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Welcome @RyanDean and @Redwine56 P.S. - How are reviews validated? With pics and vids of the session? If so, where do I sign up to be an editor?

Right. Thanks to technology and living in a more accepting society, younger gays don't need to go to those places (in secret) to connect with other gays. Grindr delivers at your house faster than Domino's and for free. Why bother going to a (dirty) theater to spend money?

I think this could be a good episode on Dr. Phil.

@7829V will have to find out the hard way... a) that this varies based on local law and b) that ultimately he'll likely have to go to court to kick his friend out. If the friend doesn't want to leave, legal tenant or not, @7829V would probably need to call the police. The friend would tell the police that he's a tenant, and then the police will likely point @7829V to point b) above. Or @7829V will have to change the locks while the friend is out and risk the friend making a scene for all of @7829V's neighbors to see, as well as getting into an illegal self-help eviction dispute.

Or don't do it. What if he doesn't want to (or feels like he can't) leave after the trial run/tenancy is supposed to end? Do you want to deal with an eviction? I will fight anyone who tries to rationalize this bad decision for @7829V 🤪

Don't do it. You're in your 40s, you're independent, and you don't need any headaches. There's so many ways this could go wrong, so why take the risk? So that he doesn't have to feel uncomfortable by living with his own family? He's 24, he can move back home and deal with it. Just don't do it.

Well, all ages and types might be allowed to enter. But whether non-six-pack-20s will be particularly welcomed is a different story... The answer is "not likely" more often than not, even at regular gay clubs. That is unless those non-six-pack-20s intend to mack on other non-six-pack-20s. To be honest, I think people (of all ages and types) who have to ask that type of question at all should probably not bother going to circuit parties (or perhaps even regular club nights). That'll save them some grief because their idea of having a good time hinges too much on getting attention and validation from other partygoers. Instead, they're likely better off going to parties/gatherings that are clearly aimed at attracting the tribe they think they fit in well with (e.g., bears, daddies, leather, etc.).

Just to say it, this is only really practical if you plan your encounters in advance and have sex with people you both know (so that trust can play a role) and who are comfortable with sharing medical documents (so that you don't creep them out). Also, as I'm sure you know, people can and often do catch STDs either before they were detectable by their latest test or after their latest test. So I think that @corndog's post is on point not just about HIV but all other STDs, even if your sexual partner shows you test results.

I consider myself lucky to have friends and colleagues who are not so self-centered and narcissistic to believe that they are entitled to demand that the world learn to use made up words to refer to them. But if I ever encounter such a person, I would simply never refer to them using pronouns. I would just always refer to them by name.

Sounds like someone in their office is on this forum and read my previous post.

I think their language makes sense based on the explanation they gave you. The only relevant question a lawyer knowledgeable in this area may be able to answer right now is whether that type of language is standard in that type of agreement. However, the key questions here are (A) can you live with that language and (B) if not, is UCLA willing to revise it? So I don't think I'd waste time and money consulting a specialized lawyer just yet. Instead, I'd start by asking question B to UCLA. If they're not open to revising that clause, then you need to decide whether you want to accept their explanation and make your gift. If they are open to revising that clause, then you should think about what language you'd be willing to live with. Maybe you list alternative purposes for the scholarship in case the original purpose becomes moot (e.g., give it to people who have suffered because of 1) race discrimination, then 2) coming from a household with a family income under the poverty line, then 3) whatever the chancellor decides, taking into consideration the original purposes), maybe they should make an attempt to consult you before changing the scholarship's purpose if you're alive, etc. And then, after you've worked through the considerations in the previous paragraph, maybe you'd benefit from working with a lawyer depending on how complex your revision to the clause would be. Should I send you my bill in a PM? 🤑

The problem is that a baby popping out of a vajayjay can't be shown on Instagram, but a pink cloud blasting out of a cannon can be shown. Gotta have them likes!

You can always call and ask. In NY, it's hard to get short-notice appointments. But you can also show up before a certain time (7 a.m. if I remember correctly) with a ticket leaving within X days (I seem to recall it's 3) and get in a special line. They process a certain number of applications from people in that line and give them their passports that same day if leaving the next day, otherwise the following day. I had to do that a few years ago. I was there around 5 a.m. and was #3 line. By 7 a.m., the end of the line was in New Jersey.

This might help:

Riiiiight...can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Drag him, @JoeMendoza! 😛

People who value privacy/don't want to find themselves ass up online without consent: Creeps:

Pics or it didn't happen.

Got any miles to spare for that cheap ticket?

They actually expected the market to be the same in Berlin as it is in Zurich? That's so interesting to me. Not even the price of water is comparable in those two cities.

Ditto. Palms Springs + summer =

So he gave you what you paid for, but your experience soured anyway? Maybe he was trying to keep it moving so that he could move on to giving someone else what they were paying for, on time. Some of y'all are hard to please.

Hmmm...is that what "shrinkage" refers to? 🤔

Yes, non-essential travel has been restricted differently by different countries at different points for different lengths of time during the pandemic. But as I said in my previous post, intra-EU/Schengen Area entry restrictions are for the most part not specific to Czechs (particularly in Switzerland's case, which is what I was addressing). And, just to say it, how the Czech Republic is handling restrictions now does not speak to how they were handling them before or how other EU/Schengen countries have handled them or are handling them (including whether Switzerland allows entry from Czech Republic). Also, people can easily misunderstand entry restrictions if they just go off of second-hand information or glance at Google results with no particular aim. For example, unlike you suggest, non-essential travel from Czech Republic to Switzerland (which is what I was addressing originally) is absolutely possible. Finally, I recommend that those who are seriously considering travel get their information concerning travel restriction from the relevant government's official website that addresses entry restrictions. All countries have one. Don't just simply Google entry restrictions or you risk misunderstanding the applicable rules.

I don't know who told you that, but that's just not right.

In general, border closures are not preventing intra-EU travel or, in Switzerland's case, intra-Schengen Area travel. Czech Republic is in the Schengen Area, so that's why Czechs can enter Switzerland. It's not because of entry permission that is specific to Czechs.