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MikeyGMin Experienced

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What I've been fortuante enough to do in my pursuit is to hone in on one escort with whom I REALLY hit it off, and then commence to see ONLY that escort thereafer as often as I can afford (typically maybe 7-10 times a year) until he moves or retires.

 

I follow the same strategy. I get it while the getting is good with someone I really like because these arrangements are ephemeral. Life happens. Guys move, fall in love, retire or whatever. The longest arrangement I've ever had was under 3 years, but it was great. I really enjoy getting to know a guy over a period of time. (I do take advantage of special appearances though...cough, cough...Mike Gaite. ;);))

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I feel nauseous when the wind blows from the direction of the Salton Sea towards Palm Springs, because the smell nauseates me.

 

AHHHH! Are you trying to send me to an early grave???

 

You feel nauseated.

The wind is nauseous.

The nauseous gaseous fumes leave you nauseated.

The disgusting fumes leave you disgusted.

That which is nauseous makes you nauseated.

 

disgusting : disgusted :: nauseous : nauseated

 

The use of "nauseous" to describe how a person feels is a neologistic usage reviled by strict prescriptivists, even as it is significantly more common than the technically-correct usage. Adam Smith has been trying to make this point since yesterday — he just mixed up precisely what the correct usage was.

 

I hope this was (at long last) dispositive. If not, then it may be that none of you have the requisite level of intellectual rigor to be escorts. Stay on the hiring side. You'll be judged less harshly.

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Lest we should forget our gay heritage, let's remember that Gypsy Rose Lee—easily the most successful and influential sex-based entertainer of the past hundred years—made her fortune more by the use of her charm, wit, and intellect than by the use of her body.

 

To me, at the end of the day, it's the difference between what feels upmarket and what feels downmarket, even if the price points are identical. There's nothing wrong with dumb rough trade if that's your thing, and I understand (though can't sympathize with) the appeal of hiring someone you feel somehow intellectually superior to. But personally I would rather hire guys whom I admire and who make me laugh than ones I can't help but be a bit bored by.

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To summarize (and I hope this is correct) When one has nausea, he is nauseated. When one induces nausea in another he is nauseous. So one may be nauseated and nauseous at the same time. One's nauseated wretching might cause another to become nauseated and as a result the nauseous nausea nauseated the nauseated.

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To summarize (and I hope this is correct) When one has nausea, he is nauseated. When one induces nausea in another he is nauseous. So one may be nauseated and nauseous at the same time.

 

You've got it! My stomach is finally settled. You're an antiemetic for the grammarian in distress.

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You've got it! My stomach is finally settled. You're an antiemetic for the grammarian in distress.

I'm sorry but Merriam-Webster says nauseous means causing nausea, AND affected with nausea. So I can feel nauseous by nauseous odors.

English is ruled by convention, as much as "prescriptivists" may hate that. As this dictionary says the use of nauseous is now commonly used to mean feeling nausea or disgust; its common usage is what rules.

BTW I think this is an interesting discussion - I'm not sure why some are getting so upset. I am a language nerd! :)

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I'm sorry but Merriam-Webster says nauseous means causing nausea, AND affected with nausea. So I can feel nauseous by nauseous odors.

English is ruled by convention, as much as "prescriptivists" may hate that. As this dictionary says the use of nauseous is now commonly used to mean feeling nausea or disgust; its common usage is what rules.

BTW I think this is an interesting discussion - I'm not sure why some are getting so upset. I am a language nerd! :)

 

Merriam-Webster is about as much an authority on best English usage as my dead cat, and she's French. We were having an exclusively prescriptivist argument though. There's nothing wrong with using nauseous the way it's widely used...but it may not help your piece get published in the New Yorker. The Atlantic or the New Republic maybe, but perhaps not Harper's or the Paris Review.

 

Let's get this thread MOVIN..... enuf with the Nauseous talk....

 

Dude, you move on. You've made it amply clear you value stupidity in yourself and in others. Some of us disagree. Let us talk about what interests us.

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Merriam-Webster is about as much an authority on best English usage as my dead cat, and she's French. We were having an exclusively prescriptivist argument though. There's nothing wrong with using nauseous the way it's widely used...but it may not help your piece get published in the New Yorker. The Atlantic or the New Republic maybe, but perhaps not Harper's or the Paris Review.

 

 

 

Dude, you move on. You've made it amply clear you value stupidity in yourself and in others. Some of us disagree. Let us talk about what interests us.

 

 

DUDE ? I see you have a command of proper English language. You're funny boy !

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DUDE ? I see you have a command of proper English language. You're funny boy !

 

Duh, what he talking, mR. JJ??o_O

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jjkrkwood Grand Master

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hmmm I knew a guy that was dumber then a lobotomized brick. the sex was mind blowing. greek god body, hung like a herd of horses... but you could literally see a fly go into one ear, fly around, and exit the other ear.

 

And so the moral of the story IS..... ? :p

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And so the moral of the story IS..... ? :p

the moral is.. if your looking to be shoved face down and be a recipient to a brutal prison ass fuck, then who cares about the persons intelligence :) however if you need stimulating post bed breaking sweet nothings talk cuddle.. then you might want someone who can string along sentences without sounding like yoda mixed with Ugg the Caveman :p

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