mike carey

25? My calculation: Consider the top level. There are three triangles, then the left two and the right two are also triangles. Then the three together are a triangle. So six. The same calculation applies to the top two levels taken together and also for and another six for the top three rows and for the whole four rows. That makes 24. Then there is the grey triangle around the grid. Total 25 I'm not sure that I haven't missed some there, hence the question mark.

Me too. Same with the link you posted, @poolboy48220

This and some of the responses in the thread raise a serious issue about sanitisers. The first consideration is that they are effective, but once we know that they are other considerations kick in. Like anything that is perceived as being essential, preferences for which one come into play. I don't see anything wrong with someone who can choose opting for the lemon myrtle infused one. We've seen something similar with masks. After the initial rush to use surgical masks then any cloth mask you could get your hands on, people started to use them as fashion statements and for political slogans. Case in point, that Q-nutter from Georgia who probably thinks the whole idea of masks is a socialist conspiracy.

I stand corrected, Liubit, I wasn't sure but chose to say you did live there rather than you might still do so. My apologies for misrepresenting you.

My mother taught me how to knit when I had a series of inner ear infections when I was in first grade that kept me out of school for about half of the year. I still knit and have made several jumpers for myself (sweaters) including Aran style ones. I haven't ventured into Fair Isle.

I'm not an escort so I won't presume to answer the question, but it does raise the interesting question of whether 'you're just paying for my time' is true or if the fee should vary according to what an escort is expected to do. I do realise that the 'fee for time' mantra is driven by the legal status of sex work in the US.

Texas snow clearance?

You may recall that @liubit lives in Prague so he may have some awareness of he topic himself. But by all means czech with Tasso.

That cat has quite the hat!

That absolutely sucks, although having read stories here for a few years nothing surprises any more. Hope the snow storms a couple of states west aren't affecting you too much.

Kings Cross in Sydney was named in 1897 as Queens Cross (I'm not sure that she was) to mark the Diamond Jubilee, The name was changed to Kings Cross in 1905. It wasn't changed back in 1952. KCs became QCs here as well. For the Americans among you, Queens Counsel is a senior barrister (prosecuting or defending courtroom lawyer, the frontman/woman in the proceedings as opposed to the lawyer who does the actual work) who get to be a QC through a nomination followed by a judicial review of their standing in the profession. They are colloquially called Silks, and being granted the status called taking silk, reflecting silk being added to their gowns. In most states here they are called Senior Counsel now but the process for becoming one is still the same. If we become a republic we can probably count on them becoming Presidents Counsel, or PC.

This one's a bit meta, a random post about something random.

Things there clearly haven't gone to the dogs.

I still have mine, and I did use it in high school.

So true, I can remember being in the first non-smoking row next to the smoking section. Not exactly smoke-free.

Not yet, he's been on my radar for a while. Covid travel restrictions intervened for a while but are easing now.

I used to carry a coin holder, sort of a stiff pouch with at cover that folded over it. As @BSR mentioned in reference to Canada and the Eurozone, Australia has $1 and $2 coin and it was not too difficult to end up with $20 worth of coins. No longer an issue for me as I almost never use cash. An escort I hired one time in the US actually commented to me about it. If you're used to the amount of money you can collect in coins in the US, suddenly finding you had over $10 in your pocket would be something of a surprise.

The first day of decimal currency. The Australian pound was converted to two of the new 'dollars', and one shilling (12 pence) became 10 cents. So I still know what it meant when the price of something was £5/17/11. The cartoon character for the introduction advertising was Dollar Bill, but we never called currency notes 'bills'. Party line phones. Five local farms were on the same number and they could listen to each other's calls. My first few years at university my mum still had a manual phone. Number was 745. Imperial weights and measures. Having our first television just a few years after TV started here. TV started after I was born but before I can remember. Wireless stations closing for the night with the national anthem. (It was 'God Save the Queen'. I can't remember when it was God Save the King - I hadn't been born when the Queen came to the throne.) Only AM radio. One and two cent coins. (5c is the smallest here, 10c in NZ.) One and two dollar notes. Finding Kiwi, British and Fijian coins in circulation. They used to be the same size and weight for the same nominal value. The only foreign coin I've seen here in recent years was a Swedish 10 Krona coin which is the same size and metal as $AU2.

Even down to the strategically placed sprigs of parsley. I hasten to add that this unfortunately was not at my local butcher's shop today,, but rather the pic was posted in twitter.

I'd forgotten about that.

I can see that JJ Knight would attract men happy to pay $500 an hour, I like his porn and would be one who would consider that. Maybe. But, as he said to a scene partner, 'You said you like a challenge', that is what he presents, and I'm not so sure!

It would be churlish to suggest that these brands celebrate a puritanism that has been abandoned save for occasional bursts of moral indignation, and a racism that has been abandoned in rhetoric if not in reality. Lest anyone challenge me, we haven't had the former but still suffer the latter.

The first Abba number I remember was Waterloo, and in recent years the Australian tribute group Bjorn Again has been prominent here. I think that the first LP I bought was of another battle, it was Tchaikovsky's 1812. How boring am i?

Of course! Dancing Queen. In a manly way ... Yup. I guess Fernando would be about a cowboy on the Rio Bravo del Norte.

Since it's Friday in 澳大利亞 (Australia), Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai, or as your banner says, Xinnian Kuaile.