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I don't really travel internationally but if I did I would avoid Jamaica, Dubai, etc. places where it's illegal on the books but generally tolerated would be evaluated on a case by case basis.

Google "sciatic nerve flossing." I do it every day and about a month after I started, my symptoms became less severe and less frequent. It's easy to do, and also is not something that feels like it's doing anything WHILE you're doing it, so people tend to give up on it. Back stuff is hard. You really do need to do the PT exercises every damn day and it can take months before you start feeling better. I was nine months in and ready to give up and ask for surgery when one morning I woke up and suddenly found I could walk downstairs without hanging on to both bannisters for the first time in years.

Tony Cummings. Met him at the Nob Hill Theater in the early 2000s or later 1990s. He was very nice.

It's not "professional" to double book and go radio silent on people with whom an appointment was made, no matter how nice he is to the people who actually get to see him.

It is actually NOT lawful to marry for the sole purpose of a green card, and INS questions couples extensively to prevent this.

I should note that I was only speaking to the seeking on short notice issue. Flaking out on appointments scheduled, by either party, is incredibly poor form.

I think it's just the nature of the beast and there's no getting around it. I generally look for something within less than 48 hours but I also accept that means my first choice may not be available. I ask and if they say no I thank them and move on. You aren't always going to be available even if they're calling a week ahead, anyway. If you get this upset about it get an online booking app and remove yourself from the process.

Seems like that would have been a good time to walk the dog... Was he naked when the friends arrived and then he put the shorts on when they got there? i.e. did they see him naked?

They've been saying "shortly" for years now about a lot of automation. The fact remains that the human hand and arm have a number of degrees of freedom that are computationally extremely tough to program, and then there's the visual inspection aspect.

SNL said he bargained for "one more school year."

The flip side of making everything as "efficient" as possible is that when you've eliminated every last redundancy, you have no slack when there's a shock to the system. This is what's happening now.

If it means the workers who pick my food aren't living in what amounts to slave-like conditions, I consider the higher prices a fair tradeoff. The continual grinding down of the bottom half of our workforce finally hit a hard limit. I don't think professionals have any clue how abusive the working conditions of these people are. I worked in retail in HS - had a union, there was a process for requesting not to be scheduled on certain days, once the schedule was set you were getting paid for those hours even if they sent you home because it was a slow night. Now they expect people to be available all the time, if it's slow they send them home with no notice and they don't get paid, etc. Those jobs are no longer a step up to the middle class, they're a trap in the lower class.

I had my second shot six months ago, but due to scheduling challenges, I didn't get my second until almost 8 weeks after the first(Pfizer) So I'm holding off a bit.

I know a guy who worked in juvenile corrections for a while - I think a halfway house type thing. He said it was not uncommon that they had to teach kids how to bathe. They would demonstrate soaping up their arm and tell them they needed to do that all over, including their private areas. (This was past the era where they would actually watch them shower).

Pretty sure Starbucks has more customers, given they can provide their service in like 1% of the time for a massage....

Thinking about it more I wonder if the insistence on showering in school being more prevalent back in the day was a piblic health decision. There were relatively more poor people back then and it was probably a way to make sure kids were getting clean without subjecting them to individual scrutiny. Kind of like free school lunches kept some people from the stigma of applying for welfare - and/or helped the kids whose parents would rather starve than accept charity.

Did the school know this was happening?

Was this a private school? How did this fly? Or were you all fucking and this was a secret shoot?

My disabled sister lives in a nursing home, and she said there are a number of residents who hook up and there are always horrified family members who are upset to learn that the facility doesn't stop it because the patient has the right to make that decision.

Well I was assuming this was a group party at a residence and there would be strippers for everyone...

What if you "ordered in" for strippers rather than going to a club?

While I agree that many gay people use the bi identifier as a stepping stone, I think we are still outnumbered by bisexuals by AT LEAST 3 to 1. (and then there's the bisexuals who round themselves up to gay just because it's so much easier to get laid). My premise is that most of the bi guys seek out these types of environment for the opportunity they provide and their hetero experiences offer them a degree of cover that the gay boys don't have. I played on a gay rugby team. The "straight" teams seemed to do way gayer group shit than we ever did.

Is it that the frats had a lot of GAY men or a lot of BI men? There are simply many more bi men than gay men and I always figured the frats were dominated by the "bi-sexual but hetero-romantic" types because of the opportunity for shenanigans. As a totally gay man I was, frankly, too afraid I'd get murdered to join a frat. But if I was bi I'd have been all over it.

For that matter, getting a massage involves literally turning your back on the masseur and he could pretty easily kill you were he so inclined...

Eh... Bottoming is the riskiest thing from an HIV standpoint, I can understand people separating that from other activities. I doubt it's about hemorrhoids...but there are also people who find bottoming particularly uncomfortable.