mike carey

As Dan Savage says, 'Fcuk first'!

I echo the other comments, if Mike wants to be in an ad, whether that is in the 'acceptable' norms here or not, he can do that. I just want to meet @Mikegaiteagain, he is the hottest man I have spent any time with!

Some Nicholas person didn't respond to one of my tweets! The very idea!! If I ever meet him, I will have to have a very candid conversation.

I have met him too, although not in the biblical sense. Your description sounds just like the man I met.

For me, personality is king, but you don't always know that until you actually meet. The other three all fit into an amalgam, there's a threshold for each as a starting point, but body is probably the biggest consideration. (And I use the word 'biggest' advisedly.) I doubt I would hire anyone based on any one of the criteria, I'd try to build a picture of how they factor into the person I'd hire. How any first meeting worked is also a big factor on whether I'd see them again. Tonight I contacted a guy who I probably wouldn't have picked based on any of the three physical criteria above, but there was something intriguing about his ad and reviews, and in his replies he sounds real and grounded. Doesn't mean I'll meet him (he's in Sydney) but I won't rule it out.

Over at OMAAT, I saw in a thread about the B787 window dimmers (first world problem right there) where someone had said that was a reason they preferred the A350, another poster asked why on earth anyone would prefer a surrender monkey aircraft to a good patriotic all-Murican Boeing (or words to that effect, the Boeing bit; the Airbus part is a direct quote). Would it be too simplistic to suggest, 'Because they know what they are doing'?

It's an oldie, but no less valid for its age, those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind.

A couple of days ago was International Bee Day, for all the reasons you'd expect related to climate change, the threat that loss of bees would have on crops that rely on them for pollination, and the prevalence of the veroa mite. i'd heard about it and got all the reasons that it was important, but then I heard it referenced without any context a day or so later, and my immediate (though thankfully brief) thought was, 'What the hell is an international bide... Oh, right!'.

There are some things the world does not need, me having or even being part of an OnlyFans page is high on that list! Then again..

If only I could meet you, we could provide a photo of how it was done. That is, assuming it is possible, but even if it's not, trying to achieve it could be fun.

@rvwnsdI agree it is odd, but if he can churn through names and still attract a clientele, good luck to him. He does have a web site (that could use some professional help btw) and there have been respected posters here who swear by him. He does talk up a storm! I'd certainly give him a run, but there are other guys in the US that would be above him on my list, including a few in NYC. (And San Antonio.)

You could always book him and ask him to demonstrate.

You're absolutely right, there is a variety of escorts offering different things, and there are clients out there looking for escorts at every point on that spectrum. Not all escorts convey the range of their capabilities (or preferences) in their ads. I've had exchanges with escorts in person (social settings), in here and on social media that convince my they are the sort of man I want to hire (and a few that push me in the other direction). I had one of those good conversations just last night in RM messenger (shame about the border restrictions).

Then uck me?

He's been discussed here for quite some time, but his RM ad only dates from 26 Jan, so you're looking at four months' worth of RM reviews. It would seem that unlike some other escorts who change their handle on an existing ad (and all their history, including reviews, carries over between different names), he closed his previous one and started afresh.

What they can achieve is situational. In many circumstances it achieves nothing. Up until today, the contact tracing people in Melbourne were able to identify and isolate all the contacts of a case (both people they knew they had been with, and people who had been to places the cases had visited) within 24 hours, and second level contacts in an additional 24 hours. When they could do that they were confident that they had identified everyone who was likely to have been in the chain of contact from each positive case. So, they were confident that on the balance of probabilities there were no undetected cases out there. Today, the number of locations of concern, and the number of people they needed to contact exceeded the number they could contact within the 24 hour limit. So, they are no longer confident that they can identify everyone who might be infected, and therefore likely to be a vector. So rather than tell a known list of people to stay isolated, a lockdown treats everyone as a possible contact and reduces the number of people anyone who was an actual undetected case of disease can pass it on to. The intention is to slow the spread so contact tracing can keep up again. The lockdowns have typically been three to seven days, in which time any cases that had slipped through the contact tracing system should have manifested. So far, these have succeeded in stopping outbreaks in their tracks. (During the lockdown what they are concerned are new cases with no known source, not those that can be linked to a known source. After a week of no 'unknown' cases the health authorities will be confident that they have the outbreak contained.) The debate here hasn't been whether it should have been done, but whether they waited a day too long. Clearly this can only work well here because the background level of community infection is effectively zero.

I had the impression that there are some members whose only contribution to the forum was to attach a 'bomb' to other members' posts.

Multiple monarchs? The US has had multiple presidents, two at the moment since both Trump and Biden are president now. We don't, as I thought I had made clear, celebrate the birthday of the late Queen Victoria.

Even without knowing the distances and transit options involved (and @Nakedchihas talked about those) I would have thought that the available air fares would have been the biggest criterion, and ORD the most likely airport to use.

Ok, so this isn't ROFLMAO style funny, more like smirk-worthy. QR codes are pretty much universal here and no one seems to baulk at using them (except for the one person who tweeted that their mother had been photographing them rather than scan them). Naomi Wolf complains that having to scan a QR code to enter her NYC hotel's rooftop bar makes NYC 'actual hell'. Predictably the thread under Dr Wolf's tweet contained a mixture of agreement and ridicule, but I liked this retweeted take from a student at my alma mater. https://twitter.com/SavvyBeeBen/status/1397491901289275397?s=20

It was pretty much a matter of moving on from Empire Day as 'Empire' had been supplanted by the Commonwealth, so commemorating the Empire seemed outdated in the 1960s. The idea that it specifically commemorated the birthday of VR rather than the Empire had already faded. The bonfires and fireworks moved to the Queens Birthday holiday in early June (except in WA where the day for such things had been Guy Fawkes Day).

Have ex with your x?

I've never been called for jury duty, in part because during my time in the Defence Force I was exempt. Not sure how good a juror I'd be! We have no equivalent to US grand juries, only trial juries.

Harumph! Of course I like to think that I have aged well, not quite to the extent of a vampire or the undead, but in less fanciful terms.

No holiday in Australia this weekend (just passed). Our days of remembrance are Anzac Day (25 April), a holiday where everything is closed, at least until lunch time and 11 November, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day. it's not a public holiday but there are commemorations at war memorials and many radio and television station pause their programming at 11am. Up until about when I was in about second grade, Queen Victoria's birthday was marked as Empire Day, and it was a half holiday, with bonfire night in the evening.