Vegas_Millennial

I like to be bred well, is that close enough? 😉

I learned something new; because, I've never heard those terms used to reference a black person. Out here in the West, when one says "hood" images of poor families comes to mind (mostly caucasian and hispanic) living in trailers or 2 story apartments with multiple run down cars for each family and roosters crowing throughout the neighborhood. I must remind myself that New Yorkers often judge and classify people based on skin color, not on living conditions or behavior. I guess that's why I prefer the original 🌈 Pride flag design to encompass all people of all sexual preferences, ignoring skin color or body part differences.

When combined with 113F temperature, we can feel every single percent of humidity!

Ghetto originated as an Italian word to reference areas where Jews were forced to live in Rome and Venice. The first "ghettos" in the United States areas in New York City where the Irish lived. I find it a huge leep to think that @MeatHead was saying to avoid Pride because Jewish or Irish people will be present. And I remember that @MeatHead is an immigrant himself and a person of color, so I also find it hard to believe he doesn't like NYC Pride nowadays because too many people who is near his shade of skin tone attend. It is clear to me he meant he avoids Pride because "the behavior exhibited is less than becoming", although he may not be as well versed as the rest of us, being an English as a second language learner himself. I try to be empathetic and understand the context of his phraseology. To the topic of Pride, last year I visited New York City, Montreal, and Toronto during June/July. I purposefully scheduled my trip to each city to arrive AFTER each city's Pride events to avoid the crowds at the gay hangouts. It's not the concentration of devious behavior that annoys me; I am annoyed by the large concentration of straight allies that want to join the party but then want to prohibit nudity because their children are present! Pride is a victim of its own success. Originating as a protest to say gay men are not going to tolerate the invasion of our safe spaces (Stonewall), today's events are unrecognizable and lost on Generation Z.

I have heard, allegedly, that some women enjoy being sexually penetrated in the anus. If you can believe that, then there's hope!

The average temperatures posted above are meaningless without factoring in humidity and wind speed for a "feels like" or "wind chill" temperature. As a former Californian, I can attest that within a small temperature range of 65-75F can feel either terribly cold if there is a foggy marine layer present or uncomfortably hot if it is sunny with no breeze or shade. In Las Vegas, it's not summer if it's not over 100F. Anything under 80F requires a jacket. The hot weather here only gets uncomfortable in late July-August when humidity levels here soar to double digits, often reaching 10-12% humidity!

Depending on the location, winds can aggravate one's allergies. I have called in sick to work because of the wind, but added "allergies" to the explanation. Being out of the house during one windy day during pollen season can trigger my sinuses for weeks, making life miserable.

Compassion and love are like an apostrophe. Some men just won't use it, even when we wish he would.

Negative and single digit temperatures are cold in ANY measurement system. 🥶

Yup, I love upstate New York summers for that reason: you're on the right side of the lake. Winters however are another story!

The obese you saw near Dollywood was probably me! I mostly hooked up with young Daddies who had to sneak away from the wife and kiddos to let off some sexual energy with me whilst on holiday. I last went to Dollywood in late August, and it rained almost every other day. It was beautiful, and not hot. I am tentatively scheduled to visit again in November, but I'm worried about the cold. Would a jacket suitable for San Francisco summers be able to handle Appalachian Novembers?

Exactly! Mark Twain famously said the coldest winter he ever experienced was the summer he lived in San Francisco. The 2 heavy jackets hanging in my closet were both bought when I visited San Francisco in the summer (on 2 separate trips, I end up buying one every trip because I forget how cold it is!). Brr 🥶 I stopped going back to San Francisco, even in other times of the year, when the poverty/needles/feces on the sidewalks outside of my hotels became impossible to avoid. I do like Dollywood! The music, culture, food, friendly people, and hunky men that used to pay high school football 🏈! Woof! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Ok, now I am experiencing a personal heat wave! 🥵 🔥

Actually, the Bible belt and Appalachia feel more like outside the US because of the level of poverty and hopelessness! The Bible Belt and Appalachia... Those sound like they could be Freeway names in California 😂. Then I would agree on the hopelessness of the tent cities lining California freeways just a few years ago! Summers in Tennessee and Georgia are always more comfortable to me than southern California or the San Francisco area. Call me a sucker for green trees and cool creeks of the Great Smokey Mountains over Los Angeles & Ontario strip malls any summer 🌞. (Had to make a reference to our original Ontario conversation 😉).

I think the heat in the Northeast US and Midwest US has been sucked from the West. In early June, my city of Las Vegas was hot at 109F. Now we're cool at highs below 100F, so it's back to long pants and long sleeves to stay warm in the chilly mornings.

😆 Quite true, California often feels like it's outside of the US

Thanks, I was just trying to determine the country. Thank you for letting me know it's a country other than the US that includes Ontario. I will assume that it is Canada.

The Northeast and Midwest of which country? I can assume it's one that uses Centigrade

@Felange said:

Vienna

When trying to describe Canada to my US friends, I often say it's like the US from 10 years ago except with more French (and I've been saying this since my first trip to Vancouver almost 15 years ago). When they come back from their first trip to Canada, they tell me they see what I mean. Then, I saw this on "How I Met Your Mother" and it makes sense: As for Puerto Vallarta Mexico, it's like visiting southern California from 20 years ago except with more English.

To phrase this in another way: To help keep honest people honest, lock and put away everything in your room/bathroom/car/wallet.

To update y'all on my stay in Ft Lauderdale from January 2025: I split my stay between the Grand (formerly Worthington) and Solstice at Wilton. I only stayed at the Grand because I scored a mid-week reduced rate before they started adding resort fees and parking fees. Their prices on the weekends are out of my budget. The hotel is physically the same as it was when it was the Worthington, but it is now connected to the Grand. The noticeable difference was that the hotel was less than half occupied during high season. The previous owners kept the prices lower so they were always 100% booked with a waiting list during high season. The appealing factor of the previous Grand/Worthington to me was the ability to mingle nude with a hundred other guests in the pools and hot tubs. My January 2025 visit, however, was like visiting a ghost town. For that reason and for the price and for its distance from the Drive, I will only choose to stay at Solstice at Wilton or another clothing optional hotel near Wilton Drive. My 2nd choices would be to stay at Big Coconut Guest House. I've stayed at the Cabanas once about a decade ago. It was nice, but for my budget and solo travel style I want something more affordable and closer to the Drive.

I have stayed at both the Cabanas and the Grand Resort (now combined with the former Worthington). Neither of those are a Men's Strip Club, so I won't discuss them here lest we get off topic from the forum's subject. You'll see discussions of these gay hotels in the Travel Desk section of Company of Men. From The Travel Desk section: