7 hours ago, Km411 said:

68 day and night; never adjust it. 

same here - 20C

On 10/30/2023 at 5:14 PM, guru68 said:

Surprised that he lists kissing, or maybe he just means kissing his dick.

He's apparently over 6 feet tall.  Do you think he could manage to reach it?   

13 minutes ago, pubic_assistance said:

Maybe you should READ what I wrote again. You seem to have missed the point

I find lots of people are beautiful who aren't the definition of "classically handsome".

I didn't think otherwise.  Like you, I also find many people to be beautiful that would not necessarily fit the definition of 'classically handsome', and particularly the definition based on the standards of Bronze-age Greece.

I've edited my original comment a bit to hopefully improve the clarity of the point I was trying to make - that the term 'classical' makes me think of representations made by Greek and later Roman artists - not that I consider that to be an accurate definition myself.

1 hour ago, pubic_assistance said:

Your attempt to sympathise with pluralism in a conversation about "classic" beauty is interesting.

It touches on the very problem with the understanding of "classically handsome" in this conversation. The idea is NOT pluralistic and multi-cultural and it doesn't try to be. This is likely why you're not finding many examples of it in multicultural places like NYC. Physical beauty and sexual attractiveness in multi-ethnic communities don't rely on the familiarity of a refined version of a single race. But the idealism of "classically handsome" DOES. So the concept is always borne of focus and therfore has no room for multiculturalism.

All that said....I will use a single viewpoint from my own experiences of growing up in an all white, primarily Germanic community who's finer quality gentlemen were very much in the same category as the  Hollywood Hunks of the 1920s to 1970s. MY environment surrounded me with many fine examples of classically handsome men who I did find to be beautiful. But once I left this monolithic society and moved first to LA and then to New York, my experiences of beauty changed and I am now more inclined to be attracted to people who look very different from me and therefore different from the Hollywood ideal.

So this conversation keeps mixing up people's personal sexual triggers with the more narrow idea of "classically handsome" , which like the Greeks and Romans, is focused on one race and the refinement of one look.

Today I would sooner go for Regé-Jean Page than Chris Hemsworth but I am well aware that Regé is an example of the new idea of multicultural beauty, and not eligible.for the narrow idea of "classically handsome" as Hemsworth may be viewed.

The point is that what YOU PERSONALLY find to be most beautiful is not necessarily the same as someone who's interest is focused on "classical beauty".

 

I was only saying that the term 'classic handsomeness' can be taken back to the Greek notions of what they considered to be beautiful - and that was a very narrow definition that is not broad enough to include what many of us today would consider to be beautiful.  It isn't that the subject of a Greek statue should be considered unattractive, but rather, that the ancient measure of classic handsomeness is but one, fairly narrow definition.

When I think of beauty or handsomeness in a 'classical' sense I immediately associate that with what I personally consider to be the unrealistic and narrow standards put forward by sculptors working during the Classical period of Ancient Greece, and the copies of Greek sculpture later created by Roman artists.  It's all very mathematical and balanced, but I find these pieces to lack necessary elements that would make them approachable if they were living beings.  To me, this is where beauty and handsomeness diverge from attractiveness.  Not to mention, the classical standard did not include non-Greek races and ethnicities, so this narrowed the definition of classic beauty and handsomeness even further.  Thankfully the standard is not set in stone (pun intended) - and probably for most people, attractiveness is not dependent on some global ideal of physical perfection, but rather, a mix of elements which foster connection and relationship.

5 hours ago, asntop74 said:

SimonSuraci on RentMasseur

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 would love some 411 on Simon.

Calling @Simon Suraci, calling @Simon Suraci... please pick up, @Simon Suraci   

4 hours ago, guru68 said:

Misread that as "bigcorkforu".

2 hours ago, Balthazar said:

Most M4M masseurs know that many, if not most, of their male clients would welcome an HE. If the masseur offers no evidence that extras are an option, I tend to not try to test his boundaries. I recognize, however, that I might have missed some opportunities with this approach. 

You may have missed some opportunities, but your approach sounds very respectful towards the providers - which is far more important in my opinion.

19 hours ago, PileDriver said:

yep. still describes the upper west side ymca. back in the early 90's the locker room was a pig feast. today not as much but close enough.

9 hours ago, samhexum said:

These Ants Can Diagnose and Treat Their Comrades’ Infected Wounds

Matabele ants in sub-Saharan Africa often sustain injuries while hunting termites—and their survival strategy may help humans fight infections, too

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

 

When humans get injured, doctors often prescribe antibiotics to help ward off infection. But humans aren’t the only creatures to provide such sophisticated medical care to each other—some ants do, too.

Matabele ants can identify and treat infected wounds with antibiotics they produce and secrete, scientists report in a paper published last week in the journal Nature Communications. This finding could one day lead to the development of new antibiotics for humans, according to the researchers.

Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) live in massive colonies throughout sub-Saharan Africa. They only eat termites, which are plentiful in the region—but the ants’ narrow diet is not without consequences.

Termites live in heavily guarded colonies. When Matabele ants approach, termite troops go on the defensive and use their powerful jaws to fend off the attackers. This often results in grievous injuries to the ants during hunting missions—up to 22 percent of foraging Matabele ants have lost a leg or two during raids.

Previous research found that uninjured Matabele ants often carry their injured comrades back to their nests, where they lick their nest-mates’ wounds for several minutes. But researchers didn’t know why the ants did this—they wondered if the behavior helped remove dirt from the site, for instance.

Now, they think they’ve solved this mystery. In the new study, scientists compared the chemicals produced by ants with infected and uninfected wounds. When a wound was infected, the hydrocarbon profile of the ant’s exoskeleton changed—and fellow ants seemed able to pick up on this difference.

Not only did ants distinguish between infected and uninfected wounds, but they also targeted the infected wounds with self-made treatment. Matabele ants produced a substance from their metapleural glands, which are located on their backs, and applied it to their peers’ infected wounds. That substance contained more than 50 different components with antimicrobial or wound-healing properties, the researchers discovered.

The treatment was effective, too: When researchers isolated infected ants from their colony of healers, 90 percent of them died within 36 hours. In contrast, mortality was only 22 percent for infected ants that the scientists kept with the colony.

“With the exception of humans, I know of no other living creature that can carry out such sophisticated medical wound treatments,” says study co-author Erik Frank, an animal ecologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, in a statement.

The ants’ life-saving antibiotics make sense in the context of their dangerous hunting expeditions. If all injured ants died from infection, Matabele ant colonies would have a tough time surviving.

“The workforce would diminish too quickly without this medical treatment,” Ken Cheng, an animal behaviorist at Macquarie University in Australia who was not involved in the research, said to New Scientist’s Alice Klein in 2022, before the study had been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Scientists still want to learn more about Matabele ants’ wound care. But they’re hopeful that insights gleaned from the insects could someday lead to the development of new antibiotics for humans.

One of the main pathogens that infect injured Matabele ants, called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, also infects human wounds—and, in humans, several strains of the bacteria are resistant to existing antibiotics. Components found in the ants’ healing secretions may one day be useful for helping sick humans fight off Pseudomonas aeruginosa, too.

I never had a doctor that was an ant, but I did have an aunt who was a doctor.

This guy is literally the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)

26 minutes ago, Tygerscent said:

Pillows were meant for biting~ 😂🫶🤭

Again, I'll just have to take your word for that...  *sigh*   LOL

21 minutes ago, Tygerscent said:

You can also share kisses with baileys or just raspberries or jaggermister~ …or tea of orange bliss water, mint and sumac syrup~ 

I guess I could kiss a raspberry.  That might be somewhat more realistic than my pillow.

3 hours ago, that_masked_man said:

Mental health wise, there was definitely something going on. Not saying that this did NOT make his actions a "hustle," but there were some issues in that department. He also had some legal troubles. In addition, there was also (what I suspect was) a suicide attempt, at one point.

My ongoing difficulty in letting this go is the sheer amount of time he invested in cultivating our friendship. Thousands and thousands of messages, which would not have been necessary, if he wanted to maintain me as a client. He spent so much time in contact with me, there was no way this was ever going to be equal, if he was watching the clock and keeping track.

It seems that he valued you a lot, for you as a person and not as a wallet.  But for whatever reason he may be unable to maintain healthy, functional relationships.  Functional in that the relationship seemed to be working for both of you, even if some might view it as unconventional.

12 hours ago, Luv2play said:

My father gave me the books over 40 years ago. I always intended to read them and now I have. I will be passing them on to my nephew, who has two sons in their teens. Maybe they will read them too as I understand at least one is a keen reader.

A quick look online shows that a first edition set, depending on the condition, may be worth several hundred or even several thousand dollars.  It may be wise to have an expert take a look and then possibly consider getting separate insurance for them.  And yes, I do watch the Antiques Roadshow....  

11 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said:

"Comedienne"? Really? A comedienne is supposed to make people laugh. Kathy Griffin is no comedienne.
Phyllis Diller was funny...Moms Mabley was funny...Totie Fields was funny...Lucille Ball was funny...Gracie Allen was funny....Rosanne Barr was funny...Joan Rivers was funny...Carol Burnett is/was funny.
Kathy Griffin is a witch. She is more ugly on the outside (have you ever seen her without make-up?) than on the inside. And that's tough to do.

It's hard to believe that vile woman was married!?!?!!? Who would marry that rat-faced orange crone? 
Randy Bick is one fortunate man to be getting this divorce. Tough too! How he could stand four years with this POS is beyond my understanding. Did it really take 4 years for Randy Bick to regain his hearing, eyesight, and ability to detect foul odors? Did it really take him four years to see her in the daylight?
Well, one thing we know for certain is that her soon to be ex just got the greatest New Year's present ever! He should be the happiest man on earth right now. He got his get-out-of-jail card not having to spend another day with that attention-craving narcissist. Let's hope she doesn't display his severed head any time soon.

 

Kathy Griffin has made a living by being shallow, hateful, vulgar, and crude. And those are her good points. 
She is a miserable, wretched, hate-filled woman that has brought this misery up on herself! May her TDS consume her ! 

BTC

 

If I read carefully between the lines, I think I can tell you're not a fan.

I'm not a fan either.  I have definitely heard her say funny things, but I find that the vulgarity she relies on gets in the way of any meaningful humour.  I'm not some Pollyanna - I do enjoy humour that can be dark and even vulgar, if it is done well.  Some of the grotesque and vulgar skits in Little Britain would have me rolling on the floor.  But rather than creating laughable vulgarity - which is not easy -  she aims low and goes for shock value and offensiveness.  It's sort of lazy in my opinion.  I almost think of her as the female version of Andrew Dice Clay, minus the biker persona.  

6 hours ago, Tygerscent said:

Do you mean the Douglas Laing old mill keg 18~? 
 What I enjoy about these aged laphroaig’s  is their peetiness, soft woody warmth and the casual if not lazy fruit that comes from the port and Madeira casks~   … and the color~    
 Half the pleasure is savoring the aroma before you sip it, as it hits the various goal posts in your mouth and that initial inhale and exhale between breaths~  So, taste plus multiple senses experience~   
 Not something to get drunk on… something to appreciate and experience~ Slowly… and together~ Great when sharing kisses~ 
 

100% agree.  Any time I have a peaty single malt it hits so many senses at once and somehow transports me to the beautiful island of Islay.  And like you say, it's not something to get drunk on.  But sadly and pathetically, I'll have to take your word about it being great when sharing kisses!

18 minutes ago, viewing ownly said:

Gift cards are routinely rejected from these sites due to recurring billing. This began in 2020. It was a headache for both websites that have recurring billing, and consumers erroneously wondering why their money was disappearing. By now refusing to honor them, the problem is solved on the part of the websites. Calling the phone # to "register your card for online purchases" is a waste of your time, as it STILL isn't going to work on these websites. 

I wondered about that too, but the same make of card worked fine about 5 months ago.  Maybe things changed since then...

I've never met with anyone, nor have I had the confidence to explore my curiosity with anyone.  But I could see myself getting into a similar situation as the one you have unfortunately found yourself in.  He's the only one who really knows why he became colder and more distant, and why he turned on you the way he did.  It doesn't sound like a hustle to me, and I'm wondering if it even has anything to do with you?  It could be that other things in his life are coming to a head, and he feels his only way to deal with it is to put up walls.  Financial gain did not seem to be a motivating factor for him with respect to your friendship, so it seems odd he would suddenly monetize your past time together and try to make you feel somehow responsible.  Or maybe there are some underlying mental health issues that cause him to sabotage healthy relationships.  My hope is that you can move past the shock of this happening, and that you can appropriately grieve the loss of this friend.  And, that he will be alright too.  

I imagine she, like many people of colour, has likely encountered 'racial animus' throughout her life.  It is incredibly sad and totally unjustifiable that anyone should be racially discriminated against.  But to spin her resignation to make it seem as if she's stepping down due to the racism she is encountering, is rubbing salt in the wounds of those who were harmed by her earlier words.  That said, we don't know what kind of racist vitriol she may be encountering since everything blew up after her antisemitic comments.  But I am surprised that someone who has likely faced many instances of discrimination in her own life, is willing to double-down and change the narrative so that she is the one being victimized.  Genocide can never be justified, no matter what the context.  Slavery can never be justified, no matter what the context.  The destruction of Indigenous cultures can never be justified, no matter what the context.  And rather than acknowledging the real reason why she is unsuitable for leading a university, she seeks sympathy for herself.  To me, this is more than delusional - it sounds completely narcissistic and perhaps even sociopathic.  Very sad, and very disappointing.

I think you should send me the gift card and I can let you know if it works.

On 10/14/2023 at 10:21 AM, BenjaminNicholas said:

This is like the gay fuck version of Clue.

'Rafael Alencar...  On dirty blacktop...  With a fist.'

That certainly puts a spin on the board game...  Professor Plum and Colonel Mustard in the study with a candlestick... poor Lumiere 😮

On 10/11/2023 at 4:27 PM, Peter Eater said:

Maybe “BigCockGuy” means the guy likes big cock.

Here he is with his pet rooster

13 hours ago, Pensant said:

I visited all three in September of 2016 while staying on Islam. 

Is that the Scottish island just off the coast of Saudi Arabia?  Part of the Extremely Outer Hebrides? 

12 hours ago, Harryinny said:

Wow, great chest, delicious!!!

Amen