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A school district in Arizona is building a tiny home community for cash-strapped teachers who can’t afford local housing.

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.

And how about reimbursement for transportation to/from the airport? I assume that is covered on top of the escort fee, esp in cities like London where cabs to the airport are expensive, right?

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.

Yes, that I can see. Upsells are important to a provider and they concentrate on getting them.

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.

Do you mean that prospective clients want an appointment immediately, as opposed to 'later'? What has caused this shift, you think? Is it because of the success of online dating apps like Grindr enabling guys to hook up right then and there?

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.

One was visiting my city. The other, I was a traveler to his city.

 

Not applicable for either. I am actually going to be in the same city again with one of the two, but if I do hire this time, I will be looking elsewhere. But enough about 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.

Wait, isn't it teaspoons per fortnight?

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

Yes, your mistake. I corrected you. And instead of saying, “ah okay, that’s a different point of view I didn’t consider”, you want to make some ignorant, conceited, self-centered comment about someone bitching.

 

Shut your mother fucking ass up bitch.

....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.

I know the definition of satire or this post wouldn’t exist. The joke is simple math. I’m sorry it went over your head.

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

Are we just not using full sentences anymore when communicating with a potential hire, or?

That depends on

@josh282282 Are you kidding about doctors never asking for a deposit?! Maybe we shouldn't call it a "deposit" as Lucas has, but every doctor's office I've made an appointment with asks what insurance do you have or how are you going to pay AND asks for it upfront before seeing the doctor.

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.

Give Lucas a break you all! Dealing with clients, 90% of whom make contact with escorts with no intention of ever meeting them, isn't easy.

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....

Well that is your experience sir.

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?

I have been held at gun point and taken advantage of many times in my youth.

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.

If you can't demonstrate enough trust in another human being to send them a few hundred dollars considering the situation that someone is being placed in meeting complete strangers then good day.

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?

Umami is the name coined by the Japanese chemist who first discovered around 1906 that glutamates impart a distinct meaty or brothy flavor to food. Like yours, my school texts only showed 4 basic tastes, probably because folks in the West were much not much inclined to credit that a slanty-eyed, buck toothed Jap could possibly know more than us about anything scientific.

 

I remember puzzling over this very question back in high school and again in college (1960's). My personal direct experience seemed to indicate that meats and broths had a taste that did not reduce to some combination of salty, sweet, bitter and sour, but there it was in the books and who was I to question received wisdom?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

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."

At the end it was REALLY stupid of me to accept the drink. It felt a bit odd and I wasn't even in the mood, but he insisted in a nice way and I fell for it like an IDIOT. I put this behind me.

Thanks for the support guys!

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.

And that's something good, isn't it?

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.