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I absolutely loved Carl Kassell, especially on Wait Wait. He'll be missed.

This song says "there's already a mortgage on my future." Yikes. Watch this and "Bapsae/Silver Spoon" mirrored dance practice by the same group and in 6 minutes you will understand the economic woes of millennials. Now the members of the group are all well off, so it doesn't actually apply to them anymore, but it used to apply to some of them, like Suga, who used to have to choose between buying lunch or taking the bus home.

Does that mean they like to cash their Czechs? (I'll see myself out, thanks.)

They're called Acrush and fit the Kpop "girl crush" (girls to emulate) girl group concept, although some Kpop fans feel a concept as "masculine" as this wouldn't be commercially viable in South Korea. I really like this song. Other than being in Mandarin, it fits perfectly into Kpop idol style music. Amber Liu of f(x) would fit in perfectly. For reference, the song "Crush" by the most girl crush Kpop group ever, the now disbanded, much lamented and exceptionally popular 2NE1. Cross-dressing! Stripper pole! Use of swear words! [MEDIA]

Chick Successfully Raised by Gay Vulture Dads Is Released Into the Wild (Towleroad) See, I can do clickbait titles too. Every so often someone asks how same-sex attraction between humans has remained despite no apparent evolutionary purpose. We can also ask that about same-sex animal pairs. Perhaps it is for the purpose of raising young when the mother (or parents, in the case of humans) is unable to.

I'm just saying there are additional reasons for that now independent of the original one, which is that reviews need verification and process to be fair and reliable, and allowing people to write whatever they want in the forum where there is no mechanism for notifying the escort and permitting him to reply to an unfavorable review undermines that.

It's not as though anything would happen right away anyway, though. Cases need to be investigated. Lawyers and law enforcement need to familiarize themselves with the law. That takes time. It may in fact not be a problem, but it's way too early to draw that conclusion because nothing's happened.

Sometimes there are things not being said or where it is necessary to read between the lines for reasons of discretion and risk management. Perhaps thinking about what's going on in the industry recently and the reasons behind the actions referred to in the title of this thread would help. Btw, I periodically get scolded because I think more transparency about time outs and members' statuses would serve the forum better. But in this case there are good reasons for the response that to you seems less than helpful.

Thanks. I already took care of the search engine. Will have to look for individual cookie targeting. Right now I need to start the count over for the New Yorker as well as the New York Times.

Counterpoint, including him calling the Asian author of the below thread a Mongoloid and her pinned tweet ("hey, you. if you woke up this morning, that's a victory. i see you, and i love you. you've come so far. i am so proud of you.") inspiration porn. https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/984980959052251137 Short version: he was only ever annoyed by his foreign classmate, with his broken English and his practice of leaving his books on the desk the person tweeting used, until he found out that the guy was saving the seat for him. (Someone points out that maybe it should have been obvious that the seat was being saved, as the desk was consistently available and empty at every class.) Personally, I was saddened that the foreign student thought of Thomas as a friend the whole semester when the thread demonstrates his disdain toward him until he learned he was saving his seat. Then, and only then, did he pay attention to him. All because his English wasn't good and he left his books on the desk Thomas viewed as his.

If that's possible on my Kindle Fire tablet, which uses a proprietary browser called Silk, it's not apparent. Bing is the default search engine, so Silk may be a Microsoft product or Microsoft-based. I'm a little skeptical that Amazon and whomever it subcontracted with created a browser from scratch. When I saw that Ferrer wasn't charged in the indictment and was referred to as C.F., I was convinced that meant he was cooperating with authorities and was negotiating a plea deal. I don't know what kind of pressure was brought to bear on him, but it certainly benefited the prosecutors. Also the timing is unlikely to be directly tied to FOSTA because FOSTA was designed to overcome the dismissal of civil lawsuits against Backpage by teenage girl alleging they had been trafficked through the posting of ads on Backpage. The California criminal charges against Backpage that were among the ones Ferrer pled to were also similarly dismissed, but the evidence of editing of ads to hide the fact the advertisers were underage, the creation of phony ads on other sites to increase sales for Backpage advertisers, the murder of a few underage advertisers as a result of the services they advertised on Backpage, and the allegation of artificial limits to Backpage's cooperation with authorities regarding trafficking (monthly limits and a refusal to take reports from relatives other than parents and siblings) were enough to allow them to proceed without relying on FOSTA and without running into the same CDA defense as before. (I don't know if the Texas and Arizona state charges had also been similarly dismissed based on the CDA defense FOSTA removed.) In any event, Ferrer's plea agreements are definitely a big deal and information he provided, and his testimony, are likely to be crucial to the prosecution.

This has the downside of signing you out of every website you're signed into. If like me you have a hard time remembering your usernames and passwords, it may be more hassle than it's worth.

Shouldn't the title be "beware of sex partners who drug you without consent"?

Yes. We all shit regularly unless we're constipated. Bleeding means something is wrong, potentially wrong or at least painful. (I'm not talking about menses here, which are a pain in the ass anyway.)

And here I was hoping this thread was about the names y'all give your penises.

Which puts a different spin on things. I wouldn't have asked the same (or any) question in that case.

Which means the Lounge would be a more apt forum.

SBS Pop Asia posted an interview with Holland discussing his debut, his reception and future plans, and the state of the LGBTQIA community in South Korea. Like Honey Popcorn, he's self-funding his career. He also mentions that he knew that a same-sex kiss would draw a 19+ rating and he deliberately included it in the MV to start a conversation. Incidentally, as an independent artist, Holland is not an idol, nor is he the first out gay pop singer. Korean American singer Marshall Bang (stylized MRSHLL) is gay but is not making that the focus of his music like Holland. He's signed to the agency run by Tiger JK and Yoon Mirae, the First Couple of khiphop, and can be called an idol. Here's his most recent song, a feature with Michelle Lee for DJ Friz. There's an English version, but many of the words are hard to make out and as a love song sung as a duet, it's more obviously heterosexual in outlook. There's also a little -known boy group (so little known that I don't remember the name) two of whose members are dating and whose leader is bisexual. They've mentioned this on their individual Facebook accounts.

Basically. The cat's not big, but she likes to cuddle up to my feet or hip, which makes getting up tricky.

Use of a specific name was still, in retrospect, a mistake.

Also arranging donations takes a lot more time and effort.

Oh, absolutely, which is double the reason to tread carefully and not essentialize it.

Same, although I have a loaner/foster/whatever cat. I was originally supposed to take care of her while her owners were in India, but then the brother of one of the owners more or less dumped their ailing mother on the doorstep, and her breathing problems mean no pets. At home, she's not allowed in the bedroom, so this is a treat for her.

Fair enough, but where in any of your posts do we get a sense for the positive side of your business as described in the first paragraph? We don't have ESP. We only know what you tell us. And I concede that bringing up another escort might not have been wise. I wasn't trying to stir a competitive pot.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? If you legit think that the playing field is level, I don't know what to say. Also, "a factor" means one factor, not the only factor.