SirBillybob

😊 I posted as some folks may have planned an Easter weekend trip. I had power. Much of the city was in the dark through that period. I think that The Village was mostly spared, but a lot of businesses suffered. (Do you have sex skydiving or throughout bungee cord jumps? LOL)

I’ve been going to Stock for decades, beginning with its St-André location. I am not unaccustomed to clubbing music volume in my day. Last night it was startlingly and oppressively loud. That had never happened previously. There is simply no reason for it. The audio playbook is usually a happy medium somewhere between piano lounge chatting and club rave all crushed together bouncing up and down to ear-bleed-grade music on a dance floor, not closer to the latter. I was all set to order a beer but was not prepared to have to shout my order or put myself through that level of eardrum discomfort and I left immediately. I informed the entrance attendant and he sympathetically volunteered a free coupon. My few hundred dollars are folded on my coffee table. Maybe the new management follows this thread. I think Anthony M used to. I mean, who has ever entered a stripper club and left because the music was insufficiently cranked up?

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I don’t think they are any nicer to Canadians. I get grilled and sometimes luggage contents pulled apart when returning to Canada from longstay South America winter trips and I’ve been a retired ‘snowbird’ escaping the cold for many years. With passport renewal coming up and a clean stamp slate perhaps they won’t see pages upon pages of that trip history that prompts them to ask why I always go to Latin America. The last thorough luggage check recently, however, was a very nice sociable female officer, though I prefer a hot young male to handle my douche bulb and dozens of unused condoms.

Woodstock’s recording clip of Biden congratulating Brown at 1st Staff meeting: FullSizeRender.MOV

Long story short: Vast in numbers 2.5-week federal employee strike just settled this week; most groups had been without a labour contract for 2 years. Passport application, federal taxation, and Immigration (residency aspect outside of tourist travel visas etc) ground to a halt. I need to renew passport imminently for already paid upcoming travel this year, so am relieved. In contrast, border control officers had a 4-year deal up to 2022 (8% in increments over 4 years), are without a contract, and were not included in the active labour dispute. They also have different rules for strike prerogative. The former groups just negotiated bigger hikes based on more recent higher cost-of-living inflation, and stand to receive a nice little retro bundle of cash. 12.6% in increments over 4 years and a 3.7% one-time bonus. Much of it will be taxed at higher marginal income rates. Just speculating (emphasis on second-guessing), but the cluster-‘socializing’ (ahem, consulting in the interests of national safety, etc) that increases wait time may be an artefact of these dynamics. It would be understandable that they may be disgruntled about being somewhat left in the dust Cost of Living Adjustment-wise. Work-to-rule is usually not viable leverage, more just the way collectives’ hive-brains operate. There may be a broad cascade effect within labour unions beyond the 150,000 federal employees that recently walked out. For added perspective, Canadian seniors received a 6.3 % bump in traditional pension for this year alone and my private pension increased by over 10% combining last year and this year. Mind you, almost half of these increases are confiscated in tax in my case.

I can’t even. More seriously, I think there’s room for all, along with a burgeoning doctoral thesis in many of these topics related to personal comportment and alliances alone. And dancing on the thin edge of the wedge on one side of which a gymnastics mat hopeful softens an enforced time-out.

I didn’t initiate a dust-up with you and I’m shutting it down. Take it to another mat. It’s also completely tangential to the flow of the topic. Like I said, a minor blip was followed by a make-up kiss. If this is a visa application for any sense of accountability on my part, to you directly, it’s “in progress”. You are seething and I have better things to do. I’m not trying to pull off your wings for shits and giggles. You do you.

Hows about we make a deal. I’ll assume that my content won’t track with everyone and I won’t grouse about your comparator of degree of satirical acumen possessed by an obscure politician with whom I am completely unfamiliar. So … your audience isn’t me; you’re attempting to castigate me by showing off with an audience in which I am excluded. How convoluted is that? You are apparently a pretender all-knowing of me but don’t know me while sending up that among my deficiencies is not adequately knowing the body of target audience recipients. What actual degree of merit, of quality, do you expect me to attribute to your editorial input? I’m not trying to be mean. And I’m not cut off at the knees; I know how to handle all types. But I am genuinely curious. Parenthetically, the other guy and I worked it out amicably and aren’t looking to beat a dead horse.

Sexual desire is multidimensionally appetitive, an instinctive imperative if you will, and more prone to transient dissociative states and suspended judgement as a direct result of the robust combination of the biophysiological and psychosocial. I don’t grasp the merit of sub-appetitive commodities as analogies for fee discourse. Bangs trims and terrific bangs are miles apart.

What only a really hot guy and experienced escort can maybe get away with, and this is a direct straight-faced quote, year 2004, (albeit translated to English) from a regular provider: “If you want my condomed dick in your mouth for a few minutes, that shifts us into the territory of muscle worship and the fee you’ve been paying goes from $300 to $900.” Sure, it’s an extreme example but this, my first experience of repeat hiring, reflected that he is no less the face of sex trade dynamics than any other, and represented that negotiating is def on the table. It’s not solidly baked in; the dish isn’t done until that component is stirred in, two hands too spoons. He taught me that … so don’t shoot me; shoot the representative. If escorts wish to distance from his playbook, fine. I myself have a fiduciary responsibility to fairly represent my own service field, so I can just as easily assert that the vicissitudes of negotiation are a ‘you problem, not a me problem’. Parenthetically, we locked in at $300 for a few subsequent years. He took his shot that I was obsessed and he openly admitted it. I would be more amenable to buying the ‘bad apple’ theory if there weren’t the degree of evidence that the homeostasis of ambiguity, the ambiguity that @Jaroslav referenced earlier, is supported by the profession.

Well, drillings and fillings in my bazoo but sometimes wanna send back the dish. Desserts not all just.

I think that potentiating internalized shame comes into play. Your illustration about work prompted me to think about overarching themes. I, too, overworked and overperformed, and that may be partly an elective compensatory trait geared to proving worth. Although rising to the high bar of a challenge can be edifying, no? I have to watch that I don’t overcompensate for providers’ implicit meta-messaging about performative labour they are putting up with, or my own projection of that shame onto the dynamic. Similarly, in brothel settings watch that I don’t take the attitude: “You are better off accepting a less than ideal amount from me compared to scoring zilch waiting for a job offer.”

My masturbation to internal fantasies rates 7.0/10 and costs the price of a wipe. To erotica 7.5/10 and the upcharge of a few minutes of bandwidth. Getting off with an escort 8.0/10, equivalent to a year’s supply of wipes and bandwidth. But it rates the best. Time is money. Much of life is oriented to conserving both. These attempts are visibly externalized. Let me know when the rules of engagement are set. The discussion thus far is zero-sum to infinity.

My implied judgement was probably premature and based on too narrow a set of material.

Is obnoxious the new sensual? If you see an outcome as having beaten you down, and you’re snarky about either another’s debate position, or content and its length, then you’re suggesting you easily land behind enemy lines. Not a good look.

Sounds like the discussion is evolving from ‘a priori’ fee agreement to ‘post hoc’ contingencies, where the idea of negotiating takes a different turn.

Clients eventually perceive a range in fee rates and are naturally curious about contextual factors that might explain the range. In the absence of a clear explanatory model they may, for example, tend to project avarice onto a higher rate or desperation onto a lower rate. Variations within other (nonsexual) commercial settings may be easier to figure out without being as intrusive with the vendor, yet upfront unmitigated trust is not likely just handed over indiscriminately in any domain. Because I interact in person, with no (or modest) cost, a set inventory of providers 90+% of the time it is easier to assess the legitimacy of a fee in the selection piece. The alternative is to hire more comparatively blind. I do the latter so rarely that a disconnect between the fee and my post hoc assessment of its justification has minimal impact on my budget, is easily absorbed, and imputing avarice to the provider is extremely rarely activated because common sense by both parties usually prevails. To my way of thinking, one must be pretty accepting of a delineated rate for an initial commercial sex work encounter even if frequent hopping from unknown to unknown. That is the built in cost trade-off for this commodity, albeit with a set of factors that guide quickly sealing the deal or not. After the meet, the sky’s limit opens up a bit more for adjustments in degree of capitulation versus negotiation, but I agree there is likely little consensus about those terms. In a very different commercial enterprise I was able to charge a fee substantially less than many of my peers though my credentials were typically more advanced. There were many factors involved in that. Nobody inquired why it was less and I got the business profits aimed for. However, I compensated for the inclination of clients to raise their eyebrows by underscoring credentials and had about the best website going. That said, I also earned enough and at high enough tax margins to pick and choose ‘pro bono’ work according to my interest, but that was directed elsewhere, not client ‘freebies’. I don’t know if my peers were recipients of attempts at fee negotiation in the event that clientele within the public reacted to the difference in cost. Unsurprisingly, nobody attributed upsell endeavours to me.

Anything’s possible. I’m rooting for Cyd Peach & Greg Hirsch to pull off a coup.

No health requirements. ArriveCAN is now repurposed for the goal of facilitating arrival procedures but currently a separate system from NEXUS expediting. I haven’t looked at all the details as it might evolve further between now and my next arrival in Canada (where I reside). However, you can access the information thru a simple Google search. I haven’t waited lately to access a passport-scanning/declaration kiosk the regular way, and getting thru customs/immigration has been quick, but that isn’t to say logjams don’t occur at some participating airports at certain times of day. However, waiting in queue or waiting for the baggage carousel is apples-apples, so express arrival may be of greater benefit for travellers with only carry-on.

Spoiler alert. I created a large failsafe gap below … Wow. Just had its own early in season version of a Red Wedding.

… on Apple streaming. Great value for a top film. Not to be missed.

Walkable (east of the river and south) from the main train station if you are transiting from the airport, or from the main train station transfer to a brief tram ride south to Rudolf-Brun-Brücke stop and walk east a block in direction opposite the bridge. The transit counter staff at the airport are great and you can likely purchase a single fare that enables the train and tram connection integrated. Enjoy. Plenty of great restaurants and a pile of them in the north-running laneway just west of the spa building. The guys will typically accept CHF equivalency in cash Euros if you are just in Switzerland the one night and Euros are more convenient for you.

We want to fall onto hard times.

Anyone else see SNL host Molly Shannon reprise her standup comedian character Jeannie Darcy last night … “Don’t get me started. Don’t even get me started.”