mike carey

And now this, an aww shucks moment. The first legal same-sex weddings were to be at the end of the 30 day notice period on 9 Jan. A couple in Melbourne have applied for and been granted a waiver of the notice period and will be married next Thursday. They had arranged their wedding eight months ago, and like quite a few couples were having the ceremony and all the related celebrations to be done without the legal part. (They intended to do the legals if and when same sex marriage was legalised.) They had guests coming from overseas, and had arranged it for December so family could stay for Christmas and importantly so one of the bride's English family could go to the cricket test between England and Australia starting on Boxing Day. (In a follow up to the radio story, apparently two other waivers have been granted.)

I'm not annoyed in the slightest. I can see a reason to be annoyed if the aim of such research were to establish blame, but I don't see it that way. To some extent whether it's true or not is immaterial. We exist whether that can be explained or not. Even if a correlation could be found, we will never know if it's a random effect or something that has an evolutionary purpose. You could theorise that in a pack species like ours, having later offspring, especially males, uninterested in sex with females provides more individuals to contribute to the livelihood of the pack, but that's something that could never be proven. In any case, the sample in this thread demonstrates that the correlation is weak, much less any causal relationship.

Be still, my beating heart!

Ah, but in the tradition of Shakespeare's Macduff, I was not 'of woman born' so I suspect that makes a difference.

I'm the eldest of three. I'm gay, my sister (2) is gay, and my brother (3) was straight as.

Men wandering where they shouldn't. Who knew?

Many people think LOL means 'lots of love'.

Quite so, that allows people to pay with cash if that's what they want to do. The advantage of the Australia Post system is that you can go in there with a pile of bills, they scan them, you hand over your money (you can use credit cards or a cheque too) and it's done, you don't have to post anything off.

Interesting perspective. It does however, raise the interesting point that a client's friend link with an escort says nothing more than that the two of them know each other. It doesn't say how or why they know each other.

Hey Victor, hope the discussion here helps you, and doesn't detract from what you are doing.

Here, Australia Post provides a bill payment facility for a wide range of utilities and similar billers. You can take your bills into the post office and pay with cash (or cheque or credit card). Is there such a system in the US?

I think you've missed the point. What Russ was saying, and what his twee video attempted to portray was that the idea of the Alpha male as a cultural and biological inevitability is nonsense. The idea of an assertive, dominant, entitled male who thinks he runs the world is very much alive, but that's not the same thing. Oh, and Russ can be as alpha as he likes, whether that is a thing or not.

Interesting. I had expected (I won't say assumed) that it would take a little longer than that. And I don't mean for you in particular, just as a general case.

Good to see you on here again, Rico.

To clarify, that was to the review site, not the forum. Of late Daddy has been reporting on his progress at upgrades and rewrites of site software. That would be taking up a lot of his time, so I suspect that is why he hasn't been looking for articles to which to post links. The page is still there every day, it's just that its content has been pared back.

In situations like this, I think it is unhelpful to quote what someone says and challenge them on it, as it denies them the opportunity to recast their words. By all means challenge them, but including referenced text is not necessary. Once in here, I said something regrettable and decided to delete it, but before I had done so someone quoted the whole passage and said it was a shitty thing to say. I edited what I said, but my challenger had ensured that the original remained on record. In this sort of industry of course people should declare their income for tax, but claiming expenses is problematic, so it would be understandable if net income were declared rather than declare the gross income and run the risk of a censorious IRS agent disallowing valid business expenses.

Yep, twee AF. Thanks, @Russ.

https://m4m-forum.org/threads/working-at-palm-springs-weekend-2018.131219/

Happy birthday, have a great day. I love the humanity of everything you post and the dose of real life that you have brought us. I look forward to the next instalment whenever that is!

Ministers of religion are automatically accredited as celebrants, so after the church ceremony they go into the vestry and sign the state paperwork. Churches are exempt from having to perform same sex marriages although some of them, the Uniting Church for example, are considering doing so. There are probably churches who have already decided to do so, it just hasn't been discussed anywhere I've seen.

Also, it's dangerous to buy in the 'irrational exuberance' phase of something that could be a bubble, and that's where bitcoin is now. If you hold them, by all means keep some, but sell say half and take the profits rather than risk losing it all if the bubble bursts. If you're happy to lose the lot, by all means keep 'em all.

Births, Deaths and Marriage registries around Australia (they are state, not Federal offices) amended their web sites with the new forms* and rostered on extra staff on Saturday. It was one of their busier days. Couples hoping to be married in January may end up being frustrated, there may not be enough celebrants available. The ACT will waive its normal fees for couples who were married under its ill-fated marriage laws in 2013. and for those in civil partnerships. Kim Davis was not seen anywhere. *The old forms had two columns for the people to by married, the first one for the groom and the second for the bride. The new ones have two columns (no polygamy here) both of which have check boxes for groom, bride or partner. So, subversively, opposite sex couples no longer have to list the groom first.

The Australian Ambassador to France proposes to his partner, perhaps too publicly. Perhaps not!

You could rent a room in a seedy hotel and arrange to meet him there. I understand there is such a thing in NYC. Or hell, book a nice hotel!!

That's cool. It is fun: social, friendly, low-key and no pressure.