TampaYankee

Touche'

You know we already have a 'theme forum' dedicated to hot guys. It is called The Buffet, orginally intended to post pics about and discuss escorts and other hot guys. True, we haven't had a lot of discussion about escorts on a frequent basis. Nevertheless, all hot guys, escorts or not, are still hot guys, muscle beef or candy twinks. I used to move such theme posts to The Buffet back in the early days. However, it became clear that some preferred to post in The Pub, now Lucky's place, so I figured let them post where they wish. Now we talk of adding a forum devoted to the display and expostion of these treats. Why add another new forum. We can always change the name if that is of consequence. Does anyone salute this alternative? Would it be more palatable if we killed The Buffet and created a new forum: Pic's & Vids?? Do we actually need to increase the number of forums? We can always move it up first in the list if that makes a difference. Just a possibility for you to consider.

Aces, This is Ralph Woods who I first encountered two weeks after he turned 18. He was dancing at Adonis in Montreal. He has gone on to porn, big time. I have never known him to escort and I have never heard tell that he has.

Tomcal, Your posts are theme specific in addtion to appealing to our sense of beauty and our innate attribute of lust. They would be like ducks out of water if moved. That will never happen. We would keep all posts in theme-related forums in place. It makes no sense to do otherwise.

Well, just between you and me. I wish!! I offered. All my encounters were either in the clubs or on the street in casual settings.

I got past that long ago. You are the one dredging up the past. As for the thread you mention, I was rebuked by Matrix for 'over interpreting ' your remark to him. I left it at that. Just call me sensitive. Given the recently prior exchanges between you two and given the sensitivities expressed online over it in its final throes, and given that it has happened in the past that bait has been cast upon the waters, even subtle bait, and given that I do not know beforehand how someone will perceive and respsond to what might be bait, I decided to step in between to deflect potential follow up. I took the black eye -- a cost well worth paying for avoiding other potential outcomes. It is not always easy to glean intent from the posted word. We are all prisoners of past experience. I may have overreacted in that instance, however, it was not of my doing alone as the condtioning had already been put in place, and not just by me.

So it seems.

You are correct. I should have started my post with If. I did not and I followed crumbs left by others. I apologize for directing that post at you. I am unsure what you are referencing. Please PM me with specfics so that we may clear the air. If I don't want you to post here I will be very clear about it. If I didn't want you to post here I would not have proposed to Oz that we rename The Pub for you.

I think he is fine just the way he is. Better than fine... much better.

As long as he wants I suspect. He's long-time married, recently lost a teen-age son, and having a new baby. I suspect the public will stick with him as long as he desires.

I suspect it will cultivate prima donna attitudes in last weeks average guys next door. Just a hunch.

Lucky, I think your concern here was way off base. Sure, your post piqued my curiosity as I'm sure it did many others. I really do not have much interest in what goes on over there surely, with the drama and food fights and management tantrums. So, for me, it was easy to move on from your cryptic post. However, this was not about those site issues, this was about the very questionable behavior of an escort in his professional activities. How could anything be more germane??????????????? The fact that it first surfaced over there is inconsequential.

Sad to see a great guy fall from grace. I don't know what problems or demons he is fighting but I wish him all the best in dealing with them. Unfortuantely, he has stained his reputation severely. From a practical point of view it would seem any road back would have to come from work in the local market to reestablish some measure of reliability. That or front his own travel costs. I'm not sure how San Antonio, as a local market, compares to NYC, LA and MIA.

Did I mention that I have actually enjoyed this perspective in person -- sitting between his legs as he hovered over me in the nude, dick in hand. He's got a great rose bud too. As you can tell, an event emblazoned in my memory.

Call me the Party Pooper but I must take exception. We are offering very explicit photos to members. Members must register with a birth date or age. It is not a fool proof age verification scheme but it is an attempt to put people on notice that they must be over eighteen and that they must affirm that via registration. We do have a age query on our splash page but it is only a check box which is a little less forboding to those who would skirt the rules than membership enrollment. Is registration fool proof? No. Does it accomplish anything for hot-linked photos? No. It is not perfect but it does put the viewer on record. We could disallow hot-links to tighten up our procedure. We could require registration to access the entire site. We want to do neither. Is login a burden? Yes, but a pretty miniscule one in the way of things. It is a burden I have to endure as well. Often I check the forums without login. If I see a pic post I groan about login too as it is my responsibility to monitor contributions for impermissable content. However, it goes with the job as login goes with the privilege of viewing photos and vids for members. Maybe the login requirement is not fool-proof age verification but it is very effective at making me feel better about adding a hurdle to complete participation by people who should not be participating here. If asked the question, I can say "at least we made some attempt".

Were any of these charges leveled against Noah made in a review?

Everybody knows it is a strange skin disease. However, I didnt know it was foreign. I thought it was Latin.

I thought you were already known as The Abyss... the deepest hole in the West... or Orient, depending on where you are. j/k for those who may not know Oz is a top.

We've heard that before. Yeah, lawful after ex-post-facto legislation made them legal. Rupublicans, Democrats... what's the difference??

U.S. Works To Make Internet Wiretaps Easier | 09/27/10 08:49 AM | AP WASHINGTON — Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and direct communication services like Skype. Federal law enforcement and national security officials say new the regulations are needed because terrorists and criminals are increasingly giving up their phones to communicate online. "We're talking about lawfully authorized intercepts," said FBI lawyer Valerie E. Caproni. "We're not talking about expanding authority. We're talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security." The White House plans to submit the proposed legislation to Congress next year. The new regulations would raise new questions about protecting people's privacy while balancing national security concerns. James Dempsey, the vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet policy group, said the new regulations would have "huge implications." "They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function," he told the Times. The Times said the Obama proposal would likely include several requires: -Any service that provides encrypted messages must be capable of unscrambling them. -Any foreign communications providers that do business in the U.S. would have to have an office in the United States that's capable of providing intercepts. -Software developers of peer-to-peer communications services would be required to redesign their products to allow interception. The Times said that some privacy and technology advocates say the regulations would create weaknesses in the technology that hackers could more easily exploit. See original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/internet-wiretaps-would-b_n_740064.html

A question that should never be asked and answered even less frequently.

So, which one is the bottom?

for my taste anyway. Enjoy.

Interesting that they don't offer a three day trial option, and the nonrecurring 30 day option is very steep. Obviously this is a high pressure technique to get your credit card number and recurring authorization. Caveat emptor.

Looks like he managed to wrestle it to ground... so to speak.