thedanNYC

Chris Pine
 

 
A beard helps him a bit:

An influx of eager American homosexuals, perhaps? 😎

This is not quite right. In the simplest of terms, you become infected by breathing in the virus (which is why masks are recommended) or by bringing the virus into your body via contaminated hands (which is why washing your hands is helpful). Social distancing, which you obviously can't observe during the massage, helps lower the infection risk even more because you're less close to people breathing out the virus and to contaminated objects you might touch.
 
So if you and the masseur wear a mask at all times, then you're reducing the risk of breathing in the virus and becoming infected. If you and the masseur wash your hands before and after the massage, and don't touch your faces, then you're reducing the risk of bringing the virus into your body via contaminated hands. Hand washing is not a magic ritual, so the fact that you're not washing your hands every 5 minutes during the massage has no bearing on the effectiveness of those recommendations (and doesn't mean you've broken a "triad"). And the fact that you can't social distance should make it more critical to observe the mask and hand-washing recommendations, not serve as justification for ignoring them.
 
If y'all need to get a massage, have at it. But please consider doing as much as you can to lower your risk of getting infected and potentially getting others infected too.

Nope, I'm not ditching condoms. STDs are largely curable, but I'm not looking to end up casually gobbling antibiotics like they're candy. 

I wasn't aware that the Delta variant affects your load 😈 Thanks for letting us know. 
 

To me, this doesn’t seem realistic at all. Instead it sounds like a rather romantic notion. (As an aside, does your chosen screen-name reflect that you are indeed lonely?)
So how many times have you met? More than 50? More than 100? And are these only occasions of ‘dinner, bed & breakfast’? Or have you been on trips with him and spent 1-2 weeks in each other’s company?
I don’t see the age-difference as a barrier to romance (I myself have a much younger partner and we’ve been together for several years). But you have a number of significant obstacles to surmount. For instance, 
1. do you speak his mother-tongue very well?
2. are his educational attainments sufficient for him to have a decent career in your home-city?
3. do you have plenty of money to support him while he is getting established? (I’m not talking about the extra costs of feeding and housing him but rather his monthly allowance (say $1000 in a big city), his phone and gym bills, possibly a car etc)
4. is your home large enough? (Possibly his hobbies and interests may differ from yours, say he goes to bed much later than you, or plays loud music etc)
If you are serious about this @lonely_john, I urge you to take a trip with him and spend an entire month together. If you can’t enjoy that amount of time with him, consider how a couple of years will seem…

It certainly is in December. A couple of days ago I had the heater on in December!! Oh wait, you're talking about North America.

I don't know about all these newer means of transferring money to recipients in third countries but I have used Western Union and it is great because it doesn't require the recipient to have banking contacts, which can be an issue in third world countries. Even in the US it works well as their offices are conveniently located in large cities like San Francisco.

I have no problem with this either. But I'm a gay adult with no kids.
 
But if I had been watching Family Feud with my very own family on a Thursday at 8 p.m. only to have my little Cindy's eyes assaulted by a man's big bulge, which I'm sure he knew was on full display and which appears to be fighting for its life trying bust out of those pants, then maybe I'd have a problem with this. This is America, and my little Cindy has a constitutional right to not find out that penises exist until she's at least 25 years old or until one gets her pregnant at 15, whichever comes first.

That is deplorable behavior. Having said that, more please!

Paris has never been and will never be overrated. Anyone who thinks differently should just stop traveling and spend their money on something else.

Looks like an unconventional beauty
 

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Most likely the cat. 

Not at all. You said the Austrian government wasn't relying on science when choosing to mandate the use of N95s, and I pointed out that they in fact had relied on science given that you explained that N95s are as effective as surgical masks. In other words, they chose an effective mask type.
 
 
I conceded the fact that it is fair to be against choosing the more expensive option, but that has nothing to do with science. That's a separate issue. That's all I'm saying.

Just to close this loop, 62% of voters backed the Covid law. So it will remain in force.
A rejection of the Covid law would've have certainly crippled the government's ability to manage the pandemic, especially because the current requirement to show a corona certificate for indoor activities (e.g., indoor dining, gyms) would've been struck down.
 
 

Just to close this loop, 62% of voters backed the Covid law. So it will remain in force.
A rejection of the Covid law would've have certainly crippled the government's ability to manage the pandemic, especially because the current requirement to show a corona certificate for indoor activities (e.g., indoor dining, gyms) would've been struck down.
 
 

Just to close this loop, 62% of voters backed the Covid law. So it will remain in force.
A rejection of the Covid law would've have certainly crippled the government's ability to manage the pandemic, especially because the current requirement to show a corona certificate for indoor activities (e.g., indoor dining, gyms) would've been struck down.
 
 

Just to close this loop, 62% of voters backed the Covid law. So it will remain in force.
A rejection of the Covid law would've have certainly crippled the government's ability to manage the pandemic, especially because the current requirement to show a corona certificate for indoor activities (e.g., indoor dining, gyms) would've been struck down.
 
 

Calm down.  There need to go off the deep end.  

I’d prefer tabs that say "Shopping for Whores" in great big red letters.
Unfortunately, like most my great suggestions, I think I’m going to lose this vote.……grin 

The people of Switzerland only.  They are very different, politically and culturally, and a referendum in Switzerland does not reflect "the people" of anywhere else, whatever the results of the referendum.

Great. First escorts increase from $250 to $300 and now Dollar Tree increases 25 more cents. My life is in decline.

Yes, of course it was a joke. You displayed something called common sense.
 
What's foolish and sad is wasting time calling a comment foolish and sad, especially a comment that was not directed at you.
As suggested above, "expensive" and "rich" are relative terms. So you might think that buying a model X doesn't suggest someone is "rich", but someone else can think that buying a model X suggests someone is "rich". I hope that venting that nasty comment, whic doesn't even make a point that invalidates my post/joke, made you feel better about whatever issues you had going on yesterday.
 
I know. And my comment didn't say anything to the contrary in any case.

The post was the punchline.  I got the joke just fine without a smiley.