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Being in private aviation isn't the same as being a waiter at a steak house.

I'd cut the guy some slack. A famous person left him a big tip. It must have made his year, who wouldn't want to brag about it, and why wouldn't Peyton not want the world to know he's a stand up guy with his money? If somebody famous gave me a big tip, I'd tell everybody too. (Ashton, are you listening?) And I'm not talking about money...

Kirk and many other morons like him mistake "free speech" for being able to say what they want without dealing with the consequence of their words. You CAN say what you want. Then the rest of us can tell you what we think of those words...

It is strange the things you don't realize are limits until you lose them. It was odd after quitting realizing how much energy I spent keeping track of my cigarettes and lighter and making sure I had them with me everywhere I went. Getting back a sense of taste was the other thing that really changed. I didn't realize how much I didn't have one until I got it back! Unfortunately, I smoked for enough years that I am not near as well preserved at my age as I wish I were.

I quit a bit over 15 years ago. One of the best things I've ever done. It made me feel so much better.

I like masculine 'frat boy' kinda guys, and am mostly a bottom, so will definitely check out Tawan, and some of the boards suggest hero massage is another winner. It seems to me much of the complaints were about boys not bottoming since they were straight and didn't do that. Not an issue for me! Street trade soldiers sounds like fun too :-) I was thinking about whether to do Ayutthaya or not. I love history, but got the sense that there isn't much left of the ruins and that you can see living history much better in bangkok. I was in Chaing Mai on my last visit so saw some of the wonderful temples there. I'd heard that the weekend market was kinda crazy, so maybe I'll schlep out to see it.

Yes, I have indeed. I'm a history & culture buff, so will be visiting the various temples in bangkok that I've never gotten to see, am looking forward to a rowdy evening at Muay Thai and the like. Bar recommendations are welcome, since with the bazillion go-go places, who knows where to go!?!

I hope you take this with the kindness that is intended. You don't need escorts, you need a therapist. As someone who has used them more than a few times myself, it sounds like you need to find a gay positive therapist and just talk. Escorts can scratch a particular itch, but it sounds to me like you're asking more of them and yourself than can really work. Stepping back seems the right answer. My .02 anyway.

I use proflowers, in fact did so just last week, and wrote them telling them it was the last order if they supported hate radio. I got the notice from them of suspending advertising.

Jared McCann won the National Yoga Asana Championship. I'm just thinking looking at him that this man is used to being bent over....

Yes, the point was to treat birth control like any other medical drug/equipment under your health insurance. If you have a co-pay for other stuff, you do for this too. That the republicans want to pick this as a 'wedge' issue baffles me. Almost everyone in the country supports access to birth control. 90+% of sexually experienced catholic women have used birth control at one time or another.

The problem is that these kind of christians don't actually read and study the bible. They just have some vague idea of what they think is in it, and judge accordingly. Christ was pretty judgmental about divorce, but you never hear that these types because they're only interested in using the bible to judge sins they don't themselves have any interest in committing. They're the new pharisees in the temple.

He's a crazy wingnut christian who made a big issue of the horrors of evolution not too long ago. Morons will do what morons will do.

In high school, when I first got a checking account a LOT of years ago, I was meticulous about keeping a running balance for about 6 months and comparing it to the bank. Then, I realized that it was a lot of time to spend for potentially very little return, and have not done so since. No regrets. I review the bank statements for any anomalies, and do sometimes find them (have had a few fake charges on the credit cards that required reissue of the cards), but otherwise don't bother. And as Expat says, the difference in return on cash accounts is so trivial as to be immaterial unless you have a LOT, LOT more money in cash accounts than I do! I tend to keep most of my cash in the checking so I have easy access if something comes up. My first job out of school was in Tokyo. Back then ATMs were only open when the banks were open, so I got in the habit of carrying lots of cash after a few weekends when I ended up tapped out too early (horrors for a young gay man!!). I carry that general perspective today, so I like my cash accessible because you never know.

My opinion,yes. Once the person qualifies as a real friend, there is the expectation that your communications are honest. Whether you actively lie, or merely avoid honesty, the effect is the same, the communications are no longer honest. That said, I think if you're uncomfortable being honest with someone, you have no obligation to be so. But it does have bearing upon what the friendship is if you choose that course. For instance, I have a number of good friends who know I am gay and married to a woman. They don't ask about how I scratch my itch. If they did ask, I wouldn't be honest. That's not part of my life I want to share with them, and I don't think the lack of sharing impacts the rest of our relationship.

I'm with your friend. Credit cards and cash, but mostly credit cards. I use mileage cards, and pay them off at the end of each month. I rack up a lot of miles that way. Groceries, gas, pretty much everything goes on plastic.

If you're a lesbian, sure.

I'm with you. I had a single pierced ear in college, and some people probably thought the earrings I wore were kinda crazy, but these things look like plastic raincoat buttons or something. Not appealing at all. But then I hate the proliferation of body art too. One or two tattoos I can live with, but these inked out kids turn me off. Old Fogeys Against Change! OFAC (somebody come up with a good G word for our new organization, we need to be OFAG!)

Desktop, definitely. It is both easier to upgrade, and easier to service. With minimum training, you can swap components on a desktop. Not so a laptop. And if you have a defective part, you can often replace it without shipping the whole system off as you would need to with a laptop. Obviously, laptops have their benefits, but for a dedicated home system, I don't see why anyone would prefer a laptop, since the one critical value they have, portability, isn't relevant.

If you are omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent, how could you have fucked up the world this badly?

Congratulations. Too bad you can't ding the cops for abuse of authority too.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/abusedpuppy.asp

So I'm visiting Bangkok March 19th to 25th. I am engaging purple dragon (the gay tour agency) so that I can have somebody show me the sights. Any recommendations for unexpected must-sees? Anybody in Thailand want to have dinner? Any general advice for a relative new traveler there?

I wrote JC Penney in response to this, and got a great reply. Figure I'd go buy some clothes there this week in support.

I don't think there is any aging gracefully! At least for us mere mortals.