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Oz, you may use that quote from Brian Kenney as a tag line, but you sure know how to spin a 'sweet, almost romantic' story. And funny. This one is just delightful!

BBB, teens are pretty good at getting preggers &/or stoned out of their gourds w/o their parents suspecting a thing. I don't doubt their ability to evade supervision while on the computer either. The question about the software block is a good one though. The word gay (or synonym) is nowhere in the title. Is there one of those hidden tag clouds attached to Savage's channel that tells software about the content? Just as an experiment, I googled up It Gets Better to see if it is on the Google blacklist you just posted about. I only got as far as "It Ge" before Google popped up the channel as a suggested destination both on general web search and video search. By contrast, "Flirt For Free" triggers the censor at the 'o' and "Male Escort Review" blanks Google at the 's'. (Male enhancement products are apparently entirely innocuous. )

ha ha ha ha ha! hee hee hee hee! snort, giggle

"I guess the bottom line is that neither site should be a carbon copy of the other" TY My thought exactly, TY. That's actually what I was getting at with my "first posting" disclamer. In fact it strikes me as an ethical issue that each site get the full benefit of the creativity of its members. (In my mind, importing all that drama from Daddy's is an entirely separate issue.) On the other hand, topics get posted that are of real importance to folks on both sites. To me, Dan Savage's project fell in that category. I suppose that I could simply have posted the necessary links to Savage's channel over here on MER, but that didn't feel right either. I thought it proper to give the Duchess full credit for his effort to bring these videos to our attention. I'm probably making too much of the ethical niceties of all this, but that's how I get when my residual Calvinism kicks in. If management (or anybody else) has any qualms with the balance I struck for this particular OP, please don't be shy about suggesting better ways to handle cross-posting topics in the future. Ideally, we should execise considerable restraint in doing this sort of stuff, IMO.

ROFLMAO

Hahaha! I figured as much. No moss growing on that boy. I should have put quotes around "cousins". I suspect a little commission might also be in the works for an intro to a sweet, generous Farang. And yes, I'd love to hear the story of how the two of you met up. As I told AdamSmith re his main squeeze, I'm a sucker for romance.

FourAces, you are earning some good karma points by doing that. The smallest things can make surprising difference to a hurting teener. When I was 16, at my local library I ran across a short essay on religion by Bertram Russell that opened the door for me to rid myself of my religious obsessions. Not really much to the essay looking back, but at the time it gave me an avenue to escape from much of the Calvinist craziness I had absorbed from church.

Ain't love great? I think we have been living parallel lives. When my lottery ticket hits, I'll stop off in Thailand on my way to St. Petersburg. We can hit the bars and top each other's stories about growing up queer in the South while the boys check out the new farang. Does your BF have a cousin he can introduce me to?

Hahahahaha, I've been laughing about your BF and his scooters ever since you first posted about it. Been there and done exactly that. I'd bet a month's retirement check that the kiss and make up sessions afterwards were memorable.

You're welcome, Matrix.

hahaha...to be honest, I had to check back to see what the original topic was. I had forgotten. Don't worry about it. Anyone who posts that he hasn't been there and done that will get called out for the delusional liar he is. It's part of the game. See Oz's post about his Thai BF and those motor scooters.

Normally I wouldn't post something here that was first posted over on Daddy's site, but I thought this was so worthwhile an idea that those of us who don't frequent the other site should have a chance to see it. Quoting DuchessIvanaKissandhug: "Dan Savage, who writes the syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love has started a YouTube project, called "It Gets Better". In response to the recent rash of gay teen suicides, he proposed to offer hope to isolated LGBT youth, and let them know that "it gets better". A number of individuals and groups have taken up the challenge, and I find them totally heartwarming. "I post here a few for your perusal, but recommend you visit the YouTube Channel to view more at your leisure. "Wonderful words. And frankly not just for LGBT youth, but for people of all ages. "A great project. I bet this will save some lives." YouTube Channel Here is Dan and his spouse Terry's video: http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject#p/f/0/7IcVyvg2Qlo Growing up queer and isolated in my small Mississippi schools, I would have given anything to have run across something like this. The only thing that kept me alive was clinging to a blind hope that somewhere there was someplace I could live a real life and that somehow I might find my way there if I could only hang on long enough. ---- On a lighter note, it occurs to me that Oz must have had a similiar journey in his life and he made it all the way to Bangkok. Here's to you, Oz. Congratulations. You sure as hell showed those sum-bitches.

Seeing folks have been doing "just for" threads, I thought Lucky ought to get one too: Just for Lucky Go Yanks!

Oz, maybe my gaydar needs a tune up, but doesn't this guy strike you as deep in denial? That asst. AG has a crush on the cute student body president, IMHO. A fuck is the ass is exactly what he wants. Looked to me like our boy Anderson was biting his tongue to keep from asking just that question.

Thanks KYTOP. I had forgotten about this site. I was looking for a reliable guestimate on my congressional district and RealClear's estimate matches my gut feeling. Good, useful post.

Thank you sweet Jesus cause I never would have be able to reconstruct it. There is a God! Funny you should ask. I've promised all the guys (well, just the ones I really like) that, as soon as I've won the lottery, I'm buying the Winter Palace, converting it into a casino and reworking the top floor for use as my private residence. I must say they all seemed suitably impressed. OMG, I just realized that pic is a young Ralph Woods and that he looks just like one of my obsessions on F4F. Except my guy doesn't work the shower room gig, mores the pity.

"I am unaware of any other species that kills simply for the sake, or is it the thrill, of killing." I had a house cat that used to love chasing small critters. Every once in a while he would catch one. Near as I could tell it was all in fun, at least for the cat. World wide, across all cultures, our ancestors almost always built their huts in tight clusters, usually within some kind of wall. If there was a high site available, that's where they built, even when it meant long walks to their fields &/or their water source. What does all that tell you about humans? We are what we are. Not killer apes but not bonobos either. ---- Medieval Scandinavians usually had a nickname derived from some unusual personal characteristic. Records survive of a Viking with the nickname "Child Lover". Seems he was too tender hearted to bash French children in the head with his axe. What does that tell you about humans?

"Fiorina is a failed executive at a big corporation, why does she think she can run a state?" Maybe that humongous severance package went to her head?

Oh man, Oz, you sure know how to tempt a guy. But no, I'm just going to walk away & let begones be begones. Just water under the bridge. (sigh) Bless his heart, TY trys his very best. TY, all is forgiven. I still you. [doing my bit for the orphan smilies] ---- BBB, don't think for a minute that you're forgiven too. It's still on, buddy. Hiding out in France won't save you!

Physician, heal thyself! Ain't a damned thing wrong with my wrist and yours would be ok too if you would just learn proper technique. There you go projecting again! I was merely checking to see if my dear friend Lookin had anything to say about my misadventures in F4F land. (That's my story & I'm sticking to it!) And now poor Lookin will be left forever wondering what masterpiece of posting he will never get the chance to peruse. My outrage is solely on his behalf. HAH! But I do have a neat trick for checking my spelling which I would be willing to share for a small consideration.

TY, YOU %%###*)(^#@@{#, YOU ERASED MY POST!

Better get your game face on, dude!

hahaha, I ain't gonna let you off that easy. You trying to get me to buy that "P.S. Thank god "blue waffle" made the black list" wasn't supposed to be bait for suckers like me? It's on, BBB. Fair warning, it may be a week or a month or a year, but it's coming: a link that gonna cause you to toss your lunch. Be afraid, be very afraid. [Maybe I'll even post it under one of those puppet names folks are always talking about. Hee hee hee.]

(Sorry, I've done it again. I'm going back to bed. Maybe tomorrow will be better. ty )

Great post, BBB. I've noticed that happening when I typed in various search terms but I had no idea it was Google being "discrete." But seriously, dude, did you really have to point me to "blue waffle?" That's just sick. The link I clicked on had a big, full color, up close and personal photo. I almost barfed.