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Hmmmm...My summation was intended to be about more about SOME members of CoM, rather than about any providers at all: Like a bunch of Talmudic scholars let loose by the CIA to study the connections between the dark web and ye olde Farmers Almanac, who in the absence of any actual evidence tease out lengthy and detailed "facts" and "meaning" from a few pieces of punctuation here and there or from their own interpretations of what a word "really means" or from commentary on the previous breadcrumbs left by other scholars immersed in the obsessive study of Company of Men. I really want to start seeing some of the evidence boards, guys.

And these are the exact reasons that I ask guys to send a VIDEO with an important event of national importance occurring in the background -- so I can compare it to the following day's network news. Given, no one has been able to do this yet in all the years I have been asking, I have to conclude that all providers are scam artists. Be warned.

With wait staff, cleaning people, hotel staff, barber, etc I generally tip 20%-30% -- but I tip providers the same amount I tip my lawyer, physician, medical specialists, architect, psychiatrist. business consultant, private coach, etc. Once you get an hourly rate in excess of $200 per hour, tipping is not necessary (unless you have money to burn).

With wait staff, cleaning people, hotel staff, barber, etc I generally tip 20%-30% -- but I tip providers the same amount I tip my lawyer, physician, medical specialists, architect, psychiatrist. business consultant, private coach, etc. Once you get an hourly rate in excess of $200 per hour, tipping is not necessary (unless you have money to burn).

Do CoM members think Washington is his home base or a temporary visit?

Maybe. Or it could be a situation more like Severance, involving a chip implanted in his brain so he was two very different separate realities.

Where is the coach located?

I wish I could comment. I tend to agree, although I woulds blame it into his break up itself, but rather in the lack of direction in his life. It sounds like a play of words but it is not. Thanks for your psychological evaluation, but NONSENSE! It's usually the mother's fault. Or some key nutrients missing during an important developmental phase. Or something that happened in the woodshed with the neighbor or perhaps a second cousin..

Or, what is referred to in less refined circles, as duck lips! Whatever one calls 'em, I am sure a plastic surgeon could reduce them so he looks normal.

Can't get past how rude to yuck other people's yum, ew.

Wow! HUGE arms! But alas, a teeny tiny head. Gee, I wonder what..... LOL

Thank you. And it's the exact same reason I won't meet with a provider without having a [brief] conversation with them. 🙂

The last post was pretty detailed and revealing -- and sounded very evenhanded. What more do you want?

And who (and why) he doesn't hive a perfect score to.

I wouldn't eat food or cross the street either. Major killers. Common sense simply might not be enough.

You does you!

Saying it over and over and over and over and over until I fall into a deep blissful sleep.

If only we could go back to the days when rates were posted. After a sampling of attractive providers posted "reasonable" rates, it would normalize the market and we would see many if not most of the higher rates get reduced by providers. 😞

I would say they are de jure vers/tops, meaning that’s what they advertise as but are de facto tops because that’s what their clients want. Whether they are vers with their boyfriends or casual non paid hookups is irrelevant to their business. After one [bad?] week? If an attorney doesn't practice for a week are they de facto not attorneys?

No, they are de facto vers/tops. If one is versatile, but by some act of fate only tops during the last week of August, it doesn't make that person "de facto" a top. 😉

I would love to know all the hierarchical levels of bottomness, and what they will do and won't do? Junior associate bottom? Sergeant Major bottom? Commis bottom? Co-Executive bottom? Master Chief Petty Bottom? Who keeps track of the rules of hierarchy and awards the full fledged title?

And I have frequently found that guys who call themselves "tops" will indeed bottom, and do it well when so asked. When asked those providers think "top" is the best choice from a marketing perspective and that it's easier in that it takes less prep time. It never hurts to ask. 😉

Yes! Why in the world just say what you have on your mind just once and post it here -- when you can have multiple guys email you and you can begin in a different place every time, in the manner of Italo Calvino's Post-Modern masterpiece If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.... Publishers and Movie producers are scanning the internet for potential sources of content: witness the success of Fifty Shades of Grey.

So the real "charmers" are the cheapest?

Can we change the name of this thread to whatever the blond calls himself, add his contact info, and delete any reference to any vikings with or without "the"s.