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  1. Completely valid comment. In Canada however police officers routinely lie to coverup for their colleagues and their departments. They will even lie in court knowing that everyone knows they are lying. An us versus them (them being the public) mindset has taken hold among many police officers that they feel justifies any kind of misconduct. And a veteran officer recently told me it appears to be getting worse. The point being, getting the truth about the level of involvement by other officers or a department may be difficult.
  2. I believe this is relatively common now in the United States. Various jurisdictions have passed laws that limit the police department's liability even in cases where the officer was on duty. There has to be proof the department was responsible for the actions of the officer or otherwise negligent. Instead, all the liability is put on the officer. But officers generally will not have a lot of cash or assets so it's a lot harder for the victim to find a lawyer if there's no chance of a big pot of gold at the end of it all. Also, juries are less likely to find an individual officer liable than a police department.
  3. There was a point during Brexit when the pound was falling and I was hoping it would come down to the Canadian dollar level so I could afford a proper trip to the UK... I went once and ate mostly french fries and argued with restaurant servers who refused to bring me tap water. But sadly that crisis is over... so I'll never get to see grampa's birthplace or the farm where my grandmother's family came from. Just kidding I don't care... but still, it's expensive.
  4. I see there's a guy with same name, same age in New Zealand who belongs to a MMA club there.
  5. It's called getting older. He was much hotter in the early seasons of Shameless, but he's thickening... although he's still only 33.... could pass for 40. Hard living?
  6. There are lots of activities that can lower blood pressure. I think it depends on each person what works best for them. For me, the simpler the better so good old brisk walking is probably the best. And it's cheap. Obviously, for any number of reasons that's not going to work well for others.
  7. Ha, ha, I kept watching it mainly just for him. And then when I saw Leo Grande some months later, I was like, OMG, OMG, that's that guy... and he's naked... it was like Christmas morning and Halloween combined in terms of excitement.
  8. I sort of felt the last season of Peaky Blinders was, "okay, lets just get this over with."
  9. You may have since seen him in the series Bad Sisters, where he plays an endearingly hot insurance agent.
  10. I have met a few of those dicks...... attached to men with an easy masculinity about them that I find very attractive.
  11. Recently at a sauna in Pereira where two attractive guys in their 30s initiated contact.... I'm mid-60s... and once in Manizales. I think they all just wanted somebody different to suck their dicks. Anyway I was certainly happy to oblige. Doubt that would ever happen in Medellin.
  12. In North Africa it would be because most men are Muslim. Surprised it's so low in Canada. I'm a late boomer and I think most boys were circumsized because it was considered cleaner. I guess there's been a big change.
  13. Thank you for the info... it was just a tip, about $10 US. The money didn't matter. But for some reason I still continue to be surprised there are humans who do shit like that, as trivial as it was, to other people.
  14. Phuket locals rally against Swiss man I'm surprised there aren't more headlines like this from around the world. I had a Swiss roommate for awhile plus day to day encounters with Swiss people who have emigrated to Canada. Holy cow they can be nasty and grumpy. I went out for dinner with my roommate once and he told me how he amazed he was by restaurant servers who come by your table during dinner to check on how things are. He said he'd never seen that happen at home. I got a Swiss francs tip from a Swiss tourist last summer. I left it in my wallet and passing through Zurich airport during the winter I tried to use it to buy a coffee and found out those type of bills had been phased out. What kind of asshole would do that.
  15. My impression generally was that the Uber drivers were younger and more pleasant than taxi drivers. Of course there are always exceptions.
  16. ha,ha.... my impression is that Americans usually elect the most likeable, to them, candidate, and don't care much about their policies. Bush, was more likeable than Gore and Kerry... there was the infamous photo of him and Ellen Degeneres yukking it up in a box at a football game, on Letterman top ten things I'm going to do when I'm president, "give the Oval Office a good scrubbin", Obama more likeable than McCain and Romney, Trump more likeable than Clinton, Biden more likeable than Trump....
  17. I have a summer job that includes occasionally dealing with some Americans, mostly older men who have made a lot of money in their lives and mostly through their own hard work and smarts. Yet I overhear them making comments about Trump being persecuted and falsely accused and all kinds of other ridiculous comments. I can understand people who know Trump for what he is, but still prefer him over the alternative....(especially Clinton, she's nasty), but how can smart people pretend that he's a decent human being.
  18. I stayed at a airbnb on St. Denis in December. It was nice... in an old converted hotel where all the little cafes, bars and fast food joints are.
  19. That's really interesting, because it's getting lost that usually does me in and then I have to turn on the cellular data. I've tried lots of things... taking screen shots of google street maps ahead of time, etc... but something unexpected often defeats me. I'll try it without roaming sometime.
  20. If you get the chance to go, it's worth it, I think. The people there are particularly friendly. I had a weird little panic attack when I was leaving a supermarket with some bottled water, I hadn't grabbed the receipt and I noticed a security guard checking receipts at the exit. I got all flustered, he locked eyes with me and told me in English everything was okay, then gave me a fist bump. I've never experienced empathy like that from a young man.... and he was really hot too. Hooked up with a hot guy off mileroticos and a guy working at the gay sauna's front desk. Nothing to do there except have sex really, there was a pool at the hotel/casino across the street from my airbnb where you can pay, not much, to hang for the afternoon, lunch is part of the deal. Cucuta was recommended by one of the others on this site and was really glad I went.
  21. I was at St Moritz last month on a busy Sunday afternoon and they had a sex show with a hot Venezuelan top and another working guy. Volunteer clients could also join in. I guess sponsoring isn't a big stretch from that. Out of curiosity, each of the four times I went to St Moritz in the afternoons there were quite a few guys going up to the third floor... is there another type of business up there?
  22. Ha, ha, not likely..... but Canada's Conservative party leader stepped in a big puddle when he endorsed a private members bill ( which means it will never be passed) that in the opinion of some experts would require Canadians to prove they're adults every time they sign into a porn site, "Canadians could see most internet services require us to provide a government-issued ID to log on, have our faces repeatedly scanned and stored in leaky databases to simply live our online lives.” Media commentators immediately dubbed it the jerking registry, because it's assumed most men use internet porn when they're masturbating...... and as Dan on Roseanne told his son, everybody does it, but nobody talks about it. That reference is a bit dated. Conservative leader Pierre Polievre, expected to become PM within the next year and a half, supports the bill, but won't say how it would be enforced. The issue came up in the context of an actual government bill called the Online Harms Act which is meant to prevent online abuse including material meant to encourage self-harm, promote genocide, sexual bullying of children and other crimes. Personally, my impression is almost anything complex done with the best of intentions doesn't work or makes things worse. l
  23. I hope so. There's a concerted effort in Canada now to turn back the clock on acceptance of gay anything. Not sure if it's mostly a fringe thing, or widespread. But people are definitely feeling they can get away with publicly attacking anything gay. A pretend populist right wing politician seems destined to become our next prime minister. When he was a teenager his adoptive father came out, but he never talks about it or gay issues much. He supports various right wing groups that are certainly anti-gay and praised the organizers of Save the Children marches last fall which were blatantly accusing all trans and gay people of wanting to sodomize children and particularly targeting people working in schools, etc.
  24. No, but banks and others use my Canadian number and text messages to verify it's really me for various transactions. I don't think missed anything important, but I worried about it. I use Whatsapp a lot, especially in Colombia where it's pretty much a necessity.
  25. The main issue was there is and was a $16 daily charge even if I had to flip over to make a single phone call. This was an unexpected financial thing that came up that had to dealt with. And I'm not sure that anybody who hasn't lived in Canada can truly appreciate how badly we're ripped off by a handful of big corporations that control the communications and banking industries.
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