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I was with Wells Fargo for some years. The breaking point was when I was traveling a great deal on business. They charged me when I used someone else's ATM. Never mind the other bank's fee. THEY added a fee! When I complained, they said "just use our ATMs". My retort was "and where in London do you have an ATM?" Fortunately, I found out that since I was as a child covered by USAA, I was eligible to rejoin as an adult. For those who don't know. USAA is a bank for military and their families. It's non-profit and is both insurance and banking. I now bank remotely with them. The first 10 atm fees a month are rebated to me so I no longer have to worry about where I get money. I have to post my deposits, but it seems a small price to pay. I would imagine in a survey banks would be among the most hated consumer institutions around.

Not in Oregon yet, thank god. My wife loves them and wouldn't stop going!

Share a favorite link with the rest of us. Porn if you'd like, but I'm more interested in just fun odd sites that you visit regularly. I usually start my morning with a visit to www.fark.com Fark They post links to funny news stories and always make me chuckle. What are yours?

As an ex-smoker, I'm not judgmental, but I've become really intolerant. For whatever reason after quitting, smoke really bothers me a lot now. I think I have an allergic reaction or something. Other ex-smokers experience the same thing?

I've had many favorites over the years, but If I had to pick one, I'd pick Belami's Ethan Clark. Not sure what about this boy lights me up, but it does. Followed closely by Renato Amoroso in his day. Yum.

I went to Cornell, in upstate NY. There was only one gay bar in town and it was for everyone. That feels normal to me. I have never understood the whole men only thing. Though to be fair, I've read about straight girl gangs crashing gay male places with strippers and taking over and I don't think that would be cool.

Greg, Keep trying. I quit several times, once for 3 years, before it finally stuck. It took some years, but I don't miss it now. I'm not sure what the magic formula for quitting is except to not give up.

EUGH. I'm glad I haven't seen any of those sites. That would seriously gross me out.

My worst experiences were some losers off men4rentnow who thought lying there limp dicked doing nothing was worth the price of admission. blah. I've had live sashimi too. It was rather distressing. They pulled the fish out of the tank, filleted it, dropped the now cut up fish flesh back on the side of the fish, garnished the plate, and slid it over to me. The fish is still gasping for breath and its side is cut up and I'm expected to eat it as its gill plate is working a mile a minute. I ended up using the garnish to cover its head. I couldn't look at it.

Forum software should take no more than a few hours to update. Trying to pass off the 'vacation' as an upgrade is bogus.

As the NY Times article said, 'So far, the group has not done much, except to organize its own thinking and to issue a recent report, with backing from the Pacific Foundation and the advocacy group Free Press, called “FTW! Net Neutrality for the Win: How to Use Entertainment and the Science of Influence to Save Your Internet.”' I'm not much moved that somewhere, someone, wants me to think like them. There are thousands of people on madison avenue who have been doing that for decades.

I didn't think it was quite that expensive, but it certainly isn't cheap, and hiring, even in places like NYC, is cheaper. I never understood the appeal, but some here have posted about enjoying the sites and finding guys they later hooked up with. My guess is they're the ones who have a LOT more money than I do...

I'm an ex-smoker and very happy I quit. It is a nasty habit.

I'm going to hell anyway, so No. Just no

Damn. The wrong brother turned out gay. Colin is a skanky ho from what I've heard, but I still want him. Who am I kidding, that's probably half the reason I want him

I'm not big on non-reversible body decisions, so no. It does seem to be a generational thing though. Younger guys seem happy enough to ink it up. At least as far as I know, tattoos bleed and blur as you age. Even if it looked great now. 20 years from now?

I believe Larry's activism saved a ton of lives and forced people to pay attention to us in the middle of our crisis. I consider him a hero, even if I have tuned out his railing against the world more than once.

Unfortunately, I think it's just honest. most actors and actresses are sexual fantasy material for a sexually repressed majority who won't just get over themselves and watch porn They want their fantasies straight and clean.

Looks like some kind of continuation I'd guess. Using the link given above, his new court date is 12/03, and his status hasn't changed, still no bail, still no visitors.

I do PR, and I can tell you that publications are dying like flies everywhere. The internet is killing them. Nobody wants to do traditional print advertisement anymore, and if print doesn't have ad dollars, it can't survive.

No idea. I admit I was pretty shocked that they would jack my rate through the roof and not even see reason when we talked to them.

Early this year, I'd run a balance when my wife went out of town to take care of her sick mother. We missed a payment because she normally pays the bills. They jacked my rate, without telling me, to near 30%. It was a BofA alaska airlines card that I'd had for nearly 10 years. They were snotty as shit about it. I paid them off and cut the card up. Screw 'em. I'd paid them plenty over the years, they got greedy and lost my business.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102903.html I thought you must be wrong, but after googling apparently one of the doctors who invented it thinks it is being oversold and may be more dangerous than the harm it prevents. good numbers in the article above. 90% of HPV infections resolve themselves within 2 years. of the remaining 10% half lead to cervical cancer. So 5% of infections, 1 in 20 lead to cancer... But, cervical cancer is one of the most treatable cancers with a death rate of 1.6 to 3.7 per 100,000 cases. So your odds of getting cancer from an infection is 1 in 20. Assuming the worst case numbers above, your odds of dying from it are one in about 27,000, which means the odds of dying of cancer from an HPV infection is about 1 in 550,000. I'm a big fan of vaccines, but even I'd pass on that at those odds. Particularly since in another 20 years when the infection you prevent today would turn into a a cancer, death rates should be much, much lower still. If we do no more than halve the mortality rate in 20 years, the odds would be less then 1 in a million for the vaccine.

I clearly don't run in the right circles, because I admit the drama of all this just baffles me. Scott seemed a bit full of himself when he posted, but no more than a lot of kids that age I guess, and rarely offensive. So I don't get all the excitement about this and the apparent glee. I enjoy watching people who deserve if fall on their face, but I just don't see it here. I never hired Scott (if you don't quote prices, you're too expensive for my tastes), but I wish him well. I think most of us at that age did a lot of stupid things we survived to regret. I know I did.

I understand the obsession with the word marriage, and the desire to win it all at once, but I'm more of Conway's school. Get civil unions, and then just don't call them that. Call it marriage. You can take the word back by doing that.