AdamSmith

Thank you. As I had heard. And thanks for pointing out the tripadvisor post too.

Hm. It was originally named "The Shitbox", which I frankly liked better.

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Think we've all had days like this -- at work, on the forums, elsewhere...

Or something worse. ("If she ain't good enough for her own family...!")

When has there not been economic hardship? Or any of the other tag-ends of paranoiac nonsense that make up Revelations?

Putting up with the Royal Family seems like work enough...

Get with it, folks. Pluto has not been a 'planet' since 2006. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060825003742.htm

Why would many more want military-grade hand weapons? (Wrong thread, I realize.) (I will now duck and cover!)

Only a half dozen times or so. Despite that a theatre in Harvard Square showed it every Friday midnight for literally decades.

Unlike you, hito, I expect to be a short time living and a long time dead. We can waste a third of our life in sleep if we're not careful.

Thanks, firecat. So I should really just glance around Liege for a day (the one town there I've not seen yet but want to), then high-tail it to Paris or Berlin or some such for the weekend.

Kate was reportedly veddy veddy pleased with her official portrait (naturally) ... http://m.guardiannews.com/uk/2013/jan/11/duchess-of-cambridge-portrait ... The Guardian's critics, however, less so ... http://m.guardiannews.com/uk/2013/jan/11/duchess-of-cambridge-portrait-emsley Furthermore, 'Twilight' undertones? ...The Guardian 'Twilight...' article notes approvingly, by way of contrast, Lucian Freud's 'uncompromising' portrait of the Queen: Had not known about this before but like it a good deal. Would have been fascinating to see him image Nixon.

Why does that sound like one more odd religious undergarment?

Develops I may have some business in Belgium this year. What is the (1) bar/club and (2) rentboy scene like in Brussels? In any other cities there? My business is likely to be in Leuven of all places but the country is so small that hardly matters. Or should I just proceed to Amsterdam?

As in 'De Gay Young Lad from Trinidad' (woman singing)... ...I might have sowed a few wild oats But he preferred banana boats... http://waltzingtennessee.tumblr.com/post/23164126837/de-gay-young-lad-from-trinidad-karaoke

You just have to learn how to go without sleep for a night or two. Didn't you write papers that way in college anyway?! And as I get older, I need less sleep so it gets even easier. More than once the routine has gone: Push hooker out of hotel room as sun starts coming under curtains, jump in shower, dose eyes with industrial volume of Visine Red-Out, absorb 2 Starbucks quad espressos, scamper off to business meetings. All you do in 80% of meetings is sleep through them anyway. And where I have to be on and performing, I'm so on edge from all foregoing that it works fine. My shrink used to admonish: You can sleep when you're dead!

I will have to take you to a midnight showing. We can join the audience in dressing up as characters from the movie. Now, whom should each of us be? Hmmm...

Think my favorite bit is the Chivas snow-cone.

I think I would like anything that is part of Chris.

...A happy post here instead of a moan for a change! Since the malware recovery, I find I can stay logged into the site all the time on BOTH my laptop (FF/Win7) and my iPhone 4S. Can log out of either while remaining logged in on the other, then can log back in with no contention of "You are already logged in" on another device. Also, previously my logins would time out eventually of their own accord. No longer. Excelsior!

wanna go wanna go wanna go Straight friend went about 10 years ago and reported similar (proportionately) rate scales for a young woman to stay with him evenings & overnights. Only thing about that, he said, was hotels frowned on bringing her in. Instead she showed him how to rent a room just for that purpose in private residences. Can't recall but there was a specific term for such rooms. Does that sound familiar? Anyone know the situation with bringing boys back to hotel?

Right! That used to be one of the most aggravating things on the Internet. Thank God it went away. Seems like I knew somebody who bought access to one site with it, and finally had to cancel the card to stop the over-billing.

Yes, it is the mobile version making the quoted stuff come out that way. You can fix it on your iPhone by scrolling to the bottom and switching to Full Version before replying with quote.

Yes!! Used not to like them. Then got used to seeing them on my brown guys and black guys in NYC, and came around to finding them very beautiful and hot.