mike carey

I'm glad you're back, you're still the nice guy you were back then. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers you for that!

@DomKingNYC, were you quite active on here a couple of years ago? If so, welcome back!

Who cares, what is the conversion rate to AUD? Correct answer. The rate varies e.v.e.r.y %@#* day. Look it up yourself.

À la recherche du temps perdu seems particularly appropriate both for our own remembrances of friends lost and to remember @Charlus.

I'm more inclined to answer calls from mobiles than from landlines, and started this approach when close to zero land line calls were real while a reasonable proportion of mobile ones were. It helps that caller ID here shows the town on land line calls but not on mobile (and mobiles don't have geographically linked numbers). That call I'm getting from rural Queensland or Thailand ain't gonna be someone I know, and they can text or leave a voicemail. If those are in Chinese, I know I made the right decision. And 'BigDickTop' whose profile I left a track on won't know my phone number.

Indeed, his ad now says he's LA, but when you posted four hours ago it said Sacramento, so it would appear he's an escort who makes their present location show as 'Home' on RM. I've been told it affects how they show up on the default homepage for clients in a city they are visiting. A disclaimer, it's the 14th where I am now, and if his 'home' location is set to change according to the date (if they can do that), it may still show Sacramento in the US.

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, this is great topic and one that I can relate to, even though my story is not noteworthy. As several posters have noted, religious beliefs can be a factor and saying that is fine, and something most of us understand intuitively. Going beyond that and discussing the nature of religion and debating it crosses into territory that we do not allow. Any similar forays into the type of politics affecting us in this context are also outside the bounds of what can be posted here. There has been a small number of posts that have gone too far down this track, and we have removed them. Thank you for continuing to contribute positively to this important topic.

That's an important technicality, exiting the hotel parking, that can be a chore. There are two places I use regularly, one hands you a paper ticket encoded to allow you to leave, the other has number plate recognition (and parking privileges until 2359 on the day you check out, should you need it). I've seen the system Mike speaks of in some US hotels when I've had a car there. Probably not a significant worry if you're using a hotel in, say New York City.

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No problems, you're interested in him so it's fine to ask again in a thread, or if you create a new one without realising that there already was one, for you post to remain in a combined thread about the man in question. The moderators won't always notice if there are two threads on the one person, but if they notice will often combine them if the preexisting one isn't too old.

A gentle reminder this thread is about the 'fetishising' of Mr Mangione. There is a separate thread that considers the serious issues raised in the killing of the health company CEO. Let's try to keep the topics separate from now. Gentlemen, edited to add that we've moved a few posts to the other thread.

Who knew?

And some who make random comments that add little to the conversation. Like me making this comment.

Thanks for this penetrating insight!

I second that!

Good questions. And quite separate from whether a client cares if their escort cums or not. I can see reasons for the revelation being disconcerting. Part of what some people are buying is the illusion that it's a relationship, with an accompanying illusion of exclusivity. Without the revelation it's easier for the client to maintain the illusions. Even when they know that neither is true. Knowing the reality and accepting the illusion requires holding contradictory ideas simultaneously. Being confronted with the contradiction is buzzkill? Perhaps. Building the ability to accept the reality of the experience in the moment, while also being able to ignore anything that's at odds with it, including being told explicitly that the escort is saving his cum for someone else, I'd suggest is a skill worth learning. Being able to simultaneously hold two (or more) contradictory ideas is sometimes necessary.

At least until the start of the Rounders season.

What you said, perhaps lunch at 5pm followed by the show and then dinner. What? Only McDonalds is open at that hour, you say?

I don't think there's any single, or easy answer to this. I'd say, though, that he is leaving the door open to bottoming but I wouldn't assume that 'for more money' is the determinant, and each will have his own criteria. Yes, it could be money, it could also depend on the person he's talking to and how he feels about them, or something as practically based as how big they are. So yes, if you're not into his 'more' activities, ask!

I had read it as saying that it wasn't safe to tell him, rather than flying wasn't safe because it still clearly is (recent changes to staffing arrangements in the FAA notwithstanding), but I now suspect that it was flying he was talking about. There may have been slight changes in aviation safety, but if so they are within the margin of error. I'm about to take my chances again, and I'm more concerned about the standard of in-flight service, or lack thereof.

Okay, this one is either ironic adherence to the title of the thread or just plain perverse! You choose! Snake catchers find 102 red-bellied black snakes in a backyard nest in Sydney's west - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU More than 100 venomous snakes have been captured in a backyard in Sydney's west in what snake catchers said was...

And they only agreed to a house call after you brought it into their shop and they couldn't find the fault.

The loss of de minimis exemptions will be a petty annoyance to some people (not everyone orders from Temu etc but many do) and a small cost to those affected, but it is irrelevant to the question of how to profit (or attempt to) from the effects of US or wider tariffs. The short answer is probably don't try as there is no certainty about whether they will be imposed or once imposed remain in force, and how other countries will respond. Whether the current Sturm und Drang is a precursor of a major upheaval that might threaten globalisation and change the dynamics of national and international economics is probably something that individual investors would be wise not to try to use as part of an investment strategy.