mike carey

Even if it should be it isn't always.

A maths question, well not actually, it's a random question. If you start at zero and spell every number as you count upwards, what is the last letter of the alphabet that you will use?

I saw a snippet of this video a couple of weeks ago, and today someone posted something on twitter to which, 'And we all preferred the world we found to the one we'd left behind' was the perfect comment, about our condition now.

I'm not about to enter into a conversation about whether the image I use is of me, or whether other users chose to use their own image. There is no forum requirement for folk to use an image of themselves, or their own name, or to disclose whether they do so. The fact that some other forum members may already know the answer to that question about me is immaterial.

I don't usually do this. I usually post on one of the other days. Saw this on twitter: Apology Dad joke: I would like to confess to a murder and apologise to the entire school. I mixed up the crows' food with the fish food.

I've never seen reports here about there being problems with flat (actually slightly sloping) roofs. From the discussion so far, it's not clear what normal roofing materials in the US are, and that would make a difference. Here, they are invariably sheet metal, usually corrugated galvanised iron or some other sort of moulded metal sheeting, with a metal gutter on the lower side leading to a metal downpipe to take the water away. (Sloped roofs would commonly be concrete or terra cotta tiles.) Roofing metal is durable and you would expect it to last for 40 or more years. The house my mother built in 1968 (with a sloping roof) is showing signs of rust now so I'll probably need to replace the roofing iron shortly.

Today in the ACT Supreme Court a sex work client was convicted of rape after he flew two escorts to Canberra for separate overnights then after the session refused to pay them. He flew them here, provided chauffeurs and hotel rooms. It later emerged that he had paid using stolen credit card details. The judge ruled that their consent to having sex was negated because it had been obtained through fraudulent misrepresentation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-24/former-canberra-actor-jailed-for-raping-male-escorts/12589284

TOTALLY understandable!

A strong cold front went through these parts over the last couple of days, hence the third photo in this tweet. Portland is about 250km north of here, and 150km west of Sydney, at about 1000m elevation. [MEDIA=twitter]1297162710115737600[/MEDIA]

Isn't that what cheer-leaders are for?

Most of you probably know that the words root and rooted have a particular meaning in Australian vernacular. Suffice to say that no one here would for a moment consider calling a church anything like this. (Although there is a chain of tool shops that rejoice in the name Total Tools.) In case you were wondering, I googled and there is a church of that name in Florida. [MEDIA=twitter]1297150038783623168[/MEDIA]

@whipped guy, yes 'number plate' is what they're called. To clarify, he's free to cross the border but would face 14 days' quarantine on return. The state's tourism slogan is 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next'.

In my dreams!

You'll do me in 15 minutes? Oh wait, I misread that. My bad.

Queenslandah! Shame the border's closed.

On the more serious subject of these faggots, I like most offal so I should look at trying to make some of them, and from the recipes I've seen they involve bacon, so they can't be all bad. I'm not sure that the ingredients would be available in most supermarkets. I've seen lamb and beef liver and hearts here but not pigs'. Perhaps a smaller specialty butcher's shop. I'm not sure how much of a thing the 'nose to tail' movement in meat consumption is in the US, but it is a thing here, even if not widespread. Its core principle is using the whole animal if you're going to kill it for food, so dishes that use parts of an animal that wouldn't be used in mainstream cuisine are relevant to it. In a less serious vein, when googling I saw that facebook had deleted posts that used faggot in this context.

A cigarette is a fag, and that's not an abbreviation for a longer word. So never a faggot.

Alaska flies to PSP from San Francisco and Seattle, so they might be an option that offers affordable fares with a routing through one of those cities. Remember they will be in One World by then so American may have code-shares with them next April. On my previous ventures to the weekend QF have routed me through SFO. This year I was booked in that way and out via DFW. I have an open QF travel credit to prove it. [uSER=8020]@Just Sayin'[/uSER], there's a chance that there'll be a vaccine but I wouldn't bet my house on it.

Here's a video clip on some of the genomic analysis being done on the outbreaks in two Australian states and New Zealand. [MEDIA=twitter]1295556024502374400[/MEDIA] As an aside, the presenter in the video is the father of Axios journalist Jonathan Swan.

Now we've solved that age-old question, the next burning question is where does strawberry milk come from.

Eight hours later I still collapse into a fit of the giggles when I think of this one.

This was the one I literally laughed out loud at: If you walk on all fours in the grocery store social distancing is not an issue.

If you do a search in the forum, you'll come up with similar threads to this about previous years' meetings, including the ill-fated 2020 occasion. Or, indeed not only guys from the US. Or CBR for that matter.

This guy has been posting dad jokes for most of the week, but this one alludes to something sometimes discussed in these forums. I guess I could have posted this in a Viagra thread, but here will do just fine. [MEDIA=twitter]1293752614618767366[/MEDIA]