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mike carey

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  1. Is it really seven years? I guess so.
  2. I believe BoyGeorge is not an American, so he may have been asking rather than assuming it was a particular currency., But I assumed that the amount was 250 Reias. Thank you for the confirmation.
  3. I suspect in part it comes from people hearing the plural masseurs and confusing it with the singular for a different type of provider.
  4. As PK mentioned, events have been held, or contemplated, in other locations. To me, one of the things that makes this one, and DC to a lesser extent, work is that it's a location that requires a deliberate decision and a commitment to spend at least a night away from home (longer if more than one of the events is attended). It requires earlier commitment than an event in one's home city, and therefore more thought before deciding to cancel. To me, the weekend is an event, and it's in a city that provides near certainty of weather and won't overwhelm the event with other attractions or commitments for those few days. So yes, an event in the LA basin would be possible, but it I doubt it could be a substitute for the Palm Springs event.
  5. There has been some useful and thoughtful commentary in this thread, but as others have alluded to, not all of it is encouraging. People will always see a variety of things in what's presented when asked about an uncomfortable experience. Almost everyone here has been there, reflected on what went well and what did not, and drawn conclusions of their own and the other party's actions. Some of those conclusions can be uncomfortable or even challenging. When anyone poses the question here, not everyone will see it the same way, but when someone offers a raw or pained description of how they felt I think we owe them understanding and a serious explanation of how that experience could be seen, maybe differently than they did, for better or worse, not simply an endorsement of the questioner's opinions about it. We certainly don't need to denigrate anyone's opinion of how their session went down, even if we see it in ways they might not agree with. And definitely not to offer them a gratuitous character assessment over what they asked.
  6. In a heart-breading echo of the death of Australian test cricketer Phil Hughes in 2014, a young cricketer from suburban Melbourne died on Thursday after having been hit in the neck by a ball being bowled to him in the practice nets. He had been wearing a helmet but not neck flaps that have become common, and mandatory in some profession games, since Hughes' death. Ben Austin was 17. At a state-level game today in Melbourne between Victoria and Tasmania, players leant their bats, with caps balanced on the handles, against the fence of the oval while they paused on the field for a minute's silence. In Mumbai, the Australian and Indian women's teams wore black arm bands for their semi-final in the one-day world cup. Teenage cricketer dies in Melbourne after being hit by ball WWW.BBC.COM The 17-year-old was rushed to hospital on Tuesday and placed on life support but died on Thursday.
  7. I raised the question a couple of days ago with another regular attendee, and I plan to be there for that weekend. I haven't booked at InnDulge yet but was planning to do so in the coming days. If anything is arranged, even just intentions to attend with the idea of arranging meals without a formal organiser, I'm in. Some of you may have seen the post I wrote a couple of days ago in the thread suggesting a NYC meeting of escorts and/or clients. So I know that anything remotely resembling Oliver's level of organisation is a major effort, not to be undertaken lightly, and I'm in no position to help for obvious reasons.
  8. True, GDP is more like the revenue of the 'enterprise', and even attempting to compare the assessed value of a company (and market cap is but one way of assessing it, and a perhaps dubious one) with the value of production, or revenue of a country (and value of production and revenue are not necessarily the same) is a curious comparison. Is is a method for the owners of capital to inflate their value in the world and puff up their egos? My assessment of the comparison. Cute. But almost meaningless.
  9. A reception on Parliament Hill perhaps? But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
  10. British actor Prunella Scales, widely known for her role as the wife of John Clease's character, Basil, in the iconic BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died at 93. Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93 WWW.BBC.COM Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.
  11. I understand there are alternative rail transit options for Hartford. Not that I've even been there to visit anyone.
  12. Gentlemen, here's an older thread for reference. We won't combine them due to the lask of recent activity apart from @hotmusclstud's comment today.
  13. Maybe some others will too, now you've come here to clear the air. Welcome to the forum!
  14. The EIGHTEENTH innings. Are you serious?
  15. I second what @azdr0710 said. I know that @DznNYC floated this idea as a providers' function and he may want to keep it that way rather than have clients also attend. Some discussions don't need clients there (or to be blunt, may only work when they are not), but some of the things that AZDR said apply to any gathering with three or more people (or they can). My last job was in a workplace with about a score of people. Too many work lunches went south to a greater or lesser extent. Arguments about choosing from the house menu or a set meal with limited choices, whether people split the tab or paid for what they ordered, how to manage the bar tab to name a few. After a couple of dramas, I organised one where after a poll of where we would go, and some brief discussions with a few in the work hierarchy I organised the lunch with set menu, house wine and non alcoholic beverages included, other drinks order and pay separately, and split the bill. Take it or leave it. It was the smoothest we'd had in a while. As AZDR said, it needs someone to organise it, no negotiations, not a committee. Some people still complain, but more quietly, but everyone else says 'You knew what you were signing up for'. That's how Oliver's events run too. There's a reason they work.
  16. If you are going to consider opting out of facial scanning at the airport, you should perhaps consider what it is that you are avoiding. Are you avoiding giving the airline or the authorities your image, or are you avoiding using your image (rather than a paper boarding pass, or your passport or RealID) as a link to a travel or identity record that already has your image on file? If your image is already in their data base, I'm not sure that using an image of your face rather than a piece of paper to confirm that it is you when you pass through one of the hoops at the airport does anything to preserve your privacy. And before anyone objects, I totally understand the wish to avoid providing a security state with your private information. Everyone has their own tolerance level for how much information they willingly provide, so I do understand why some would avoid having their image scanned at the airport when they can.
  17. Ain't that the truth!
  18. I have yet to check out his oeuvre but thought I'd share.
  19. Welcome to the site. If you go to the home page of the site you will see a list of the separate forums we have for different subjects that people discuss here. Each of the forums in that list has a concise description of what each forum covers, usually with more detail when you navigate from the list to the forum. 'Deli' is the first one on the list and its purpose is to provide a place for the discussion of escorts and their services. You will sometimes see people here use 'Deli' to distinguish escorting from other things discussed here. Please take the time to check our Community Guidelines. There is a link at the foot of each page for future reference.
  20. As long as we don't start talking about dangling clauses!
  21. I suspect that isn't so much facial recognition software as photographing foreigners on entry (or transit) either for records or to match one's face to the one in their passport. I am photographed and finger printed as part of the US arrival process every time, and the automated passport gates everyone (including Australian citizens/residents) use on departure and entry at the Australian border require me to look into a camera. Facial recognition software more usually refers to software that scans a crowd trying to match every face in it to a person in a data base.
  22. We've merged one of those threads with this new one. Of the other two, one contains only an OP with a link to the ad, and a cross-reference to previous discussion, and the other is for BradVersHung. That thread appears to be of the same escort but we had previously declined to merge it because we weren't sure that it was the same man, and we'll allow that decision to stand. In any case there is a link to it up-thread.
  23. Too big, just too big!
  24. LOVE that!
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