mike carey

Hmm, looks like a reversed photo from Australia.

That's a valid point, and fair as far as it goes. The key point I see in it is that you attended the meals because it built relationships. You made a decision (or your boss did) that going was good for the business. Each business is going to decide which things are needed for relationship building and which are not. I suspect that for some big businesses, law and accounting firms perhaps, attendance is logged as billable hours.

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They would, oh they would!

If that's the experience you've had, I'd agree, but my experiences have been quite different. Start earlier, perhaps dinner, play more than once, sleep close, morning wood taken advantage of, breakfast, part mid to late morning with a glow.

@SecretProvider, I read Elite_XL's comment differently, but as I said in my earlier post I wasn't sure if that was how he intended it. I read it as saying that he had gained the impression that being relatively free was the general view of others, not that he had previously thought it was the case. Rather, that he was now unsure. As others have opined, it is not the general view, although some clients believe it should be.

This is likely to be a contentious subject, but I don't think it should be. As far as I can see, a relationship between an escort and a client is professional. Full Stop. Until it isn't. But, as with most things, the devil is in the detail. 'Companionship' can range from a stand-alone engagement, where company is demanded by a social situation, or one where it is desired, just to be with someone else, in public or in private, for a time. It can also be in the context of an existing arrangement that involves the more usual escort pursuits. As I see it, an escort is entitled to charge for companionship time as he sees fit, whether it's for dinner after an appointment or a separate commitment of time. He can offer his usual rate, a lower (or higher!) one or comp the extra time together. He can even share his time for some activities without charging at all. That is his decision. He could do it for personal reasons, or because charging less, or not charging for certain activities, was part of his business strategy. But I don't think a client has any right to expect it, or for an expectation to grow from having it happen before that it was now how the relationship would work all the time. Don't get me wrong, there is no reason why escort-client meetings should not be compensated in different ways or to different extents when the circumstances of the meetings differed. If an escort values a nice dinner, or a weekend at a resort paid by a client, there's no reason why he wouldn't choose not to charge an additional fee. But there is also no reason to expect that he will. As the client, propose the meeting and the activity and ask his fee. Entitlement can be disconcerting. @Elite_XL, I'm not sure whether the impression you had that it should be relatively free is what you see as a general consensus, or what you see as good business sense. It's good to see someone engage openly and thoughtfully on the subject. But that just seems to be the way you operate.

That was probably the issue. Rich text seems to be 'what you see is what is posted' and if you're in dark mode 'what you see' is white text, which in light mode is not particularly useful (save for 19th century spies accustomed to invisible ink). Plain text uses automatic text colour, which varies between modes. Something similar can arise in text you've copied from elsewhere. When you do that, the software may post a warning that it has been pasted in rich text (which brings text attributes, usually including text colour), but it asks you if you want to convert it to plain text. 'Rich text' doesn't discriminate, it can end up with faint or invisible text in both modes depending on what was copied. (I usually use dark mode, and illegible text seems to happen far more often there. Text being entered into a comment, whether by typing or pasting, with text colour set as black seems to happen more often than text set to white.) On some occasions I've been able to 'fix' the issue in a comment I'd posted by opening it in edit mode, deleting the text (Ctrl-X) and pasting it back (Ctrl-V), upon which the warning I mentioned above posts and I can convert it to plain text. I haven't done it often enough to be sure that it works all the time, though.

From the description at the top of the forum home page (not one of the threads in the forum). Discussion of fetishes and stuff, not necesarily things you try or dream of doing with escorts. Posting relevant images has filtered into the habits of the forum over time.

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His RM ad is up-thread, posted on 8 Mar 25, rentmen.eu version. There are also several broken links. I'll post it again. (Edited to delete the link, @KensingtonHomo beat me to it.)

In reviewing several threads on this guy (most I've now combined into this one), I had opened 47568, and the MF link lead me to 48950, so yes, there is some history there. On the basis set out here, caveat emptor seems advisable.

It's come off for you now. First five posts approved. Having a fun time is always good, this place can be fun. And it can be the opposite. I suspect though, that you might not have been talking about Fun in the Forum!

Welcome to the Forum, @Elite_XL! Hope you find it useful.

There's an old thread on this masseur.

I'm sure you remember it well!

Not poutine?

That's a well known (if not widely known) allergy. I thought it was an Australian thing, but while it was first identified here early this century, apparently there are ticks on six continents that are linked to it. The sugar molecule that causes it is not found in primates, so presumably primate meat would not trigger an allergic reaction, but that is not particularly useful dietary information. For most of us. Ticked off: how a bite can turn meat against you WWW.CSIRO.AU Exploring the rise of tick-induced meat allergy and its connection to cardiovascular disease.

And on the following day, deep and crisp and even.

Большое спасибо! С Новым годом вас, 2026 годом! Thank you very much! Happy New Year to you, 2026.

The Australian Minister for Home Affairs at the time of the foundation of Canberra in 1913 was a larger than life character called King O'Malley. There is a suburb of O'Malley in Canberra. He was also responsible for the banning of alcohol in the Australian Capital Territory at the time, a decision that was a boon for publicans in the NSW border town of Queanbeyan. Appropriately, there is a well known pub in the centre of Canberra that bears his name. He was an American chancer (ahead of his time as far as the 18th Amendment was concerned) who, successfully at the time, claimed to be a Canadian (ironic given the Canadian role with the 18th) to overcome the ban on those holding allegiance to a foreign power being elected to the Australian Parliament. It was only much later that that constitutional provision was narrowed to exclude from eligibility citizens of Commonwealth Realms other than Australia.

Dark, very dark. But I'm sure it will brighten up in a couple of hours. Seriously though, looking forward to it, please join me. It's a new day!