MsAnn
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10 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:
Guilty as charged re body builders.
Now. As for street trade, the ones I knew in Old Manahatto were, ever & always, on the lookout for the Next Thing. They were alive, they brooked no excuses, they were on the path to real life.
The lazy answer is that I just idealized them too much.
Permit me to say: Fuck you, in advance.
Sorry..I'm out of "reactions" for today...So you'll just have to guess what "reaction" I would have chosen.
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1 hour ago, Suckrates said:
JC climbed into bed and CUDDLED in Fessy's arms.... It was kinda HOT !
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On 6/19/2018 at 10:22 AM, Suckrates said:
A go-go boy at Leboy,
Wait what? Is that Leboy in Fort Lauderdale. Heart be still.
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52 minutes ago, SolaceSoul said:
Oh, Missy Ann. You still suffer from Captain Save-A-Ho Syndrome? Don’t try to save trade. Trade doesn’t want to be saved.
Well yes... guilty as charged. I have tried to save my share of street trade in my time, some successful, some not, but your sweeping generalities about trade not wanting to be saved is as ignorant as your "rule" that you say applies to all strippers, escorts, gogo boys, masseurs. sauna boys. streetwalkers, hustlers, porn stars, webcam models and all sex workers. I have no intention of even starting a conversation with someone who blindly holds such prejudicial views.
All the best...Have a great weekend ( and by all means, I will allow you the last word on this)
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1 hour ago, Larstrup said:
MAE SAI, Thailand — The high-risk mission to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Thailand faced growing fears Friday that weekend storms could make a complicated rescue almost impossible.
Rain forecast for northern Thailand could refill the Tham Luang Nang Non cave with water, and alternate ways to bring the group out — through an opening in the mountainside above, or by drilling into the rock face — were not bearing fruit, authorities said.
The boys and their 25-year-old coach were on a dry ledge inside the cave and were being looked after by Thai Navy SEALs and trained in the basics of diving in case they have to swim to safety, but it was unlikely that the group could remain there much longer.
A former Thai SEAL lost consciousness while moving oxygen tanks underground at about 1 a.m. and could not be revived, officials said. It was the first fatality in a rescue effort that has drawn divers and volunteers from several countries and captivated people around the globe.
“Circumstances are pressuring us,” Thai SEAL commander Arpakorn Yookonkaew told a news conference. “We originally thought the boys could stay safe inside the cave for quite some time, but circumstances have changed. We have a limited amount of time.”
Arpakorn and other officials did not give a timeline for when an evacuation might begin. Getting to safety requires a roughly five-hour dive through murky waters and suffocatingly narrow passageways — difficult for even experienced divers — to a point closer to the mouth of the cave where the group could be brought out on stretchers.
“We try to set the best plan we can to bring them out,” said the provincial governor, Narongsak Osotthanakorn. “We are afraid of the weather and the oxygen in the cave, but we have to try to set the plan and find out which is the best (way).”
More than two miles inside the cave, where they are being fortified with high-protein gels and foil warming blankets, the boys have been practicing wearing diving masks and breathing under the instructions of the SEALs.
Officials say they would be accompanied by two or three rescuers each, and that not everyone would need to be evacuated at the same time.
But the boys — ages 11 to 16 — are thought to be novice swimmers at best, and frail after having spent nearly two weeks underground since they entered the cave after soccer practice June 23 and were trapped by floodwaters.
The risks of the mission became apparent with the death of the former Thai SEAL, officials said.
The rescuer, identified as 37-year-old Saman Gunan, had been moving oxygen tanks along the path that rescuers have been using to reach the boys, allowing divers to stay underwater longer during the treacherous dive.
At one tight corner known as T-junction, there is almost zero visibility, said Ivan Karadicz, a Danish diving instructor participating in the effort.
“You can only see 20 centimeters (about 8 inches) in front of you,” Karadicz said. And the point is so narrow that only one diver can usually pass at a time, meaning a boy might have to negotiate that point without the aid of a rescuer, he said.
The number of rescuers inside the cave complex, beneath a mountain in rugged, tropical Chiang Rai province, has also lowered oxygen levels for those inside.
High-powered pumps are clearing 50,000 gallons of water out of the cave every hour, helped by relatively dry weather over the past week. But rescuers have still not identified every point where water flows into the six-mile-long cave.
“We still have a lot of water at Chamber Three,” said the director of the provincial natural disaster department, Komsan Suwanampha, referring to a point closer to the mouth of cave where the SEALs have set up a base of operations, and where rescuers hope to bring the boys out by stretcher.
Narongsak, the provincial governor, said crews were looking for shafts and sinkholes that could offer a way to drill into the rock face. He said they found 18 sinkholes, one of which was about 1,300 feet deep, but drilling deeper proved impossible.
Thai officials were studying the 2010 rescue of 33 miners who were trapped when a copper mine collapsed in Chile, and brought to the surface by a capsule through a specially drilled borehole.
“We’re trying to work out how long it would take” to drill an escape hole from scratch, Narongsak said. “We used the Chilean scenario — they took two months to get people out.”
A team of experienced Thai mountain climbers — members of a community who scour hillsides collecting bird’s nests — also joined the effort to look for openings in the mountain.
Nasan Konkayan, team leader of the bird’s nest collectors, said they hiked from the top of the cave to where they believed the boys were stuck below, but could not find an opening.
“We will come back tomorrow,” Nasan said.
Is there any explanation at all for why someone in authority allowed the boys to go into, and explore the cave in the first place?
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1 hour ago, AdamSmith said:
OK, the brainless crack was baseless.
But street survival, from my observations (both second- and first-hand), requires a fair bit of real-time computing to make it.
Thank you for that admission. I just get tired of the stereotype. Another poster on here just made a disparaging comment about body builders that was baseless also, but it's nap time and I don't feel like arguing.
As for street trade, I think it's complicated and the variables too great to make assumptions, but part of my frustration when interacting with street trade on the streets of LA for close to 3 decades, is that there is an element of laziness that seems to permeate the culture. I would challenge the boys all the time to go back to school or to get a job to try and turn things around, all with me as there mentor/benefactor. The excuses were many, and in some respects, the life too easy. I don't think anyone really wants that life, there were walls and barriers everywhere, and for someone to really push forward was daunting I know. One of the hardest things to do in ones life, is to get up and go to work everyday. Anyway...end of rant.
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8 hours ago, AdamSmith said:
Your brainless muscle hunks are nothing at all like my funny little twink bois at the bars.
And we know they are brainless because?
6 hours ago, AdamSmith said:Or my rough tough whip-smart little street trade.
Surviving on the street, doesn't necessarily mean you are smart., but then again, you and I already know that.
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28 minutes ago, SolaceSoul said:
seedy strips and dealing with street trade in multiple international cities since his late teens, which is about 30 years of experience. There is s slight danger in glamourizing scenarios that, for the uninitiated, vulnerable or wet behind the ears, have much greater potential for danger.
It doesn't get much seedier than Selma and Cahuenga back in the day. God bless "The Spot" may she rest in peace. I loved it all. The danger, the street trade, the seediness of it all. Don was the king and the boys were amazing. It is a time that has come and gone. Santa Monica Blvd, the back alleys and back doors that were always open. Looking back, there just wasn't anything like it anywhere. So glad that I was able to live through that time. Friends from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, tell the same stories...It was simply wonderful, but you are right, it wasn't for the faint of heart, and we were lucky...damn lucky really.
And apologies to Tomcal. I started reminiscing and got carried away. It won't happen again.
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1 hour ago, Tomcal said:I have just read al the comments and i am smiling! First of, this is a escort review site! ESCORT REVIEW! I have been telling various Americans for years when they say they are in love with a garoto that if they are really in love, then they should say to their Brazilian BF “My love i have lost alll my money in the stock market but at least we still have each other!” and watch how fast their ass is out the door! :-)
Excellent post...
I remember fondly, 45 years ago, my first trip to Bangkok. While I hired regularly in LA, this was the first time hiring in a foreign country, and the first time I was traveling abroad. I was traveling with an older friend who had been dozens of times. I don't think I could have been more excited. As we came in on final approach, I half jokingly said to him, "Any last words of advice?" He looked at me dead serious, and said, "Yes, keep your wits about you, this ain't LA, and if you get in trouble here, you can't call your lawyer, nobody will care about you, so have fun, but be smart." I asked him if that was it, "No, one more thing, don't fall in love." I laughed, he wasn't. "I'm serious, this is all a game, that's it, it's all just a game. You'll spend two weeks with a boy, and have a fantastic time. He will say all the things you want to hear. Then you'll leave, and before you get to the airport, he'll be in someone else's lap, saying the same things to him, that he just said to you. As long as you understand that, you'll have a ball.
Over the years, I was always kind, respectful, and generous. On more than one occasion, I would have a boy leave a client when he heard that I was in town to come and stay with me. I have not been to Brazil, but have done similar in many parts of the world. I do read with great interest, the travels of Tomcal. His posts make you feel as if you were sitting right next to him at some bar, talking to the boys. He is a great contributor here, but I think he gets it. You have to keep everything in perspective. I hire fairly regularly in Fort Lauderdale. I love the stripper boys, but I have no illusions, on any given Saturday night, if I wasn't paying, I doubt they would call. Forty five years later, dozens of country's, thousands of miles, many many paychecks gone, to this day I don't have one single regret for any of it. Except for a few bumps along the way, and a few wrong roads taken, It has been a life well lived. In a recent move, I found a box buried back in the closet. It was a box of old pictures of some of my trips to Pattaya. I found myself smiling, and remembering as if it were yesterday...
All the best...
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I'll be by the pool then to the beach for fireworks. I hate crowds, but a friend is in from Connecticut and wants to do the whole festival kind of thing, so I'll down a couple of cocktails and just "grin and bear it". It's not that I'm not appreciative of the significance of the 4th, it's just that you've seen one firework, you've seen them all...
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1 hour ago, AdamSmith said:
I still don't understand this neurotic need to show online as 'signed out.'
If you don't want to be here, just don't view the site.
I disagree...Certainly many of us here develop cyber relationships that are not always as easily managed, as say a friend in our personal lives would be. It is much different having this kind of friendship., when communication is simply a written word. I have become very fond of more than one poster here, and on the MF, that I've never met, nor possibly ever will meet. Communicating to someone in this cyber environment, your frustration, a desire to step back from the edge, or to just go and take "10' for awhile, seems to be a natural instinct.
I did not see Lars exit as a neurotic "show" in his departure. I don't think he wanted a parade or sympathy, or even desired support. I don't follow every thread, nor read every post, so I appreciated his acknowledgment that things had gone off the rails. His good bye was appropriate here.
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38 minutes ago, Suckrates said:
Yes and No,.... In the end we really know nothing about the people we interact with here, their lives or their mindsets, and oddly enough what happens here possibly could have significance to THEM, something we really should be mindful of....
And this...Thank you.
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35 minutes ago, Suckrates said:
Yes and No,.... some of us make an investment when we join these sites, of time and content, and in some weird, twisted way it becomes sort of a family dynamic eventhough you dont KNOW these people. But you THINK you do. So any event that occurs affects you in some way as well... I dont understand Lars banning in this case, but I am not the site owner, judge or jury. It's a risk you take as an outspoken site member. And there's no way not to take an action against you "personally". In the end we really know nothing about the people we interact with here, their lives or their mindsets, and oddly enough what happens here possibly could have significance to THEM, something we really should be mindful of.... Being passionate about something doesnt change because of the venue you operate in.... If it did, then it wouldnt be a passion ! And some people just wear their hearts on their sleeves...
Well said...And the point I was attempting to make.
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15 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:
One has to wonder why any poster gives a flying fuck about this? It affects nothing of significance in the rest of his life.
But we don't know that to be necessarily true...
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Steve SchmidtVerified account @SteveSchmidtSES
Steve Schmidt Retweeted Ed KrassensteinJim Jordan is a clown, albeit a dangerous one .
He is an heir to McCarthy, Demagogic, dangerous and faithless to his oath and America.
He is unfit to serve in the Congress
AND THIS...
Steve SchmidtVerified account @SteveSchmidtSES
Rod Rosenstein doesn’t look like an action hero,
but that is what he is. Guts, integrity and courage.
Americans don’t get to see that from our high ranking public officials these days
but today they did and America is strengthened because of it
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3 hours ago, Larstrup said:
if I try tagging someone in a post on my laptop I, ( my cursor) become trapped in that tag. It happens all the time on my laptop.
+1
I also have periodic trouble uploading photos
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2 minutes ago, Suckrates said:
IMO, those emoji likes are the ruination of social interaction. If I like something, i will SAY so, and not take the easy way out, avoiding a personal connection.
Dont tell me your fucking life is so busy that you dont have 3 seconds to SAY you like something ?
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22 minutes ago, Larstrup said:
I always use it to denote a "stellar" post.
This is how I use it also. or as in the case where photos are posted in the gallery. Many are deserving of a trophy...so a shout out to... @Suckrates
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