mike carey

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The ACT government and the two big universities in the territory have worked out a plan to run charter flights from overseas into Canberra for students, then place them in government supervised quarantine for 14 days, as returning Australians have been for a while now. Initial federal government reaction to the plan is said to be positive, but it's unlikely to happen before July.

When I watched Queer as Folk I was not quite out, even to myself, in a career that didn't cope well with gay people, although I lived in, or at least near, the gay centre of Sydney. I don't know if it reflected what Pittsburgh was like but that really doesn't matter. It depicted a gaybourhood in a city somewhere, and that was what mattered not whether it accurately represented the city it purported to be in.

I don't know if you saw this video that I posted elsewhere on the Kansas flu in Australia. We did relatively well.

Your date of birth would be on you visa card file, but I have no idea about your auto dealer. Unless you supplied it in the finance agreement when you bought the car. Or they saw your drivers licence.

To take a momentary trip out on a tangent, I met a gentleman a couple of days ago here in Canberra. He texted me the details of the hotel where he was staying at about lunch time. I did a quick calculation of how to get there, what with parking or taxis and quickly decided to book a room in the same hotel rather than run the gauntlet of getting to and from the meeting. I didn't intend to, and didn't, see him for anything other than our intended time together (it went well, thanks for asking), but it was a relaxing way to spend the time before and after the meeting. It only cost me $AU100. Back to the issue raised in this thread, booking a room in these hotels might not be much more expensive than a day pass right now, so if you want to use the other facilities, why not do that?

I have used Faceplant far less over the last couple of years, but when I did use it there were two groups of people who would routinely wish me a happy birthday. One was members of a gay camping group here in NSW who I knew well from our various outings at the beach or in the bush, and the other people I knew from my service in a USAF unit in Hawai'i in the 1980s. I really appreciated the thoughts when they came in from both groups.

Further to that, only Australian citizens and residents are eligible to return and go into quarantine. I agree with sydneyboy that general travel to the country is unlikely to open up this year, although there could be exceptions like foreign students enrolled in Australian universities.

Most people are capable of considering two unrelated issues at the same time.

David is a really nice guy.

I'll have to stop commenting on your posts and tweets lest I seem to be some sort of over-awed fan boy.

Or olive oil that's cholesterol free. It's the equivalent of the 'contents may be hot' on coffee cups.

This has been commented on here in the past. Narrative comments in reviews on RM are indeed visible for those of us who aren't in the US, but in the US you can see them if you use a VPN or proxy server (not sure about the technical terms) set for another country. Here in Terra Australis, I'm accustomed to being able to read them all the time and it's frustrating when I visit the US to have to live without them or jump through hoops to read them.

Actually no, I knew roughly what both were, but I hadn't joined those dots.

Including midnight calls for 1am appointments!

I wasn't sure so I googled it, that uniform was introduced in 2017. I have no idea what preceded it. The RAN [Royal Australian Navy] field dress is in blues and greys, so I thought that might also be the case for the USN.

That's US Navy field dress.

I think I could overlook the 'messy'.

The places I've seen reported on use industrial-scale composting operations to process the green/food waste. That would probably reduce, but perhaps not eliminate a rat problem. (And here, birds of prey, snakes, foxes and small marsupial predators anywhere near larger cities.)

D'oh! I didn't google it, just thought, 'That's odd,' Now I know how far north of the 'rest' of Hollywood, it makes sense! (Green bins are a thing here, although not everywhere. Most places, including Canberra, they are only for garden waste, although some local councils want you to use them for all food scraps, including meat. In sink disposal machines have never been common here.)

I'm sure I've used this line before, and it's not my own creation, but anyway. 'It's all very well to use the element trendium, but the problem is it has a short half life before decaying into its sister element tedium.'

I understand that being in a paper bag is the most unfavourable environment for the virus.

Well, I am an oldie!

Can do if @Benjamin_Nicholas is there! Leaving aside the fact that I can't leave the country.

My sister was a member of the Labor party and a trade union official in her twenties. I remember going to Labor party events with her. Roll the clock and she is now more conservative and is a member of the Liberal Party, and a branch official and member of the state council. Her wife's influence, I think. She joined the Party in part because she opposed the Christian right that was taking it over in Victoria (that has largely been pushed back). Although she says she's on the left of the party, she no longer watches the ABC and takes a harder line on climate change and trans rights, following the conservative talking points. When we meet we talk politics less than we did, and if anything my views have moved to the left, although I've never been a member of a party. We still talk politics, but it is more awkward than it was in the past. There's a by-election in my federal constituency next month, and I'll probably vote Green, but my vote will flow to Labor. I won't discuss that with her (the Green part, I mean, if asked I'll tell her where my vote eventually went, to Labor). (The member who retired through ill-health was Labor.)