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I've noticed that a lot of really popular and handsome internet personalities feel the need to post quotes stating they don't care about negative comments they get from haters, etc. To me, this suggests that these comments actually do get under their skin. If it were me, I'd just laugh off and ignore any negative posts. For example, I just saw this post from the Facebook story of a gorgeous man I admire named Dor Klein. Not only is he gorgeous, but he does crazy-talented ninja-type stuff at these "ninja gyms." I'm really in awe of this incredible man. He has tons of fans. Obviously, anyone this popular will get some negative comments. I would be so grateful to be in his s…

Talk about getting one's just deserts 😄: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-burger-owner-ice_n_68975acee4b0e3a60453172e "A man who founded a Donald Trump-themed burger joint in Texas is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security and could be deported for alleged immigration fraud. Roland Beainy, 28, established the first location of Trump Burger in Bellville, Texas, in 2020, and opened three more locations in the state over the next few years. The restaurants feature MAGA decor and burgers with the word “TRUMP” stamped across the buns. The restaurateur was arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement on May 16, the agency confirm…

The parent company of booking.com is Booking Holdings based in Delaware in the USA and listed on the NASDAQ-100 index. It is a huge travel company controlling booking.com, agoda, priceline, expedia, kayak, cheapflights and others. Its booking.com site is based in The Netherlands. A 2023 study by Hotrec and the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Valais revealed that Booking Holdings held a 71% share of the European online hotel market. For years there have been complaints on travel sites and to newspapers about problems with this site - mostly pre-payments which are then cancelled using the "free concellation" clause - but refunds are either heavily de…

At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-un-election-a78ecb843af452b8dda1d52d137ca893 And the reality 27 months later - The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin . . . ended with a thud Friday after they conceded that they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war. https://apnews.com/article/trump-putin-summit-ukraine-war-takeaways-b9ff04c4143c6ac228e196ddaf6dd6d3 If it was not so s…

I have never paid more than $3500 AUD in business class to Sydney to Bangkok ✈️ I look today at all fares are over $4,000 unless I do a layover 9 hours in Kuala Lumpur overnight @ $3500 Where can I sleep 9 hours overnight in a KL airport ?🇲🇾 Why bother to save $500 for that ? Im a big hairy daddy so have to fly business unless I do what I did last April and book 2 economy seats I'm sick of it!!!! 😭

I thought of including this under the HOT SPOTS thread, but that's a different kind of heat!! The sad fact is that even with huge fires burning in North and some in South America, it is Europe that is heating up faster. We've seen previous year's videos of fires in Greece. They're back - and again close to Athens. Some of Turkey is on fire. Spain is now battling fires, one less than 36 kms from Madrid. Parts of it's neighbour Portugal is also in flames. In one week the south of France has seen as much destruction as in the whole of 2024. And that year saw twice as much as the year before. The French Prime Minister has called it "catastrophic on an unprecedented scale." …

This escort's ad on Rentmen stood out for me, because he states "Hygiene is very important to me. Especially with everything that’s going on, washing hands and showering prior to our appointments is a must." Depending on what you're into, you may be sticking fingers/penis/tongue in various orifices, sucking cocks, kissing, etc. I can't imagine anything less "sanitary." Personally, I ask my escorts to avoid showering any time near our appointment, and would like it even better if he'd worked out recently. While opinions can obviously differ on whether one prefers someone straight out of the shower smelling soapy-clean, or all sweaty, I'd have to chuckle if an escort asked …

Remember the movie "Catch Me If You Can" and the part where the Leonardo Di Caprio character becomes a Pan Am pilot? Now someone else has found ways to get free flights. Over six years he falsely posed as a flight attendant on various carriers to get free flights on several others. In all he racked up over 120 free flights. To obtain such flights, the applicant has to access a special airline website and then provide the name of his employer, date of hire and airline badge number. During his free flight sprees, 35-year old Tyron Alexander claimed to work for seven different airlines and had 30 different badges. In the USA, to become a flight attendant and obtain an …

Steve Irwin did a lot for this planet--and one of the finest things he did was his son Robert. You little Ripper! He's an environmentalist and now an underwear model, too.

On a flight from Frankfurt to Seville in Spain in February last year with 205 aboard, the pilot took a toilet break. Almost as soon as he was out of the cockpit and the door closed, the co-pilot fainted due to a pre-exiting neurological condition that had not been picked up in the routine pilot medical checks. When the captain returned, his input requests that the door be opened failed 5 times. He eventually used an emergency code and took control of the aircraft. Since the autopilot was flying the plane at that point there was no danger, although in losing consciousness the co-pilot had knocked the controls. The captain decided to divert to Madrid where the co pilot…

I threw a big pool party for Flag Day (June 14th), and one of the hunkiest men there had plenty of tattoos. He was very friendly, and we got to talking, and I asked him about a number of tattoos, some of which were in foreign languages/scripts. He was very nice, and didn't seem to mind (in fact, he was just a tiny bit flirty, though, since my husband invited him, he knew I was taken). Are most men with tattoos OK with others asking about their tattoos at frolicking pool parties? I know that it does annoy me when people comment about my skin getting red in the sun, providing their opinion that they think I'm getting burnt, although I always wear strong sunblock (at least S…

If there is one thing on my bucket llst that will never happen it is seeing the earth from space. Jim Lovell, one of the second group of NASA astronauts, did that four times, most notably in 1970 when, as commander of Apollo 13, he not only almost died in a weightless grave, he, his two colleagues and a ground team working feverishly on near impossibilities, managed to bring his crippled spacecraft back to earth safely. It was a time when the world quite literally watched in wonder. Jim Lovell died two days ago aged 97. Although I was one of those who did follow almost every moment of Apollo 13, I was more in awe of his first Apollo flight, Apollo 8, the first manned…

We spent the holiday week-end at the Dunes Resort in Douglas-Saugatuck, Michigan. While there, we met a former friend of my husband's, whom I'll call "Randy." My husband's ex was, as he was to discover, a scoundrel and a charlatan, similar to Trump. I'll call the scoundrel "Troy." (Unlike Trump, he did end up going to federal prison for his misdeeds). My husband said he quietly broke up his friendship with Randy after Randy's then-boyfriend (now ex), whom I'll call "Xavier," showed him texts he discovered on Randy's phone which documented that Randy slept with Troy while my husband and Troy were together. Upon further questioning, it turned out Troy paid Randy $3000 for t…

I was at a smallish birthday party last week-end and introduced to a sister and brother-in-law of the friend whose birthday was being celebrated. On the way back home, I told my husband that I hoped the sister knew her husband was gay. My husband said he also sensed that immediately, and he told me that he found out they're both "bisexual" and that each has sex with those of their own gender outside the marriage (they don't have children, BTW). Among celebrities, one man who sets my gaydar off is Benson Boone. While he's ostensibly left the Mormon Church, the fact that he still avoids coffee and alcohol attests to his upbringing having scarred him. I've called his latest …

I made a good living in clinical practice within which the particular challenges of sociopathy emerged from time to time. I have expert witness testimonial status in relation to a broad range of ‘sexual deviance’ issues, sometimes for illegal paraphilia prosecution or child/family incest, other times for civil compensation re: institutional abuse, or for case redirection to treatment cost-covered by individuals or governmental funds. Of course all of that involves assiduous record-keeping as folks like, say, Unicorn can attest to. In personal life I have, since retirement, kept detailed “receipts” in relation to disturbed trolls, both encountered in person and coming…

Finally, the day arrived. Yesterday was the last day of schools in the network that employs me, and I had my retirement ceremony. My last day is July 3rd. My condo is in the market, as soon as it is sold and all the paperwork done, I am flying away. I will keep working part-time but only online. The first step is Buenos Aires. I think I will end my days over there, so I want to set my health insurance but not yet my base. Once my health is checked and covered, I will start slow traveling. My visits to Brazil and Colombia have been always no more Tham two weeks, and I want to get that feeling of coitus interruptus out of my system. I may start my travels with a couple…

Interesting.... Great geography trivia: every year on July 8th at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world population gets sunlight.

I remember almost a dozen years ago seeing the story on the national news about an 18 year-old high-school student who was suspended then reinstated for doing (legal) gay porn work off campus. With too much time on my hands, I got curious to see how he was doing, and it looks as though he's been working in aircraft maintenance for the US Army for a good 11 years now, and has a happy family with children. https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/21/us/florida-teen-suspended-porn "An 18-year-old Florida student is set to return to class Wednesday after he says he was suspended when school officials learned of his pornographic online photos and videos. Robert Marucci, a senior …

Life is not really the bowl of cherries some portray it to be - at least not always in my case. True, I've had many great times, been to so many fabulous parts of our world, got to know some really interesting people and generally been wonderfully lucky to be lured to Asia when still in my 20s. Here I have worked for major multi-national companies as well as starting up and running two tiny ones of my own. To have worked in a field that I love has been another huge benefit. As my sister always tells me, I have been a very lucky bastard! Yet being blessed with so much does not mean everyday life has not been without a large number of problems, difficult situations, ev…

On my early visits to the USA, I could never understand the appeal of televangelism. If I turned on the television on a Sunday morning, I could not escape channel after channel of seemingly rabid men all but screaming about God - and of course the need to give God money. Many ran their own 'ministries' and most of that cash flowed into their own pockets, one way or another. One of the most outpoken was Jimmy Swaggart. He was once confronted by a gay man. He then said if ever he was looked at again "like that - I will kill the man and tell God he died!" But like many of them, Swaggart was a total hypocrite lining his own pockets. In 1986 alone, that ministry business …

I have never used Airbnb, perhaps because I now spend only a few nights in one place on my travels. Some years ago I did try to find one in Taipei which is my most regular destination. There was only one near the city centre which I really liked but it had no television. Not a major dealbreaker although I do tend to watch one of the international news channels once a day. What killed it for me was it was only a few $$ less than my regular 3-star hotel nearby. And the hotel offers a bigger and better equipped bathroom (rooms have a really large bath which I love because I tend to walk a great deal in Taipei - and it is large enough for two!) The Guardian today has the…

It's the plane that was just supposed to die after the pandemic. Now dozens are back in the air with probably more to come as a result of the even further delays to the Boeing 777X aircraft. Only posting this vdo because I like it! Just as I really like another with three of the same types of aircraft landing, only that time I was rather sad. It was three Concordes landing at Heathrow for the last time. One was the regular flight from New York; the other two special charters. But it was the end of an era and the last time we saw that miraculous Delta-wing shape in the air. Much of the discussion is by John Hutchison who was a senior Concorde pilot for…

… such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Line Somebody sent me this example, ID withheld, of a fellow that apparently has children … well the Daddy part is there inn’t? … and the sender claims this bio is presented within the realm of hiring as well. Believable? Bold? Too much? Thoughts? This was too noteworthy to keep to myself. Maybe I’ve got my bio outside of Grindr all wrong, with low yield on my protected sex requirements on PrEP, and too constricted a target population? What’s BB unequivocally in this context? Could there actually be tongue-specific prophylaxis without the existence of a tongue? I wonder what he looks like and its relation to writing style. …

I wasn't too sure about sharing this but here goes, everyone has their series of firsts so here's mine (as boring as it is) A series of firsts: First inkling of an interest in m2m sex: I had never even had a single thought on m2m sex until I was 17yo (a horned up 17yo at that) and pleasuring myself whilst looking at a porno catalogue. I got to the gay pages at the back and had an amazing climax looking at 2 guys having a 69. That one episode had planted the seed in my mind and it stuck there. First m2m sexual contact: I was 41 (yes it took that long to get up the courage to try it) and on holiday in Phuket, after many years and thoughts about what it would …