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On a bit of a tangent, early on in Rafa Nadal's career, I would sometimes listen to his English and be like, "huh wha??" I started translating his English word for word back into Spanish, and only then I could figure out what he was trying to say. That's kind of how I felt after reading this guy's ad. Certainly if you switch up the translations a bit -- instead of "educated but very morbid," try "well-mannered but very kinky" -- the ad makes more sense. I think it's his way of saying he's a gentleman on the streets but a wh**e in the sheets.

Morbo/morboso literally translate to morbidness/morbid but colloquially people use them to mean kink/kinky. Also, many native Spanish speakers translate "educado" to educated when a better translation would be well-mannered or polite (note: "educado" can also mean educated, but I don't think that's what this guy was trying to say).

While tennis players usually don't wear a watch during matches, Rafa Nadal wears Richard Mille timepieces, which run $725K-775K. The crazy thing is that he has lost one (did he have insurance?), one got stolen (later recovered), and almost lost a third (found by another player in the locker room. I guess if you're not paying for a watch that costs 3/4 of a $million, you don't have to be that careful with it.

Hmm, interesting, at the next conservative or Republican gathering I attend, I'll keep an eye out for the particularly handsome "assistant" in a bigwig's entourage.

Just google "foods poisonous to dogs" to get a surprisingly long list. The ones I was unaware of were macadamia nuts & caffeine. Not that I ever planned on having morning coffee with my dog, but at least I knew that if I ever spilled some, I had to wipe it up immediately & make sure the dog didn't get near it.

Hmm, he certainly has some interesting pronunciations. He pronounces the hard G, instead of Birming-ham (which is how we Yanks say it), he says Birming-Gam. And he pronounces "book" to rhyme with Luke. Those pronounciations are certainly different from what I'm used to, but I don't really struggle to understand him.

Thanks. Wow, the man was hella handsome. I just read Nader's Wiki entry. It sounds like he had a helluva life and despite the Hollywood closet, a happy one. Good for him.

Does anyone know who this is sitting next to Rock Hudson? He's quite the looker.

Forget any fictional series, just read the newspaper. Through the door, I would ask the man what he wanted and see if there were some way I could help him, but I wouldn't let him in. Maybe his phone died & he just needs to make a call, or maybe he's planning to kill whoever answers the door. The dog? Let him in, feed him, play for a good long stretch, set up a makeshift bed for him, then take him to the shelter in the morning.

I remember our first TV "remote" attached by a wire. You could turn the TV on/off & switch channels (all four of them, pre-cable). But because the wire was kinda short, you had to sit on the floor in front of the TV to use the remote. Still, we thought it was super-cool, LOL.

I remember ordering from mail order catalogs. I'd be so happy when LL Bean sent their really thick catalog with almost everything they sold. I also loved getting the International Male catalog, even though I never ordered anything from them. I know, I'm not really going back that many years, but ordering from catalogs, as opposed to online like we all do now, feels like it was ages ago.

Dang, naked swimming, makes me regret being born a few years too late. But maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Had I been surrounded by my entire high school gym class starkers, my head would have exploded. Or something would have exploded.

I just remembered another one: going to a TV store. Yeah, believe it or not, such a thing used to exist. Before Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc., you used to go to a TV store, little boutique shops, to buy a TV. Then the big box stores negotiated such deep discounts from the manufacturers that they could sell retail for less than the wholesale price that mom & pop TV stores paid. Needless to say, that was the death of the mom & pops.

From imdb: Nicholas has long known he is different, that there is something shameful & unacceptable in him that must stay hidden, denied even. But South Africa's minority government is embroiled in conflict at the Angolan border, and all white young men over 16 must serve 2 years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime and its culture of toxic racist machismo. The "black danger" is the real and present threat; what is wrong with Nicholas and others like him can be rooted out, treated and cured like cancer. But just when fear pushes Nicholas to accept unspeakable horrors in the hopes of staying invisible, a tender relationship with another recruit becomes as dangerous for them both as any enemy fire. By the way, "moffie" is a derogatory Afrikaans word for a gay man.

Yeah, the smallest euro bill is 5€, US$6.07 at today's exchange rate. If you get a bit inebriated & start lavishing the tips, yikes, it could make for a pricey evening without even getting a lap dance.

Thanks for linking the article. I read in another thread about the "groundbreaking" porn flick, but since I never saw "Boys in the Sand" nor knew its historical context, I had no idea why it had a special place in gay porn.

Both the coin purse and the manpurse are Louis Vuitton. That makes it gay to the fourth power. Yeah, I'm basically a one-man walking Pride float.

Spanish is my second language. Once in a literature class, we were discussing the violence of the 1968 Mexico City riots. The Spanish word for riot is "motín" but I got mixed up & said "mote" (which means nickname). I noticed the professor giving me a weird look, but like an idiot, I just kept prattling on and on about "violent nicknames."

I remember European travel before the Euro. You had to exchange money in each different country you visited and had to budget a lot more carefully because if you exchanged too many francs, for example, you then had to exchange the francs for pesetas (or marks or whatever), thus getting nailed twice with exchange fees. Before my time, but my uncle used to talk about the days when only luxury cars had air conditioning. The father of one his friends bought a Cadillac that had air conditioning, and they were the envy of the whole neighborhood.

D, definitely, I go nuckin' futs over a hairy ass. B can be a pleasant surprise. If I see a guy has a smooth ass, only to see fur surrounding his hole when I part the cheeks, it's a very pleasant surprise.

I think it's because the US has the lowest denomination bill of all developed countries. Canada has a dollar coin but no dollar bill; the EU mints euro coins but no bill. If a quarter drops out of your pocket, no big, but if you lose a euro, you're actually kinda bummed.

Hmm, if you're traveling, I don't think a manpurse is all that gay, more practical than anything else. But if you carry one around everywhere every day like I do, yeah, supergay. My cousin was thinking of splurging on a Louis Vuitton bag (he had won big at the poker tables while visiting Vegas). I warned him that sporting a Louis Vuitton manpurse is thisclose to wearing a Rainbow Pride t-shirt. He was recently divorced & back on the market. He's the gay-friendliest straight guy you'll ever meet but ultimately decided against the LV bag because he didn't want future prospects to get the wrong idea.

Yeah, I think coin purses are kinda gay. Manly men just let change fall out of their pockets. Mind you, I have a coin purse that I carry around in my manpurse. That's like gay squared.

I saw the first season of "The Blacklist." Wow, it was awesome, one of the best shows I've ever seen. I stopped watching it only because I stopped watching English-language TV. Maybe one of these days I'll binge-watch all the other seasons. I'm glad the show is still going strong. And yeah, James Spader found the role of his career. I can't imagine any other actor playing Red.

I don't know if it'll change @Paul Graham's opinion of him, but he didn't come up with that quote. It's an oft-repeated proverb in Spanish. Mind you, he still chose to post it on his Twitter, so you can judge him for that.