mike carey

Danny is one of a kind (and kind he is). It's always great to see him. To the wider point, to be sure it seems too often that there is a lack of grace in chat and other forums, but both there and in our quotidian lives we take so much for granted and so rarely take time to pause and count our blessings, particularly the blessing we have in knowing those we hold dear.

Yes.

You did say they were for the arrivistes. But yes, I can hear it too.

The OP has spoken!

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, please bear in mind that this thread is about The Sharok. While inital comments last year drawing parallels with others who had apparent preferences for twinks were okay, continuing general commentary on any of those others is off topic, especially given subsequent developments affecting at least one. We have removed some comments that went down that path. Please stick to the topic at hand.

I agree it's more likely regulatory approval, not the delivery structure.

Being a shit stirrer is a good thing. I realise it's more an AU NZ UK sort of slang. But then, I left out the 'grin'.

Oh my god, NYCMan is a shit stirrer? Who knew??

His fame was always in certain circles, and I think his infamy is mainly in those same circles. But 'infamous' is certainly an apt description now.

We can be a welcoming group here, so allow me to add my welcome back to you @StopItHurts!

If that had been the question, yes, but the question was how would someone lean towards bottoming, It did invite a humorous reply, such as '37 degrees to the left with one arm in the air'. And no one was attempting to rule over you or over-rule you, 'honey'. They had the right to say what they liked about what you said, just as you did about what someone else had said (as long as both were within the forum guidelines on not abusing them or going off-topic). Old and bitter perhaps, but even the old and bitter recognise humour. When it is there, and when it is not. And they know when to laugh politely when someone else says something they think is funny and when not to bother.

👆 All true BUT (and not to veer too far away from our 'morbid' conversation) English borrowed the vocabulary but not the grammar and in that we tend to hew to the Norse rather than the more complex Germanic version. Our vocabulary tends to use Latin- and Greek-based words for complex things (and the 'arty' and for a fancy way of saying things) but use Germanic words for simpler and more visceral (and Germanic for the animal and French for the meat - those at court didn't want to know what a deer was (except when they went on a hunt), they only cared for the venison on their plate), and for our pronouns, articles (the, a) and basic verbs (to be, to have), and numbers, although some really simple things are similar across the board as they are derived from the Indo-European root words. False friends can result from a coincidence, and also from the meaning in one or both language diverging from a shared source word in different ways. That happens often enough in formal use of the word, the potential for idiom to diverge even further is immense.

It's the same disease, the name was changed. 'Monkeypox' implied incorrectly that monkeys were the principal wild reservoir of the virus. In that respect it differs from avian influenza and 'swine flu'.

I think I know @Charlie well enough to be sure that he had not drawn any such inference from his observation. 'Most of the gay men in my street' is a group who are likely to have socialised (coincidentally) at a time when at least one of them was infectious. Maybe at one time, or maybe serial infections. None of them happened to socialise with any of the straight people? Gosh, how could that happen?

Gentlemen, a reminder to stay on the topic of XL (whether the escort or the digraph) and not venture into comments about other providers or into other speculative asides.

Probably not, but then we would not have had the benefit of @Vegas_Millennial's educational intervention.

Bank term deposits in Australia are still available at 4.8% to about 5.1% for terms from about six to twelve months (all taxable). My bank's transaction account is paying 4.75% and I have a 'bonus' savings account that pays 5.15% (reduced to about 2% for any month I make a withdrawal or don't deposit $100) so there's little advantage in taking out a term deposit. Unlike the US Federal Reserve, the RBA is saying it doesn't expect to cut the cash rate until early next year, so maybe then it will be worth looking at term deposits but not just now.

It would be helpful if you mentioned the city, or at least region that you are in, or if you're prepared to travel for the right guy. Edit to add, we've merged this new thread with several others asking the same question.

*Searches ASMR disambiguation*

Would it be churlish to agree? I won't quote FU again.

I'm glad you were prepared to go there, I considered it and demurred!

Russ' ad is active and 'Gold', with some new photos, and he lists a two-day trip to Los Angeles this weekend. https://rent.men/Russ_NYC

To repurpose my favourite quotation from the original House of Cards, 'You may well say that, I couldn't possibly comment.'

Welcome to the forum. You're a class act, and in one post you set an example of how to make the best use of an unfortunate incident.

Which is somewhat ironic, as the word is derived from an Asian word for a sauce, that when it (the word) came into contact with English referred primarily to spicy savoury sauces. The nearest commonly known such sauce is kecap manis (Indonesian/Malay sweet soy sauce - kecap [pronounced ketch-ap, stress on the first syllable] is the shared spelling now although it used to be spelt ketjap in Indonesian, tj being the way the sound ch is written in Dutch). You'll see some brands of ketchup on Australian supermarket shelves, and although it is universally called tomato sauce in common usage, everyone will understand the K word.