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That is an understatement. He is soooo sweet, we need a new word.

In English, all nouns can become verbs, that has been happening for centuries. Where do you think “to worship” “to view” “to dream”, “to host” etc. comes from? There were people in the 14th century screaming, “no, ‘worship’ is only a noun! “ Don’t worry, some words stop being used as verbs, and stay as nouns only, so on average, you have the same number of them over time.

Because Justin's clients actually do have mint in their home. He does get booked at this price, he is busy. I have been priced out.

You cannot know this person is real until you meet him. Escorts usually don't ask me any questions when I contact them, I preempt the answers in my very first communication. But if he hasn't said anything, ask him 1. What he is into. 2. Where does he want to meet 3. At what time, and for how long. 4. Also make sure he understands your price.

So what did you do in 2013, Griffin?

They look green on the inside, and blue on the outside! Cool look.

I had a colleague who said ‘to be honest, ...” in front of every other sentence, even factual ones that no one would ever question. “To be honest this piece of code will cause a bug in the system”. “To be honest I prefer a light lunch” etc. I kept wanting to tell him “So, 5 minutes ago, you weren’t being honest?”

Hedging is exactly what is happening! I should have used that word, good point. A more charitable interpretation is that they don’t want to be perceived as arrogant.

Which of the 3 recent meaning do you mean? ‘Say’ seems to be from the sixties. Baby boomers’ fault. But the meaning ‘for example’ was used all the way back in the late 18th century. The ‘signaling humility’ one, I don’t know, that sounds recent, but it may just be that frequency has increased recently.

Wow, I had never heard of that, I need to do some reading on it. Thanks!

Yep, now all 5 usages are completely part of the English language.

This is something I felt compelled to write for myself after listening to an episode of the podcast “Lexicon Valley” by John Mcwhorter. God, I love linguistics. The usages of ‘like’ in modern English. 1. Verb (no need to explain) ‘I like this.’ 2. Meaning Similar to (also no need to explains) ‘I saw a large animal, like a bear.’ 3. At the beginning of a clause, it can mean for example. The path to this is the example in #2, but said with a pause, as in the following sentence: ‘I saw a large animal, like, maybe a bear?’ Then: ‘He went home very late, like, at 2 am’ A young listener of the above could think that ‘like’ was used, not to say similarly to, but as a specific way to say ‘for example’. And so, he then says: ‘I love Rachel. Like, she is so bubbly and funny.’ And there you have ‘like’, at the beginning of a sentence, now meaning something that is very much like ‘for example’. 4. At the end of a sentence, signaling humility This is the most controversial and the path is not obvious unless you string out several sentences as examples, and imagine each generation absorbing that sentence with a slightly different meaning. a. ‘I saw a large animal, like a bear’ the speaker here means similar to. But the listener understands it as also signaling ‘uncertainty’. The speaker is not sure. So, to a young listener, you can use ‘like’ to express that you are not certain. b. A generation later a speaker says ‘it is happening, like, all the time’. He means I think it is happening all the time. He is not really sure. But a young listener can understand that he uses ‘like’ to not sound too certain, which would quite arrogant. We can see that to claim to know something for sure when in fact you are uncertain would not be humble enough. So ‘like’ signaling uncertainty starts to be understood as a nice way to signal humility. c. A generation later, that listener says ‘It is not a good idea, like...’ and stops right there. He means simply to signal humility in what would be otherwise too bold a statement for him to make, nothing else. 5. ‘To be like’ meaning to say This, we all saw happening in the last 50 years: a. The first use from ‘similarly to’ (meaning #2, but used differently): ‘She said “let’s get drunk!” and I was like “” ‘ or “She said ‘I don't like him’ and I was like (shrugs)” Basically you are showing how you behaved at that moment (smile, shrug etc.). You cannot use ‘say’ because you did not ‘say’ anything. So you use ‘be like’, meaning ‘At that moment I looked roughly like this:…’ and then make a face. b. ‘She asked “Does anyone want some pudding” and John was like “uh-uh“ ’ . Now this I would interpret as John not only saying those two syllable, but also shaking his head. So ‘be like’ still is being used to describe a behavior, but now there are sounds also included in it. Give it a few more instances of this, and then someone takes it further and says “That girl asked me out to Prom and I was like “Sure!” ’. Now that is a ‘like’ followed by a real word. c. One generation later, the young kids are thinking that you can use ‘be like’ to mean ‘say’ in most contexts. ‘I asked her if there was any homework for history class, and she was like “I dunno”, and I was like “You should know that!”.’

Because, it is in their interest, but that doesn’t mean that the review should be for them. If I have a HomePod and I like it, and say so here, do you think it is for the benefit of Apple? No, if I said it for the benefit of Apple, I am a sell-out. If I said it for the benefits of other buyers in doubt, I am helping my fellow consumer. I am confused about what confuses you here.

We have a memory that is highly selective, we don’t remember bad experiences, because it doesn’t feel nice to remember them, but we remember better good experiences, because they feel good. So we often think that “things are getting worse”, “things were better in my youth”, but in fact the world is improving, and interpersonal relations are more and more caring, less and less violent, etc. Charity giving has never been higher for example, it grows much faster than inflation, on average per person. Crime rates have been steadily dropping for 40 years. Bar fights are less and less of an issue for the police to deal with. In every forum on the internet, rules of communications ban interpersonal insults and everyone thinks it is a good thing. Would any street hustler really have sent you a thank you note if you recommended him to another John, 40 years ago? I don’t think so. The fact that many escorts do today is a sign that things are in fact getting better, not worse. We should try not to sound too much like old men, even if that is what we are.

The review is supposed to be for other clients to know better who to choose. Not for the escort to get more clients. So, the escort should not be asking for a review (he did not in this case, so that is fine), and the client should not be expecting thanks from the escort. He should be expecting thankfulness from other clients. And we are thankful, @jonnychgo .

No, but I am not giving any more money.

You should have expected something like this I suppose? https://xhamster.com/videos/tantra-massage-1813071

Very good question.

Nope. https://goo.gl/images/MZN5e5 It is designed for women to enjoy the views of naked men. Some people call any full frontal naked view “porn”.

Lol, give it 25 years, and you’ll sometimes need the whole pill like all of us :-)

Hey Gman, you know best what to do, I am sure it will help to move back. Hope your health improves and the doctors find something that works reliably for you.

Optimist!

Why are you guys so obsessed with addiction? It is just a small computer. You are using a computer right now. Are you addicted to it? I just have a smaller one in my pocket. Again, all you are doing is admiting you have no self control.

Sorry I ready it as a loaded question with implication that the post was not very relevant because there aren’t many. But to reply to your question, for me the non-loaded version is: “Do you know escorts that have a lavish apartment in Manhattan?” Or even better “Are there escorts with a lavish apartment in Manhattan?”