mike carey

But EVs are the work of the devil.

From one museum piece to another, the first price I can remember, and I didn't have a car until my early 20s so I suspect it wasn't until then or shortly earlier, was 10 cents a litre (so that places it after 1974 when we went metric).

This can be a challenge. Anyone who cooks will adapt how they do it to the equipment they have available. If the equipment you have changes for any reason, not just moving house, you have to adapt to the change. At present, my usual kitchen has one oven, four hotplates, a microwave (not one with a convection capability although I have had one of those in the past) and most recently an air fryer. (The air fryer has been a revelation, cooking some things, refreshing things like pastries, bread rolls and croissants, but it sort of counts as an oven for some things. It's not essential but I like it. From my observation, it wouldn't work for keeping things warm but, noting that it's smaller, you could use it to cook and the oven to keep things warm.) At various times I've had other appliances - rice cookers and electric skillets - that could replace or supplement what I have now. Having two ovens could make you careless about how you rely on them. What needs to be served straight from the oven, and what can be cooked in advance and kept warm then put back in the oven before serving to bring up to the right temperature? Do you need to plan more carefully, can you cook some things in a microwave or on a stove top rather than an oven? Can you plan your meal so as not to need two ovens? Professional kitchens have a large array of cooking methods, but they also need to cook multiple meals simultaneously, using diverse cooking methods. Some things can be in large pots on a stove top, some need to be served immediately on cooking, some can use prepared sauces while others need to have sauces made in the same pan as the dish was cooked. It all comes down to understanding the equipment you have available, what you want to cook, and how (and whether) it's possible with what you have.

This is completely true, it's an account of everyone's life.

Although his profile shows Australia at present, he still has a UK phone number. I didn't move this, to either the Australia etc or the Europe forum, because he is purportedly travelling to Texas City (okaaay) - not Galveston or Houston - and then Toronto in May and June.

I must admit, a lamprey is not the first thing I thought about when I read the description above.

TBF, the people who would pay that rate are not the people who would leave a review. I'm sure there are some people who would leave a Yelp review for a three Michelin star restaurant, but unread, I expect, by the restaurant's actual clientele.

Frankly, he doesn't owe anyone an explanation, and in reality, whether he needs it or not is immaterial. If that's what he wants, he is entitled to ask for it, and decline any engagement if the client is not prepared to accept it as a condition of meeting him. He can then move on as if that client had never been a realistic prospect.

Lol, there are already threads on that, we don't need this to become another!

RM 'current' location Sydney, Australian phone number, all his reviews are in Australia. He has realistic tour dates in the US (MIA, NYC, Las Vegas) 22 Mar to 10 Apr, a week in Brisbane early May and 10 days in London in late May. A number of destinations to which y'all can travel!

As he mentioned earlier, posts from 'Guest' are not random outsiders who posted a comment, they are former members whose accounts have been closed. There have been variations over time with some showing as 'Guest [name]'. Two 'Guest' posts a year apart in the same thread might be from the same closed account, but not necessarily.

Quite a measured response.

I'm not sure it would get more views in Americas than in the Travel Desk, but the Americas is where I would have put it. The Americas forum has 'providers' written on the tin (or at least implied by the descriptions of the other two geographic forums), but the forums in the Destinations section have gradually broadened in their scope, and having all travel experiences, carnal and otherwise, outside the US/CA region grouped in the same set of forums probably makes more sense for anyone planning travel. Our placement may vary, we may miss noticing which forum a thread is in, and we often won't move threads that have become fixtures where they are, so as well as perusing the relevant forum, an 'everywhere' search can be advisable if someone is looking for information about some exotic location. Let's see if moving this generates more comments.

Flights are resuming. Whether it's advisable for anyone to use them, at least inbound to Dubai, is another question.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we need to restore some decorum to some discussion themes in the forum. So, another reminder, this time to maintain civility in this thread and to refrain from overly aggressive back and forth responses. Opinions both ways about deposits have been canvassed extensively, and while new insights are welcome, endless restating of your fervently held opinions soon descends into trolling, and that serves none of us well. Other comments on the wider theme of escorting in 2026 are also welcome.

Ladies and Gentlemen, a gentle reminder to maintain civility in this thread and to refrain from overly aggressive back and forth responses. Opinions both ways about deposits have been canvassed extensively, and while new insights are welcome, endless restating of your fervently held opinions soon descends into trolling, and that serves none of us well.

Fix me another manhattan.

He has a UK phone (and WhatsApp) number, deduce whatever you might from that.

Perhaps so, but that could be good or bad. I understand some well regarded escorts may have been stranded there, so for their fellow 'detainees', that could be a bonus.

Sorry, that wasn't the aim.

Possibly so, although without the hyphen in Dutch. However, the title was originally posted as St Maarten, so the spelling of Maarten in it wasn't my decision.

I think that @Passionproject was saying that not he, but that Henry would share a face pic if you asked.

Things can get funny on social media, for both intended and unintended reasons. This comment was made on a Facebook post of a world map that had Japan messed up in how it was shown: While I'm here, there are two Twitter profiles I get much joy from. They are both parody or satire accounts, both reasonably funny, but both have hilarious comments where people take what they say seriously. The first is https://x.com/3YearLetterman @3YearLetterman. It's been around for ever (2017) and is deep satire, the person behind it declined even to comment for a NY Times piece in 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1725312/2020/04/06/3yearletterman-background-youth-football-coaching-legend/ ) and stays completely in character all the time. The comments calling him out as if he were a serious person are funnier than his posts themselves. The other is https://x.com/RepJackKimble the Republican US representative for CA-54. He says. (Spoiler: CA has 52 districts, but had 53 until 2020.) He too, is taken seriously.

Well, Ontario is in CA, eh?