Lucky

I am loathe to reveal private emails, but Oz is not being honest here. At first Oz told me that he had nothing to do with my thread being censored: From OZ: You were not picked out of the crowd or given more leeway than anyone else. I have someone I have known for years that has been helping monitor the posting as we have had several problem posters who returned to cause havoc. I told him when he sees a pattern same as the above to merge the posts. He did that. I did not think anything about it until I got your email. I did not see your merged post till after it was done. There was no way for me to undo it. It is not in the board software capabilities. If I had seen all of it first, I would have made a snide comment on the thread that it was ridiculous. It was. But, I guess you don't understand when someone disagrees with you. If I had been the first one to see it, I would have commented on the tread. From Lucky: And, on the board, he said that he HAD to censor my post to "protect MER"S right." When, and how, did I become a threat to those "rights?" Note that he has said that he hadn't even seen my threads. And then came the phony rule, which he has yet to show us or tell us where it is: "We have done the same thing for years. Nothing is ambiguous or inconsistently applied. If you make 30 posts in the same thread in less than an hour, I'll combine those as well." When Charlie asked to see the rule, he said: "Really? Then, you haven't really kept up with this site." Not very nice, huh, since NONE of us had seen the rule. And now he said that it was a mistake for him not to tell me that he didn't like my multiple posts. Explain then, how you can set up a contest with a high number of posts being set to win, and then not expect people to make multiple posts. How is my teaching someone how to do so without monopolizing the forums a violation of any rule. Now you say that you like teaching, but somehow, not by me. You like it when EXPAT makes multiple posts, monopolizes the board to win the contest, and you ignore folks like AlanAlt who complained about it Oz, I like you, but you have handled this whole contest badly, just as you did at GayThailand when your contest became quite controversial, with people complaining about rule changes midstream, and arbitrary reduction of post counts. So, since you are unable to come clean on this, I now make my departure permanent. Well, I did promise someone I would post something for him in the pornification thread! So, once again, thanks for the opportunity to post here. It has been fun until now. But I have been made into a rule-breaking villain who threatens the rights of the site. Even if I do win the raffle, keep the change!

Thanks, guys, for saying that you want me to come back. I didn't see EXPAT, FourAces, Tampa Yankee, RA1 or eeyore joining in, but then you can't have everybody. Oz says he has nothing to apologize for. Had he not censored my thread, that might be true. Had he not carried on further, that might be true. Had he told the truth, that might be true. But presently, there is a contest underway at MER. One way to win is to post over 2190 times during the contest period. On February 9th and 10th, I created threads which, along with being entertaining and drawing one of the higher viewing counts this Forum has seen in a long while, pointed out the difficulty of reaching that posting goal. I would have to post a long thread like that EVERY day until the end of the contest.. Since I am, in fact, the leading poster on the site who is not an administrator, if it is difficult for me to reach, it is certainly out of reach for most other posters. Yet my thread was doctored to reduce my post count. On one hand, management is telling us to increase posting, on the other it is criticizing and violating the integrity of a poster who tries to win the contest, at least in theory. Not only was my thread doctored, but management started its own thread, explaining that it had to “Reserve Male Escort Review Rights.” Now I haven’t just posted too much, I am a threat to the website’s rights! And, as if that is not enough, a new rule was created after the fact, saying that posting over 30 times in an hour is a rule violation. I say after the fact because management cannot, or won’t, cite this rule anywhere in the site’’s rules. I sure had never heard of it. The first of my two long threads received no warning that I was a rule breaker, or on the threshold of it. A simple email, private message, or phone call- a warning of any kind-would have been enough to get me to stop posting another long thread. I didn’t get any of those. What kind of a contest is it that makes the site’s leading nonadmin poster a threat to the site’s rights? What kind of contest is it that allows one poster to dominate the forums, pushing other voices aside, however legitimate his posting is? This poster is commended by management, I am censored and labeled a rule breaker. I have enjoyed posting on the Male Escort Review and am truly grateful for the opportunity that Totally Oz has allowed me. I have tried to resolve this problem in private emails, but did not succeed. In my opinion, the contest has distorted the site’s values. If this post had a title, it would be “Protecting Male Escort Reviews Values”. I appreciate the calls to come back, but I think that cannot happen until the contest is over.

Since my thread for February 10th has been doctored to combine a number of posts into one, this is the last post that this site will see from Lucky. It's been a hoot, thanks to all, and good bye.

...but not from fine China and crystal goblets.

I am reading Edmund White's latest novel, Jack Holmes and His Friend. Before the friend gets greatly involved, Jack dates Peter, a ballet dancer. When Peter returns from 2 weeks of touring, he gets a massage by Jack, who uses patchouli-scented oil. So he massages Peter, and then this passage struck my attention: Then Jack's big, octave-and-a-half hands fanned out over Peter's high buttocks and molded them into Silly Putty shapes. But from time to time Jack was forced to stop and sit back and look at what God and the individual will and institutional discipline had wrought. He remembered that a philosophy professor in Ann Arbor had said that vision was the most spiritual sense and smelling the most animal; Jack went back and forth from gazing at Peter's ass with angelic indifference to spreading his cheeks and grazing his hole with his thumb and bringing it up to his nose with canine rapture. He thought that this blend of patchouli and boy mud was the most intoxicating scent, the true smell of modernity. Jack knew nothing about hippies,incense or drugs, but he suspected that dozens of skinny, bearded guys on the Lower East Side were stretching out their male friends at this very moment, burning doss sticks and working their thumbs into unwashed curry-chutes. He could picture the imprint of an oily body on the bedticking thrown unto the floor...the smell of the sixties: ass and incense. Jack told himself that he wasn't really gay.

Gosh! Hitoall, I posted some 40 or more pix and you only like Lookin's dog. geesh.

This Week: Two years ago: World reacts:

If his face looks like this, what does his anus look like?

Yesterday's thread had 38 more views. Has the novelty worn off so soon?

Okay, I have 52 posts in this one thread. Wasn't it nice of me not to make 52 posts as separate threads? But if I did that, maybe I would have received more views. So, it's tempting. What do my two readers think?

After all that, I still need 1644 more posts to get to 2190. I don't think I have the interest to do that, Trevor notwithstanding! That's 27.350 posts a day! For 80 days!

800 people joined in for a naked pillow fight. There are nine pictures of the event, so enjoy them all! Naked in the Feathers

And Mormon Romney belongs to the Church that spent trillions defeating gay marriage, all the while having 7-10 wives for themselves.

The maid gets 80-100 reais for the whole day. Her son gets 100 for a half hour!

You mean he hasn't yet had that many?

Okay, another break. Maybe I can start another thread tomorrow. I think MsGuy is still lookin at my thread.

Letting it all hang out, in a hurry!

Here are some photos from the Annual Naked Run in Denmark.

Damn it, Trevor! I was done, but he wants one more!

I don't know what to make of this one. The photos are from the 14th Annual Fina Championships in Shaghai.

One competitor seems pretty friendly.

But, he has competition.

Here's a guy who is serious about what he is doing, whether diving or taking a dump!

Trevor is new, and eager, so he encourage me to keep on posting. You might like these, MsGuy, so don't groan!

Would you still see it if she didn't get the part?