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Why? Why is there always someone who moans about tips being too high (however good or bad the service) for the only reason that it queers the pitch for those who follow? A tip is a tip. In my many years of bar hopping and offing, I gave tips which were in line with the service I received, not what others suggested. The guys who gave great service and went beyond what I expected (most of them) would always get more. I never knew about average tips but always had in my mind what I would give for a good time. The only time I had any issue was with a boy from the old Screwboys Bar who, having been given quite a generous tip for lousy service, asked for more! He was out the door quite quickly! Would those who complain suggest to bars that there is a tip sheet with maximum tips obvious to all patrons? Impossible! (Sorry @vinapu as I am sure you are always fair. But there are equally degrees of fairness. A guy with lots of cash to spend is likely to pay considerably more in a tip whatever anyone suggests to him whereas those on far more modest incomes give less. That's the way of the world!)

Didn't know it was 2027 already.

If you look through the massive cataolgue of songs, old and not so old, you will find plenty with lyrics which suggest all manner of mental issues. I have no idea why @unicorn reckons this particular one so shocking. As I'm a bit older, I can remember this from Roy Orbison "It's Over". Like @unicorn I rarely paid much attention to the words and did not realise it referred to the break up of a relationship, but the title and the repetition in the second verse of "It's over, it's over. it's over" made the young me think it was about the end of life. What about Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"? Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can’t shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is comin’ down. I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door The pain of lineliness is also expressed in Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" (with the melody stolen from Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto)? Most that I can recall refer to an expression of the loss of someone, not the singer. But the effect on the original listeners who rarely if ever considered context was vitually the same. Elton John/Bernie Taupin's original "Candle in the Wind" after the death of Marilyn Monroe Loneliness was tough,The toughest role you ever played, Hollywood created a superstar, And pain was the price you paid. Or Metallica's "Fade to Black"? I have lost the will to live, Simply nothing more to give, There is nothing more for me, I need the end to set me free But go back in time through the classical canon and you find composers almost preoccupied with songs about death. Bach's cantata "Ich habe genug" meaning essentially "I have had enough and wait to go to my Maker" is probably the most obvious. Just before his death in 1949 Richard Strauss wrote his hauntingly beautiful "Four Last Songs". I adore the third "Beim Schlafengehen" (While Going Too Sleep) which ends - Hands, cease your activity; Head, forget all of your thoughts; all my senses now will sink into slumber. And my soul, unobserved, will float about on untrammelled wings in the enchanted circle of the night, living a thousandfold more deeply.

Great report! Any chance you could share their contacts via private message? With their consent of course. Thank you!

60 cents in Malaysia is 4.76 Thai baht. Calling it “cheating” or “overtipping” is a bit extreme! I’d yell too, at her.

I hear about a dude showing up in a hospital with something stuck in his ass every now and then

I had heard that song before; it was my husband who hadn't. That being said, my age was in the single digits when the song came out, so I never thought of listening to the lyrics before. Her beautiful voice has had no equal. I was an undergraduate at UCLA when she died. I remember when she died there were sick comments along the lines of "If only Karen Carpenter and Mama Cass had shared that sandwich, they'd both be alive today" (Mama Cass was described as having died choking on a ham sandwich by The Hollywood Reporter, though the person who wrote that in her obituary admitted in 2020 that she'd lied about that). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/arts/music/cass-elliot-mamas-and-the-papas-death.html "...For years, the origin of the story that Elliot died from choking on a ham sandwich — one of the cruelest and most persistent myths in rock ’n’ roll history — was largely unknown. Then in 2020, Elliot’s friend Sue Cameron, an entertainment journalist, admitted to publicizing it in her Hollywood Reporter obituary at the behest of Elliot’s manager Allan Carr, who did not want his client associated with drug use. (Elliot died of a heart attack, likely brought on by years of substance abuse and crash dieting.) But that cartoonish rumor — propagated in endless pop culture references, from “Austin Powers” to “Lost” — cast a tawdry light over Elliot’s legacy and still threatens to overshadow her mighty, underappreciated talent...".

Super, thank you, it's just prepaying the reciprocity fee so no additional fee.. The net said I still have to go through the Canadian line, I guess they just like to keep track.

I'm surprised you had not heard the song before. I'm a big fan, though, so I'm familiar with all their hits. Karen Carpenter didn't write those lyrics, but it's possible they are a reflection of her experience. I don't know. She died many years later. Rainy Days and Mondays was a huge hit, also with sad lyrics. Talkin' to myself and feelin' old Sometimes I'd like to quit Nothin' ever seems to fit One of their songs I had never heard before until I listened to a cover on YouTube is "I Need to Be in Love". Apparently it was well know and loved in Japan. Once I heard it, I loved it immediately. This one also is a bit melancholy. It's very beautiful. 💓 Again Karen did not write the lyrics. Many say the quality of Karen Carpenter's voice remains in a class by itself.

Very sad. It's odd, I've often wondered why some Muslim and Christian nations have never banned homosexual sex and others do. I looked it up a few days ago and sure enough it was the fucking Europeans. The response I got said while sodomy was banned in the Muslim religion homosexuality wasn't. But as Europeans began colonizing the world they brought their laws. So while homosexuality has never been illegal in Turkey, the British banned it in India during their rule there. It was banned in progressive Canada until 1969 with the law enthusiastically enforced in some cities and by the RCMP. In the 60s a Canadian man on getting a second conviction was sentenced to an "indefinite" period in prison which could have meant life. That spurred efforts to get the ban lifted. The Calgary police continued to harass gays well into the 90s. And the Vancouver police would label gay hate crimes as something else like road rage. In recent years they refused to charge two rednecks with assaulting a gay guy downtown despite lots of witness evidence. The victiim called his local member of the BC legislature who called the mayor who called the police chief. The police said it was all a misunderstanding, the officers were planning to turn it over to the hate crimes unit. The rednecks pled guilty and had to do some community service I think. It's disappointing that can still happen in one of the most an progressive neightbourhoods in one of the most progressive cities in Canada.

My last flight into MDE was last year for La Feria in August. At that time, i was directed to the kiosk furthest to the left hand side to pay, but if you pre-paid the Visa i think you are stuck. You can purchase VIP packages to go with guided express processing, but the going rate is $250 USD for this service which is a LOT of future citas here, as you know. Good luck. EDIT: BioMig now allows foreigners as well for biométric processing https://www.migracioncolombia.gov.co/noticias/migracion-colombia-invita-a-usar-biomig-para-evitar

I think he refused to give her the change. It was one of those things where she was paying, me and the husband were starting to walk away and there was a commotion behind us. I think she wanted to pay for things like that because she knew me and him would overtip.

Ha, ha... she was a very competitive lawyer and very money conscious. Also, it was tough for her there, she's quite tall and really stood out. She got a lot of attitude probably because of the Muslims and women thing, especially from other women. Her husband and me would get big smiles from a store clerks and she would just get a sullen stare. It happened a lot. Plus me and husband are short, but her long legs made long trips on the highway buses uncomfortable because of not much space between seats. And I think her husband's dirty sex obsessed mind made sure she was getting "plenty to eat at home" as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford once said.

Some like oral, others anal.... 🤷‍♂️

Do tell more. How did the driver cheats her off 60 cents?

Was she yelling her fee?

ha,ha... I hired a driver/guide in Bali in November. He told me the raid there on the gay sauna a few years ago was prompted by the owners of a new sauna paying off the police to eliminate their biggest compeitition.

Was she upset because the driver didn't keep his promise to fuck her? Sounds like she could have used a good one. 😏🤷

I'm going to Medellin on Friday. It will be the first time I go through passport control there. Have you gone through there in recent years noticed where the special kiosk is in relation to the other windows. I did the prepay this time, but apparently stiil have to go through the Canadian walk of shame.

That's for sure. Of course it's all relative. Asians seem like studs compared to Canadian escorts. I usually only contact foreigh guys when I am at home.

I just laughed out loud, which is something I rarely do anymore.

Ha, ha.... know what you mean. I went to Malaysia with a buddy and his wife and she flipped out one day over a taxi driver who cheated us out of 60 cents. She was yelling at him and he said, "fuck you" and sped off. Well, him getting the last word and it being fuck you really pissed her off. Fortunately she was going home a week before us because she couldn't stop fuming over it and blaming all Malaysians.

I imagine that any travel insurance would be invalid.

I think that happened some years ago.

Thanks!