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CuriousByNature

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  1. This is good to know. I will now claim to have a roid belly instead of a donut belly.
  2. I don't see any resemblance from what is shown, whatsoever.
  3. Season 4 will apparently be set in France. I hear there are several places being considered, including the French Riviera, the Alps, and Paris. And best news of all, Jennifer Coolidge will be returning - somehow.
  4. I doubt you'll find anyone with more than one dick. Let alone 8 of them.
  5. A week will give you a taste of the city and likely hook you to return again one day. Much of your itinerary will depend on your interests. If you like ancient history, it is hard to beat the British Museum. It's by donation, or no donation if you choose, so you can go multiple times and not break the bank. The collection is vast, and after a few hours, you may need a break. I tend to go several times, for a few hours at a time. Many museums are 'by donation' and effectively free if you so choose. Nobody will bother you if you walk past the donation box, but sometimes you do get charged a couple of pounds for a museum map/guide. I always recommend that, because some museums and galleries go on, and on, and on. If you like art, there are many choices. The National Gallery is awesome, and the National Portrait Gallery I found to be okay. I think both are on or very close to Trafalgar Square. The Tate Gallery is also very good, and there's a Tate Modern across the river - I didn't find that one as good, but I don't have a well-developed appreciation for modern art. I don't recommend the London Eye - to me it was an expensive waste. Same with Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London are both pretty expensive, but I think both are worth it to see once. If you go to St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey for a service, you don't need to pay to enter, but you likely won't have access to as much of the structure. A day trip to Windsor is nice, to tour the Castle and St. George's Chapel, where many monarchs have been buried - the most recent being HRH Queen Elizabeth II. I would use buses as much as possible - they aren't as fast as the Underground, but you get to see a lot more of the city that way. London is also very walkable. If you like wartime history, the Churchill Cabinet War Rooms are interesting, as is the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, just across the Thames from Westminster. And there's a battleship on the Thames you can tour - I think it's the HMS Belfast, if I'm not mistaken. Harrods Department Store is interesting for the food court, but if you have to choose, I would go with Fortnum and Masons, where the Royal Family apparently gets their groceries. Or from where they order their groceries, most likely. The Natural History Museum is great if you like animals and dinosaurs, and right beside is the Victoria and Albert Museum if you like the history of design. Both museums are pretty vast, but doable in the same day if you focus on the things that interest you and have enough stamina to last the whole day. I believe many museums are closed one day each week - often Monday or Tuesday - but a number of them stay open late one night each week as well. If you like plays or musicals, London always has a lot happening. The theatre district is pretty close to Covent Garden, where there are lots of restaurants. Anyway, just some things to think about...
  6. Probably minimalist with a deconstructed silhouette. Some of the fancier dishes may have been highly beaded.
  7. Job titles in pron? Did any film include a character who was a proofreader? Sorry - couldn't resist.
  8. Too bad DW Griffith isn't alive to chime in - he knew how to pull off group scenes like nobody else. LOL
  9. I guess it's important to know it wasn't at the same time.
  10. Perhaps you can do a post as a new thread to recommend the one you ended up seeing? A new thread, so it doesn't get the two providers mixed up in this one....
  11. I bet you write Hallmark cards, don't you?
  12. Does he meet you behind the building, in the Bacalee?
  13. I agree. That's exactly what he means. But much to everyone's dismay, I always tend to look to inject bad humour!
  14. Is there a shelter or organization that is looking for people to foster dogs? That would give you a chance to make a meaningful difference in the life of a rescue dog without having a long-term responsibility to be concerned about. But the flip side is that you might bond with the dog before it gets adopted by someone else, and that could be upsetting for you.
  15. I've been trying to think more positively about how long I might live, so last week I bought a baby tortoise.
  16. I wonder how it feels being massaged with a mobile? Calder could have expanded his product line considerably.
  17. Thank you for clarifying. Have a great weekend
  18. Fair enough - if you ask someone to take their jewelry off it seems unreasonable for them to refuse. Moderator's Note: Quote of a hidden message has been removed.
  19. @Daniel narssi Thank you for taking the time to post this. As someone who has never worked up the courage to meet anyone, and having never considered myself desirable due to past emotional trauma, I guess it's a reality check to read that you only meet with those you are attracted to. But at least you are being honest about that, which I can appreciate. Take good care of yourself, and all the best to you for the future
  20. I've had some odd and (to me) inexplicable things happen over the course of my life. It may have been a coincidence that those various items had all been packed the way they were packed, but I don't think it was necessarily a coincidence that you came across them when you did. I don't think the people we love are trying to reach us from beyond the grave - I hope they are too filled with joy wherever they are to be bothered with this plane of existence any longer, and they also know it's just the blink of an eye compared to eternity before we're with them again. But that doesn't mean you weren't led by something bigger to find that box when you did, in my opinion.
  21. I find it easier. Particularly to keep friends. When I was younger all of us were at a similar stage in our lives. Then some friends went to college, others to university, others to work. We became more dissimilar, and this continued as some got married, and others got married and had kids. The common bonds were harder to retain. But now I tend to form friendships with other singles, or with couples where I meet both partners at roughly the same time. I'm friends with them as a unit and as individuals - not just friends with one half, who happens to have a spouse I otherwise wouldn't be friends with. It's a different dynamic. I know the friendships I make with younger people today may change as their trajectories become more different than my own, but that's okay.
  22. If I ever end up seeing a provider, and if they happened to erupt about politics, I don't think it would bother me too much. But if they happened to erupt about volcanoes all bets would be off.
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