{"id":93646,"date":"2025-03-16T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93646"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:06:50","slug":"globe-trotting-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/03\/16\/globe-trotting-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe Trotting Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cThank you, Madame Chair.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> &#8211; <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Representative Sarah McBride\u2019s <\/strong>response when the <em>Chair for the House Foreign Affairs<br \/>\n<\/em>subcommittee, <strong>Keith Self<\/strong>, referred to her as \u201cRepresentative from Delaware Mr. McBride.\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\nSarah may have been willing to move on, but <strong>Bill Keating <\/strong>from Massachusetts interjected:<br \/>\n\u201cMr. Chairman, have you no decency?\u201d&nbsp; He added, \u201cYou will not continue it with me unless<br \/>\nyou introduce a duly elected representative the right way.\u201d&nbsp; With that, the hearing came to an end<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently came across a map of Europe which allegedly showed where the population of each country thinks the best-looking men come from.&nbsp; About 92% of Europe thinks Italian men are the hottest.&nbsp; Interestingly enough, Italians think the Swedes are the hottest.&nbsp; The country with the healthiest self-esteem is Greece, which thinks the hottest men come from within its own borders.&nbsp; Outside of European countries, only Brazil made a dent.&nbsp; If I had a nickel for every Brazilian who made a dent.&nbsp; Which leads to our next story.<\/p>\n<p>What the map didn\u2019t address was how old these hot men were.&nbsp; I was discussing vacation destinations with a friend and mentioned Ibiza.&nbsp; He quickly said, \u201cDon\u2019t you think you\u2019re too old for Ibiza?\u201d&nbsp; Am I a hundred?&nbsp; Considering the Phoenicians went there in 654BC, I\u2019m a veritable teenager!&nbsp; Then I suggested Sitges, to which my friend quipped, \u201cYou don\u2019t have enough money.\u201d&nbsp; Apparently I\u2019m old and poor.&nbsp; That wasn\u2019t always the case.&nbsp; I recall a trip to Monte Carlo about 20 years ago.&nbsp; Sure, I was younger, but definitely poorer.&nbsp; That didn\u2019t stop a lad I met with <strong>Prince Albert<\/strong> from knocking on my hotel room door at 2AM.&nbsp; I\u2019m just saying that maybe I\u2019m part of a metric that cannot be easily measured.&nbsp; Or it might simply have been proximity \u2013 I was staying next door to the palace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThank you, Madame Chair.&#8221; &#8211; Representative Sarah McBride\u2019s response when the Chair for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, Keith Self, referred to her as \u201cRepresentative from Delaware Mr. McBride.\u201d&nbsp; Sarah may have been willing to move on, but Bill Keating from Massachusetts interjected: \u201cMr. Chairman, have you no decency?\u201d&nbsp; He added, \u201cYou will not continue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93655,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93646\/revisions\/93655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}