mike carey

Maybe you just stay at really nice Motel 6’s and really shitty Four Seasons.
Who knows?
We’re aloud to have different opinions.

I think different standards for men and women is fine. There’s a different power dynamic between men and women than exists between men and men. I’d expect a man in receipt of an unwanted grope to feel much more able to reject it confidently than a woman in receipt of an unwanted male grope. Therefore one must proceed much more carefully and courteously in groping a woman. Also any grope is unwanted by definition, it’s a grope. If it was wanted it would be called a caress or a stroke and likely will have been given by someone who the receiver finds attractive. The same touch by someone the receiver finds unattractive is a grope. The former leads to an intimate relationship the latter leads to a slap or a conviction at worst. 
I recall being at a sex party. I was on a bed in a large group of people. One wore a wristband to indicate whether you were top, bottom or vers. Within the group it wasn’t always easy to identify which body part belonged to which wristbanded wrist. Occasionally a total top might risk being penetrated (This is the advantage of being vers I think 🙂). At one point someone shrieked and withdrew themselves indignantly from the mass of bodies saying they’d been assaulted. The host asked them what happened and he pointed to a guy and said the guy had tried to penetrate him and it was unwanted. The ‘victim’ had a top wristband on. The host basically said to the ‘victim’ to get real - you’re naked at a sex party with a dozen other naked guys on a bed. What do you expect? 
 

Don't liking it implies consent? There is no assault if there is consent. Rather than assault, it would be a forward seeing move.

Her late Majesty had the benefit of a childhood that Charles, William and George could never have. Not the seclusion and privilege that wealth afforded, they all share that, or shared, even though the weight of that privilege has lifted somewhat. Until she was 10 years old, her future was that of a minor princess with a life that promised comfort and the freedom to do much as she wished. At 10 her life suddenly changed to presage the one she became destined to live, she became the heir apparent and had to prepare for a different life to the one she may have thought awaited her. Her heirs were destined to the future they now have from the moment they were born.
For many years, Charles knew, or at least hoped, that his reign was in the distant future so was able to combine his preparation for it with the freedom to develop his own ideas and values. As his time approached he adjusted to the strictures that would then face, one which he now seems to have grown into and carried out with a sense of duty.
Willaim and Harry grew up with different futures, roles that came to be confirmed when William and Catherine had children, William the duty that he would assume, tempered by the years he has and would have before that time came, and Harry with the relative freedom that Elizabeth had in her early years. That has shaped the men that they today are. If the unthinkable happened and he were to ascend to the throne, from a distance I can see a man who would understand the new weight of his position and be able to meet its demands.

Ironically, the major Commonwealth  countries have as difficult a time to amend their constitutions as the US does. Perhaps for different US reasons as the US has a history of amending their constitution since the republic was founded. But today it seems any amendment such as to the Electoral College would appear remote. 
Getting back to Prince Harry his chances of ever mounting the throne are equally remote. 

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. Requiescat in pace.
nytimes.com
WWW.NYTIMES.COM Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

Australia doesn't have the sort of constitutional issues that Canada has in Québec, but it does have a similar degree of difficulty in changing its constitution, as demonstrated in our 1999 referendum on becoming a republic. Constitutional change can only be achieved by referendum, and the record of success since federation is dismal. We need a majority vote across the country, and a majority in a majority of states (ie at leas four of the six). The future of our monarchy is secure, I believe, whoever is on the throne.

Her late Majesty had the benefit of a childhood that Charles, William and George could never have. Not the seclusion and privilege that wealth afforded, they all share that, or shared, even though the weight of that privilege has lifted somewhat. Until she was 10 years old, her future was that of a minor princess with a life that promised comfort and the freedom to do much as she wished. At 10 her life suddenly changed to presage the one she became destined to live, she became the heir apparent and had to prepare for a different life to the one she may have thought awaited her. Her heirs were destined to the future they now have from the moment they were born.
For many years, Charles knew, or at least hoped, that his reign was in the distant future so was able to combine his preparation for it with the freedom to develop his own ideas and values. As his time approached he adjusted to the strictures that would then face, one which he now seems to have grown into and carried out with a sense of duty.
Willaim and Harry grew up with different futures, roles that came to be confirmed when William and Catherine had children, William the duty that he would assume, tempered by the years he has and would have before that time came, and Harry with the relative freedom that Elizabeth had in her early years. That has shaped the men that they today are. If the unthinkable happened and he were to ascend to the throne, from a distance I can see a man who would understand the new weight of his position and be able to meet its demands.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. Requiescat in pace.
nytimes.com
WWW.NYTIMES.COM Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

My dear Oliver, I'm so happy to see you here, still hale and hearty, have the happiest birthday, you deserve the joy from your family and friends.
It's an honour to serve as your representative in my unusual way.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. Requiescat in pace.
nytimes.com
WWW.NYTIMES.COM Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. Requiescat in pace.
nytimes.com
WWW.NYTIMES.COM Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

… who decided to not enter the den in spite of “open sesame” magically working. 

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. Requiescat in pace.
nytimes.com
WWW.NYTIMES.COM Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

Maybe the 40 thieves got him? Oh, wait, he's Ali Gator.

If only it were limited to healthcare….

I would take it as a compliment...would only get pissed off if he persisted after I told him "no"