mike carey

Quite understandable, for most of us here it's not exactly a priority.

I think it's British, we typically have outside mail boxes rather than a slot in the front door. I suspect it is something more intimate than that, but I am unschooled in such things.

The contrast with our situation could not be more stark. First, this morning at her news conference the NSW premier said that since it's now 28 days since the last case of community transmission on the Sydney northern beaches, restrictions can now be eased further. She then said that as it was only 14 days since a case in another group of suburbs, that it would be two more weeks before, amongst other things, the limit of one person per four square metres could be eased to one per two square metres. Even with no cases for extended periods there are still restrictions. They are applied differentially by local government area, but local restrictions are decided by the state government not the local authoities.

I'm sure those who know you would not be worried by any imperfections you imagine about yourself!

I'm sure that's what she meant!

I seem to be having a run at posting in here. Oh well. A disclaimer, I have no idea what this could possibly mean, but from the comments I deduce that it must be funny.

Yes, you're right. Mike is one of the good guys here and worth paying attention to.

Not an unreasonable observation.

This young guy is ABCTV's Covid stats dude. He is always very serious. Except when he's not. Though he may of course have started to follow QAnon, as this would fit right in there. I love the way most of the comments follow similar flights of whimsy to the way he started the thread.

I can't say if it's a spoiler or not as I haven't seen the fillum, but Rialto is a suburb of Dublin. That cold be the link, it may be where it's set. Rialo is on the Irish Grand Canal, and there is a Rialto bridge that crosses the canal.

The reason some people are considering high priced merchandise is that their tolerance for paying $n is related to how much money they have as well as their understanding of what is a 'market' rate. I'm more guided by that market rate but I'm not everyone. If my income were $10m pa I wouldn't blink at $1k per hour if I liked the look of the guy. I earn somewhat less than that (several orders of magnitude as it happens), so I think hard before hiring at rather lower rates, but that's me. And not necessarily in a bad way, many reflect the view that his price is simply outside their range. The 'who does he think he is' crowd, and the 'I wouldn't pay that much for him' ones not so much. Turning your unwillingness or inability to pay someone's rate into a comment on the provider does exactly what you suggest, Benjamin.

Sometimes things miss you by 'that much'. https://twitter.com/signalborder/status/1352769488119324673?s=20

And then there's: "And how did you find your steak sir?" "Oh quite by accident. I lifted up the potato and there it was."

Spoken by another man who happily sets his own rules of engagement in the business.

This subject came up in the weekly Sunday morning sports discussion program on the ABC, and although they were talking about vaccination for Australian Olympic athletes, it could reasonably be applied more broadly. The Australian Olympic Committee went public this week saying that the team would not be jumping the queue for vaccination. The panelists noted that the number of people in the whole team is vanishingly small in proportion to the Australian population and vaccinating them would have a negligible (but not zero) effect on the availability of vaccine for higher priority recipients so most Australians would not begrudge them being vaccinated for the games. Although the US is less sport obsessed than Australia, the same might largely be true there. On the issue of equity, is should not be too much to ask for the wealthy IOC to fund vaccination for athletes from poor countries, or for the rich countries to do so, with the aim both of helping to ensure the safe running of the games and of preventing athletes from potentially bringing the virus home.

I'm not sure someone into wethers is that much of an attraction.

No arguments from me on that score. He seems more closely aligned to the political milieu he operates in than his successor or any of the state or territory senior health/medical officers.

He's a public servant not a politician. The secretaries of government departments in Australia are in effect their CEOs, the politician in charge is the minister. I think the Canadian equivalent is deputy minister.

Probably the same spelling test as for the sub-bation hall of fame.

I think I've hit the jackpot with this thread:

There's some astonishing J-class fares being offered, I can only hope that when travel here opens up again some of the airlines offer deals half as good. These AA fares have been discussed in the One Mile at a Time forum to some cynicism, and some contempt for anyone who is travelling to South America in the pandemic, or even talking about it. While they are tempting, I'm too much of a glass-half-empty guy in this situation: possibility of cancellation, difficulty of getting soon to be mandatory tests and so on, but good luck and have fun anyone who's going to take the plunge.

Yes it is, or any other, but the question was asked after Unicorn posted a pic of his vaccination record that used two different nomenclatures for the Pfizer vaccine. I was aiming to remove any idea that he had received different vaccines.

As far as I can tell, you can't edit who follows you (that's up to them), only who you follow. (For those, hover the cursor over their avatar or name and select 'Unfollow' in the dialogue box.)

And the twitter thread it comes from for your amusement.

Excellent! Something to read while I think about cuddles.