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Old 21-Jun-2009, 19:15
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is the word "motel" associated with something somehow inappropriate?
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It has been, in certain circumstances.
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is the word "motel" associated with something somehow inappropriate?
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Can you be more specific?

You can do something inappropriate anywhere.

If someone said "I stayed at a motel last night" I wouldn't have any ideas about anything inappropriate.

There is the idea of something called a "no-tell motel" where you can and go pretty anonymously, but to be honest, you can do that at a hotel too.
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Well.can you tell me the main differences between home and house
A home is a house with a cat.
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I wonder if motels are somehow linked to drugs, prostitution or things like that.
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Like ANYWHERE, they can be linked to that.

98.5% of the time, they are linked to "getting a night's rest while people are on the road."

As someone who has stayed hundreds of nights in motels, I can assure you I've never done drugs there, smuggled in immigrants there, or obtained any money for sexual services there.
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I wonder if motels are somehow linked to drugs, prostitution or things like that.
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No, not just by virtue of being a motel, they aren't.
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