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That's not fair thougho_O. I've always heard it was fairly easy for Italians to pick up Spanish although I'm sure some are better at it than others. My Latin teacher in high school was originally from Genoa (she pronounced it Genova). My teacher told us her mother had studied Spanish, but it was not of any interest to her (my teacher) because she could understand it due to being Italian. The closest living languages to English (aside from Scots) are the Frisian group. And our mutual intelligibility with it is nil. Gman

I wish the ability to speak other languages was genetic. I have German, Dutch, Russian, and Polish ancestors. I wish that gave me a leg up in learning German and Dutch. Gman

I took three years of college German. But I was never fluent. I can write simple sentences better than I can speak it-or rather I could at the time. I also took two one month long Spanish language conversation courses 22 years ago, and a 10 day Spanish immersion course about 8 years ago. But I was nowhere near fluent in that. Some people have the knack for languages. For most of us who can't live in the country of that language it's a slog. From what I've read-aside from the plasticity of a child's brain which is set up for learning language-one reason children learn is they aren't self-conscious about making mistakes. They will say things ungrammatically without any problems. Adults don't want to speak incorrectly. And much like it takes a child three years to really start picking up on language-adults in an immersion experience by living in the country can often need a three year experience to start speaking a foreign language. Gman

http://daddysreviews.com/search/Active/Gino/gino_nyc Gman

Yes and no Boomer. This is a site for us to share our experiences. But if the reviewer's likes aren't-well let's use the term-congruent with a significant number ( even if it's not a majority ) of those of us who read the Forum, then encomiums for an escort don't mean a whole lot although in the spirit of fellowship I (and I'm sure most of us here on the Forum) can definitely be glad that a member of our brotherhood here on the Forum had a good time. That's why it's necessary to know either in general what our Fellow Forum member likes or a more specific relating of the events of the meeting such as in the Reviews. Gman

Thanks, FF. I did understand that. And I thought that might possibly be it. But Yoda's pronouncements usually sound weird-"Listen you must" or "Found someone you have" whereas "Love is all you need" makes perfect sense. Gman

I don't really get it. Are they saying Ringo looks like Yoda? Gman

I read that thread. But I only have a vague remembrance of it. And other Forum Members might never have read it. That's why I thought it was important to make note of Rex's Primary Interests. Gman

I thought in the past you had intimated that he might not be as spectacular as his pictures? So as Rex isn't 'into' total interactivity as they say, can you shed any light on Mr. Garay's interests? Gman

Rex-I appreciate your clarification. One slight disagreement I have is your last sentence. I don't totally disagree. But really that's what this website is for. There wouldn't be much use in this website if it only supplied generalities such as-"Yeah, the guy was great. I liked him." Gman

But Rex, do you expect as much 'interaction' from an escort as many of us on here do? The reason I ask is you are a big proponent of Ryan Steele. Yet he is straight. And from what his reviews don't say, I doubt Ryan is fully interactive. Gman

FYI- if you are on a computer you go to the left where the review is listed. You hover the arrow over the name of escort. Up should pop the URL (i.e. the web address). Then you copy it using whatever method your computer uses ( on a pc it would be right-clicking). Once you have copied the URL, you come back to here, paste, and Bob's your uncle. If you are on a phone- you use your finger to hover over the left sided list. Or sometimes this works-now that you've found the review, you can try entering "Devin C daddysreviews" without the quote marks into a search page like google. Then if the review shows up in the results, click on it. Then copy the URL (that old web address) and paste it here in your post. Gman

Just as an FYI-"unveiling" is also a term we Jews use for the placement of the gravestone which usually occurs about 11-12 months after the burial. When you wrote "unveiling," my 1st thought was, "Why was a ventriloquist at an unveiling?" Gman

You are right. I didn't read it correctly. Was he the entertainment? He's not known as far as I know as being gay. I grew up in his birthplace. But he apparently didn't grow up there. He grew up in my birthplace-or at least a near suburb of my birthplace. Gman

I don't like this. But I also wouldn't like one of us meeting a pre-legal adolescent either. Gman

Who's the second one? But I need to say in all honesty Benjamin's reputation is really not that bad. Gman

This brings up a point. I've met several guys over the years-now adults. But they've told me that when they were younger-maybe 16- hopefully not younger-they were using methods to meet older guys for sex. It's always weirded me out. Obviously some 16 year olds are emotionally mature enough to handle sex. But so many wouldn't be. And I don't think in general it's healthy. And 16 is only a step away from 15. And also obviously there are 15 and 16 year olds having sex. But it's a different case entirely when they are having sex-lets say with someone no more than 4 to 5 years older-although I know most state laws that have an age exception for statutory rape have a smaller age range than 5 years-and the partner is much older. Gman

One thing to remember is that even if it's not true, the government is really good at railroading you if they want to. I have no sympathy for child porn. But I may have actually seen some once. Nothing with children. They were at the very least teenagers. I wasn't searching for it. It was a long time ago when I was 16. I was at Kutz Camp outside Warwick, NY. We had a class on Social Justice/Social Action. We must have been talking about exploitation/porn. I remember the teacher brought either a magazine or maybe only xeroxed copies of the magazine (more likely as I doubt he would have had enough magazines for the entire class). It was an all male magazine that I think was from Germany. It showed young-ish guys. I don't know that they were younger than 18 or not. But considering the exploitation theme-possibly. Talking about that magazine was I think where I learned the term 'chicken' in a gay sense. I can't remember if the pictures showed 'the goods' or had (more likely) their private parts blacked out/held their hands over them. Thinking back-it seems such a strange experience to show to a mixed - sex class of adolescents. I mean it was definitely informative. But I wonder if the camp authorities knew the teacher was doing that. And in this day and age I have trouble seeing it occurring for adolescents as young as we were. Gman PS The more I think back 38 years the more I'm sure most of what we saw was xeroxed pages most likely with the goods covered up. But I still have this vague memory of an actual magazine with a yellow cover featuring black and white photos of naked male teens. I was probably more interested than the average student. But of course I was gay. And at 16 these guys were near my age.

PS As you can see, he is nowhere in his 50's -early thirties tops and probably in his 20's. http://tvseriesfinale.com/assets/soap48a.jpg Gman

I just thought it was funny. I don't think either Soap or the Golden Girls really appealed to me due to my sexuality. If I remember right, golden Girls came on Friday or Saturday. My lack of a social life and love of sitcoms probably contributed to my watching it more than anything else. Gman

Chuck and his dummy Bob. The ventriloquist's real name is Jay Johnson. http://tvseriesfinale.com/assets/soap48a.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Johnson_(ventriloquist) Gman

I liked the Golden Girls-but I wasn't a fanatic about it as gay men are often stereotyped to be. I probably like Empty Nest also by Susan Harris just as much. Gman

It had one of the first openly gay characters Billy Crystal as Jodie Dallas. He was really stereotypical to begin with. But then after several seasons had relationships with women while maintaining he was gay. So not the best depiction. But a depiction. I was 16 when it came on. I don't think I knew I was gay at that point. I may have had some suspicions -it's so difficult to remember what I thought 38 years ago. When this first came on, I hadn't even masturbated yet. That milestone occurred later in the school year. Ted Wass who plays his brother Danny Dallas was really handsome. And so was Robert Urich who played Peter Campbell. For some reason I really liked watching them. Here is the first episode. I still found it funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-jNYSHrkD4 Gman

Hmmm!!! Gman

I don't get it. Gman