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I'm buying more furniture etc off Amazon and Target than IKEA now. Easier assembly and delivered to my door, usually free.

and Kenny finds it's way to the grouchiness thread.

I was just looking for something to get more hair on my legs.

It makes it 100% easier for me to plan onboard when there's little else to do. What I don't understand is why I can pick up wifi 30,000 feet over the Atlantic but it can't seem to reach my bedroom.

Is this the Onion edition of PT? The author talks about how looks aren't important: It is first important to begin to dismantle the idea that beauty represents goodness and worth. Nothing is wrong with lusting after a handsome man—(we are gay men after all), nor doing what you can to be one yourself, but be careful never to value the wrapping over its content. Commit yourself to look beyond the surface. You, that muscle boy on the beach as well as the guy you might call a “troll” all have feelings and a history, and we are all making our way in the world as as best we can. and then posts this picture: Clearly to show inner beauty.

That buffet at Caesar's is really nice and the Roman pools are pretty.

Is this a secret episode of Tosh? Is this gonna be on tv?

I've got older female and gay male friends who had to get off the sauce when they were put into hospices. That's a double whammy that seems unnecessary and cruel. I guess they morphine them up on the way out so it doesn't matter but visiting either when they're awake is no fun. One is 99 and was a friend of JFK and Jackie and she was always a brilliant conversationist. Sometimes she apologizes for being mean (she is now) but they keep her out most of the time. She's been there 2 years. The other still owns 2 gay bars here and is 84 and hasn't smiled once since being hospiced, He's rarely on painkillers and always mean now. So when younger friends (rarely) call me a grouchy old man when I get mad it hits a nerve. It's like you give up your right to get mad at a certain age or be stereotyped as an old grouch. A Get Off My Lawn guy. Older gay men have at least as much as others to get mad about and I know I handle it well. I'm very nice and friendly 99% of the time. The grouchy old man stereotype sets me off. Pure vile ageism.

Congratulations on one of the grouchiest responses. I think I made it clear I myself have no major problem but that friends even older, straight and gay, do and can get very difficult, and depressing, to be around. I don't want to drop those friends but also do not want to become like that. I'd say most of my older gay friends more my age maintain a certain happiness even though their lives to me would be pretty boring. Just as mine to friends much younger must seem boring. But it's handling the ones who get grouchy with age that is the trick. Keeping them close and trying to help.

Reverse here, more ink the better, More interesting, more masculine. Especially rough tats.

My biggest problem is having to avoid friends older than me who have become incredibly grouchy with age. So much that it isn't healthy for my attitude and attempts to avoid age grouchiness of my own. With normal people I can stay fine but when I'm around caustic but dear old friends I just don't have the patience for them anymore. I have to pretty much drop many old friends. They're not going to improve and my tolerance is just going to get worse. OTOH I resent it when younger friends accuse me of being a grouchy old man whenever I take a firm stand or give an honest frank appraisal of something. That's a cheap shot at someone you just disagree with who happens to be older and in my case struggling with handling negativity from older friends. Maybe the young people who seem to even sleep with those huge ear-to-ear forced smiles nowadays have it right. There must be a nickname for those huge artificial 24hr smiles.

Free samples for good reviews? Ajay was a personal trainer in LA.

Free samples for good reviews? Ajay was a personal trainer in LA.

Marines

Marines

Explanation: I don't drink or "hang out" in gay bars. I have one home bar a gay nude strip club that often has 40 nude dancers and 500 varied people. I've gone there for 30 years. I know two or three dozen regulars there, male and female of all ages, I know all the dancers and bartenders and owners well. I have dated one for 2 years, I have two long-term ex's who worked there. I go there on Friday and Saturday late nights 11-2am when a partner works. I travel a lot to Europe, S. America and the US so I'm gone half the time. I own some realty so income/assets are fine and require almost no work and at my age I'm not interested in starting any new business. It works for me. Being grouchy doesn't and I try to figure out how to avoid that with age.

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That example didn't take long.

I think both missed my main point. The gay bar scene is a b**ch for older gays but I handle my home strip club (Secrets) fine twice a week. The ages vary from 21 to 91 and blend. What I'm more concerned with is the tendency toward bitterness and irritability as one ages. I find myself avoiding many people as old or older than me now because of so much bitterness from them and am extremely sensitive of younger people accusing me of being a bitter old man when I get mad.

Why is California so much more?

The hotel industry varies prices amazingly by date. Las Vegas has always been at the forefront of this but most cities do so now. Off-season in DC they sell rooms for not much more than housecleaning costs. Peak season can get ridiculous. HotelTonight is great. So is Hotwire Hot Rate hotels, where they usually tell you the hotel now. Even peak times the Windsor Inn and the District in Dupont/Logan show up @$100 on Hot Rate. The Embassy Inn there is even nicer and not expensive. It's probably the #1 regular pick. The District is marginal but location, location, location.

I'm pretty sure Mueller, Dowd and Kelly don't spend many saturday nights in gay bars trying to hook up. Sure there are plenty of other ways to stay sexually active but I think for many gay men, especially here, becoming asexual is not an appealing alternative.

For many of us gay life is a cruel life to age in. A few gay men age very attractively but generally, it is a very youth-oriented life. Even if you're able to stay youthful in mind, the outward appearance is what you are often judged by. Harshly. Not uncommon to gay life, the real test is to stay inwardly and outwardly happy. It's all too common to get bitter and/or depressed as life begins to dim. Fading out gracefully is not easy to do. But hard as it is to do you must. Not for your popularity but for your own inner spirit. You owe it to yourself to stay as healthy as possible both physically and mentally. My own thing is to keep close friends of all ages, to travel, and to keep projects going that keep me physically active. But yup, many times I get so irritated with some people I wanna rip them a new asshole. That's life.

I've lately noticed that wifi at Kaiser Permanente has started blocking Boytoy lately but not the forums part of this site. PITA because cell signals won't reach into the building. I don't know what company does the filters but they seem to be getting stricter.