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I admit to hearing disparate stories. Lots of people getting Covid, but few getting very sick. There are exceptions as my friend in SF was sick for a week.

@MikeBiDude must still be on the porn chat thread!

Think of all the things that we know today that we didn't know when @Charlie was young!

Nestor has excused Kaat's behavior. “Hey everybody, Jim Kaat has spent an entire lifetime in this game we love,” Cortes tweeted. “He reached out to me and apologized for his remark [Thursday] night, but he didn’t need to. We all make mistakes and feel 100% there was no malice intended. I plan on lifting him up with this tweet and I hope others do, too. No sweat here Jim!” https://nypost.com/2022/06/03/nestor-cortes-absolves-jim-kaat-for-nestor-the-molester-remark/

If the consolation prize is a stained copy of @Rand's avatar, I will gladly accept.

My guess now is that @7829V has 7829 questions he wants us to answer.

I kind of like his attitude. Especially this: "No Discrimination ever on race, size or gender. I **** Men, Women, Couples, FTM and all others. "

He may not be as cute as he once was, but he's a few million dollars richer after suing the ex-wife for defamation. She put on an Oscar caliber show, but the jury wasn't fooled. The verdict is a victory for men in the MeToo age, where guilt is assumed when a woman makes an accusation. Hopefully that will now recede and actual proof be required.

Coincidentally, this article is in today's LA Times: You love your car. You want to treat it well. You certainly don’t want to do anything that would damage it. That’s why you’ve been filling it with premium gasoline all these years. But with prices up above $7 a gallon, you’ve started to wonder: Does my car really need the good stuff? Can I just switch to regular? Or should I compromise and buy midgrade? Answers: Probably no, probably yes and almost definitely not. Confused? Don’t worry, you’re in good company. Many years of research at the American Automobile Assn.'s Los Angeles fuels laboratory has shown that if your car requires premium, you should keep using premium and suck up the cost. But thanks to a mix of clever marketing and quirky consumer psychology, some 16.5 million U.S. drivers fill their cars with premium when regular would work just as well, according to AAA. Think you might be one of them? Check your owner’s manual, advises Doug Shupe, program manager at the Automobile Club of Southern California and the AAA. And pay close attention to the language. “Unless your vehicle manufacturer says premium is required — not recommended, but required — we’ve found no advantage to using premium fuel,” Shupe said. If it says “recommended,” you can ignore the recommendation and pocket the 30 to 50 cents per gallon you’d be saving. Spending more doesn’t buy any benefit in horsepower, fuel economy or emissions, Shupe said. Depending on how much you drive, the switch can save several hundred dollars a year. With the average price of a gallon of regular now above $6 in California, that’s money that could go to food or rent. What does “premium” even mean? That gasoline grade is laced with an extra dose of hydrocarbon molecules called octane. In a high-compression engine, heavy pressure can squeeze the fuel-air mixture so tight and hot that some fuel combusts before it should. That leads to uneven explosive forces, which can vibrate engine parts unnecessarily. The extra octane helps the fuel burn more evenly. In California, premium gas is labeled 91 octane, midgrade is 89, and regular is 87. All are unleaded. The results of AAA’s octane tests have become widely accepted. So why would a carmaker recommend premium when it’s not needed? One reason may be the belief by many customers that premium, required or not, boosts engine performance. For a manufacturer seeking to support a luxury car’s high sticker price with claims of similarly high performance, the association might not hurt. In fact, some higher-end models from the likes of Audi and BMW have a sensor that can tell if gasoline is premium or regular, according to Jil McIntosh at Autotrader, and adjust the engine accordingly. The AAA lab didn’t test the pluses or minuses of midgrade fuel. That could be because there aren’t many benefits to speak of, except for gas industry profit margins. (The exception is older cars with engine knock, which can potentially benefit from midgrade gas.) The middle choice is an artifact from the days when unleaded gasoline began showing up as an alternative to gasoline containing lead. Gas stations needed three pumps to sell leaded regular, unleaded regular and unleaded premium. After leaded gas was phased out beginning in the 1990s, midgrade was a way to make use of the third pump. Midgrade makes up a tiny fraction of retail gasoline sales. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, about 88% of gas sold in the U.S. is regular, 11% premium, and the rest midgrade. If midgrade customers are trading up from regular, whether they need it or not, that pump provides fatter profit margins. When premium customers trade down, profit margins are squeezed. One thing all gasoline buyers should look for if they’re seeking performance and longer engine life, according to Shupe: an indication that a gas station is selling “Top Tier” fuel. Often there will be a label on the pump. Most major brands do; many minor brands do as well. Any grade of gasoline — regular, midgrade, premium — can be Top Tier. Such gasoline is processed with additives that reduce carbon buildup and is tested by an independent group to verify the formulation. Tests show such fuel improves performance and extends engine life. Brand names such as Chevron’s Techron and Shell’s V-Power are Top Tier, for instance, though they’re not always designated that way. Those fuels cost more than gas at deep-discount stations that don’t sell Top Tier gas, but the AAA suggests that the extra few cents are worth it.

I need 13 people to each post 100 times today!

It's now 11 months since he last visited.

And how would you know this? Inside line at HS?

The wisdom I gain from the message board has no bounds! 🙂

Sorry, @Rand I just looked at this post so I could see your avatar again!

He looks a little scared of that dick! (I deleted the pic rather than run afoul of any rule since it looked semitumescent.

So it's a fake Inwood!

The worst thing about San Francisco is the fog and wind. The homeless usually stick to themselves unless panhandling.

If I had known what a dipshit he is I wouldn't have posted about him.

I learned today that famed pitcher Tommy John, for whom the famous surgery on a pitcher's arm is known, lives near me in La Quinta, California. In December, 2020, he fought his hardest fight when he and his wife came down with Covid. Later, John developed Guillain-Barre syndrome and spent months in a wheel chair. Hard to imagine the famous pitcher falling so ill, but he survived and just turned 79. https://nypost.com/2022/05/29/tommy-john-fighting-way-back-from-covid-blood-clots-lucky-to-be-alive/

Who's afraid of a few homeless people?

I looked at the BBB complaints for businessclassconsolidator.com and there are many. Mostly flights canceled because of Covid resulted in problems for consolidator tickets. The airlines refunded, but the consolidator didn't.

Austin Butler reportedly knocks 'em out as Elvis. The film got a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Even Priscilla likes it! https://pagesix.com/2022/05/26/priscilla-presley-in-tears-as-elvis-gets-12-minute-standing-ovation/?_ga=2.211663068.835716057.1651612035-1004075814.1651612035 https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-priscilla-presley-on-elvis-biopic-20220430-iv7c7dhzbvcu3g2tusckqyqvue-story.html

You would avoid a huge city just because a few people there caught monkeypox? Why not just avoid sexual encounters with strangers?

I met a guy at a Rio sauna. He was the best sex I ever had. I kid you not. Just super wonderful. So I later asked him to come to my hotel room where we had more pleasures. When he left, I went down to the lobby with him. There he introduced me to his girlfriend, who was waiting for him to take her shopping! He then kissed me goodbye right there in the lobby. The girlfriend didn't seem to mind.

12 hours to Japan, then an 8 hour layover, then 6 more hours, arriving Ho Chi Minh City at 5:30 am. Not for me.