mike carey

I've just had an interesting grocery-shopping-adjacent experience. A couple of days ago I bought a pack of baby spinach leaves from one of the two big supermarket chains here that I have a loyalty card for. This evening I received an e-mail product recall notice for the spinach, in which they noted that their records showed that I had purchased them. The e-mail went on to say I could obtain a refund for the purchase, and that if I didn't have the receipt the e-mail could be used as proof of purchase. I'm still cynical about how they use loyalty programmes for data collection, but at least they also use it for our benefit at times.

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, cut the sniping at each other. Whether or not he smoked has been a point of contention but since posts about it have ranged over 10 days, the potential for him to have changed his ad, for members to have an incorrect or incomplete recollection, or to have misread in the first place is not insignificant. There is no reason for anyone to assume, much less claim that a differing recollection is a sign of bad faith on anyone's part. So, say you don't agree or don't remember it that way but don't make your response personal. Now, back to the escort in question.

Nah, a scale of 1-10 would be the metric one. The Imperial one would be from -5 to √37.

I wanna get Clarked.

Sweden - on the left, next to Australia, not visible in the picture. I'm sure this is not accurate!

Gentlemen, please stick to discussing the show and not each other.

It seems as if Kings is as boring, I mean as interesting as ever.

I'm just watching the Aotearoa-Pakistan cricket game from Tauranga, and it's just before 1930 NZDT, 15 minutes into the game as the sun sets. The game has just paused as team members bring trays of fruit, drinks, and dates onto the field for the Pakistani players to have an impromptu iftar. How the players manage to practise and warm up for the game without food or drinks all day, I will never know. Pakistan comfortably won the previous game a couple of days ago, but Aotearoa/New Zealand is off to a flying start tonight.

Joe Ingles gets first NBA start for Minnesota Timberwolves so son can see him play - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Just days after Joe Ingles's son made it through his first live NBA game, Minnesota coach Chris Finch starts the 37-year-old so his family can see him play.

Could be something like this: Male sexual enhancers from the Peruvian Amazon - PubMed PUBMED.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV The traditional preparations used to improve sexual performance in the Peruvian Amazon showed activity as...

For me spring will start on 8 Apr (although on the 10th in PS it will be summer if past experience is any guide!) but until then it will be autumn (but high 20s to low 30s for the next week or so).

Moderator's Note Ladies and gentlemen, although there is an obvious political undercurrent to the thread, the OP noted that he did not want the thread to be a discussion about politics. Accordingly, please refrain from discussing the politics directly in the thread, there is plenty of scope for a discussion on the raw financial reasons for changes to sponsorship. We have removed some text that ventured into the political realm. Thank you for your cooperation. I had drafted this post earlier but it didn't post at the time. Apologies for it being out of sequence.

From the Beeb article, UA flights are returning to their departure airports of diverting, and the two Qantas flights to London have diverted to Paris. It's 5pm here so we'll see this unfold in prime time on Friday evening.

Well, this is awkward! A fire in a power substation near Heathrow Airport has forced its closure until at least midnight on Firday. Heathrow Airport closes all day over power outage WWW.BBC.COM It comes in response to a "significant" outage linked to a fire at a nearby electrical substation.

Interesting, it's working properly for me in all four themes.

Ummm...

No, they do not choose to step into any sort of spotlight, they choose to say publicly who they are. Doing so takes away, inch by inch, from the power that those who claim that any LGBTQI+ identity is an abomination have over them, and anyone else. And yes, that includes opprobrium for bi people from those same haters. Australian conservatism is less censorious than its US counterpart, as far as I can see. Australian conservatives may not like public displays of gay identity, but they are unlikely to see it as an affront to their dignity and more likely as something they should have looked away from, as not their business. There is still a hard core element that is unabashedly homophobic, but most people are accepting or just keep their peace if they don't like it. Transphobia is perhaps the exception, but even there acceptance is more common.

No problems.

I just saw this piece on the ABC web site, published yesterday. A-League player Josh Cavallo reveals death threats he receives since coming out as gay - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Adelaide United defender Josh Cavallo, Australia's first openly gay professional footballer, says he still receives...

Some of us take the arrival of a new member here more seriously than others. Welcome to the forum! You are not the first woman to join us, and several have been active participants, commenting on a variety of subjects, not just our shared hobby. I hope you find the forum useful. I see you have been lurking as a member for a at least some of the weeks you've been lurking. Again, welcome.

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There is a case to be made (surely not a serious one ... surely??) that Manhattan is apart from the US, or even on a different planet. I would never say such a thing, of course! And The New Yorker would never publish a cover cartoon that implied such a thing. I can't wait to go back there!

I haven't read Lolita, but several years ago I bought and promptly forgot about Reading Lolita in Tehran. I really should read both. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG