mike carey

But it's a horse, not a donkey ....

The comment about three relationships, I believe, was Kris talking about himself, not HD.

I've been on one flight, LAX to Washington National, so not a short hop, and I had read the info card. But that was before the aircraft had become famous. Here, I don't have to think about it, Qantas doesn't fly them, and although Virgin had them on order that was cancelled when they went into administration.

Are there any airlines in the US or Canada that doesn't fly them? (Serious question, I don't know.) ED: Looks like Delta doesn't.

Gasp!

Possibly, but if he's changed his handle, a 404 message would come up too. Two way travel between the two countries is not possible without an exemption, but if he had been here since March last year, he would not be prevented from travelling back to the US, he just couldn't come back here again. So, (based on what I remember about his ad) he has been economical with the truth, it's just not clear which part of his story is untrue. It's theoretically possible that he is able to travel to Australia through some sort of exemption (being part of a film production is one such option), but I don't put much store on that possibility.

There's a lot of the internet down at the moment, NYT, Blloomberg, the Guardian and many others with a 503 error. Could be part of that wider problem.

Kris. this has been amazing to watch. As to the future, only you can decide how to play it. The ever changing stories he told you sound to me like someone who had a few different ideas of where he wanted to go and that he was leaving his options open. Reasonable for him, but a potential mind fuck for you, and as it turned out, an actual one. You could go to dinner and ask him to lay is cards on the table, or you could just let it play out. ('How it plays out' could be that he does lay his cards on the table.) He's put money and effort into this, but so have you, and his reaction to the hotel seems to indicate he recognises that. Does he want to have a result from his investment so far, probably yes. That doesn't mean he wants to recover that investment, although as others have suggested, he might. Only time will tell, and you're going into it with your eyes open.

Therein lies the answer as to whether hotel staff care about escorts!

No worries, I chose to read it!

I didn't need to know that.

I can't see a future supersonic jet having the cachet that Concorde had. It's a curious thing what makes an aircraft iconic, and I doubt it's predictable. There has certainly been a hint of that for the Jumbos as they have been progressively withdrawn from service and I sense that when the A380 goes there could be something similar. People noticed when first A380 flights happened into cities (Qantas flew those into LAX and DFW IIRC), something that didn't happen with other types. Will this new supersonic jet??

In the past five or six years I've flown across the Pacific in economy, premium economy and business [all on Qantas], variously to DFW, LAX and SFO, all paid economy with points upgrades, and on A380s, B747s and B787s. Y is bearable if you have to, but not particularly comfortable. I slept fitfully in premium and well in business. I'd be happy to keep flying on subsonic aircraft and if I'm going to throw big money on a trans-Pacific trip to throw it at a regular business ticket not a supersonic one. I doubt that these new supersonic aircraft will offer the comfort of any premium cabin on a current generation aeroplane. I also doubt that the carbon footprint they will have will be acceptable or affordable (maybe renewable jet fuel will be thing by then). I agree on the A380 (I think we've had that conversation before), and there was a reassuring news story a week of so back that Qantas had flown one of its A380s from Victorville to LAX for maintenance at their base there. That points to an intention, at least for now, to bring them back into service. There was another story about QF engineers having to deal with rattlesnakes in the aircraft they have there.

When the subject of followers and following was being canvassed a little while ago, I checked mine and a lot of the following seemed to have started at the changeover time, so that's likely a glitch in that process. First world problem though! Absolutely no need to 'fix' it.

Not that I know of, but his accent could be impenetrable!

In the thread title?

I have read research here, that in NSW which has the most carbon intensive power generation sector in the country, using grid power to charge an EV causes less carbon emissions than using an internal combustion engine. Where I live in the ACT the grid electricity is 100% renewable.

I should have said that this was not a random comment now the ad has been posted here, I had said this in reply to a DM about the image yesterday. At the time I speculated that my doubts could have been a result of the time since I had met Mike, so my memory could have been faltering or he could have changed. I'm glad that the identity of the man in the ad has now been confirmed.

Serena says she handles post-match press conferences by reminding herself that she can play better than any of the journalists, none of them can hold a candle to her on the court. And at ABC Sport's web site, Tracey Holmes notes that the powers that be at the four grand slams have comprehensively lost the public relations battle they had been involved in over Ms Osaka. In fact, they have gone down in straight sets, then failed to show up at the media conference. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-02/grand-slam-bosses-respond-poorly-to-osaka-french-open-withdrawal/100185462

I wish I could think quickly enough to ask a woman who asked me that sort of question about her wife.

That was what I thought, looked a lot like him but something wasn't right.

I don't know if it's possible to report someone when you are not logged into RM, but you can at least view his profile if you log out of your account.

I thought I needed to make it clear that I recognise it's easy for me to be confident at a distance, and to implicitly acknowledge that close up it may not be so easy.

Hell, why is this so difficult? You've been eyeing him off for ages, and he's now made an offer. Not the one you expected or probably even considered, but an offer nevertheless. If money hadn't been part of the equation you would probably have had sex that night, but not knowing you have hired before, he is conscious that hiring might be something that would be cautious about so gave you time to think. On your side of the table, you have been hiring since, oh, about forever, so the concept of hiring someone is not challenging. I totally get that you might have preferred an offer not involving money, but since that wasn't what you received, and you've already established a cordial relationship,, if you're going to hire, why not him? All that aside, I'm not you, and not being the one who was propositioned it's easy for me to have an opinion of what for me is a hypothetical situation, whereas it's real for you.

If that is the case, what is the word for which S is the intial, that results in the abbreviation S-cort?