don't think blocking someone is the right response to a request for private pic access. If he does not want to share pics, he could say something like "Thanks for your request, but I don't unlock pics unless a prospective client chats with me first" or some such. That said, I see why providers are hesitant to share private pics. They don't know whether the requestor has intent to hire. For all they know, the requestor is collecting pics. That's not to say @TJMS is a pic collector. It is to say the provider doesn't know he isn't.

As my physician once said (20+ years ago) when he asked me if I wanted my HIV test run through insurance, if you test positive your insurance will certainly find out when they start paying for those HIV treatment prescriptions.

Great summary of how deposit insurance works in the US. Taxpayers are not paying to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. Because no buyer was found for the bank over the weekend, a new entity "Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A." was chartered to assume the deposits and loans formerly under Silicon Valley Bank. The deposit insurance fund is essentially loaning money to the bridge bank so the depositors will be made whole. This ensured that payrolls could be met, expenses could be paid, and incoming payments would be credited to depositors' accounts. When a buyer cannot be found, it is the most orderly way to resolve a failed institution. Essentially, the FDIC "bought" the bank. The next step is for the FDIC to value and sell SVB's assets. This includes financial assets, such as cash on hand, loans, and investments, and tangible assets, such as furniture, computer equipment, office supplies, and buildings/property. It also includes non-bank businesses that did not fail. The difference between the amount collected from asset sales and the amount of deposits paid out will be funded by an increased insurance premium levied against all FDIC-insured financial institutions. The FDIC will likely sue the ex-CEO who sold millions of dollars in stock and claw back bonuses. SVB is a case study in the dangers of insularity. The founders of startups who received venture capital banked at SVB because the venture capitalists banked there. SVB's leadership came from within (and from an investment bank that ultimately failed).

Forget what I said. First Republic has agreed to stop processing wire transfers. I hope someone buys them.

It is actually $250 K per depositor per institution, not per account. If John Q Public has a checking account with $100K, a savings with $150K, and a CD with $100K and they are all titled in his name with no beneficiary(s), Mr Public has $250K in insured deposits and $100K in uninsured deposits. That being said, if Mr Public had Penny Saver as a pay-on-death beneficiary on his savings, Spend Thrift as a pay-on-death beneficiary on his checking account, and S. T. Eddy Return as a paid-on-death beneficiary on his CD, all of the deposits would be insured. The POD creates an informal trust, which is considered to be different ownership than a sole- or join-owner account. There are other ways to do this. Check with your financial information for details (they can't tell you how to structure your accounts but they can provide you with information) or see https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/ I chuckled when I read that article. The NYT, of all places, should know that 87% of deposits held at the bank were uninsured. Deposits are liabilities on the bank's books. They probably meant "customers' assets, but still. Page 28 of First Republic Bank's Consumer Account Disclosure and Agreement (which was last revised on March 1, 2023) states: Advance Notice — As required by federal law, we reserve the right to require seven days’ advance written notice of an intended transfer or withdrawal of funds from any savings account, money market deposit account or certain interest-bearing checking accounts. We currently do not exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past. While it is within their right to require advance notice, the Agreement does not state "two weeks," it states "seven days." I'd escalate if I was you and if they don't budge then submit a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The complaint will take longer than two weeks to be processed, but a compliance officer will have to spend time researching and responding to the CFPB. If they don't respond timely, they will get hammered during their next bank exam. Having been on the receiving end of the CFPB's hammer, I assure you it is not an experience one wants to repeat. On a general note, I don't wish tech startups or VC firms any ill will. However, anyone who places that much cash in a deposit account at a relatively small institution whose assets nearly doubled in the last year ought to fire their risk manager or hire one if they don't already have one. One of the articles I read Saturday mentioned that SVB did not have a head of risk management for several months and had just posted a position for a BSA/AML specialist. In the last two hours, Reuters reported all depositors of SVB will be made whole as will those of Signature Bank, which failed Friday evening.

There's a moving company here in Phoenix that alludes to the muscularity of their movers. In the past, it seemed like 90% of the residents in my 700-unit complex used them. Before calling them for a quote I asked the office whether residents had given any feedback. The property manager said something like "we don't see them very often anymore and there's a reason for that." I hired a different company and was very pleased with them.

A guy I hired frequently over the course of several years still had a fantastic body, but the spark was no longer there. We caught up a couple of years later and he acknowledged that he should have retired a few years before he actually did. That could be what Ricky meant when he said he was "past his prime."

Just curious @BuzzLiteQueer, what about these profiles makes you think they are too good to be true?

Looking at a map, it seems that he is driving on Interstate 40 to Las Vegas and then to Phoenix, stopping in cities that are roughly a day's drive away from each other. (Tulsa and Oklahoma City are exceptions, but they are cities that have people with disposable income thanks to the prevalence of the oil industry and the industries that support it, such as banking and finance) Stopping in cities along his route for three to four days makes sense. He can see a number of clients each day, which pays for his travel expenses and earns him a profit, and he moves on to the next city. Given there isn't exactly a lot of competition in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, or Flagstaff he will probably book up rather quickly and make a decent amount of money. I wouldn't make this trip in February, but there could be a good reason why he has chosen this time of year to travel. Makes good sense to me.

I've received birthday greetings as well as Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Easter... greetings from a variety of providers.