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@KinkyNEguy thanks for your post. My guess is that Axiom has been posting about as long as I have. If he only gets riled once a year, that's 30 riles that you could quote. (Okay, might be 31 or 32 for me!) So I think @Axiom2001 has at least a decent track record. I don't remember him joining in when a pissing contest is going on, and I don't remember him seeking attention. The criticism above seems to me to be unwarranted. He was attacked beyond reason. For a medical doctor to "hope" that he posted under chemical substances, or otherwise he wondered how the guy can cope in society was way below the belt. And consider that Unicorn posts billions of pictures over at boytoy.com and Axiom has been one of his biggest fans. Unicorn's comment just didn't sit well with me, even though I have met him and personally like him. None of this is to say that Axiom is perfect. Your contribution gave me more insight. But many of us don't like it when a thread is hijacked. Myself, I have learned to live with it.

No doubt you have heard that line if you had tried to call a big company during the pandemic. I am not so sure that the volume of calls is higher, but the number of employees answering them is lower. Calling now can be a real challenge if you want to speak to a person. Consumer Reports makes it impossible. I was shunted around to so many extensions and never did get a human. Calling my health insurance company resulted in many press "this" and press "that", but I finally did get a person, and she kept me on hold forever. Finally she said she had fixed my problem, but I later learned that she had not. So I had to call all over again and it was sent for review, which did nothing so I have to appeal. Thankfully I can whip off a good legal letter. That's what i did with Consumer Reports and they did what I wanted but insisted on charging me four dollars! Yet so many people cannot put together a succinct legal letter. Those trying for unemployment have been hit with impossible phone situations. I know there is or once was a site called getahuman that told where to call to skip the buttons and go right to the person, but it rarely worked for me and I gave up on it. Anyone here have any ideas? Any success stories?

Oh, nonsense. @Axiom2001 has been posting for decades and has never been one to get into the arguments between posters nor one to seek attention.

You can exercise with Reno Gold for free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSn997icogU

@E.T.Bass "If you choose to ignore news that the virus is not diminishing, that's your business. But to me it seems critical." I disagree. It's our business! The people ignoring the increasing peril of coronavirus are the ones more likely to get sick. They will burden the health system, taking money and resources from those who followed the rules. An asshole at the grocery today wore his mask under his chin. He complained about being cold in the dairy department, so I told him that he would be warmer if he wore his mask. He didn't. Others who spoke to him got extended arguments. We are expected to treat him the same as others when he gets sick.

Percentage increases? Consumer Reports billed me $20. Then I got an email inviting me to pay that online. So I did. A few hours later I got a receipt for $26! That's an unexplained 30% increase...from Consumer Reports. Aren't they supposed to be the good guys. And try calling them. The worst circus I have yet experienced. I never got a person. Okay, I detoured on percentage increases. But now I am paranoid to subscribe to something!

Why is it that sometimes I am logged out when I turn a page? I can't post without logging back in. But, if I just close out the site, when I come back it shows me logged in. Mystery to me!

Winner takes all of the books.

Who ya gonna believe? Weather.com or the National Weather Service?

How many Benjamin Nicholas escorts are there? I see you are BenjaminNicholasDallas. Is that to separate you from, say, BenjaminNicholasPeoria?

Well, when I went to Lowe's to buy a microwave, they said they had one of the model I desired in stock. Then he refused to sell it to me, saving they had to keep one in inventory as a rule. Craziest damn thing. I found just the dryer I wanted on Costco.com this morning, but when I went to buy it, they finally notify me that it is out of stock. Nothing about when they would have it. So take the listing down. It's $150 more elsewhere.

How would you get there? Taxis are more expensive. But, truthfully, the only Uber ride i have ever had was on the bed in that sauna....several times! I had his picture, but it wasn't very close up, so not worth saving. Just the memories.

I followed the temps at weather.com all day yesterday. They never reported a temp for Palm Springs higher than 118. My area went to 119. Are they so hot to set a record that they cheat? 121! Hardly.

In many stores, if you ask an employee where something is, they will walk you over to the section where it is! That's nice, although if they just gave me the info I would probably be able to find it myself.

You should be very thankful that at your age you can walk those distances, and so often at that. I would like to walk like that.

Hmm, the housework might go faster in the meth house...

So the title of the movie is quite misleading. As this article from the Desert Sun points out, Palm Springs gets no screen time. It could have been called Phoenix! https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/movies/2020/07/10/andy-sambergs-palm-springs-movie-fun-but-missing-city-itself/5414623002/

I have never heard of "findom" until I saw this thread. I do not participate in Twitter. I hear that a lot of sex stuff is there along with pics, but I wouldn't know how to access it. Someday you younger guys will be facing this same situation. The world moves faster as you age!

Suicide maybe, but no to murder. I would always be thinking of it. I once looked at the late Harvey Milk's apartment as a possible rental. They had to show me the closet where his boyfriend committed suicide. It's a bit of a turn off, plus living with the ghost of the famous Harvey Milk?

I love to visit San Diego. But for the pandemic, I would have escaped the current heat wave by going there. But living there? It's very conservative and often described as "boring."

Why don't you tell us?!

Steven Wright makes his debut as the author of The Coyotes of Carthage, a political novel involving big money, Southern decadence, and political cynicism. It's very well written and I highly recommend it. Wright is a Black author. His take on racism is excellent. The protagonist is also Black, but the novel involves the moneyed world of politics, and that's still mostly white.

Hopefully if you buy from a higher end store you won't need the customer service. Isn't that what they mean when they say "you get what you pay for?"

@CuriousByNature, if I may have a go at this... I once was in London and staying at a decent hotel in Bayswater. One evening I was lying in bed and was about to fall asleep when I heard some moaning coming from the room next door to mine. Suddenly I heard their door open, so I looked out and saw a guy in a towel heading to the ice machine across from my room. I opened my door, which caused him to turn around. Suddenly his towel dropped and soon there was moaning coming from my room! And that, my friends, is the closest I have ever come to a travel sex story... Work for you? As a playful edit?

There was once an East Side bus terminal in Manhattan. I took the bus from the airport since my hotel was close by. Several empty seats, but I took the one next to a cute guy. I'm sitting there riding along and he is apparently asleep. His head starts moving toward me and ends up on my shoulder. Hmm, should I wake him up? I didn't, but when he finally "awoke" he kept his head there. We went to my hotel, had fantastic sex, and he went on his way.