CuriousByNature

Happy New Year @big dale - all the best for 2021!

@MrMattBig - Happy New Year. I just saw that the negative review no longer appears on RM ?. All the best to you for 2021!

Wow... that's scary. Glad they were okay.

What was it that happened in 2018?

If you do hear back from him at some point, please update the post so we know he is okay. I think it's kind of you to be concerned about his wellbeing.

All the very best to you for 2021 - I hope things are not too hectic for you and that your Yorkie is well soon

Wow... just looked at the New Year's Eve menu. In Canadian dollars, $1,060 for 8 courses plus another $375 for 5 wine pairings.

Yes. Absolutely

One more... parmesan cheese. I grew up on the dry, crumbly, grated Kraft parmesan in the green cylindrical cardboard container, which not surpringly tasted like cardboard and also smelled like vomit. Now, for me it can only be wedges of Parmesano Reggiano. Call me a cheese snob if you must.

I have a number of pieces of tupperwear my mom got for her wedding shower circa 1965, and some old Pyrex mixing bowls from the 30s or 40s that belonged to a great-aunt.

I must be thinking of someone else then, or had converted it to Canadian dollars LOL

Bread, mattresses, footwear, olive oil

I don't recall exactly, but if it is the same person I think it was quite high.

Am I recalling correctly from a post a while ago that the donation for his time is quite a bit higher than average?

Do you mean that someone who has contracted herpes should never have encounters with anyone after that?

That's super sweet. She's lucky to have you, and I'm sure you must feel blessed as well.

Right. I didn't say that all cases of preferences are absent of learned biases. Just that preferences towards certain characteristics may be more hardwired than that. I think we can too often discount the complexity of attraction.

Just wondering, when you are hiking etc, is that off the clock, or is the provider still compensated for their time? Who initiates these get togethers, you or the provider?

I thought that.

I know what your saying, but I think there are preferences that are not learned. Following your line of reasoning, a person is attracted to a particular gender because that is what they learned? I think there may be some environmental factors to attraction but a lot may come from birth. My point is that being more attracted to a certain size, race, eye colour, etc., does not necessarily mean one is sizeist, racist, etc. There are those who definitely may be, but not everyone is. I think it may be more of an issue if someone is only attracted to their own race, age, size, etc., to the exclusion of anyone else. Or if they will only associate with a specific 'type'. Attraction is far more complex.

The truth for me is that I see beauty in every race, size, height, age, gender.... except myself! But that's a different topic for a different string... lol ?

Maybe this is going to open a can of worms, but here it goes anyway. People can have preferences without it being racist, sizist, ageist, etc. It comes down to how we treat one another. Maybe I am predominantly attracted to Asians? Maybe I do not find myself attracted to whites? That isn't racism unless I also treat one race differently than another, or think that one is better than the other. You can uphold equality without having to be attracted to everybody. As for shaming, nobody should shame anyone for their appearance. But shaming someone for their words and actions is another matter.

Everyone has a type. He has a lot more guts than I have.

Ahhhhhhh... so nothing to do with a bucket of fried chicken?

KFC?