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mike carey

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  1. The person who blocks someone can always unblock them. Whether they want to or will is a separate question. If it's a case of 'he's dead to me' they probably won't, if it's 'he's annoying right now (or overstepped)' then they might. As has been said here frequently, you can stop your frequent visits to an escort's ad being visible to them quite simply. Go to your RM dashboard and select 'Do not track me' in the privacy section.
  2. I may have posted this before, if so I'm sorry. Well, only a little bit.
  3. And no doubt you have one to give in return?
  4. Hobart, mid 1960s.
  5. Gentlemen, the conversation has drifted away, again, from the merits of the escort in question to the merits of each others' opinions. Please drift back. Sharply. Stick to the gentleman concerned.
  6. I've heard a Dane make the Dutch comment about an Australian in Copenhagen who was learning Danish.
  7. I have lived in the orange state and otherwise stayed longest in one of the black states. I have, for varying periods visited states in most if not all colour groups. The map is simultaneously both amazing accurate and disturbingly misleading. It probably warrants a warning, 'This is not professional travel advice, before travelling seek advice from a professional travel planner as to whether the suggestions herein are appropriate for your own personal circumstances.'
  8. In 1961 a young student started a history degree at California State University in Los Angeles. Two years in, another opportunity came up so she deferred her studies to take that opportunity. Most reading this will be remember that alternative career, one of considerable consequence. Last week, at 82, Billie Jean King graduated with her history degree. Perhaps one of the longest undergraduate careers around. Here's one article about it, but I know it's been reported more widely if there is a paywall you can't penetrate. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7302506/2026/05/23/billie-jean-king-college-diploma-graduation/ There's inspiration there for many of us who may have lacked it.
  9. There was only one person on our one and two cent coins, and that same person was on all our coins, so removing two of the coins conveyed no perceived slight. All coins, save the two dollars, have fauna or a symbol on the other side. The two dollar coin has an unidentified person, a representation not an individual. As for that one person on them all, she was replaced after 2022 with another individual, also on all the coin denominations.
  10. This is Australia too. Stopped making 1 and 2 cent coins in 1988, the cost of the copper in them was more than their face value, and they were withdrawn from circulation in 1992. Same rounding for cash sales and exact amount for cards or electronic (or cheques while they last). New Zealand went further, a complete reissue of new coins, 10 cents is the lowest value and is a copper coin. In both our countries, $5 is the lowest value bank note, and we have one and two dollar coins. And yes, I know about loonies and toonies.
  11. This looks like one of the stations on the south-east line in Melbourne between South Yarra and Caulfield.
  12. I had been about to make a smartarse remark about the apparent irony of 'David Copperfield' and 'disappearing' in the same sentence. So it appears that I had just been seeing what you did there.
  13. Most dangerous city in the world. That wind can blow you off your feet.
  14. Apparently that is the standard Canadian spelling of words like 'homogenized'. Unless you meant in 'uze', in which case they probably would not.
  15. These have been turning up in my Facebook feed for a few days now, but this one seems particularly apposite for the forum.
  16. Indeed he might.
  17. If a foursome is out of the question, perhaps Stableford or four ball best ball?
  18. Although this is a common Latin maxim, it is perhaps not common enough, despite its concise elegance, to be an exception to our English only guideline, without an accompanying English version. By way of explanation, its meaning is "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes" (literally: "about tastes, it is not to be disputed"). An equivalent English proverb is that "There is no accounting for tastes" or "taste". A similar expression in French is: à chacun son goût ("to each their own taste").
  19. That doesn't look like New Brunswick weather!
  20. This reminds me of a similar epigram, that if it's a choice between a conspiracy and a cock-up, it'll be a cock-up 99% of the time. Or perhaps it's the same epigram.
  21. Happy Victoria Day.
  22. https://rent.men/fivestarsescort
  23. And bourbon is not whisky.
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