Rudynate

I don't think I have ever heard a real person say "high fallutin" - just in movies and TV. I think I can remember one time hearing "putting on airs." It was said by the cleaning lady in an apartment building where I lived in Denver, a LOT of years ago. She grew up on a farm in Southern Indiana.

I dstinctly remember one client or another relating on here that a provider, with whom they had a long-standing relationship, comped a session. In fact, I had a provider comp a session. So it does happen. I think it's a very rare occurrence - it has only happened to me once and the stories of a provider comping a session are few and far between. I wouldn't expect providers to be forthcoming with an answer to a question like this because it asks them to reveal confidential details of their business model.

True, southern guys have a special something.

Ditto. LA is just crawling with amazing guys. I haven’t spent much time in New York, but if the profiles on RM are any indication …

It might have been so a LONG time ago e.g. when I was a kid, we had a family friend, a good-looking young hunk from a middle-class family, who graduated from college in the early 60s, who actually worked summers for a moving company. College boys now are not going to bust their asses doing hard physical work when their parents are supporting them and when they can spend a couple months coding an app that will make them more money than years of working for a moving company. It's a quaint fantasy tho.

One would have thought, yes. But obviously with this crowd not. Another thing struck me is that, at events like that, they aren't there for the food, so the food doesn't run out. But this crowd just couldn't get enough to eat.

Yes - one of those awkward situations where the business owner had to suck it up and say "the client is always right."

Yep - just to shut the guy up, they sent additional food.

A long time ago, I was a captain for a catering company. We were hired to cater an event at which Yoko was going to appear. The crowd turned out to be way larger than expected and the event sponsor hadn't ordered enough food. So the people were clamoring for food, the event sponsor was trying to get more food without paying any more money and they were all waiting to get a glimpse of Yoko. Yoko showed up, and everybody was angling to get a look at her. A guy in the crowd had a heart attack and none of the crowd would move so that we could get through to give the guy some help. They wouldn't even move when paramedics showed up with a gurney to transport the guy. I have always remembered that event as a lesson in crowd psychology.

Good lord. Does anybody actually believe that a crew of hot young college hunks shows up to do your move? It's advertising bullshit.

It's not that bad - being a cube rat in Silicon Valley tends to pay well.

We were all cube rats - not much face-to-face interaction.

I used to work for a tech company in Fremont-there were quite a few Filipino restaurants in the area where we had lunch. My favorite was a rice congee with chicken. It was always topped with lots of sautéed garlic and onion.

My husband and I were having dinner in a restaurant in Sorrento. The owner treated us to a whole squid topped with a red sauce. My husband couldn’t eat it-it grossed him out. I said “We can’t not eat it-he gave it to us.” So I ate the whole thing. I didn’t care for the tentacles, but the rest was ok.

I like big men - tall, or bearish or musclemen. Also like hairy men. And men of color.

The psychologization of daily life - in which everyone is riddled with pathology and is nothing more than a subject for study.

Certainly people who do major body modifications don't do them on impulse or on a whim, but the reasons or motivations for doing it are something that they come up with after the fact to convince themselves or others that it was rational and well-thought out, but fundamentally, they do it because they wanted to. I'm extensively tattooed. I can say that Ive been fascinated by tattoos since early childhood and that I love the way they look, but fundamentally, I got every one of my tattoos because I wanted to. I probably won't get anymore, even though I want to, because my husband thinks I have enough and keeping him happy is a very high priority.

I love a man with a PA. I love to play with the PA with my tongue, tug on it a little, try to get my tongue into the piercing and really focus on the head of his dick. Any more modification to the dick besides the PA begins to seem like self-mutilation and I'm turned off by it.

My father was on dialysis for kidney disease and I was his main caregiver. I was also working full-time. His dialysis unit had a full-time social worker. I can't remember how I connected with her- she might have called me - but she told me I needed to do everything I could to lighten my load. She had a lot of advice and connected me with all sorts of community-based organizations that helped out with his care. I was amazed to find out the resources that were available just for the asking.

To me, it's an expression of deep gratitude. She saved his ass and he wanted the world to know how grateful he was. Of course he suffered, but he preferred to shift the focus to his wife and everything she had done for him.

You should read Christopher Isherwood's early works, set in gay Berlin in the 1930's as fascism was sweeping Europe. - There are several -"Mr. Norris Changes Trains," "Good-Bye to Berlin" are the ones I can think of, but there were quite a few.

I'm a versatile fister, so I need to be squeaky clean and ready for anything. My principal is "If it seemed like it was too easy, it was." Sometimes, you can hose out a couple times and it seems like you're done. You're not. That's an "incident" waiting to happen.

I have a FB, who I haven't seen since before the pandemic, who is rather ordinary but the chemistry is amazing. I never tired of kissing that man - just out of this world.