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  1. Thank gosh, I feared I was the only one.

     

    Gman

    It's a really bad joke. The punchline basically means the end your holding when you go to hand it to him. Since you are holding that end of the ticket, you can't see it. Once you give the ticket to the taker, you can see the end you were holding.

  2. Thank gosh, I feared I was the only one.

     

    Gman

    It's a really bad joke. The punchline basically means the end your holding when you go to hand it to him. Since you are holding that end of the ticket, you can't see it. Once you give the ticket to the taker, you can see the end you were holding.

  3. I always got the pat down before I signed up for pre-check. I won't go through the cancer death ray machines. Never opted for a private room. Pat downs ranged from quick and simple to very aggressive. I don't think any of the TSA people have a clue.

  4. I have had some bad experiences in the ER. Mostly just the seemingly endless waiting even after you are brought in from triage. I know they are busy, but when 2 or 3 hours go by between anyone checking on you, it's pathetic.

     

    My worst experience in the ER was a time I had pneumonia. It was in late June, the worst time of the year to go to the hospital because all the new interns start then. I had gone up to the ER at the hospital all my specialists worked at. I got into a room pretty quickly considering my O2 says we're in the low 80s. When they decided to admit me, we specifically asked them to alert my pulmonologist that I was going to be admitted so she could see me at her earliest opportunity. They told us they had already.

     

    Two days went by and she still hadn't stopped by to see me something that never happened before. All the while the interns, nurses and attending on the ward said she knew. On the third day, she happened to come to the ward I was in to check on another patient and saw my name on the board. She was furious that she was never told I had been hospitalized especially when she found from me that I hadn't been getting better in the two days I was there. Those docs and nurses got a "valuable" lesson in patient management that day.

  5. My freshman orientation class in college (basically giving kids the tools to navigate college life), which I took right after the Starr Report was released. The professor put a line on the board. One end said not sex and the other end said sex. Everyone started at not sex. He then gave us different acts and told us to move to the appropriate part of the line depending on how we viewed each act in terms of how close it was to sex or not.

     

    Some people started moving towards sex at hand holding. Most people were at least halfway at open mouth kiss. A couple of people never moved off not sex until the professor said vaginal penetration. It was kind of fascinating to see different people's opinions especially in light of the Lewinsky scandal.

     

    I made my personal thoughts about what constitutes sex known in another thread.

  6. I am not "bad mouthing" anyone. He is in the market so he is subjected to criticism. And I am sick and tired that whenever there is a discussion on London in this forum, someone brings up Gabriel. There are so many other escorts in London.

    And yet you still didn't name anyone you'd recommend. Maybe instead being cranky, you contribute in a positive way to the conversation? Or is that too hard for you?

  7. There is an obsession in this forum on Gabriel Cross who I do not find particularly attractive. There are many options in London. Have you looked at sleepyboy?

    Just because he isn't attractive to you doesn't make him a bad choice for someone else. You can list your preferred person instead bad mouthing other people's.

  8. I'm not sure if this is true. I speak fairly standard American English. While I'm from Texas, I've lived in several "midwestern" states for significant periods of time. While some people in those states said they could tell I was from Texas, many others asked me why I didn't have a Texas accent.

     

    So for the pronunciation of "marry"-I'd say the standard sound is that of "a" in apple, ie a short "a" sound-what I was taught in elementary school as an "'a' with a u-shaped mark above it." For the words "Mary" and "merry," to me they sound the same. Both have a "short e" sound depicted as an " 'e' with a u-shaped mark above it."

     

    I can exaggeratedly pronounce "Mary" to sound the same as "marry," but it comes out very nasal.

     

    Gman

    Being a New Yorker, they are all pronounced differently. Marry and merry are pronounced as you would with short vowels but Mary is pronounced as mare with a long e (ē) at the end.

     

    I also don't really have an accent except for certain words like coffee, talk and daughter and, apparently, beautiful. When I was in London, everyone said I had a New York accent, but I think they were either just saying yes or equating a NY and an American accent.

  9. I'm in the market for a new Primary physician. One of my criteria is that they must be ready, able, and willing to prescribe opiates as needed. I read Gar1eths post above, and know that Tessalon and dextromethorphan are completely ineffective when i have bronchitis. Codeine works, and incredibly well.

     

    I had a hip replacement, and could not explain to the bloody Nurse that I wasn't "escaping" my analgesia; rather, I wasn't getting enough analgesia. I didn't spend half-a-year training in Pain Management, nor doing Acute Pain Management for six years, without learning something.

     

    And if anyone is still prescribing "oxycodone 5 mg with APAP 325 mg," point them to me so I can teach them the error of their ways.

     

    I had a particularly intelligent Orthopedic surgeon, perform my knee replacement. I was on a low-dose opioid analgesic (like oxycodone 5 mg thrice daily) prior to surgery. He told me post operative analgesia would be a problem.

     

    Post-op: 15 mg oxycodone every three hours, was just about right. For like 6 weeks. My Surgeon said he would prescribe as much as needed, along wiht Physical Therapy, for three months, then it was gone.Over. Don't even bother.

     

    And so I was.

     

    Part of the "opioid crisis" is lack of oversight by the prescribing physician. In my Pain Clinic, we paid expecial attention to the patient's opioid consumption and interactions regarding any additional requests for medications. But we saw thirty patients a day.

     

    The "crisis" is one of bureaucracy. It is not inappropriate medicine.

    While oversight over physicians is a huge problem, the bigger problem is the money the drug companies are using as bribes to both physicians and pharmacies.

     

    When a town has enough pills floating around to give 100 or more to every man, woman and child in the town, "bureaucracy" isn't the main problem.

  10. While we're on that, I learned in the Miss Manners books that salad is, historically, served after the main course. She offers up many theories as to why that's changed, the most likely is that in restaurants, they can get a salad made & in front of you quicker than a cooked course.

    I prefer to eat salad after the main course. It's like a neutral taste that won't impact the sweetness of dessert.

  11. Yeah I had to do this recently when I booked a hotel for 2 sessions. With so much day-to-day stuff on my mind I forgot to call and check with the hotel about their protocol for guests before booking my room. So, for both sessions I just met the providers outside, gave them my extra key card, and they followed right behind me. The only damper was my planned "extra" activities not involving providers were thrown away.

     

    Since then I've been more diligent and calling in advance to find out the protocol for guests. I try to only book hotels where guests can just enter and come up to my room without any extra steps.

    That sucks that you missed out on other activities. I am a meticulous planner so I usually plan for potential problems.

  12. I don't have an opinion on circumcision for religious reasons. And I'm not surprised that it is completely different from cirumcision as practiced in the modern healthcare industry.

    I'm just saying it can be done in a way that doesn't sound so horrific. I think doing anything in the name of religion is dumb, tbh.

  13. If you have ever witnessed a circumcision, you could only call it violent. When I was in the Army, I was a corpsman. I worked for a short period of time in the newborn nursery taking care of newborn infants. As I remember, circumcision was done by a pediatrician, not the OBGYN. They would do a bunch of little boys every couple of days. They put the baby in a restraint called a "circ board," which held him completely immobile. The instrument they used for the procedure was a sort of clamp with a sharp blade. They put the babies, screwed into their circ boards, in a line on a long counter. The doc went down the line tightening the clamp on each boy's dick until it severed his foreskin. The babies were screaming hysterically and couldn't move because they were completely restrained. Not a pretty sight.

    You've never been to a bris then. What you described sounds more like torture.

  14. It just sounds like you’re overthinking things! Sometimes things just don’t work out or people get skittish. You have a verbose writing style and honestly that sends off “time-waster” red flags, so does reaching out way before your trip. You seem very nice so just be a little more laid back :) x

    I didn't have any problems reaching out three months in advance of my trip with Gabriel Cross. Maybe it's because he's the best that it didn't.

  15. When I was a kid and I attended summer camp, I gave myself a nickname that I only used there. It was probably 15+ years before anyone not from camp or my immediate family even knew I had a nickname. Also, many people at camp never knew my real name. Just certain staff members who had to know my real name and none of them ever used it while I was there in front me at least. Even my family would use my nickname when they were at camp with me. As hypothetically said, it was a persona I had there. It helped keep camp me separate from home me.

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