mike carey

Oooh! Etched glassware! Faaan-cee.

Clearly a 1959 Châteauneuf du Pape. Why are you laughing?

I'd say that's a 'how long is a piece of string' question, and the answer may vary between people, and from day to day.

I didn't see the bottom of the frame to start with.

Search box at the top left of the screen in the Rent.Men version is your friend, choose San Jose. New name, same profile. Unless, of course you are 'over' him.

Moderator's Note A reminder we don't discuss escorting under the age of 18 and certainly not under the age of consent.

I'm jealous, I'd love to go to a game at Kensington Oval! Day/night games are usually the 50-over version (6-7 hours' play). The shorter games are usually in the day or the evening, although some run through the twilight. To confuse things further, there are now day/night test matches, which use a pink ball. It works under lights like the red ball, but they've managed to make them so they last long enough for the game. The white ones are fine for shorter games but become unplayable more quickly for some reason. (Unlike baseball, the changing state of the ball during the game is one of the variables that teams can take advantage of.)

Some may be, but I doubt most people here are mad at you. They are here to talk about escorts (among other things) and they will talk about people who post ads on sites like RentMen. They will share their opinions, based on what the ads say and in some cases from having met the gentlemen concerned. In this case, the comments appear to be mainly about the content of your ad. You're free to come here and rebut any comments you disagree with or think are unfair. If you want to vent about them you're free to do that. But you might find as they say you'll catch more with honey than with vinegar. So, if you engage with the conversations you may well find that you convince some people who had been sceptical to hire you. Escorts before you have done that, and won clients. But it's up to you. So, welcome to the Forum.

Another in an occasional series of posts. As one or two of you would know, cricket is classically played in games of two innings per side over several days, at the international level called tests (because they do test the teams, okay maybe that's not why but I digress). There are also two common shorter forms of the game with one innings a side, played over about three and seven hours. The shorter terms are easier for new teams to deal with but at the test level only about a dozen nations play and three, England, India and Australia, dominate. But they don't always win and those who love the game love it when another team beats one of them. That has happened twice on the sub-continent over the last few days, not just in a single test but in two three-test series. After being thrashed in their first test (in a single innings England scored more runs than Pakistan did in its two), Pakistan came back to defeat England in the second and third tests, and convincingly so. On the same day in Pune, India lost their second in the series against New Zealand. The BBC World Service has a weekly cricket podcast (called Stumped) with broadcasters from the BBC, the ABC and All India Radio. I look forward to this week's episode.

Yup. How's that for healthy!

Yes, of course, an emergency so pressing that he had to block the client's phone and RM account so he wouldn't be interrupted while he dealt with it. Makes perfect sense.

We can use our judgment there. Sometimes the city reflects a place they are visiting, sometimes it's their home base. We might merge them using the new or the old title (and hence location) and at times we might opt for a title that omits the city because the provider pops up in different places. But you're right, we can't adjust them all the time. But we have to balance the importance of having the correct city against the benefit of combining all the relatively recent discussion about the provider. That said, a lot of the accessibility of the information here depends on members posting titles that facilitate other members' identifying threads that interest them and of searching for information, we can't fix it all. So, if I could add one thing to the OP's plea, try to spell the provider's name correctly or at least consistently.

Short answer .... !

What happened to 989 down to 890?

Correct, Newbies can't post a poll or vote in them.

Viewing from afar or not so far (AU and CA), we may worry but don't have the worry of having to make a personal choice in that one. But back to actual douche bags and not the product of using one.

The privacy setting only stops other people from seeing that you viewed their profile, it doesn't stop anyone from contacting you. It's not the same as blocking. Also, it's easy enough to turn the privacy setting off, view a profile you want to be seen to have viewed, and turn it back on again. Any views you have made when privacy is off remain visible to the other party when you turn it on.

Right there, that's scientific proof!!

Thinking about recent commentary here on amending laws of consent to include the idea that it has to be freely given and can be withdrawn at any time I looked for a definition, and found this one from a Cornell U site (bear in mind this was an internet search, but to me it appears to include a good list of elements of consent:

Gents, a mod's reminder to avoid political commentary.

Well, who said comic book sound effects weren't funny?

I turns out that RM accepts Visa cards from Australia, another point of weirdness in what they are doing. I had the card on file with them, hit send on the transaction, my phone pinged with a message from my bank that the charge had been made, my RM account reflected the payment and I received an e-mail confirmation (not in RM).

We have become accustomed to assuming that Visa and Mastercard are interchangeable, if a merchant accepts one they will accept the other. Most people who use Amex are accustomed to those cards not being interchangeable with the other two, and are ready with an alternative. RM may be a one-off or it may be the start of a trend, we don't yet know. I was always a Visa person until a card with the features I wanted was a Mastercard, and now I have both, otherwise I'd be in the same boat as others here. Some merchants already differentiate between credit and debit cards, mainly when you pay deposits rather than final payments. Gift cards, even those issued by Visa and Mastercard carry their own limitations that differ from credit and debit cards (not so much of an issue here as we have the same legal requirements for identification as credit/debit cards). So far, it's only RM, which most of us can live without, but it may be the shape of things to come if regulators in the US look more closely at whether the two are colluding to exploit the market. We may be forced to consider what each type of card offers and either pick one on that basis rather than habit or 'just liking' one or the other, or of diversifying our card holdings. Lamenting that your chosen card isn't accepted somewhere won't help any more than lamenting that someone wouldn't take my Amex has helped me so far.

At last, some overdue culture in the debate!

It's easy to make incorrect deductions from limited data. One could draw the implausible conclusion from your experience that since two thirds the men who attacked you were straight, and that a far higher proportion of men are straight, that straight men are under-represented as perpetrators of sexual assault. On a separate point, saying that straight men do something does not assert that all straight men do it.