mike carey

Yes, I realised that. I was commenting in general not passing judgment on you or the person who had posted the original item.

Yes, but it was a week ago.

The details of the events are sent to participants as they are determined. The organisers will ask for email addresses to do that. It all works seamlessly. And it's not Easter weekend. Easter Day is 1 April.

@rvwnsd an educated and open gay community as opposed to a closeted and less informed one, perhaps?

But above all else, don't make assumptions. Find a guy, see him, if you want to top him and can't he won't make a scene, he will work out something else to do. If it's just nerves and not ED, he'll help you make it happen. Don't stress. They have seen it all before.

@Bigginuc if you are a confirmed top or bottom, look for escorts who are compatible. Ask here about ones you fancy. Check for reviews in the related site ('Reviews' top left of the screen) or threads about them. Most can deal with us older folk, are happy to do so, and do it with aplomb. I've met guys who post here, and I've read enough to know that there are others, who I have chatted to, who would do admirably. It doesn't take long to get an idea of who's who. Go for it.

Oh, I understand that completely, I was commenting, not judging. Some guys can take a few tricks on vacation, some just want to go in complete vacation mode. I can understand both. If you buy separate tickets to LAX or SFO and then from there to an overseas destination, you have to be sure you have plenty of time between the two flights. I'd say have a couple of days' stop to be safe (for an escort it could be a working stopover). Booking the whole itinerary on a single ticket means that it is the airline's job to ensure your connections work, and you can check your baggage through. A travel agent may be a good idea if you want to go to more than one city overseas on your trip as packaging long-haul and domestic flights can be cheaper. You do need a visa for Australia, but it's an electronic travel authority that you apply for and receive on-line for about $20. (Same as we need for the US.)

I would be inclined to lend someone non-specific luggage if they needed it (although I struggle to understand why they would not have their own) but I would be disinclined to lend something when their reason for wanting it is the cachet it has, like LV.

There are health reasons for staying away from there, but my understanding is that Hep C is only transmitted by blood-to-blood contact, so perhaps it should not be one of the reasons.

Yes I realise Victor may be constrained, either in the time he has or physically, but being in the same postcode is a start. Australian readers of the forum have the choice to wait for Victor or any other US provider to come here, or get their arses on a plane and go to the US and meet them or hire them (or both). From what I've seen, some escorts want to take international trips as combined vacation/working trips, others see them as only working trips. And I agree that air fares to Australia can be insane. There is limited competition on routes there. Doing a random search about a month out from now showed fares of $AU1200 RT from LAX to SYD, but that's picking a date rather than looking for alerts for advertised fares that you may not be able to find for the dates you try to book ($1200 is about $US900, it's just the aggregator I use quotes fares in AUD, and Australian consumer law prohibits omitting taxes and extras from quoted prices so the quotes may not be strictly comparable). The exact amount isn't the point though, the point is that there are relatively cheap fares out there if you look. Of course if you always fly with a particular airline because you have lounge access and the like, it may be harder to find a cheap fare.

Lol, thanks. I intend to go to Palm Springs for the meet-up next April (it's still an intention rather than a plan, but still), and @VictorPowers will be there.

Lol, that was how it seemed to me as well, he was just doing as he was told. I don't play that down at all. As partners they can do what they like. My thoughts about the whole deal relate to you two, not the other protagonists. Just let me lie down while you take advantage of me!!

Oh dear, @TylerandAce talk about fucking a guy (whether his wife/gf is there is a side issue) when I can't be there! Love you guys!

No disagreement here, and that is part of what makes you so likable!

Oh dear, did I reveal my phone number too soon?

You know I love you!! As I've said before, I think it's my job to get to where an escort I want to meet is, so I wouldn't have flown you to Australia. And if you were here there's no fucking way I'd be cancelling!!

The chances that a regular client would decide to ditch you and do so by setting up an appointment and then flaking are low. It's more likely that there would be a good reason a regular was a no-show (I would have thought). Still, you never know. Why anyone, regular or not, would do that to you, I don't know. But I'm not 'anyone'.

I can understand that the word is used in relation to people who are gay but hypocritically advocate for homophobic causes. That said, I can't agree that it doesn't have a wider meaning of public disclosure that a person is gay (whether they are or not) in a way that may harm them. For example, outing a gay teenager to their parents, school or church. I don't think that a politically focused definition of the word can disallow a wider use outside that sphere, or even disallow that wider use in circumstances where the 'outing' is politically charged.

You're playing with fire there, and would be with that other perennial, split infinitives. Shakespeare did both, so it's not a recent 'decline'. And just for stamps they are invented rules. They are not part of English grammar. They are constructions that are not possible in Latin, so grammatical prescriptivists decided that they should not be allowed in English. They are affectations up with which we should not have to put. Even though CM Punk used alright, I think he's all right. And as others have said, after he's finished critiquing my grammar I'm sure there are other things we could move on to. I mean to which we could move on. (On being an adverb in this case.)

I hate you, I just spent half an hour watching his vids.

Indo-European refers to languages not race.

Yes I realise that the speed limit happened at a different time, and I was sure about the timing of the drinking age change, I was just unsure whether I had misattributed the reason for the latter.

In Hawaii it was 1 Oct 1986, the day I arrived there on my exchange job with the USAF. As I recall the federal government made having the drinking age at 21 a condition for highway funding. Or perhaps that was lowering speed limits to 55mph.

You're a gentleman, @VictorPowers!

@Eric Hassan Deep! I can't escape 'He has a fine smelling butt hole'!