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Epigonos

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  1. Anybody have any information on this guy. Frankly, I find him hotter than hell: https://rentmen.eu/Andres_redito
  2. I have reached an age (not that I haven't always lived as I'm about to say) where I absolutely refuse to eat healthy. My great niece is a vegan and whenever she comes to my place for dinner she brings her own food which, to make her happy, I always try - everything I have tried is either tasteless or awful. I eat as much red meat as I want and I don't always grill it. I love Mexican "milanesa" which is fried and I don't hesitate to prepare it. I love thinly sliced fried potatoes and I eat them whenever the mood strikes. I love most vegetables but I make a point of NEVER buying organic ones - I find them expensive for an inferior product. I love mixed green salads with "gallons" of homemade dressing. I don't have celiac so I am definitely not gluten free. On the 24th of next month I will be 78. My diet hasn't killed me thus far and at this point in my life I'm not about to change it.
  3. Breakfast: Two small patty sausages, one scrambled eggs, and black coffee Lunch: Half of a tuna sandwich, a dill pickle, and water. Dinner: Two small grilled lamb chops, a small roasted red potato, a small salad, and water. I cook even for just myself. I can't remember the last time I did take-out and I don't use canned foods or soups.
  4. The are three Sean Cody models/performers listed with the name Brandon. One is African American and the other two do NO NOT look remotely like this guy.
  5. TheOtherGuy you are absolutely correct. But it is such a total, absolute, complete, turnoff to me that I sometimes forget (old age) that it can be an effective sales ploy.
  6. Would someone please explain to me why the "dumb shit" would post photo #10 (showing him fucking a woman) on a site that deals primarily with gay men.
  7. Happy Birthday. I'll buy you a lots of drinks to celebrate in Puerto Vallarta.
  8. The American public has repeatedly refused to accept the metric system, a one dollar coin, and Celsius thus if anybody thinks they are going to accept a new calendar, think again.
  9. He is indeed cute but unfortunately when he is in San Francisco I'll be in France. Maybe next time.
  10. MikeThomas I am totally envious. Will be anxious to hear how it goes.
  11. I was in London a year ago but only for a day. Unfortunately he was out of town at that time and thus we were unable to arrange a meeting. In his communications he comes off as very nice and accommodating. He occasionally travels to New York but unfortunately for me not to the West Coast. If we were ever in the same place at the same time I'd get together with him in a heart beat.
  12. I know this will appear to be coming out of the blue. I'm one of those people who frequently complains about political correctness today. Yet somehow I am uncomfortable referring to attractive African American males as hot chocolate. It just has something of a racists ring to me.
  13. Nynakedtop in certainly correct when he states that outstanding teachers who love teaching are not only engaged in their students’ academic education but are also “engaged with their social and emotional learning development”. One thing, however, must be kept in mind; people who have taught for a considerable number of years have been engaged with a very large numbers of students. I averaged about 165 students a year and having taught for 36 years that means that over the life of my teaching career I encountered nearly 6000 students. Frankly the vast majority of my students did not need me to be engaged in their social and emotional learning development – they had parents and friends who did an excellent job in those areas. I probably didn’t become engaged in the social and emotional learning development of more than a dozen or two of my students. Two cases only are burned into my mind and heart. In, the first case, I worked with a very mucho macho senior Hispanic student to help him take the California English Language Exit Exam. He had failed the exam several times and was very cavalier about the fact that he didn’t need to graduate. But after he took the exam again and when I informed him that he had finally passed and would thus be able to graduate he literally fell apart. He grabbed me in a bear hug and sobbing kept repeating “oh my god I get to graduate. Needless to say I was crying as hard as he was. The only time in 36 years of teaching I actually felt like Mr. Chips. In the second case I became more of an integral part of the life of a student after he graduated. He came from an economically comfortable upper middle class family. Although the family was economically well off it was totally dysfunctional emotionally. His two older brothers were both druggies, his mother was severely bipolar, and his father had checked out of the family’s life and existed on for work. The kid put himself through a local state university which took him five years instead of the normal four. We used to talk at least once a week and once or twice a month he'd come over to my place for dinner or I’d take him out. He is now 35 and we are still close and every year he attends my Christmas Eve Part. He is now engaged to a great young woman and they are to be married next April. They both now live in Northern California. He recently flew down and took me out to dinner. After dinner back at my place he asked me if I would consider flying up to Napa for his wedding. I assured him that I would and then he blew me away by he asking if I would be his best man. I told him that I was old enough to be his grandfather and that he should rather ask one of his friends. No he said his friends were his friends but I had been his rock when he desperately needed a rock to anchor to. Yea you are correct by this time we were both in tears. So this 78 year old fart will be flying up to Napa in April to be the best man of a 35 year old – go figure. I’m sure I influenced more students to a greater or lesser degree but these are the only two cases in which I believe I was instrumental in their lives. We as teachers sometimes like to believe that we are a major factor in the lives of huge numbers of our students – we are not and we need to understand that and not over estimate our importance.
  14. There have been two interesting trends taking place recently concerning parents and their children. There have been two or three articles here regarding parents who insist on accompanying there adult children to appointments with the kid's college/university professors and parents who insist on accompanying their adult children to job interviews after their kids graduate from college/university. Both college/university professors and private company's HR people and not taking very kindly to this new phenomena. Frankly I think we are raising children who are fragile flowers.
  15. I find it hard to believe (actually nearly impossible to believe) that a traveling pack would be staying in Yorba Linda near Imperial Hwy and Bastanchury Rd. That's the end of the earth even by Orange County standards. Actually I don't live that far from there and that area consists of nothing but housing tracks inhabited by mommies and daddies and their two or three kids. I would find it easier to believe that he (they) has (have) a full time day job and only escorts part time. Now if he (they) was (were) staying in Santa Ana, Anaheim, Huntington Beach or Newport Beach that would be a different matter.
  16. Epigonos

    Dane Scott

    Even if his ad says he is unavailable try to contact him. He always goes out of his way to accommodate new clients as well as regulars. Human beings don't get any nicer than this man.
  17. Look great to me but since he doesn't list kissing as something he's into unfortunately we definitely aren't a fit.
  18. In my adult life I have had only one dog. She was a black American Cocker Spaniel and her name was Whoops. She was, for fourteen years, the light of my life. Money can't buy that kind of unconditional love; in other words a resounding NO.
  19. WilliamM don't be sorry, I'm not. All I said was the truth as I saw it over a period of several years at my upper middle class public high school. The vast majority of young married female teachers were far more interested in being at home with their children than being in the classroom with their students. They did the bare minimum in their teaching in order to obtain tenure and survive. I will certainly respect your opinion IF it is based on personal observation and experience in public high schools. If your opinion is not based on personal observation and experience in public high school then it is, in my opinion, worthless.
  20. No I'm not. I simply do not agree with you.
  21. I would agree that self respect is something that is built -- self esteem NONSENSE. Most people I have encounter believe it is something one is born with. One does not have to do anything to build it or nurture it - one just has it by the fact of ones birth.
  22. Self esteem is seen my many as a birth right while self respect is something earned. I'm far more impressed with what people earn rather than what they assume to be their birth right.
  23. I seriously though twice about starting this thread and it's obvious to me that I made a mistake. Reading many of your comments it is obvious that you never taught school. The average public high school classroom teacher faces approximately 150 to 175 students daily. The average public high school student faces approximately 5 to 6 teachers daily. With those odds guess who must make the adjustments teachers are not messiahas, they can't save the world and they can't meet the needs of all their students every day. Additionally, believe it or not, teachers do have lives and families of their own whose needs they also need to meet. I also found it absurd when some teachers claimed to love their students. I used to tell my students I don't love you, I love my family and I love my friends. I care about whether or not you succeed in my class BUT only as much as you do. I refused to claim that I cared enough for both of us - that's simply not possible. When my students complained about a teacher (some of whom were jerks and assholes) I always responded that those teachers were in actuality outstanding life lessons. All of their lives they were going to have to deal jerks and assholes and the sooner they learned to deal with them the better. When someone complains that teachers are stingy with "A" grades keep in mind that college and university administrators and professors constantly accuse high school teacher of ridiculous grade inflation. Frankly you're damned if you do and your damned if you don't . Also keep in mind that academic intelligence in only one type of intelligence but over the last few decades it is the only one that people have come to value. It is certainly true that ALL students need additional educational opportunity after graduation from high school, however, ALL students do NOT need additional academic educational opportunities after graduation from high school. I taught A.P. Art History. The A.P. stands for advanced placement. At the end of the class all A.P. Art History students world wide take the same examination at the same time on the same day. The exam is graded by a panel of readers in New Jersey. Students exams are graded from 0 to 5. Those scoring 3 or above pass the test and may received college/university credit. Some colleges and universities give credits for a score of 3 others require scores of 4 or 5. Every year I had parents complain that I was demanding too much of their child, that I was moving too fast, and that I wasn't meeting their child's needs. They were correct. The exam covered a 1200 page text book that had to be taught in three quarters. Many of the students taking the class weren't even interested in taking the exam and receiving college/university credit. The stupid fucking University of California decided in their ultimate wisdom that students would receive an extra grade point for simply taking an A.P. class. Thus if a students received an "A" in an A.P. the students received 5 grade points not the usual 4. Talk about inflated GPA's. Also keep in mind that forty or fifty years ago the best job opportunities for women were teaching, nursing and being a secretary. That has now changed and there are excellent opportunities for qualified women in many rewarding fields of endeavor where financial rewards are far greater than in teaching. Thus many of the best educated and motivated women are not going into teaching. When I first started teaching high school about 60% of the teachers were men, about 20% were young unmarried women and about 20% were women whose children were grown and they were returning to teaching. When I retired from teaching about 70% of high school teachers were women many of whom were young and only about 30% were men. Many of the problems that developed during that period were caused by what I call "mommyism" -- young women who taught for the benefits, the length of the school year and the hours of the school day. They were married with young children and they rolled into school with the students and raced the students to their cars at the end of the last school period. They were was to busy once at home to correct papers, prepare exams, or read papers. If came to rely on pre-prepared work sheets and exams and they didn't assign written papers. I taught 36 years and I loved it from the minute I walked into my first class in the fall of 1966 until I walked out of my last class in the spring of 2002. Early on I realized that in dealing with 15, 16, 17, and 18 year olds my influence was going to be very minor. High school teacher aren't likely to change the live and attitudes of kids who have been influenced by their parents for fifteen plus years.
  24. Damn Latbear4blk Madonna nailed that role. I've never been Madonna's greatest fan but have always been fascinated by Evita. I've always found her one of the most interesting people in 20th century Latin American history.
  25. As I've stated many times on this site I taught in a public high school for thirty-six years. Over the years I came to absolutely loathe the term self esteem ie. If I openly admonished a student for not doing his/her homework the mother would often come charging up to school to complain that I had seriously harmed her child's self esteem. Most teachers came to see self esteem as a meaningless trait that everybody possessed simply because of the fact of their birth and was thus worthless. Self respect, on the other hand, is something that people/students EARNED because of their work, demeanor, behavior, etc. OK guy come and get me.
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