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The domain name should be something that members can recognize and remember, but not something that would be awkward if someone else should happen to see your bookmarks or websurfing history, like man$ex.net.

My favorite Verdi opera. I would definitely attend both versions if I still lived in NYC.

I'm not very good at this, but how about comp_men-forum? "comp" could suggest both company and compensation (and maybe even comparison, since the site includes reviews).

He needed to win this week's tournament in Dubai, but he lost a few minutes ago in the quarter-final to Jiri Vesely, a 28 year old Czech who is ranked outside the top 100. Vesely came through the qualifying and beat two other top players in the first two rounds, and did a real beatdown against Novak, winning in a second set tiebreak. Now Daniil Medvedev of Russia will become the first #1 not named Djokovic, Federer, Nadal or Murray since 2004, when Medvedev was 8 years old.

I have Hair on CDs, and still listen to it (I saw the original off-Broadway production).

The problem with all kinds of digital records is that they are useless without the appropriate technology of their time to view them, much of which becomes unavailable as they are superseded by newer technology and the older machinery ceases to be manufactured. I still have some of those cassette tapes that I sent to my spouse fifty years ago, but I no longer have a tape recorder on which to listen to them.

The Adolescent Nightmare

Beauty, as someone once said, is in the eye of the beholder. Most people will agree on certain standards of attractiveness in their own culture, as do I, but we all have our individual quirks that don't make aesthetic sense to someone else. The first time I became aware of being sexually attracted to another male was when I saw a black and white professional studio head shot photo of the grandson of one of my grandmother's friends. He was in his early 20s, slightly dorky, wearing glasses, but there was just something about his smile.... I found myself thinking, "It would be nice to kiss him." And then I realized that I had a hard-on.

Is Mike Pence standing by to count the vote?

In 80 years, a smaller portion of the Earth will be habitable for human beings, and the size of the human population will undoubtedly decline to reflect that reality, but the Earth will still exist, and so will Homo sapiens, even if civilization looks somewhat different from what we are accustomed to now.

I wouldn't call this a "daddy issue:" Bruno was probably about the same age as the guy giving him the BJ, who was obviously much taller than Bruno. But this would definitely fit nicely in "Autoerotica."

I, too, have boxes of letters from the 60s to 90s. The main difference is that with email I not only have the letters I received, but also the ones that I sent, and my computer can do a quick search through them to find what I want.

The recent post about answering the phone raised the observation that many people consider email an antiquated technology. I have been a prolific letter writer since my teens, and it has always been my primary means of communicating with friends and family. Often I didn't have a phone for personal calls--in college, living in other countries, traveling--but I could always write a letter and mail it. Non-local phone calls were also expensive, and required use of an intermediary like a long distance operator. The first time I lived in Europe, I brought a tape recorder with me, made cassette tapes, and mailed them back every week to my spouse in the US. When email became available at the end of the 20th century, I saw it as the perfect solution to my communication needs, especially for recipients at a distance. Now I use it even when I could use a phone, even for brief messages. Of course, many of my friends and family are also elderly, and don't like trying to text on a cell phone. The main disadvantage to email is that I need more equipment that just a pen, a piece of paper and a stamp, or a working phone. Also, I can't get an immediate response the way I can with a phone call, and I don't even know if my communication has been received unless I get a reply, but that is equally true of snail mail. The clutter of spam/scam emails is a nuisance, but they are easy to recognize and ignore, and the number of spam texts is getting just as bad. So, what is your attitude toward email? Have you abandoned it in favor of newer options?

During the pandemic, FaceTime has turned out to be an excellent way for me to interact with doctors who do telemedicine. Otherwise, I rarely use it.

Of course I know that email is for old-timers, but I use texting only for very short messages.

More of my phone calls are spam/scam than legitimate, so I never answer unless I recognize the name or number of the caller. My landline carrier actually warns "potential spam" on the ID. My landline and cell phones are set to automatically go to voicemail after 4 rings, so I check my voicemail regularly, just in case the call was legitimate; most spammers don't bother to leave messages. If I am near my landline phone when someone is leaving a message, I can hear them, and can break in and take the call if I realize that it is someone I want to talk to. I'm old and retired, so I don't have to deal with work-related calls, and I don't have family or friends who call me very often--most of my communication with them is through email. The majority of my legitimate phone calls are from medical providers.

My doctor got the Pfizer for the first three shots, but chose the Moderna for the 4th.

My doctor mentioned to me two days ago that he expects another booster to be available for most people relatively soon.

I don't think of a muscular, very hairy 30 year old as a "young lad," especially when he looks even older than 30.

Is it only people who don't believe in vaccination that you can't admire, or is it anyone who doesn't believe in whatever you consider to be "science" that you can't admire?

Your don't admire someone who has the courage of his convictions, even when he knows that doing so will probably cost him something that he sincerely wants?

I admire him for his willingness to pay the price for his beliefs, even though I don't agree with them. In other news, he is still ranked #1.

They had realized that its effects had other possibilities, but it had not yet been approved for erectile dysfunction.

No, about 30 years ago.

But the distance from my house to Costco is roundtrip 20 miles farther than the distance to my local gas station.