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I thought (and still think) the most sensible solution would be to permanently ban the individual involved from the PRW forum but let him post to his heart's content elsewhere. That seems like a good balance between the health of the community and that individual's need for attention/social interaction. Also any ToS worth its salt will have an out for a situation like this where a participant is disruptive but doesn't engage in personal insults. Just being disruptive should be enough to allow for timeouts, permanent or temporary.

Hard agree.

Others may have responded and I don't have time to go through all the subsequent posts, but I feel strongly that the requirement that a complaint come from the person attacked should be dropped. Oftentimes there is a strategic reason behind it - for one thing it can result in poisoning any relationship between the people involved if a reprimand occurs - and if the goal is a sense of community, community rather than individual reporting is necessary.

I would rather stay on daylight savings time all year round.

Why is whether porn stars are straight, gay or otherwise (bi/pansexuality is a thing) such a topic of interest? No one actually knows except that person, and he might not either. And it's not as though it actually matters, since you have no direct contact with them. As another thread demonstrates, people are often wrong about others' sexuality, and guessing just reinforces stereotypes. So why do it?

I really don't get turning an aesthetic perception into some moral crusade. And I'm someone who would never get a tattoo myself because the dyes are toxic. The sense of entitlement over other people's bodies and self-expression reeks.

I agree with Garfield. If you live with a cat, every day is National Cat Day.

I look forward to their creative euphemisms.

I like the following comment on shirtless Chidi: “He couldn’t decide on a workout so just did all of them!” https://mobile.twitter.com/sadiane/status/1055557416094318592?s=09

Can we stop using the word "borrowed"? The scare quotes indicate what is actually true: "borrowed" is a euphemism for stolen.

This is why I disagree with those who think this is no big deal. It's a form of identity theft/fraud/misrepresentation. There are other ways to keep one's identity confidential until meeting. That they may discourage patronage is a price the escort should be willing to pay in return for maintaining his privacy. I'm fed up with people expecting their choices to be costless.

I wasn't talking about me or my experiences. But thanks for being so open in your disdain. Untrustworthy, woo! Wow, you really thought that would hurt me and not make you look idiotic and petty?

Many people find out other people who seem worthy of their trust aren't reliable when it comes to sex because they're making decisions with their little head, not their big one. Let me suggest that this is an issue on which it's safer to assume no one but yourself is trustworthy. Also it's shitty to blame a medication for patient errors or inconsistent usage. If you wouldn't call other medication ineffective because people forget or don't bother to take them, don't do it with PrEP.

Trust is not your safest sex. People you think you can trust lie or omit all the time. See @sam.fitzpatrick's post above about his friend whose partner didn't disclose to him that he was HIV+ when they met. It's one of the reasons people seroconvert without knowing it. Using condoms and PrEP is safer than using one or the other, and condoms, not PrEP, are more unreliable in practice.

Since others are posting additional videos, here's one I left out because you can only post a maximum of five videos per entry. This is footage from the BTS concert I saw last year. The concert itself was 2-1/2 hours long, no opening act.

If she performed music, it counts. I envy you the Donna Summer and BeeGees concerts. I preferred the BeeGees' earlier pop stuff to their disco songs. I'm not sure if that's sour grapes (I disliked most disco music, but the best disco music was sublime) or a reflection of how quickly their earlier songs were forgotten or became underrated.

Season 2 of Hip Hop Evolution is out. It's well worth watching.

Post a video/videos of songs you saw performed live. 1968 summer US tour (think this footage is from the same tour) 1977 tour Serious Moonlight tour, 1983 Tour to support their 1989 reunion album 2014 gig in Englewood, New Jersey. Robert Randolph worked at the law firm I worked for before quitting to pursue music full-time.

Nope. My dad was Korean-American and grew up in Denver, Colorado. (He was either born there or in Wyoming.) His family moved to the NY metro area after World War II because of anti-Asian racism in the West. As a child I did not and could not pass for white and i grew up in a place with no other Asian families until I was in junior high, when another biracial kid moved to town. (His mom was Japanese-American.) By the time I graduated, there were also two Chinese-American brothers at school.) I don't identify as biracial. I identify as Asian-American. And while I am cis, I am not straight. Sorry to prove your assumptions wrong. I suspect some of it is a difference in generations, especially since my family arrived here more than a century ago. But it was amusing (or something) to hear my father claim he had no problem because of his ethnicity with other soldiers in his Army Air Force unit during WWII. I'm sure in the end he had no problems because he outperformed and intimidated them, but I highly doubt it was smooth sailing after the army rethought their initial rejection of him as an enlistee because his parents were from a country occupied by Japan.

Laws against solicitation make sense, but for them to be workable escorts need to be able to advertise online. SESTA/FOSTA put a big crimp in that. Way to go!

I'm not using the UN definition. That would be like using rape to mean only what is legally defined as rape when some jurisdictions require the use of force and not lack of consent.

It took you that long to realize it was Colby Keller?!

Criticizing their own fans for spending too much time on them and teenagers for badgering their parents to buy pricy clothing to maintain status is a branding strategy? Mocking the former education minister and criticizing the South Korean education system is a branding strategy? Talking about suicide, depression and parental pressure is a branding strategy? (All topics of songs of theirs or of individual member's mixtapes released for free.) Contributing anonymously to a fund for the families of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster (until some revealed it) and starting an #EndViolence campaign in cooperation with UNICEF, including individual member and company donations and 3% of the proceeds of their most recent album series is a branding strategy? Yes, I do love BTS a lot. Some day they will disband. But it's unlikely to be any sooner than, say, One Direction, whose position they've filled. In the meantime they are showing way more of a social conscience than Western boy bands. As for their appearance, I think you made my point. Who cares what a bunch of white-centric guys in Weho think?

It seems to me that disabled people are a specific class of people. They're the ones most often targeted by eugenics. (Racial classifications are used as a proxy for lower intellect and morals, hence a form of disabt.) How is breeding supposedly undesirable and unhealthy traits out of a population, including forced abortion and encouragement of suicide and lack of care, meaningfully different from directly murdering them, and what is to prevent it from resulting in that anyway?

But you are also helping to give them that power. You don't have to buy into their premises. As usual, point illustrated with BTS videos. Just live how you want/Your life is yours Don't try so hard/It's alright to fail Point your fingers, I couldn't care less No matter what your reason to blame me is. I do what I do, so mind your own business You can't stop me loving myself. BTS, and male k-pop groups in general, get called "gay" and "girly" all the time as an insult, sometimes to their faces. But achieving two #1 albums on Billboard this year and being featured on magazine covers (Time, Billboard), as BTS has, make that an irrelevant insult. Living life on your own terms is the best response.