mike carey

An own goal by the mother, you could say.

WTF indeed, that's certainly starting to emerge into the debate here, but it's still very quiet, except for the inbound international tourism and higher education sectors, previously two of our biggest export earners. Over 40% of Australians do not hold a passport, so that's a portion of the population that won't care about this news. Some context here, though, this flurry of announcements (from a government that is starting to be seen as a government of announcements, not of follow through) has been in the context of the Federal budget that was brought down on Tuesday evening here. So the discussion about the border is mainly as one of the assumptions that underlie the budget. That is because whether the border is open or closed will affect the economy. The budget overwhelmingly relied on very cautious assumptions about the economy, so they have assumed low levels of growth, low iron ore prices, and a closed border. The strategy seems to be under-promise and over-deliver with an election due by next May but can be called any time from August this year. If they can announce better news in, say April, that would suit them just fine. With that in mind, I am reading this travel prediction as being the government's view of what is the worst case scenario. Time will tell.

If it's not, you can stream it live from their web site (button top right). You may also be able to find a story about Colombia that had aired previously. https://www.aljazeera.com/ I miss it not being aired here on the ABC News channel in the middle of the night. Their News Grid program that aired at 1500UTC was very good.

Yay! Brilliant, thanks Rob!

Same here, but here's the rub, when I log out the forum content is visible. Now I think about it, the card view of the site was visible before I logged in, but not afterwards. At the time I had put it down to operator error in navigating the forum. (I love the opera house photo for the Asia/Africa/Australia forum [for obvious reasons, but it is a great shot], and had a laugh at the sausage image for the Deli, entirely appropriate on a number of levels.)

It was labelled 'Love Sex Durex Play' and described as 'massage 2 in 1' but it's a New Zealand/Aotearoa brand, so that's probably not much help to you.

I've been intrigued by it but never gone beyond that so I may have to broach the idea with an escort or other partner here. I have chatted with @COLLEGEDOM but not met yet, and that seems out of the question right now.

My last meeting my partner used my bottle of lube/massage gel to massage me but I don't recall him using it for The Act. Smoothest eight inches I've had in a while.

I've spent too much time over the last few days watching election results in Scotland, so I read MSP as Member of the Scottish Parliament, not what the abbreviations was intending to convey!

Lol, some of @RadioRob's late afternoon (five hours ago my time) posts perhaps indicate a both-ends-of-the-candle person!

Thanks, I had been meaning to go back over my private conversations and make sure I had saved any phone numbers or e-mail addresses people had sent me. More impetus to do so now I know I'll be saving a small amount of space on the site. (Although the stored site data being in double figure Gb when 1Tb is $5.99 a month, perhaps that not as significant as I thought it might be!)

I may have missed something but my observation is that it's not possible to delete a private conversation, we can only 'leave' them, which implies to me that they stay in the data base. Is this not the case?

It's 5pm so not the ideal time for this old brain to start fiddling around with a beta of the site in a new operating system, but I plan to give it a go on another day. An observation, though. The site has managed well with the old software, but that doesn't mean it's the best it could be, I simply don't know. But in any system, the people operating it become accustomed to what it can do. It can take a new person in a job, or in this case a new administrator, to see opportunities to change the system, improve it or add to it. Or in this case be aware of a different propriety solution that offers new possibilities. From what @RadioRob has outlined in the post above, the possibilities from Invision Community sound great. The ability to load images directly rather than simply links would be very useful. Although the storage that needs was probably the main reason for the current capability, I recognise that petabytes of storage probably cost no more than megabytes 10 years ago, so its salience as an issue is declining. (It might add a copyright issue by having the image on the site's servers, and it means that an image would no longer disappear from here if the copyright owner took it down.) From what Rob says above, my approach will be to assume we should proceed and in kicking the tyres of this software be looking for reasons 'why not' rather than the opposite approach.

Yes, it was for a fifth of mayo not a gallon.

+ 1 on this suggestion.

OK, I take your point that this may not be a 'funny' as such, but whatever. I saw it on one of those compilations. Dear Atheists: How is it that cavemen survived the asteroid but the dinosaurs didn't? Reply: Social distancing, they stayed 65 million years apart.

Perfect, I'll make plans to go to the shops at 2pm AEST!

I watch some soccer but more as an 'event' than for love of the game. I will watch world cup games on TV even at odd hours of the morning, something that's inevitable in this time zone most times, but I don't watch the A League games on free to air TV here (it's the national competition in Australia). I have been to an Australia game against France here one year, and in what is probably one of my most memorable sporting experiences I was at the final qualifying game Australia played in 2005 for the 2006 world cup. It was in the days when Australia was in the Oceania confederation and had to play the fifth placed team in South America for a place. We had lost 1-0 to Uruguay in Montevideo and after extra time in Sydney we were ahead 1-0 so the for and against had us level, and it went to penalties. I have never seen an explosion of joy, both on and off the field such as there was when John Aloiso kicked the decisive penalty that saw us qualify for 2006.

Not everyone knows what all these words mean.

@Daniel84, is there a distinction among photographers between those doing fiction and non-fiction

'It's not over...'

Is that the place I saw written up on OMAAT that has a $420pp r/t seaplane transfer to get there?

Of that I have no idea. Possibly an errant piece of code in the XenFora software? If it's random, as it appears to me to be, it would be difficult to track down, I suspect.

I've had that happen to me once in a blue moon for quite some time, so it's not just a new thing.

There have been other discussions of this in the forum in the past, and I'm sure others will direct you to them. I've always taken the view (without proof) that what an escort puts in their ad is what they are prepared to do with a client, not necessarily what they are prepared to do in other circumstances. So 'safe only' isn't a guarantee that they only play safe any time, only that they only want to do so with clients. Likewise with whether they are tops or bottoms.