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Do you always/usually wear your wedding ring? Because you might be pre-empting the question. We're just about the same age and same geographic region and I've gotten it quite a lot, not generally at work though. I don't THINK I'm such a catch that people are looking to hook me up, but maybe I am... I avoid asking the question myself though.

Yeah no, I am not sticking my dick somewhere I can't inspect...

I think back in the day there was a certain class of closeted gay/bi guy who took great advantage of the fact that rampant homophobia kept them in a steady supply of guys they could get their rocks off with and not worry about being exposed. And once relatively greater societal acceptance took away that Mutual Assured Destruction they relied on, they ramped up the resentment. Because they now didn't have as many people to use. Those were the guys I had a problem with.

I would say whoever Bernadette Peters goes to is worth every penny. I remember seeing her on the Carol Burnett 50th anniversary special and she looked decades younger than the others.

Well, he's LITERALLY "young, dumb, and full of cum..."

I don't really get your agreeing with my first post then getting worked up by my second. I don't think the people you are worried about were likely to be all that successful in the sink or swim option anyway. There are always going to be people who work the system whether it's govt payments or large corporations reluctance to fire people.

Statistically the single largest variable in children's outcome is parental income, not anything they do. Probably because if there's a stable roof over your head and ample food on the table you're in much better shape to absorb and retain information, and that makes more of a difference than whether your kindergarten teacher had masters degree or not. Maybe Universal Basic Income is a better use of funds than making the school buildings fancier.

I just fail to see how this is any different from Hooters...

There's a lot of survivorship bias going on here. I'm not saying people who make it don't work hard. I'm just saying there is considerably more luck involved in climbing out of a poor background than people generally comprehend. Almost everything needs to go right for long enough to make it to long-term security. And I think that aspect has gotten worse. When my father fell hard out of the middle class in the 70s, he and my mother were able to patch together minimum or barely above mininum wage jobs(one full and one part-time each) to keep a the mortgage paid on the house in a decent ares and food on the table. In real terms, housing costs are so mucj higher today my sister takes live-in caregiver jobs because rents are so high relative to wages. Admittedly she has other issues that impede her, but the reality is that first step is more difficult than in the past solely due to cost of living relative to wages. Nobody is building new cheap or even midlevel housing, and cheap transportation is a thing of the past too except for a couple of cities. If you are well above average in some combination of resourcefulness and capability, or simply "really, really ridiculously goodlooking" yes it's probably a decent amount better for you than it would have been 40 years ago. Everybody else is a lot more at the mercy of external forces than they like to think.

The reality is even many in shape 40 or 50 somethings have markedly less capacity for physical labor, as evidence by the fact most movers everywhere are pretty young and they find other jobs after a couple of years. How about going after the corporations that shove office workers out just as they hit the age they're likely to really need that group health insurance and affect the bottom line?

I think what is different today is there are relatively more opportunities for people of above average ability/starting point, and less for the bottom half of the distribution. The median is slipping, and "just be more awesome" isn't really useful advice to those people. I have five siblings. 4 of the 5 either were extremely ill themselves, had a spouse that was ill, or a child with a significant disability. The other one is the only one besides me who I am reasonably confident will be okay in retirement. Well, the one who is already in a nursing home on Medicaid is "okay" I guess. But her kids aren't. There's more luck than we like to admit in our financial outcomes. Sure I didn't have kids, but it was dumb luck and not accomplishment that my sister and not me got disabled. And that my employer's stock went up over 100x and I happened to hang on to it despited the severe imbalance in my portfolio...

This. It's not at all just the litigation. Read "The Three Little Pigs" for further information.

Waaay back when doing Punnett squares in 7th grade biology class, I recall my teacher saying green eyes were "genetically blue." But i think also more has been learned about the human genome since then.

Chickens reach maturity fairly quickly so any disruption in supply can generally be resolved in a couple of months.

You've really got to dig in on the background of the tesearchers on this, giventhe heavily motivated heavily motivated reasoning of religious right "therapists." There's a real chicken and egg question there on whether the strained relationship with pops was consequence or cause, and in a world where there are fathers who have beaten their toddlers to death for "acting gay," I'm not buying it. (Similarly the two gay dads is better study currently making the rounds is skewed by selection bias. Firstly, a gay male couple can't fall down drunk and wake up pregnant. Secondly, adoption and particularly surrogacy is super expensive, and wealth in this country very strongly correlates with child outcomes).

??. It's still only relatively recently that it's the norm for gay people to be out, and I think bi men are more likely overall to be in the closest because they have something to lose - namely, a wife. Plenty of gay boys these days have perfectly supportive dads.

I think the dad is not out to the son. Dad will know exactly why OP is pulling back. What to tell the son is trickier.

Is the son out to his dad?

I saw it. And I still regret not getting a ticket to another performance in hopes of being the audience member he pulled onstage and pretended to kiss. I would've gone for it.

The now closed Hawk's gym in the same strip mall had somewhat fewer facilities but I think drew more of the married men popping in on their lunch hour or right after work There's a new club Kuma that I think is all lockers no rooms. And it's not 24 hours.

It's a bathhouse not a spa with masseurs. Extremely hit or miss.

Vegas has been a victim of its own success. The population has tripled in the last 25 or so years, which means cheap housing is gone, which means cheap labor is gone. And that massive increase in residents abusing the hotel parking is why they had to do somethingIbut in general if you are guest of the hotel the parking fee is waived). I used to go 5-6 times a year, now more like 3-4. If you get player status you can lose the resort fees and parking fees and get much better offers on rooms, but food and everything else is still expensive. Get a Caesars players card, go during one of their tier credit promotions and you can likely make Diamond Status in a day or two, then you have status for the rest of the year and all of the following year. Or get gold with MGM properties(which I think is harder relatively speaking) and Caesars will give you Diamond. With Diamond big event weekends are still expensive, but you can almost always find a cheap or free room Sunday-Thursday. But yeah if you only go once a year you're paying through the nose. Caesars hotels generally have fridges in the room so you can take advantage of the Walgreesns/CVS's on the Strip and save some on food that way.

A friend got the shot and had a bad flu like reaction to it, felt sick for weeks.

Are you talking about 2 different sisters? Someone in her 70s couldn't have gotten a chickenpox vaccine as a child as it wasn't developed until the 1980s...

If you got anything more than therapeutic, 50% on their prices is not an adequate tip, dude.