mike carey

Yes, I'd noticed!

I'm watching the fireworks over Sydney Harbour Bridge (and the rest of the harbour), glass of a nice red in hand. A happy and prosperous new year to all, may it bring everything you wished for yourselves and those dear to you.

Moderator's Notice Gentlemen, we've gone down something of a rabbit warren about relative safety, and hinting, not always obliquely, towards political explanations of it. Stick to possible reasons for people leaving, don't debate them, perhaps except to say you wouldn't move on that basis. Different people have different perceptions of risks and different risk tolerance levels. Stick to the core topic.

... And having seen this last week, I opened a recipe on the internet, and lo and behold it suggested adding some parmesan rind to the soup for the umami. The recipe also has soy sauce, more umami. I'd also consider including ginger, a centimetre or two of ginger root, not the powdered type. Access to this page has been denied. WWW.THEKITCHN.COM

I see what you did there!

Nice to see you back, Travis, after your engaging first post last year. You haven't lost your flare for writing. (Nice profile, btw.)

Ladies and Gentlemen, This thread is about a quite specific topic, how to deal with a situation where an escort cannot achieve an erection. It is not about any escort's business model, so discussion of that or anything else that is not relevant to the topic of the thread stops now. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and your cooperation from now on.

Seems the answer is, 'It's complicated'!

I will indeed Indulge myself next April.

TBF, by 'Near Travel', they could mean, 'I'm near, so you can travel.'

G'day @Britguy and welcome to the forum. You'll get a lot of advice here, mainly good. If you search the site (top right of the page, make sure you select 'Everywhere' in the drop down at the right of the search box) you'll find other threads with advice for new hirers, mostly it will be in the Questions About Hiring forum. You're asking about London, and the advice will be slighty different because of the different legal status of hiring from that in the US. I would suggest you take note of what @Jamie21 says. As has already happened, people may offer specific hiring suggestions for London. With that in mind, I've moved the thread to the Europe forum so that your thread doesn't fade into a general advice discussion rather than being focussed on advice relevant to the UK. Happy searching. To completion, as you put it.

I've edited it for you. You could have edited it but the process, while simple, isn't intuitive. To do it, you click on the three dots at the top right of the first comment (not in the title), the one you posted to start the thread, and select 'Edit'. That enables you, as the originator of the thread, to edit both the opening comment and the title. If you want to see how it works, you can go through the opening parts of the process, then close it without changing anything. Hope this helps.

This was a concept I had thought about yesterday reading this thread, and was considering how to put it in words. But the nub of my 'analysis' (to use a pretentious word for what I was thinking) was not that your final sentence was the answer, but rather that it was one way this could play out. How a couple who both worked in this industry would treat any link between clients and each of them as providers would depend on the depth of their relationship. It is certainly possible that 'jealousy' or rather competition between them for clients could exist. If they were partners more of convenience, or not yet sure of the depth or permanence of their relationship to each other, if they had separate finances with only sufficient sharing for the day to day running of their household, then competition for clients would not be surprising. At the other end of the spectrum, if they saw their work as a shared enterprise where they each had marketable attributes that might appeal to different clients, but whoever the client chose would still contribute to their shared enterprise, I can image they might be perfectly relaxed as to whom the client chose. In between those two scenarios there are those with degrees to which they see their businesses as complementary, competing to some extent, but where it is not a zero-sum game. Any couple who both escort will have their own place on this spectrum and we, as clients will not necessarily be aware of how the personnal dynamics of their relationship work. But we should not make assumptions, or judge them by their reactions. They are entitled to run their businesses and their relationships as they see fit. But we are entitled to respect, whatever they choose, and if there is drama in how their businesses and relationships intersect we don't need to be drawn into it.

This is Cooking 101. Complexity is flavour in soups and casseroles. Starting with stocks made from meat and vegetable scraps, bones, meat trimmings, bacon rind; adding things with intense flavours, like anchovies, that many find unpalatable on their own but blend and disappear into dishes, giving them an intensity they wouldn't otherwise have. Some dishes shine in their simplicity, soups like these crave the opposite.

Agent provocateur!

Why would you think that? He had reviews going back some time, and they had positive descriptions. More likely he has changed his name or taken his ad down for a break, either short term or permanent.

A happy and joyful Christmas and holiday season to all! It's lunch time on Christmas Day here, I'm doing nothing special but have a nice Pinot to open later with my dinner. In the mean time it's 23 degrees in Canberra under a clear blue sky, cooler than the 28 that was predicted but there's still time for that to change. When I worked in Hawai'i, a work colleague commented to me how weird it was to have hot weather at Christmas. I tilted my head with a confused look on my face and said, 'Not really'. Hauʻoli Kalikimaka!

They're actually the two Sides of the same Coin. Personal Disdain doesn't prevent [in these Cases political] Agreement and Coöperation, and political Disagreement doesn't preclude personal Respect, Admiration and Amity.

@SamRockdale is a forum member and has commented here on his services. He has been discussed further in that thread. I can understand people adding Austin to their travel itineraries, perhaps to be 'put in [their] place'.

So cooperation in the public sphere based on principles rather than perceived personal relationships? Interesting concept.

Some would opine that those professions were ever deserving of that fate.

Wesołych Świąt! Joyeux noël. Selamat natal.

Finally, here's how to tell if a photo is Al generated! Look closely at the 4 objects circled in red (via FB).