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Let's pay the people teaching the next generation's scientists, political leaders, etc., so poorly that they can't even afford to live in a studio apartment.....what can possibly go wrong.....

...and don't forget to leave a review on daddy's to warn others.

Well, Corvus is notorious for being full of brainy birds. They are known to use tools in the wild, for example, and many can be taught to talk. The biggest shock to me is that it took this long for someone to think about training them for a task like this.

I imagine everything is negotiable. But why not take the tube to Heathrow? There are clients for whom money is no obstacle....but that's usually the exception rather than the rule. There's no shame in taking public transportation (unless maybe you're wearing nothing but a harness and a thong) to save yourself and/or your client some money. Less money spent on getting you to the airport means more money spent on a better restaurant, bottle of wine, or more time and/or a bigger tip in your pocket.

Not a to a good provider.....unless the world had changed that much since my days.

Why don't people trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ---ba-dum-dum---

I always loved the choose-your-own-adventure books as a kid.

I don't know where the idea that escorting hasn't always been about "now" is coming from. Guys look to get laid when they are horny. There are times when you set things up ahead of time, but that was always the exception more than the rule for me.

Well, if someone cancelled on you before, that's understandable, I suppose. "Once bitten, twice shy," and all that. They DID have the courtesy to let you know, though. There's nothing wrong with testing different waters, though.

drams per lunar month

What does that even mean? And why do you have to take any comments/questions like a personal insult? *sheesh* /ignore

....because the internet doesn't have enough people trying to inflict their drama on everyone else....

My mistake. You just wanted to rant/bitch. Never mind.

If you have to explain it, it wasn't funny.

That depends on

What does medical insurance have to do with deposits? I'm thinking that part of your argument may not have made it into your post.

If it's that difficult, then perhaps a change of career should be considered. Escorting is a SERVICE industry.

Smoking a ciggie is considered a fetish.....I'm not sure how I feel about that...or is it just that it has been "fetishized" (if I may take the liberty of making my own verb).

Once you become an adult, if you live with your parents, the responsible thing to do is at least offer to pay rent or chip in for expenses (food, utilities, etc.).

Is it just me, or do their "dancers" on their website seem a bit .... homely on the whole?

Something tells me I'm going to regret weighing in on this.... In the US, at least, doctors asking for a "deposit" is largely unheard of. Maybe he's confusing a co-pay or office-visit fee as a deposit? If you're afraid of crime, then you're kind of in the wrong business. I mean, escorting itself is a crime almost everywhere in the USA. If your'e operating as an "internet-only" type of person, then you don't get a chance to see or meet a client -- and get a feel whether it's a good idea go anywhere with the. I mean, let's face it....people get held up sometimes. Pizza delivery drivers and cabbies are two famously frequent targets for hold-ups. I'm sorry if it's happened to you, but escorting is not historically a business for the skittish. Personally, I find it unreasonable to be expected to give money to someone whom I have never seen, much less met. My name isn't Charity. And why should someone trust you to show up after you have their money? If you don't trust someone to pay enough to show up in the first place, it kind of implies that you shouldn't be trusted to show up anyway. If the "charge a deposit" model works for you, then more power to you. That does not appear to be the standard business model of the industry, though, and (as you have experienced in this thread) it can leave a figurative bad taste in the mouth of people who think you're just jerking them around. Best of luck, but I'm not particularly sympathetic in this case.

Wait a minute....where's the gooseberry fool?

It should be said that the scientist who "discovered umami" was the person held the patent on and first mass-produced monosodium glutamate (MSG). And since glutamates are what make things taste "umami," there is reason to be a little curious (if not skeptical). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate " Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University isolated glutamic acid as a taste substance in 1908 from the seaweed Laminaria japonica (kombu) by aqueous extraction and crystallization, calling its taste umami. Ikeda noticed that dashi, the Japanese broth of katsuobushi and kombu, had a unique taste not yet scientifically described (not sweet, salty, sour, or bitter). To verify that ionized glutamate was responsible for umami, he studied the taste properties of glutamate salts: calcium, potassium, ammonium, and magnesium glutamate. All these salts elicited umami and a metallic taste due to the other minerals. Of them, sodium glutamate was the most soluble, most palatable, and easiest to crystallize. Ikeda called his product "monosodium glutamate", and submitted a patent to produce MSG..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikunae_Ikeda "By 1909 he had developed a process for mass-producing MSG. He was able to extract MSG from wheat and defatted soybean, and patented the process for its manufacture. His Ajinomoto Co., Inc. currently employs over 32,000 people. With this method the global production of MSG increased rapidly."

In your defense, who expects to be drugged when they take a shot of tequila? There are things you could have done differently (in hindsight), but it's not your fault someone else drugged you.

In that particular circumstance...? Potentially, but there are some thorny issues involved. Bear in mind that there were no warrants issued. The person they were after had not submitted any thing to the DNA company. The POLICE instead took DNA from a rape kit and sent it in. The company in question identified several distant relatives, which eventually lead to the person they arrested. The police went DNA-fishing, in other words. Putting aside the questionable practices of the police, it points out that the DNA-testing companies have no oversight. They are not bound by privacy laws like the medical industry. They can -- and do -- share your information with whomever they want. Assuming der Trumpenfuhrer gets rid of "pre-existing conditions" coverage like he has said he wants to, expect insurance companies to deny coverage to anyone with a genetic predisposition for diseases based on DNA profiles from these companies. And I question whether the tests regarding ethnicity are accurate. All those test for are markers that are "common to" a particular area. The things they look for aren't "exclusive to" a particular area.