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3 hours ago, Tygerscent said:

Along with that old wives tale about cooking pork and refrigeration~ I guess some people feel awkward if they don’t have that but really, do make people do those silly things if they don’t want to~ 

What is the old wive's tale about pork and refrigerators?

Gman

I had Covid in December 2020. I was sick for about three weeks. This was before the vaccines were available, or looking just now-right around the time the vaccines were being rolled out. As I recall,  I was a bit apprehensive as I'm obese, hypertensive, prediabetic, and probably mildly immune suppressed as I'm on chronic prednisone. 
 

While it started out as more like a cold, what really worried me back then was I'd have fever for about 5 days -get better for 2 or 3-then would redevelop the fever. This happened about three times. The last time was the worst. Unknowingly with the last 5 days of fever I had developed pneumonia. Luckily it was a mild one. The worst part was that every nite for 5 or so days, the fever would spike, and I'd be in bed with shaking chills. After the fever resolved for good, I was a bit short of breath for 1 to weeks, but it gradually resolved. 
 

Since then I've been vaccinated-had my third shot this November. But I've also since  December 2020 been retested for COVID probably 5 or more times due to runny nose and sore throat. I was probably tested around twice in late November because someone I was around almost daily became positive. 
 

Well now we get to December-I was tested a few times because I had a runny nose and sore throat. But I was always negative.  Well  I now have had a runny nose for about 2 weeks. I got tested again last Wednesday. Thursday I was out and about.  My nose was dripping so much I had a wet spot on my mask. And I started sneezing. Considering all my negative tests, I thought there was a good chance it was cedar fever as there's an enormous amount of cedar pollen in the Texas air right now. Of course I'm not usually allergic. But the newspaper said there was so much pollen even people not usually affected were having symptoms. Plus Allegra seemed to help dry me up.
 

But today the test results came back, and I'm positive. This is nothing like the first time. I am a bit tired. But aside from that, the runny nose, and the sneezing. I'm doing fine. I'm going to hope I stay that way. Thank gosh for vaccine immunity, natural immunity, and most likely omicron being less virulent in vaccinated people. 
 

Gman

If I stood in front of the TV, my father  used to say, "Your father isn't a glassmaker."

(In case that's obscure-the idea was that if he had been, he could install a see through window into my trunk and see the TV through my body-or at least that's what I always thought it meant.)

Gman

On 12/31/2021 at 10:33 AM, Rudynate said:

My parents were fanatic about liver.  What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver.  They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside.   My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table.  I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. 

Years ago in my mid 20's I was at a reception with hors d'oeuvre being served. There was one appetizer wrapped in bacon.  I thought it was filet mignon.
It was liver. 🤢🤢🤢

Gman

1 hour ago, Brosnan said:

The current inflation rate is 7%. Prices are going up & that applies to all goods & services, so get used to it boys.

I don't have a career now and can't hire. But when I had a career, I was making pretty good money-and I could have afforded $400 occasionally-but I'm not sure I would have. Well actually the 1st time I hired I didn't really have a career-was in a training program and had some money saved up. But if the fee would have been $400, I might still be a virgin today. There's no way I could have afforded that. Escort rates to me seem to have increased much faster than most people's salaries.  I can only be glad that my hiring days were in the early 2000's to about 2015 when fees were more reasonable. 
 

Gman 

11 minutes ago, azdr0710 said:

I use the "search by image" add-on/plug-in in the Firefox browser and choose all the search engines options

Right but on a computer or a phone? I very rarely get any hits these days using the image search on the  Chrome iPhone app. 
 

Gman

And just to add fuel to the fire, I noticed two really muscular guys on this website -supposedly in Dallas-but same ad copy for both and neither of them have a Texas area code. While some of the guys on this website might be real-I think there ads some highly suspicious ads too. 
 

Gman

23 minutes ago, azdr0710 said:

and....still......the same haiku-like ad text......

easy image search......reported to RM, blah, blah......

thanks for your vigilance @Lazarus

Did you use a computer for the image search? I tried using the main picture on my iPhone and got bupkis!!

Gman

We had a discussion about this on the Forum a few years ago. (I'm trying to remember if there had been a NYT article on the subject). And I think the gist of it was that there were a lot of younger guys who were very body self-conscious.  I am myself as I'm -well to put it mildly-"portly." I used to hate showering in junior high and high school. I avoided it as much as possible. The only saving grace for me-and for those other people in the gym locker room now-is that I don't go to the gym. Ergo problem is solved. 😉😉😉

Twenty or so years  ago I remember a straight friend telling me that at his new gym a lot of the older gents would have conversations and shave -I think totally naked-but possibly with a towel on. Even 20 years ago we thought that was weird.  
 

Gman

On 11/15/2021 at 5:31 AM, FreshFluff said:

It’s been a year since BVB passed away. I still miss his sense of humor and wordiness. 
 

Edit: “Wordliness” not “wordiness”

I've been mostly off the Forum since before Daddy passed. So I missed this last year. We had some very nice private conversations. And of course we all remember his great posts here in the Forum. I'm sorry I never got to meet him in person. 
 

Gman

8 minutes ago, MikeBiDude said:

Hold down the search magnifying glass, goes to advanced search. . Put in your search term, then choose the tab to search by member and enter member name.

Yes but I didn't have a search term. I was just looking for posts by a member. But I think I found a way. It was in the About Us section. 
 

Gman

I was trying to search whether a member had had any recent posts. I put the member's nom-de-forum in the search box, but it also seemed to want some kind of tag or search term. I don't have a tag or search term. Am I doing something wrong? 
 

Gman

32 minutes ago, mike carey said:

Don't know, but that could be a mobile/computer version thing.

11 minutes ago, RadioRob said:

The view on mobile. 

On my iPhone, I think I've figured it out. You can hit the 'quote' button on each old post. But it seems to make a box of its own labeled "quotes."  Then you have to click on that box to get it into a posting box. (Maybe 😉). It's def not as easy as the old site. But as with most software changes-you win some; you lose some. 
 

Gman 

On the old site, it was possible to quote more than one previous post to put into a new post. I'm not sure I see how to do that currently. 
 

thanks 

Gman

2 hours ago, Kareem_nyc said:

That’s crazy! Why u just dnt get a prescription from your health care provider and get the whole bottle for their pharmacy (speaking about callen- Lord) for less than own dollar? 

I'm not sure what you mean. You have to have a prescription -at least legally-to get Viagra/sildenafil in the United States. And the situation has gotten worse. Now those same 6 tablets would cost per Goodrx around $404 at the cheapest. Plus not all providers have pharmacies. In fact if a provider is not part of some big hospital/clinic system they almost never have a pharmacy that is 'theirs.'  And even if they did, their prices for drugs would be the same as those at other pharmacies for the most part. 
 

Gman

4 hours ago, jeepo1 said:

i have hired jay a few times but as a top.  he is better looking than his pics and a sweet man

Then he must be drop dead handsome in person as I think he looks incredible in the pictures in his ad. 
 

Gman

A distant relative of mine just won a Nobel Prize!! Hats off to my bloodlines!!

Gman

On 9/13/2021 at 12:54 PM, Rod Hagen said:

Justin Taylor?  I don't remember him.  Was it Justin Baylor, the really fun guy out here in LA?

Justin was a porn actor and escort out of Chicago and I think later on Pennsylvania. He was a cute, skinny youngster at the time -the time in question being the summer of 2011 as I recollect. So assuming he was around 23 or 24 then -he'd be in his 30's now

https://www.mansurfer.com/video/107977/justin-taylor-solo

Gman

22 minutes ago, Epigonos said:

I still think the guy is hotter than hell.  I would hire him in an instant if he was into anything other than getting fucked.  Under his current limitations it would be a cold day in hell when I hired him.  Too bad!!!!!

The ad is a little more extreme than his last ads-but I've looked at his and for years. His ads have pretty much always implied/said that wasn't into the 'boyfriend experience. He was only there  to be topped. 
 

Gman 

PS This is my first post on the 'new' Forum. Apparently I've lost my rank. 😢

Not the IAFD-but the other one.

Thanks,

Gman

PS. I haven't looked at the Forum in about 2 months-shortly after I found out about Daddy's passing. But didn't the URL Used to be under .net? It popped up under .org this time.

Have you ever taken an Atlantis or RSVP cruise? The sense of camaraderie is palpable. Truly what I miss most about the old world. The sense of shared experience that connects us all is amazing on those boats and I can’t wait to be traveling again with my gay brothers.

i haven't had the pleasure.

 

Gman

There is a Hawaii one I’ll be on with some boys....

I probably wouldn't enjoy myself. I'm not saying it doesn't sound like it wouldn't be a lot of fun for a lot of people, but I don't do well in crowds where I don't know anyone. Also I'm not that a big a party-er. And I don't really have any sense of rhythm. And I feel totally awkward dancing.

Gman

I’ve said this before but I had nice experiences with him in Vegas several years ago.

We are both tops so the sexual chemistry wasn't 100% for me, but I knew that going

into the meeting so I was ok with that. As a masseuse he was Grade A+.

 

Obviously, others have had different experiences and YMMV.

Now he advertises as versatile/top. Was he doing that when y'all met?

 

Gman

Nope. Although if he does....I bet he'd be fun!

He's back to advertising as only a Top.

Gman

To hear this definitely knocks the wind out of you-especially since I had the chance to meet him once or twice. I really don't know what I would have done without this site. Aside from actually having met Daddy, this site (and Muscle Service Station) provided me with two people who ended up becoming my best friends for around 10 years. We lived 100's of miles apart and only met in person a few times. But they were invaluable to me. And without this site (and Muscle Service Station), I never would have met them. And that's not even counting the fact that if it weren't for this site I might have remained a virgin forever.

Gman

Have you ever taken an Atlantis or RSVP cruise? The sense of camaraderie is palpable. Truly what I miss most about the old world. The sense of shared experience that connects us all is amazing on those boats and I can’t wait to be traveling again with my gay brothers.

i haven't had the pleasure.

Gman

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him a few times on the Atlantis cruises. He’s an absolute gentleman and showman. He puts on a great concert and I’ve found him at karaoke or the piano bar a few times jamming out. He’s always been super pleasant and kind. I’m glad he’s enjoying life out of the closet.

I'm envious but in a good way only. Or not really envious but I wish I'd had that experience too

Gman