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I've been travelling for about a week now...Primarily LA and Las Vegas. Only about 15% of people on the planes are masking up...that included me. My time in LA (one day) was primarily in a hotel and at the Greek Theatre. My observation was only about 10% of people were masked. Here in Las Vegas even fewer are masking. LV is incredibly busy this week with the NFL Draft starting here tonight. We know Covid cases are on the rise nationwide. Hospitalizations are also up in some places.

Believe it or not, we discussed this list years ago. I assume it's the same list...Ecuador was at the top before as well. Interesting to read the prior comments. My comments from then still hold. BTW, I've been to Ecuador many times over the years...mostly for work. There is no way on earth Ecuadorian men have the largest schlongs on the planet. https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/45066-penis-sizes-worldwide/#comment-419069 Thanks to deej for his prior submission!

What an ass. Never heard of Sean Murphy before but my goodness.

I watched the first episode and just didn't get it. It didn't work for me. Maybe I should have given it more of a chance. Do the critics like it?

Thanks for that. Those gel-packs were my main concern regarding the packaging. I think Freshly at one time claimed the gel inside the pack could even be recycled. I never understood how that would be accomplished. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Anyway, it's hard for me to reconcile the convenience benefit of delivered prepared meals versus the incremental environmental impact compared to normal shopping at the grocery store. If they could get to a point where plastic use is eliminated and a more environmentally friendly shipping/cooling process is used, I would try again. Like I said above, we generally enjoyed Freshly when we tried it.

Is the Freshly shipment packaging still pretty much like it was 2-3 years ago when I used it? How much of it are you able to practically re-cycle nowadays? Particularly the cooling packets?

I definitely prefer performing oral on others. I used to be 50/50 regarding giving versus receiving but as I've aged, I now always want to be the one who is sucking.

I'm on the team that thinks Jimmy G is dreamy. I also feel the Detroit Lions traded up on exchanging Matthew Stafford for Jared Goff...at least in the ass department. Goff's ass looks yummy! Stafford's? Not so much.

Ah...OK. Thanks.

Was he going to be the Steelers main QB this year? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/sport/dwayne-haskins-steelers-death-spt-intl/index.html

We tried Freshly several years ago and thought the food quality was quite good. However, after about 4 weeks, we cancelled primarily due to the wasteful amount of packaging involved. It seemed very environmentally unfriendly.

Thanks to NFJ and Unicorn for the feedback. Mom and I are both scheduled for our second booster on Monday. We will go for Moderna this time just to switch it up after three Pfizer jabs. Thanks again for the input.

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear dinner was good at Piero's...per the usual. Too bad Pia is not performing any more but good to know. I still need to get to Piero's for dinner. I'll be in LV in a few weeks but only for two nights. If I extend to four nights then maybe I can squeeze Piero's in.

Good point!!

To quote a former POTUS, my answer "depends on what the definition of sex is". If it's considered to be sexual intercourse, I would say 25-40 in my lifetime. I have always been much more into oral sex than penetrative sex. If oral sex is included, then my number would be over 1000. So many trips to Brazil saunas...including living in Brazil for 2 years pushed the number up. Also, during undergrad and grad school, I was a regular at the university bathrooms that had gloryholes. So much good action there with young attractive guys. I did six straight years of giving/getting BJ's in those bathrooms. It's amazing how much oral sex was going on in university tea-rooms in the 70's/80's. I wonder if that still goes on today? Sad fact: In the last 2 years, I have had only one sexual encounter. I gave one blowjob to a guy in my hotel room (not a hire). It has been my choice. I have purposely had minimal contact with people during COVID.

So mom and I have both had three vaccine shots so far...all Pfizer. Mom is 94 and I am 62. Neither of us have had Covid as far as we know. We are currently planning for her to get the 4th shot this month (it's been about 6 months since she had the first booster). My instinct tells me to go with another Pfizer shot. Is there any medically-driven reason to go with something different for the fourth shot...say Moderna? We have both tolerated the Pfizer jabs quite well.

Does Twist actually have dancers again in the Bungalow Bar out back? I understood that they stopped having them more than a year ago during the pandemic....it might even be two years now since they've had them. Unless they've started having them again fairly recently, I'm pretty sure they are history. I spent many an enjoyable night there pre-Covid.

More coming out about slap night and the consequences. It seems the academy did ask WS to leave the show after the slap but he refused. They are now looking at disciplinary action. I hope he is banned from the academy and not allowed to attend future awards shows. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/entertainment/academy-will-smith/index.html

LAPD says Rock has declined filing charges. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/entertainment/chris-rock-will-smith-charges-intl-scli/index.html

CR did a joke about JPS's hair. So what. It was a joke. Joan Rivers used to do Jokes about Jews in Nazi Germany. Kathy Griffin did jokes about Whitney Houston smoking meth. It's what comedians do. People are way too sensitive today. Will Smith's reaction was completely out of line...both the slap and then the profanity afterward. Very low class.

Very plausible. I had something similar happen in 1986 or 1987 when I was on an Eastern Airlines flight from Cali to Miami. The plane made an unscheduled stop in Panama. We all had to disembark the aircraft and claim our bags one by one on the tarmac. One person was apprehended by the police/military. We were told they also found 14 kilos of cocaine behind the wall panels of one of the bathrooms on the plane. Somehow Eastern had been tipped off that there were drugs on the flight. My understanding was that airport workers in Cali and Miami were involved in the drug smuggling operation.

I don't pay attention to number of cases anymore. I look at the percent of tests that are positive (you want to be under 3%) and number of hospitalizations for a given area. If both of these are trending low, I'm more relaxed.

Congrats Kevin!

There is already a thread on this topic in The Lounge.

Interesting. I'll look forward to your report later in the month. I stayed in the Marriott next to Piero's for two nights back in September and her name was still on the marquee under the Piero's sign. I assumed she was still performing but I don't know for certain. BTW, I tried to get into Piero's for dinner one night but they were not accepting anyone without a reservation. I'll have to plan ahead the next time. Enjoy!!