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My tips are food-related [Gomer Pyle voice] surprise, surprise. The best curry I ever had in my life was in London. I can’t remember the spot, but I’ve had good luck with finding great eats via Google Maps. Every place I tried that had at least a hundred reviews and a score in the high 4s has turned out terrific. I also love afternoon tea. If you search YouTube for best high tea, you’ll get results from super-posh to more affordable. If I could go to London right now, I’d dine at Cambio de Tercio, the Spanish restaurant where Rafa Nadal used to eat every literally single night that he was playing Wimbledon. Apparently it’s so good that even non-Spaniards like Novak Djokovic got hooked. A Spanish restaurant during a trip to London?? Hey, great food is great food.

This is what I don’t get. Most gyms also have a rule that you have to wear a shirt at all times, but if guys go shirtless for a bit to snap some selfies, I’d much rather they do it on the gym floor instead of in the locker room.

There’s a whole studio devoted to Mormon missionaries.

If you want to go down that road, then the 2025 film’s 3 protagonists should be played by Argentine actors. The Argentine author wrote the original novel in the context of his country’s brutal political repression, even interviewed a number of political prisoners to prepare for its writing. The novel struck a chord with Argentines for its themes (amongst several) of political repression and quiet acts of resistance. Despite being banned by the military dictatorship, it was widely read (or as much as a banned book could be) by Argentines, especially those in exile, as an act of defiance, and its popularity soared when the dictatorship ended. Honestly, I didn’t care for the 1985 film, although I’m open to re-watching it today. I just started the novel, which I purchased as my only souvenir of a 3-month stay in Buenos Aires. If an English-language musical adaptation sparks renewed interest in and popularity of Puig’s novel, then I’m all for it.

I saw Brokeback Mountain 3 times in the theater, mostly because of the film’s richness of detail. I like your friend’s theory. I didn’t think of it either, but it makes perfect sense. The mother must have seen the shirt hanging in Jack’s closet all those years and noticed that he never wore it. Likely she never understood the keepsake’s significance, until Ennis’s visit. As for your original post, the article made absolutely no sense to me, nor to anyone else in this thread apparently.

A bit of background on now 2-time US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz: he has 3 brothers. The oldest Álvaro, the amateur barber who travels with him full-time, also wanted to be a professional tennis player but lacked the talent. Carlitos learned how to play from his dad, who is or at least was a tennis teaching pro. Carlos Sr. tried to become a pro player as well but only got to #963, maybe because of lack of talent, undoubtedly at least in part due to lack of resources. It costs a boatload to pay for proper coaching/training plus the costs of travel and other expenses to play the juniors, Futures, Challengers, funds the dad simply didn’t have, nor could he have gotten from the Spanish Tennis Federation given his low national ranking (just #40 in Spain). Carlos Jr. (he prefers to be called either Carlitos or Charlie to avoid confusion with his dad) started at Juan Carlos Ferrero’s academy at 15, thanks to a well-to-do businessman from Carlitos’s small town who set up an “audition.” JCF instantly saw Carlitos’s potential and took him in, I’m assuming on scholarship because a tennis pro with 4 kids is in no position to pay for a tennis academy (which usually costs $8000+ per month plus travel expenses). JCF was so convinced of Carlitos’s potential that he turned down a hell of an offer to coach him. When Darren Cahill was leaving his position as coach of Simona Halep, Cahill approached JCF to see if he was interested in taking over. Mind you, given that Halep was #1 at the time and that the coach usually gets 10% of the player’s prize money on top of a base salary (in other words, when you see the coach rooting like crazy for his player, that passionate encouragement also has a financial component), the position of Halep’s coach would have been very lucrative for JCF. But he turned Cahill down because he had a 15yo who was “really good” and wanted to focus on him. The rest, as they say, is history.

LOL, you gotta wonder how many clients request “this” (pulling out their phone and showing him that pic).

For what it’s worth, 30 states set the age of consent at 16, 7 at 17, the rest at 18 (18 in California where the alleged relationship took place). The age of consent is 16 in most of Australia, including the state of Victoria where Giddey is from. He was 19 at the time of the alleged relationship while the minor was 15-16. In my opinion, plenty of mitigating factors. That said, he was incredibly stupid to (allegedly) have a sexual relationship with a 16yo (I’m giving him the benefit of a doubt that she was “legal” in his mind). But he was quite young at the time, and plenty of 19yo’s do stupid (and far stupider) things. I’m guessing the girl’s and her family’s silence cost him a pretty penny. Lesson learned, albeit the hard way. PS: my inner Gladys Kravitz is a wee bit curious as to how much of that $100 million went toward hush money.

I used to see Matt/Peter at the gym in the mid-aughts. According to Wiki, he would have been in his late-40s at the time, but wow, did he look fantastic! Definitely hotter as a daddy than a dewy-cheeked 20-something. He performed in more than 2,000 videos. Given his physique, I have to think personal trainer was one of the many “characters” he played.

Giorgio Armani S.p.A. was a privately owned company valued at $10-12 billion with annual revenues of $2.7 billion, and the designer owned almost 100% of it. Besides a number of different fashion brands, from haute couture to “accessible” clothing, he got into the hotel business, restaurants, cafés, housewares, cosmetics, even flowers. Wow, that’s impressive. R.I.P.

You know (I guess) that it is impossible to eradicate homosexuality and bisexuality. Do LGB people suffer from a higher incidence of depression, substance abuse, suicide? That might have been true in the past, not so sure about now. I need to see current statistics. Trans is a very different issue, because their suicide rates are sky-high. In any case, nonconforming sexualities are an immutable trait. The solution is to help people of nonconforming sexualities cope with their mental health issues. In stark contrast, single motherhood and absent fatherhood are the consequences of bad life choices and irresponsibility, elective human behaviors that 1) can very much be changed, and 2) whose pernicious consequences on both children and society as a whole need to be more widely made known.

You have it bass ackward. First the children of single mothers (and absent fathers) drop out of school, become substance abusers, commit crime, end up in jail, and/or commit suicide, then they collect statistics on the damage that single motherhood inflicts on their children and on society as a whole.

Of course kids need to be raised with love, but statistics prove that the quantity of parents very much matters. Children raised by single mothers are “five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape (for the boys), 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home.”

25yo, middle-aged for a professional tennis player, Bertimon’s current ranking is #932, career high #859. I say ditch the tennis and switch to modeling. This guy would make a killing. Charles Bertimon (@charlesbertimon) • Instagram reel WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 2,438 likes, 93 comments - charlesbertimon on September 1, 2025: "I found a spot ✨ ft @sambafilms #sportmodel #tennislife #tennisplayers #modelscout...

There is no chic like victim chic.

If you don’t mind my asking, what price level did you opt for? Because there is a big range, and I’m wondering if cheap seats are to be avoided or if it’s worth an extra $X for the next tier, in other words, some insider info. Now that you’ve piqued my curiosity, I’m seriously considering going but want to be strategic about ticket price/location because it ain’t cheap. Thanks in advance!

I googled photos of Darren Criss with his mom, definitely mestiza. She’s the same mix as I am, as well as a few million other Filipinos: Chinese, Spanish, and indigenous Filipino. I must be blind as a bat because I don’t see the mixed race thing at all in Darren. But he is very cute, which is all I care about.

I think that is their natural odor: Chelsea Harbor at low tide. My brother and I used to eat dinner before my parents every time they had bagoóng (Filipino shrimp paste), then lock ourselves in our rooms to avoid the stench. Even hours later, you could still smell the stink of ammonia/seafood-gone-bad. Just thinking about it triggers my gag reflex.

I had no idea Darren Criss was my pinoy (half)brother, ‘cuz he looks totally white to me. Maybe his mother is tisay (Tagalog for “mestiza”) because I don’t see much Filipino in him.

According to ChatGPT, the closest thing to an “average” (tough to nail down because it’s a broad range) for a 2-bed in Midtown West (Hell’s Kitchen, once upon a time) is $6200, $3000 more per month than the scammer’s “offer.” Why on earth would any landlord pass up $36,000 a year? just to be nice to a total stranger?? Maybe not quite the same as offering a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge, but way too suspicious to be legit. That said, I still feel an eensy bit bad for the guy. Maybe the scammer told the scammee that it was rent-stabilized or something. Regardless of how naive the victims were, the scammer still deserves a hefty prison sentence.

Yeah, but the difference between your dream car and the one you ended up buying was (I’m guessing) $thousands whereas the difference between your scorching-hot and nice to boot neighbor you’ve been fantasizing about for years and Joe Schmoe escort is $50-100. I can understand being on a budget, but come on, for a hundred bucks you’re passing on a fantasy-cum-true escort who will shatter your mind like a ton of dynamite in a window factory?!?! You could save $138 just by skipping the detailing, going to the local car wash, and doing the vacuuming yourself. Why the burning need for a full detail? I would drive around in the vehicular version of Pigpen for a romp with the scorching-hot neighbor I’ve been lusting after for years, but apparently you have different priorities.

The carwash around the corner from me is $9, free vacuums available. There, you now have an additional $141 for your hiring budget. ”may regret it” … as in might? perhaps?? Hell no! as surely as the sun rises in the east, you will be punching yourself black & blue if you miss this (I’m guessing) very limited window of opportunity. Ask him if he takes Visa, then max out your credit limit on this guy. It might take you a decade to pay off the balance, but you’ll treasure the memories — as well as the jackoff fodder — to last a lifetime.

Why all the hinting about and beating around the bush? The hot neighbor advertises on Rentmen! This isn’t some secret that dare not speak its name; he’s open enough about this new gig that he’s advertising on the Internet, on the most widely used escorting website. I would say to him, “Hey, I saw your ad on Rentmen. If it would be awkward for you, I understand. But if you’re OK with it, I’m definitely interested in a session. Oh, by the way, are you fistf*cking passive?” OK, so maybe not that last question, at least not at the get-go.

You see a glimpse of his ass in the video. His backside is almost enough to give me a heart attack.

Bud Light lost an estimated $1.4 billion in sales in 2023 from backlash to its Dylan Mulvaney ad, plus the brand dropped from the top-selling beer to 3rd place. In other words, the brand suffered deep and lasting damage. You might not care, but the brand’s customers obviously did. On the other hand, I doubt the Cracker Barrel logo change will be anywhere nearly as controversial, or damaging. We’ll soon find out.