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Got any sources? To the best of my knowledge Hunqz isn't the main site in the UK (Sleepyboy seems to be more popular, though Gaydar used to be the biggest site).

I don't know why that amazes you, it makes perfect sense in light of opportunity cost. Are there, proportionately, many more people with large discretionary funds in New York than London (the two markets I have the most experience of)? Also, are you sure that there are many more ads in the US, proportionately? Which sites are you looking at? Also rents in London seem to be just as high as NY and consumer goods are generally cheaper in the US, so I'm not sure the correlation is there if discretionary spending is indeed higher in the US.

There used to be a straight bathhouse in London. I think it is gone now sadly.

Because they’re not sexually attracted to men I guess... More seriously, I’m not sure that the gay men I know are any easier to ‘understand’ or get along with than most women. Very often when women are considered to be difficult to understand it is because they are reacting to men acting unreasonably.

To me he looks as if somebody took the head off of a Kathy Griffin doll and popped it on the body of G I Joe.

It absolutely is. I am under the impression that the majority of the British public are willing to pay more for the NHS, but the Tories are more minded to privatise as much as possible to take the costs of the NHS off of the country's balance sheet. Hopefully Labour will offer credible opposition by the next general election, so we can start investing in our healthcare system properly again.

I know two pairs of Andrews. It doesn’t seem to trouble them that they share a name.

An inherent benefit of the NHS is that because it is free at the point of access, patients do not put off doctors visits for fear of cost and therefore do receive timely care. The UK spends half per capita what the US spends on healthcare, yet has similar outcomes, so the NHS could reasonably be called 'efficient'. According to the World Health Organisation fewer than 1% of patients in the UK avoid doctors visits because of concerns about costs. Compare that to the US: "Challenges affording care also result in some Americans saying they have delayed or skipped care due to costs in the past year, including 27 percent who say they have put off or postponed getting health care they needed, 23 percent who say they have skipped a recommended medical test or treatment, and 21 percent who say they have not filled a prescription for a medicine." https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/data-note-americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs/ I know plenty of doctors in the UK, mostly from my time at university, and they rarely finish their shifts on time. If you have any evidence that doctors in the UK act any differently with regard to their legal or ethical responsibilities towards their patients I would be fascinated to read it. It is perfectly feasible to sue an individual doctor or the NHS in the UK. Tort laws in the UK are different to the US, however, and available damages are substantially lower, since punitive damages are not available. That is not restricted to medical malpractice, nor does it only apply when suing a state entity. Added to that it is often less necessary to sue in the first place, since socialised medicine and welfare means that actual costs flowing from medical malpractice are lower than in the US. Given how poor your 'bet' would be about options for suing being limited because the NHS is a state run organisation I hope you aren't a gambling man.

I can’t be bothered looking them up, but I have read of studies of emergency rooms that found that there was no impact on patients from the full moon, but medical staff felt there was a difference. A good friend of mine is a nurse practitioner who swears that patients act differently during a full moon.

This is an NHS doctor, so it has little to do with the revenue stream. Rather there are a large number of latecomers and missed appointments which substantially reduce the efficiency of a system already stretched to breaking point. Some doctors are enforcing appointment times for that reason.

Which, at least in the UK, is something carried out in Accident and Emergency (ER), not doctors' surgeries.

The UK doesn't have punitive damages in tort cases, and almost all tort cases are decided by a judge (with the exception of some privacy cases). It is very unlikely that a civil case will be brought against the doctor. Had the child survived but suffered significant injuries that required care then a civil case against the NHS may have been brought by the parents, but the damages would have been limited to 'actual' damages, i.e. the financial cost of additional care for the child. It is likely that there will be an investigation by the General Medical Council into the doctor's actions, with the possibility of the doctor being barred from practice.

I do own a tux, but I haven't worn it for years because I use my kilt outfit for black tie events. I don't know if it even fits anymore.

It so happens I’ll be in NY at the end of the month/beginning of March, and I’ve been ffisting for more than ten years.

For that to even be defensible as an idea I think you would first have to demonstrate that consumers of child pornography are more likely to abuse children. A couple of German studies have suggested this is not the case. More importantly, you're likely to end up with a substantial chunk of the male population indefinitely removed from society. You would also need an island for female pedophiles, since you presumably wouldn't want to risk them having children.

Ah, I misinterpreted the '26 minutes' tag under the message on the original image. Nonetheless, I would have left within 15 minutes if I heard nothing. Not that I'm saying you're lying, but does it really take you 15 minutes to brush your teeth?

I don't know if the 15 minutes you are referring to are from the first or second appointment. If you read the messages relating to the second appointment the escort asked if he could come 'now', arrived at the door, then heard nothing for 26 minutes. I would certainly have left within that 26 minute period too.

The article mentions him: "The retro, borderline homophobic storylines are particularly surprising when one realizes that David Hyde Pierce and Dan Butler (left) are both gay in real life, and John Mahoney and Edward Hibbert [Gil] are probably gay but not out. That's the entire male cast, except for Kelsey Grammer."

Also I will always love Frasier for Harriet Sansom Harris, if nothing else. It would have benefited from more of her on screen.

For its time it wasn't terrible. The storylines involving gay men often reached for extreme stereotypes (I'm thinking particularly of Patrick Stewart's character dating Frasier and Roz's 'latent' boyfriend), but compared to contemporary sitcoms - Friends springs to mind - they were treated with some degree of sensitivity. The 'opera queen' who pursues Martin is shown to be a vulnerable human being, worthy of compassion; Alastair, the opera producer, is a successful, very openly gay man, who feels free to pursue whomever he chooses; Frasier is shown to have gay friends and acquaintances. Given that Friends' only inclusion of homosexuality was either repulsion (the three guys hated for it to be implied that they might be gay), or some odd titillation with Carol, Ross's ex-wife, Frasier approached the subject with relative sensitivity.

Continuity depends on the models of phone and iPad, of course, and it's quite feasible that this excuse was given before the feature existed. Also, I wouldn't make a call on my iPhone if the battery was below about 10% in case it couldn't draw enough power to continue charging while making the call (plus iOS is famously bad at estimating remaining battery %, so 10% could mean anything).

He owes you one too.

That would be a great public information campaign.

Googled it. Unless you have evidence the prosecutors didn't it sounds unlikely that he committed the murder.

This has only happened to me once. I didn't work out well.