mike carey

Dame Patricia Routledge, perhaps best known as Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) and as detective Hetty Wainthropp, has died at 96. Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket' - BBC News WWW.BBC.COM A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

I second that, @Sam Lankton. It's always good to have providers weigh in here, especially when they don't have to come here only to call out disrespectful clients. It's good for some of us to hear your advice, and your reflections on things that make interacting with clients a happier experience than the ones you cite above. The interactions you receive here will probably be similar to those that we see other providers receive, they can be petty, judgmental and condescending. But they can also be warm, empathetic and encouraging. Ignore the bad, engage the good. You don't owe trolls a reaction.

A finale like the 1812 perhaps?

Here's an older thread about this masseur.

Oh, the irony!

I think Jane Goodall would be delighted that people remember her with a laugh when reminded of this cartoon and the story it generated, rather than with an unalloyed sadness at her passing. She had a long life, she inspired people, and was continuing to live her life to its full for all her 91 years, on a speaking tour even this week. Not everyone can take kindly to being the subject of gentle, or even any, humour or satire, much less turn it to their advantage. To do so demonstrated her strength, character and self-awareness.

.... as a three dollar bill.

For those who mark the season and this day: G'mar chatimah tovah.

Imagine the horror of going to town and not seeing anyone. Worse, no one seeing you! The indignity!

Wow,15,00,000 rupees is a lot of money!

Damn, hadn't noticed he was here.

*you're, but otherwise a serious and important thing to be prepared to say to your friends.

No, it hadn't, and no I don't think it does. The fact that someone might use a label in a screen name they chose in the past does not detract from the argument that such labels may not serve as much a purpose as is often assumed they do. But, as you say, carry on!

It's disappointing to me that there appears to be a tendency for people to take a hard line view that if someone even thinks about anything sexual that paints them as anything other than an absolute zero or six on the Kinsey scale that they are admitting that they are 100% at the other end of the scale. You can't have it both ways, if one BJ or dick in the arse makes someone NOT STRAIGHT, then one PIV experience would make them NOT GAY. Could it be that there are no people who are by absolute definition either gay or straight, but there are actions that can be so described? Could it be that the critical point is that orientation is self-identification, not objective fact? Or that as @MikeBiDude suggested, labels are so last century, or perhaps just not helpful? I can understand people wanting to apply labels or deny them, either from pride or from fear, or from wanting to magnify or diminish the number of people who 'are' straight or gay. To suggest that one act defines you, reminds me of darker times in history when one drop of the blood of a denigrated group could condemn you to servitude or worse.

Bandiera rossa trionferà!

How very dare you!!!

Methinks you see through the mask some of these old timers project better than they understand it themselves. Maybe some of them would be pleased if you showed them more of yourself, you speak much sense here!

Somewhere like Chengdu?

The US part yes, but at least it's not impossible. It looks as if it could be 'deliberate' in a way, dots he has a specific reason to be joining, not just a random list of cities. His claim to a background from Aotearoa and Berlin (specific, not just 'Germany') sounds credible, with the added data point that his ad has a German phone number. His reviews are from disparate parts of the world, the earlier ones in Australia, just across the ditch from 'home', implying that he has travelled, so continuing to do so isn't implausible.

There have been several threads about Dublin over the years, some as recently as early this year. You can find them by searching the site, making sure you select the 'In This Forum' option when you are in the Europe forum. I have merged this question with the thread you created last month, keeping the the title you used today.

G'day Steve, welcome to the forum. We've had considerable push-back in the media here from health professionals and academics. Take-way from what they said is that there is no evidence of any links between paracetamol (tylenol is a brand name, here the most common brand is panadol) and autism. Furthermore, there is apparently no evidence from any properly conducted randomised double-blind studies of negative effects on children from maternal paracetamol use during pregnancy. One thing that has been mentioned as being an established risk, although not for autism, was from a fever during pregnancy, something for which paracetamol is a recognised treatment. Here, over-the-counter sales from supermarkets, and from pharmacies without the a discussion with qualified staff, are limited to packs of 20 capsules or tablets. Overdosing of paracetamol is a known danger and can be fatal, so there are reasons for caution with its use, but not for the reasons that are being discussed in public at the moment.