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I think at the end of the day the false report is a small criminal case that isn't worth all the drama for the prosecutor's office. They take the bond to 'pay' for their wasted time, and move on. I think this is basically them saying they have a case, but the case isn't worth pursuing.

When the price of admission is you have to believe that the creator of the universe committed ritual suicide because he was mad at you, it is hard for anything really rational to come after. I think hypocrisy is inherent in all organized religion. Catholicism is one of the biggest, so it gets called out a lot, but no other organized faith manages it better I think.

Why derail threads with your personal drama? If you don't like Riobard, just don't respond. I don't know the neighborhoods, am not going to learn the neighborhoods, and don't speak Portuguese so I'm never going to get in with the locals. What I do like is reading threads about places I might go with useful information. If I wanted to watch a pissing contest, I'd pull up pornhub.

You must have had better luck than I did with him. I think this is the Laotian guy I hired last summer. He couldn't perform without watching straight porn on his phone. That's a boner killer for me.

Hot to me. Now I want to go back to Bangkok again! The food and the boys! I'm less keen on the tatted up look some of them have. Sometimes it works on some guys, but mostly not for me. I don't know why. I guess I find it a bit distracting. "what is that about?" I'm also not a size queen, so I've never really much paid attention to all the chatter about where the big dicks are. I'm more into faces and typically like the clean cut type. These guys fit that bill. If they know how to use it, whatever they've got is gonna be enough.

Oh yes, did I have the serious hots for him when I was younger (and he was still smoking hot.) Drugs and alcohol can make beasts of saints.

Sign up for google voice and get a fake number. that's what I did, and I use it for all my escort contacts.

I think it far more likely that the difference in numbers isn't because of the effectiveness of this particular protocol, it's that people don't actually follow it.

I think people want to believe they have more control than they do. You can do all the right things and still be victimized. You can do all the wrong things and get away with it. That doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise due caution, but being unlucky isn't the victim's fault.

I personally think he deserves some kind of strongest man in the world prize. Surely nobody else in the world is strong enough to haul that ego around 24x7.

Amazon brought a lot of efficiency to book selling. Efficiency is a brutal thing. Most of us say we hate the hollowing out of local businesses, but most of us aren't willing to pay a fair bit extra to have them. Most of us don't have the money to not care what things cost. When given the real choice, we choose cheaper and more efficient at consumers. I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. If I know what I want, why am I benefited to get in my car, drive to a store, pick out and pay for an item, and then drive home? Never mind that it is also probably cheaper not even figuring in car, gas and the value of my time. With a couple of clicks, it will get delivered to my door. It's the Sears and Roebuck catalog for the modern world (I date myself that I know and ordered from that catalog). No doubt that also did a number on mom and pop general stores in the heartland. It's legitimate to ask if those Amazon are the type of jobs your community wants. But the frequent fixation on the $3B tax rebate I think really misses the mark.

I liked Obama, but he didn't deserve a Nobel.

The attack didn't seem random to me, which struck me as odd, but I will wait for the rest of the facts.

Except the $3B was a rebate on the $27B they would have paid in taxes. So NYers are out $24B in tax revenues, but hey, they showed the man, right? Slate on Amazon abandoning NY HQ

Some guys like wearing women's clothes. That doesn't make part of them female. It means they reject stupid rules on what they wear. Everybody who breaks convention isn't automatically queer to me. It could possibly mean they're non-binary, but it would be that which makes them queer in my eyes, not the choice of clothing. If you know something more about this gentleman than I read in his wikipedia entry, by all means share. Nothing in it suggested to me that he wasn't a normal hetero guy who liked to dress up.

While I consider cross-dressers and the like allies, I don't typically think of them as queer. According to his wikipedia page he's married to a woman, and has a daughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayson_Perry

Haha! Thanks for the kind words.

I thought we had a separate politics forum so we didn't have to read this crap. Talking about internet sex and politics is one thing, but can we keep the rest of the cesspool in the actual cesspool?

In the unlikely event I choose to write a sequel, I will definitely have to pay more attention to the science of non verbal communication in the locker room.

No, partner got sucked into it by the brother of a friend. Writes 'shifter romance' which seems to be the current hotness. werewolves, werebears and weredragons all needs their womenfolk to be making the werebabies. Turns out there is something of a market for that. Who knew? But my partner does most of the work, and gets a poor share of the return. If I could do the marketing, that could change.

Ha. Yeah, my partner writes really stupid romance. That's niche. This is even more niche. I understand to try to turn this into something you'd have to promote like crazy. Not sure it's even possible to promote enough to make this worthwhile. But if I could figure it out, maybe I could help my partner do the romance. That's farmed out to somebody else today.

I have no tattoos and I am not going to start now. Not that I have anything against tattoos, but... I have seen a lot of shitty tattoos. I'd hate to end up with something ugly. Second, my tastes change. I know that even if I loved it now, I'd be bored with it later. The idea of putting a tattoo on my face is just right out though. I would know everybody looking at me would be seeing it, and not me.

At a friend's challenge, I wrote a 'gay erotic novella' in December. I had been enjoying written porn more than visual porn recently, and thought it might be a lark to figure out how this whole self-publishing thing works out on Amazon. Turns out, these guys have the process pretty wired (what a surprise). In keeping with the genre, most things happen as an excuse to fuck. I will shamelessly self-promote here in the hopes that I can eventually sell enough copies to pay back the $12 that the cover photo license cost me. If this kind of thing amuses you, check it out. Even if it doesn't, please lie and say it's awesome. The Team Comes First on Amazon

Congratulations. I have lost about 110 the old fashioned way. I went from size 46 pants to size 34. Lots of exercise and watching my diet. Work out 5 or 6 days a week. I'm in better shape than I've been my entire life. It is hard to keep the focus but the results are worth it to me.

Well, hell, if you're going to have a presidential platform, you ought to at least include Public Orgies supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. It's what some people think they do already anyway!