mike carey

Or perhaps hashbrowns are nothing more than rösti?

There's a challenge! What's your secret to cooking hashbrowns from scratch? The rectangular or triangular bricks of grated potato from the freezer cabinet don't count!

How about, 'He has no respect for you'?

So it would seem that one of the aims of the credit rating companies is to signal to lenders, 'This guy is likely to borrow heaps from you so you can make huge profits from them, give them more credit cards'.

A Texas farmer went on vacation to Australia. He met up with an Australian farmer who proudly showed off his wheat field. "That's nothing" said the Texan. "Back home, we have wheat fields that are twice as large as this." Next the Australian pointed out his cattle. "They're nothing," said the Texan. "Back home, we have longhorns that are twice as big as your cows." Just then, half a dozen kangaroos bounded across the road. "What are those?" asked the Texan. The Australian replied, "Don't you have grasshoppers in Texas?"

But you're right, there's more to it than just the temperature. Humidity and wind all contribute to how it feels. And whether it feels like 'summer' (or in the same vein feels like 'winter') is a relative question. For me, April in Palm Springs is 'summer' enough, but for locals, the chill may only be slowly leaving the air. It's easy for heat to become oppressive, even if the thermometer doesn't say it's all that hot (whatever your personal frame of reference is for 'hot'). 35 degrees in Singapore (or in Washington DC to my experience when it's 150% humidity) is far worse than 40+ in Palm Springs (or Baghdad). Those of us even in temperate climates would not recognise summer in Scandinavia (apart from 20 hours of daylight), but the locals would certainly assure you that what you were experiencing was indeed that (and be wearing shorts and t-shirts to your more rugged-up attire). I'm sure the high veld or altiplano or whatever it is of Las Vegas brings different experiences.

12%! The humanity!!

Yikes, 13 degrees in C*****ntes, and that's almost in the tropics!

Meanwhile it's -3 here (at 3am, I'm watching the cricket from Barbados) and it was 9 yesterday. (That's 27 and 48 to you.) The weather in Bridgetown looks delightful.

Me too!

It could have been California.

He was asking about areas in a certain country, and asking about a heat event there. Whether that country uses Celsius is beside the point, he was citing the temperatures in a part of Ontario that does, and where there has been a heat event that may have been experienced below the 49th parallel DMZ.

Next blue moon is 31 May 26.

I bought some CK underwear a couple of weeks ago, made in Kenya.

Some initial ideas while I marshall my thoughts (and reconsider my options while I'm at it). Where do you want to go. Europe, Asia, South America, other places in North America etc. How do you want to do it? Solo travel by car, rail pass, work it out as you go. Organised tour Cruise I've travelled on and off all my life (with significant breaks). I did a big Europe trip out of Uni, rail pass, random travel, youth hostels; a cruise to Antarctica; organised tours in South America (several days, and a two day trip from Buenos Aires to Iguazu Falls); and done city visits for a few days to a week. I'd repeat all of them, but tend towards self paced travel, but not everyone is comfortable with that. If you want to work out the 'how to travel' rather than the 'where', you could go somewhere close at hand, even in the US and try something you hadn't done before. Two weeks in Europe might be an easy start, just in the UK if you want to try in a familiar language. Rail passes are still a thing (and good value if you want to jump on and off trains and see a lot of places), and Eurail and Britrail passes offer continuous and X days in Y period passes. Youth hostels in the UK used to be fine for people of all ages, and probably still are, although not as cheap as they were in the past. Many are in the countryside (and if you hire a car that can be good).

Another birthday on 23 June. Alan Turing was born on this day in 1912. He was a brilliant mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma codes in World War II. After the war he was repaid by being chemically castrated for being a homosexual, and took his own life on 7 June 1954. The British Government made a full and unconditional apology in 2009, and his image now features on the British £50 note, both things that would be unimaginable in some countries still today.

It took me a few moments go 'get' the base jumping radio messages, 'King's horses and king's men ...' indeed!

Was his name Apollo?

Were they on DL and AA miles respectively? Or one of their other partners?

Yes, three ways: Select part of the text, and most of the time a little box will appear with something like 'Quote this selection' and click that. Repeat that with each part you want to quote. Each of them will appear in your new comment as quoted text boxes. (Sometimes when you select the text the 'quote this selection' option won't apply. Try again, and if it still doesn't work use the thrid method below.) Click on 'Quote' and delete parts of the text you don't want. Click on the quotation mark icon at the top of the reply box and that will insert a quotation box in the reply. Then copy the text you wnat and paste it into the quotation box. If anyone has further questions like this, ask them in the Feedback forum so threads like this can stay on topic.

I did a double take when I read that, and had to google to find a different meaning of 'bonking' from the usual one in Australian and British English.

There's an article today on OMAAT wondering if folks are suffering credit card fatigue having to navigate all the perks, bonuses and offers that are becoming increasingly complicated. Individual cards may have benefits that outweigh the annual fee, some only if you use them all, which may not be feasible, or may require you to do too much work to redeem them. With a constant supply of new cards or new benefits on existing ones, it's useful to think carefully before applying for that shiny new one, or renewing one you already have. I have benefits from my Amex card that I would never use, so I don't consider them when I do my cost/benefit analysis, but it's still a 'keep' despite the annual fee. Is Credit Card Fatigue Becoming A Problem For Points Hobbyists? - One Mile at a Time ONEMILEATATIME.COM As credit cards are increasingly complicated to maximize, is the concept of credit card fatigue increasingly setting in? As an aside, reading through the article and comments, I know perfectly well that AF means 'annual fee' but when I'm reading 'Card X ... expensive AF' I have to stop and correct my initial reading of it.

It can happen when there is empty space in the text you quote and you don't notice where the edges of the text box are. I just experimented with starting to quote the comment you were quoting and this is how it that appeared: From looking at the comment you made quoting @Gar1eth, it looks like you put your comment in the empty space above his sentence starting with, 'I'm sorry ...'

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