mike carey

Sorry if this is a repost, but I recall in another context someone saying that 'climb through my bedroom window' was preferable to LinkedIn.

If I were at home I would, but my football team is playing at the time it's on TV here, and I'll be at the game. The ABC (our public broadcaster) has a program that analyses advertising and each week they invite two advertising agencies to create an ad to sell an unlikely proposition, and the panel votes for their favourite. Tonight's episode invited them to pitch boycotting the royal wedding. This is one of the ads (the other is more about the role of the monarchy here, but it's in the link below). Other ads created for this segment of the program are here: https://www.youtube.com/user/GruenHQ/videos

Bon anniversaire!

I realise it has a special place at thanksgiving but that doesn't make roast poultry (even with an American bird) a uniquely American cuisine.

Fried chicken probably qualifies but roast turkey is just roast meat.

Up until the legalisation of equal marriage, Australian law mandated that the words said had to include the statement that marriage was between one man and one woman entered into for life. The validity of a marriage under civil law and whatever a religious group deems necessary are different things. Here, the state confers religious celebrants the authority to conduct marriages recognised under civil law.

Mike and Tristan are both worthy claimants.

I studied Chinese at university. It would not have been a good look not to be able to use them. (You can got away with using them as a shovel to push food into your mouth, but you know you have the knack if you can pick up something like a peanut!)

Here's an interview of André Aciman speaking about his latest book, Enigma Variations, and CMBYN. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/andre-aciman:-love,-desire-and-enigma-variations/9740132

What do you count as 'work'?

You're not out of line asking but you are if you expect him to agree. Some escorts will have dinner off the clock after an appointment, others will not, or will strike a different rate where dinner is part of the overall meeting. Just remember you are paying for his time regardless of what you do in that time. There are some clients here whose standard approach is to describe the whole meeting they wish to have, which may include a meal, and ask the escort for his price.

Thank you for the nod in the title to those of us for whom 'hockey' means astro-turf (or grass), a ball and the summer Olympics!

The thread is about terms or expressions that people hate, not necessarily that are wrong. 'Concerning' generally means 'about', not of concern (i.e. worry). While I'm not disconcerted by 'this is concerning to me' I wouldn't use it, I'd use 'of concern'.

^ I added a link to Dan's article.

My reading of the situation ... Involuntarily celibate is one of two things, unable to meet a suitable partner and reconciled to it, and unable to get laid and blaming the entire world for their inability to do so. This mob of losers, the 'incels' are entitled misogynists who think they own women and blame them (and those men who are successful in meeting women) for their own inability to find a partner and think it is some global conspiracy. They wouldn't hire because they think they are entitled to it free, and as Dan Savage noted in his article about it, why should female sex workers be expected to be the buffer between society and these dysfunctional and likely violent men. The first type of people unable to find a partner could and would hire if they could overcome their embarrassment and fears to do so. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/25/26093525/on-sexual-deprivation-sex-workers-incels-and-violence

Bon anniversaire, Pensant!

Yup.

Theoretically, you are a physicist.

He hasn't logged into the forum since 20 Apr. I chatted with him on WhatsApp a couple of hours ago in London. You could try sending him a text on that app.

As I understand it oils and latex don't mix, but IIRC silicon lubes and latex are not a problem.

Am I alone in finding this whole conversation distasteful? Given the range of escorts and how much of their time they devote to this activity 'averages' are pretty meaningless. Why do those of us who are not escorts even care? This conversation tends towards disparagement of escorts and assuming that they do not declare their income to the relevant authorities. Assumptions about hourly rates, and how often they see clients are not useful. Guys see different numbers of clients, for different length appointments, some have other business pursuits. I would suggest, that as clients we judge escorts on the experience they deliver and don't even think about their business model.

@WhiteguynextdoorHugeCock you speak to many dreams in this forum, I can neither confirm not deny my thoughts. Good luck!

For clarity, in the absence of any other context, 'tomato sauce' in Australia means ketchup. (The type of sauce you put on pizza or pasta would also be called tomato sauce, it that's what it is, but it would need the specific context to make it clear that that was the sort of tomato sauce you were talking about.)

The one I remember is, 'A piece of tin, a piece of board, and oh my gawd, you've got a Ford'.

One more reason to make sure that I'm at the 2019 Palm Springs meeting! Woohoo!