mike carey

The Economist is the only one that I take in print form, but I do subscribe to the digital versions of the Australian Financial Review, the NYT, the Washington Post and Bloomberg, and the Saturday Paper here. I also take the Australian as one of the benefits of a credit card (and that comes with the digital WSJ). And from left field, Haaretz. I'm looking at what to cut back on! Every time I look at a Grauniad article they guilt trip me to pay up, or at least they try.

I have no idea who's confused, but I am certainly not. To be clear, I was not commenting on what people had written here about the royal couple, I was responding to a comment about this paragraph, and addressing the argument that it had made.

I wasn't referencing anyone. I was clarifying a point that an earlier post had made, that anyone writing 'Stop writing about this' is doing exactly what they say should not be done, and there is illogicality, or at least a contradiction in doing so. The 'writer' was anyone who wrote such a thing, not a specific person in here.

If this obsession were unique to this forum your point would be well made, but the obsession the public (or some elements of it) have with shouting its disdain for their alleged pursuit of ever greater publicity is pervasive. The observation, that continuing to write about something that the writer claims to want not to see written or spoken about is illogical, is exactly on point. This forum's obscurity is beside the point, the critique of this forum's discussion of the issue is both particular to it, and at the same time a critique of it as a wider phenomenon. Dismissing the particular implies dismissal of that wider phenomenon.

As others have said, if $400 is too much for you don't pay it, but to say that $400 is a price that is beyond the Pale is to bay at the moon. You can no more command the price of an escort go down than you can command that of the price of petrol, all you can do is shop around. As @Simon Suraci and @BenjaminNicholas have said far more eloquently than I ever could, escorts are running a business. They set their prices and they live and die on whether they can attract customers at those prices. Some set prices below $400 and that works for them, others charge $400 or more and still succeed. That's life.

Fair question, Simon. I'd say it's a discussion about the merits of a $400 rate and not one about issues about hiring, so better placed here in the Lounge. The consensus of mods may see it moved.

Gentlemen, a Moderator's note as a reminder that the topic of the thread is $400 being too much to pay for an escort, not homelessness or the safety of the streets of New York City. If you post things that are off-topic we'll remove them.

Eek!! I think you meant 5" circumference (40mm diameter is a little over 1.5"). I'm not sure what universe 5" diameter is comfortable, but if that's your universe I'm in awe!

Nothing to see here!

You should know better than to question the Oracle!

IIRC he identifies as pan-sexual.

Indeed it will. In your extensive research you may have noted that 'precipitate' has specific meanings as a verb, a noun and an adjective, and that the adjectival meaning is not strictly related to the other two. Of course, as you say, at the moment you are all at sea, and for once literally so as well as figuratively.

Obviously one taxi driver's account is conclusive evidence. Yes, the details of the story are disputed, I get that. Reflexive dismissals of any version are precipitate.

I recall an Orthodox priest in Australia being interviewed about the difficulties in recruiting priests here rejecting the idea that his church might adopt celibacy, as practised in 'the Roman Catholic heresy.'

If so, perhaps not successfully.

To clarify, there are two separate issues being canvassed here: The ability of users (both escorts and clients) to block other users - yes they can - and separately, The ability of RM users to mask the fact that they have viewed a profile. There is a perception, probably accurate, that some providers block (see previous bullet point) users who have viewed their profile but not contacted them. Masking your visits prevents a provider from taking this potentially annoying step. It pays to know that you can block others for whatever reasons you choose, and they can do the same to you. As a client, it can be annoying if a provider blocks you, but in most cases there's nothing you can do about it (all cases, after the fact). It's useful to know that at least there is one way you can reduce your chances of being blocked.

He didn't say you'd be disappointed in general, he said that if you relied on your US expectations and assumptions about what sexuality looked like you might not find what you want. In Latin American there will be different cultural cues and the ones that work for you in the US may not work there. Any disappointment would be that you can't find what you want, not that it isn't there.

I've found that if you click on an image and go to 'full' screen (actually full height not full width) and move your cursor to the top centre of the image the upload date appears in a hover box. (It works for the image in the centre of the screen, not for those on either side.) You can scroll through all the images while in that view.

I love the way that this thread, its content changed by its OP when he no longer wanted to say what he had, ascended into a flight of whimsy. We'll lose interest soon enough, let it fly as long as it will.

For a start there's no cooking involved ...

Fiction?

And became an Australian citizen in 1981. She was created a Dame (DBE) in the British 2020 New Year's Honours list. (She had been granted the highest available Australian honour in 2019.)

No one here knows either. It's always had a sort of cult following here, and having an Australian act to cheer on adds to the occasion but that hardly justifies our participation. But still, we've been in it since 2015 iirc. Aotearoa is further from Europe and they aren't in it. The agreement with the European Broadcast Union expires this year, so there may be no 'Douze points Australie' next year. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation is a member of the EBU, which runs Eurovision, so Israel qualifies on that basis. Israel's in UEFA so its membership of the EBU is not completely anomalous.

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