mike carey

As a rule of thumb if an airline sells you a connecting flight, especially through their home base the connection should be fine, and CX does heaps of HKG connections. I can't speak specifically to Chek Lap Kok, but some airports do have security checks for connecting pax, but not all. Sydney does. Like Curious, I've had airline staff assist with a tight connection. Mine was domestic to international terminals on QF connecting flights in Melbourne. No buggy, it was a walk but they knew exactly where to go, and that helped the half dozen affected pax. (I even had time to go to the QF1 lounge.) Most likely you'll be fine, and being CX the agents at the connecting flight will be aware there are pax (well at least one) from your flight if it's delayed. You shouldn't have any problems.

... more than necessary.

No problems @Gar1eth, I quoted Peter's question and your reply to bring that whole discussion together with my explanation of what I'd done. Plenty of people say things in these pages that help to explain how the whole thing works, including earlier posts here, not just the mods. Every piece of advice helps!

Supermarkets in Australia put hot cross buns on sale on Boxing Day. Normal people only sell them for about the month before Easter. But the ones in the supermarkets must sell as they haven't stopped selling them despite curmudgeons in the papers and on social media complaining (as they scoff the ones they bought).

Okay, although the thread started as one citing his Rentmasseur ad, since then, the discussion has widened to talking about him as an escort (as well as a masseur). In addition, there is an earlier Massage thread (https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/157614-411-on-rikos-from-toronto-visiting-la/#comment-2402460) unfortunately with few comments to date, where massage-related comments can be made. So, there is really no need to either delete or move this thread. MC Mod

Don't be surprised if they do not take you up on this suggestion!

The more so when they are smart.

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I've found that holding one's breath has a higher success rate in stopping unwanted comments in the forum, but back to talking about personality changes, not about each other (unless we are the ones having said changes).

There is an apocryphal story of a new hire at IBM making a mistake that cost the firm $1m. When he said to his manager that he expected to be fired for it, the manager's reply was allegedly, 'Why would I fire you when I've just spent a million bucks training you?'

Again, mentioned earlier.

He was mentioned in a more general London thread a couple of days ago.

But I'm perfect, why should I reflect? /s/

Haha, this Australian read it without a second thought. Torch is THE word for what some call a flashlight.

@sam.fitzpatrick, I saw it last night and echo your assessments. I'm not one for a finer analysis of all aspects of a performance, I'm more a 'like/dislike' sort of critic. I'll leave that to you, B and others. I thought that the blending of real sets with projections into the background worked well, and liked the Moorish character of the columns in some scenes. Whether that was a conscious to portray the 'exotic' of the potion and its purveyor, I can't say but it had that effect. The show was spectacular and fun, but a reminder that eternal life might not be all the fun it first seems to be.

Language inflation is a thing in the US (and elsewhere, of course) that is pervasive when people are offering assessments of many things, not just escorts and masseurs. Four out of five in a restaurant review? Heaven forfend! I can remember over 30 years ago as a foreigner working with the US armed forces, anything other than a maximum 9 score in any of the many questions on an annual report was seen as a kiss of death. There was even a perception that different superlative words had a ranking of which were the best superlatives to use or what each of them actually meant! Yes, everything being amazing means that nothing really is, but consider the alternative of saying that something was 'good' or 'very good'. It might well prompt the question of what was wrong with them that you only say they were 'good'. You can't win

Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1977. One Pan Am and one KLM. I had to look up the 1977 part.

You perhaps should stop confusing the issue with facts.

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The question posed is not so much about the value or otherwise of CoM to escorts, few of them know about it, fewer engage. Rather it is one for those who are here. The fact that some attend the Palm Springs weekend on their own dime suggests the site has some value, and that others engage more widely than to burnish or defend their reputations adds to that impression. I know I've buddy listed guys on RM based on their interactions here, I doubt I'm the only one. Others I've seen on RM and buddy listed them after meeting them here. That's not enough data to answer the question, but it's not nothing.

I thought I'd just post this photo I took from the terminal at Sydney airport when I was waiting for my flight on Tuesday.

Cross posted with the Friday Funnies thread.

AI tells me that:

I just read a Facebook post from Sydney Airport that from 9 Apr American Airlines and CBP have begun a trial of allowing inbound passengers from Sydney with onward connections in the US to skip collecting their checked bags at LAX to clear customs, and then dropping them off again after doing so. The post doesn't go into details (and I guess I could google them) but it sounds like they are doing what happens to international visitors who transit through Canadian airports (YVR being the main one for Australians) en route to the US. I assume that passengers will still clear both customs and immigration at LAX but sans bags. The trial will only apply to flights on AA metal, so just AA72. It's good to see, it will be one less thing to do, but customs was always the quicker part of the clearance process at LAX. Of course, I flew that route on AA on 8 April.