mike carey

That's the edited gist of a reply I made to a member about this, summarising things as I saw them. I don't know what's happened but it least it isn't site-wide and we can read it sensibly although not in the way some of us prefer.

Same here, dark mode in more ways than one!

I don't think it's surprising. From his time in porn he would have been accustomed to frequent and rigorous testing (or noticed cases of STIs) and be quite aware of the risks of having unprotected sex with people whose status he has no way of knowing, or of knowing how careful they have been. Escorting is a far less controlled environment than filming porn, so potentially more risky, or that may well be his assessment.

Oops, thanks! I've edited it to make sense. I'll leave the evidence you quoted of my error for all to see.

G'day @AlfonsoXL, welcome to the Forum. Hope that you find it useful for planning your trip and more broadly. The cities you've mentioned are in South East and East Asia. The moderators can change the title if you wish us to do so (click on the three dots at the top right of your post, select 'Report' and tell us what you want us to do). I've also moved your question to the Forum devoted to Asia (and Africa and Australia) but for the next week there'll be a link there from the Questions forum where you posted it.

I don't speak Spanish and don't recall what it means, particularly in context, I just recall some of the conversation here. Just now, from my attempts at googling it, the Spanish word mórbido does have the English meaning, but it also has a meaning of soft or delicate. I think last time it came up there was some talk of it having slang or informal meanings as well. I seem to remember that @José Soplanucas was one of those who commented (I could be wrong). He is an Argentine native speaker, so he may also have commented on regional differences in the meaning of the word.

I've read they are also introducing a basic economy fare, so it will be interesting to see how it fares changing its business model so significantly, removing the things that made for a point of difference with other carriers.

The word has come up here frequently. It's a direct substitution of the English word 'morbid' for the Spanish word mórbido. The Spanish word has more meanings than its English twin and some of them are, shall we say, less 'morbid' than the English word.

As the OP stated, his ad is no longer on RM. Could be a name change of course.

Probably bought it at a thrift shop.

Aww, you're so harsh! He could be ... But he clearly isn't, it would seem. Harsh but probably not harsh enough.

What is this "30" of which you speak?

Thankfully 'you' and 'I' are gender neutral, so that at least removes one layer of confusion!

If you had the question correct in how you quoted it in your first post, then the pronoun confusion may have been the point of how it was written. There is also a possible tense issue that @sniper identified above. The initial situation is in the present tense, and the 'after' situation is also in the present tense. Logically the two statements can be in the present tense but the statement 'you pass me' means they are at different times, but a pedant could argue that both being in the present tense means that they were both at the same time (that's not how narrative use of tense works in English, and it's illogical, but pedants be pedants, and the pedantry may also have been part of the intent of the question). If you break down the question to make the sequence and who is whom explicit: I am in second place THEN you pass me What place are you then in? ..then the answer becomes clearer, but the answer is 'I am in second' and the "I" in that answer is the person who was "you" when they passed "me", not the "I" in the first statement. Clear as mud?

In your answer you switched which of the racers each pronoun applied to between the question and the answer. The question posed had "I" in second place and "you" passing "I", that would put "I" in third place. @purplekow's answer is correct.

Yes, that is irrational. It would not be irrational to be turned off by √4.

On the rent.men version of the site, if you click on the three dots next to the 'Add Buddy' button an an escort's add there's a pop-up to block or report them. I assume you need to be logged in to an account to do it, but that shouldn't mean it has to be a paid account:

Although they are similar and could be the same escort, it's not clear that Big and Hung are the same. Both ads are still on RM (the BradVersHung ad is inactive but still there). For now we're leaving them as separate threads.

What you said there is a powerfull thought. In these days of identity consciousness and identity politics, 'identify as' has become something of a loaded term. It's usually used as a term for aggressively claiming 'an identity' or to denigrate people for wanting to claim an identity that the accuser disputes. I don't want to identify as an old man either, but that is not a way to claim that I am not one, I clearly am. Nor is it in any way analogous to someone not wanting to 'identify as gay', as a way either to evade or deny their acceptance of what they are or to avoid opprobrium. What I want to do is say it isn't central to my identity, I'll still freely admit that I am one if asked, and I'm making small allowances for it all the time, but I still don't think of myself as 'old', I'm just me. Unlike some other 'identities', I don't need to claim it, it's obvious. My politics, sexuality or religion can't be seen when you look at me, but my age is clear and your assumption about my gender and racial identity is correct. What you identify as, and what it means is nuanced, sometimes identifying is important, sometimes not, and sometimes it's irrelevant to the rest of your life. If you don't want to identify as 'an old man' you don't have to, and even if you do so, that doesn't have to affect your lived experience.

Or washed away in a flood, had their house burned down in a bushfire, or demolished in a cyclone. Truly horrible place.

Yes, it's horrible here, far too dangerous. Stay away!!!!!! (Opens bottle of delightful chilled white wine and kicks back!!)