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Just back from Spain -
Barcelona
The Black Room at City Hall (pics attached)- Sundays 12:30am-6am.  Has strippers that dance hard on the go go boxes on the dance floor and both public and private play spaces upstairs.  You can get some sort of arrangement with dancers.
Imperial - private membership dance/sex club - some nights had go-gos you could make arrangements to take into the basement labyrinth 
Arena - Nightclub with go-gos and a previously a dark room.  The club now lets 16(?) yr olds in and no longer has the dark room open.  There are still stripper-go-gos but the additional fun areas are gone for now at least. 
Sauna Thermas - While not a strip club or club with strippers, this is the closest thing to a gay brothel.  It is a sauna with anywhere from 10-25 rent boys working at a time.  When you check in, the door guy will ensure you know it's not a regular sauna.  It's busy 4pm and starts dying out around 8pm.  Full bar, food, free rooms, sauna, steam room and showers.  Went multiple times due to the variety of guys available each day.  Time for the guy $50 EUR for 30 min.  Some do massage as well.  Some grade A quality men.
Cruise Mountain/Parc Montjuic - Still crazy busy all times of the day, especially at night.  You could tell there's some trade going on with certain good looking college guys and older gentlemen. Still tends to be in the trails all around the Museum of Archaeology 
Sitges
Boys Bar Sitges - Had a strip show in which the stripper was hard and showing it as well as many different audience partipation gags.  He did say we works the sauna in town as well.
XXL - had dancers and could tell there were cubicles, but it was overcrowded due to bear week, so I couldn't figure out much more.
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Julia Child made it popular on her TV show, and her cookbooks.
I’ve never made it, looks a step or two beyond “simple” but certainly I’ll give it a try on a weekend. Never tried this, one example from a website that keeps things simple as possible:
Chicken Paprikash
WWW.ALLRECIPES.COM This chicken paprikash recipe with its colorful paprika-seasoned sour cream sauce is a variation of a classic chicken and dumpling casserole.  

I would like to think that William has all the qualities that @Jamie21 ascribes to him but frankly I haven’t seen them on display to any great degree. Since he married his wife appears to have been the more popular figure. Unlike his father he does not appear to have carved out any independent role for himself that distinguishes his talents. If he is playing it safe then good for him. But if someone asked me what he stood for, I would be hard pressed to say. 

I want to live for as long as the living is good. No more and no less.

in person very hot to look at...but he posts a ton of photos of himself on line in drag and its a boner destroyer

I make chicken paprikash all the time, provided you've got real Hungarian paprika in the pantry it's a sure-shot. You can still make it if you don't, it just won't have that black magic.

Lukich's is great!  We used to eat lunch there when I worked nearby.  Pierogis were the best!  Along with the coleslaw with a vinegar-based dressing.

And this is not limited merely to Christians 😉.
I’ll make the bold assertion that a “real” Christian is more likely to share what they believe and why - rather than tell you you’re wrong.   But members of this forum are more likely to encounter people who weaponize religion to peddle hate.  They aren’t real Christians 

I make curry chicken salad. It was popular in the 70s and 80s but you don’t see it too much nowadays. I use Ina Garten’s recipe
 
 

Lukich Family Dining in Troy.  Keep in mind that Chicken Paprikash is not on their normal menu.  It was one of the specials of the day when I ordered it.  
Lukich Family Restaurant
LUKICHDINING.COM  

You do know you don't have to use an exclamation point at the end of every sentence don't you?

You do know you don't have to use an exclamation point at the end of every sentence don't you?

You do know you don't have to use an exclamation point at the end of every sentence don't you?

You do know you don't have to use an exclamation point at the end of every sentence don't you?

I have a few comments about the list:
* I agree that chicken cacciatore is still fairly common.  I still see it on restaurant menus from time to time.
* I'm not sure coq au vin was ever a commonly seen dish in the US homes.  Whilst I love the dish personally, it seems it was more commonly seen in French restaurants or households that still had a strong connection with France.
* Shocked not to see chicken paprikash on the list.  That was on my mother's monthly rotation of dinners in our midwest household in the 60's/70's.  After not seeing/having it for probably 40 years, I saw it on a menu in a Polish restaurant in Michigan about a year ago.  I was delighted to see it and order it.  I believe the dish has Eastern European origins.

This was my first Buff Daddy event.  I enjoyed it.  I've been to a dozen strip clubs, but never before have the dancers been completely nude all the time including while walking the room.  What a great evening
 
At the Sunday Buff Daddy event at Red Eye, there was a bar.  Drinks were typical Manhattan prices.

Well Canadians are avoiding travel to the States in droves . I say this as my brother and his wife are travelling there. His excuse is he wants to see his son and his wife who are Americans and an old friend who at 80 may be the last opportunity to see him. 
I have no direct relatives in the States except for my brother's kid so have no inclination to cross the border at this time. Just the thought of the border agents searching my phone and finding all my incriminating conversations with escorts is enough to keep me north of the 49th parallel. 

He has changed his name on RM multiple times in the last few months.  Not sure what his current handle is.  Great body on him but very average endowment.  If penis size matters to you, he is not the guy for you.

I've been an AMEX platinum card member for years.  I almost certainly will not renew in March 2023.  I find the value I get out of the card to be decreasing whilst the yearly membership keeps increasing.  Centurion lounges have turned to shit since they started reopening after pandemic closures.  The food quality has gone seriously downhill.  The lounges are very crowded now...to the point that there is sometimes a waiting list to get in for members.  They simply aren't relaxing anymore.  Several months ago, I was connecting at LAX heading to Vegas.  I could have used the Admirals Club but since my flight was departing from TBIT, I opted to try the Centurion Lounge in that terminal...big mistake.  It's in a basement-type area.  It was hot, over-crowded, and generally a dump.  I spent about 5 minutes there before getting flustered and opting to leave.  I ended up waiting at the gate for 1.5 hours until boarding.  The gate area was less crowded and cooler than the AMEX lounge.
Beyond the lounge problems, I find many of the events that AMEX sponsors and/or invites members to are on the coasts(think NYC/BOS/DCA/MIA/LAX/SFO/SEA).  If you live anywhere in fly-over territory in the US, you have much more limited options.  Same with the Equinox bennies.  Of no use to me where I live in Michigan.  As a principle, I don't shop at Walmart so the credits to be gotten from them are of no value to me. The UBER credits each month are useful to me 4-5 months a year when I travel to Miami or Las Vegas.  There is no UBER where I live in Michigan so I cannot use the credits for the months I am not traveling.  Flyover territory issue again.
I do use the CLEAR membership benefit but only because it was part of what the Platinum Card covers now.  I'm not sure I really need it as I've been a member of Pre-Check for years and 90% of the time Pre works just fine.  Since I currently have both Pre-Check and CLEAR, when I'm ready to pass through security at the airport, I just pick the shortest of the two lines.  Incidentally, the line is shorter at Pre-Check about 40% of the time and shorter at CLEAR 60% of the time.  Losing Clear once I give up AMEX Platinum is not a big deal to me.  It's nice to have but certainly not essential if you already have Pre-Check.
In conclusion, I feel that the AMEX Platinum Card has diminished in usefulness for those that don't live on the coasts or in one of the big US cities (where there is Equinox and UBER).  My alternatives are Chase Sapphire Preferred as well as a newly acquired Delta Skymiles AMEX.  The annual fee is lower than the AMEX Platinum card and it gives me access to Delta lounges/Centurion Lounges when flying Delta.  As I am transitioning my domestic flying from American to Delta I might as well go all in with Delta😍!

Oh honey, that ship sailed ages ago!

By that logic, we might have to stop trusting you too, Bozo the Clown. 
 

My experience at Cockbar on a weeknight about a year ago was exactly the same as yours.  I considered the line-up to be very mediocre and all 4-5 dancers that night were too feminine for my taste.  Like you, I opted to do no lapdances.  However, I do acknowledge that it's not unusual for the hottest guys to work on weekends at strip bars so I do intend to return on a weekend to see if the slate of dancers is any better.

Thursday was great.  I acually preferred it to Friday and Saturday which tended to be too crowded and you really had to get there around 9:30 to find a seat.  Maybe a few fewer dancers on Thursday but not noticeable.  You should have a great time.

He has changed his name on RM multiple times in the last few months.  Not sure what his current handle is.  Great body on him but very average endowment.  If penis size matters to you, he is not the guy for you.

Mods are already putting on their hazmat suits with this thread. Let’s see how long this lasts.