mike carey

Hell, I would!

That converts to just over 20cm.

Australie: Null Points The Milkshake Man blows it!

Australian GST doesn't put US products at any disadvantage to Australian products in our market. What taxes US jurisdictions apply to goods, whether they are from the US or anywhere else is a matter for them. If some choose not to tax goods at the point of sale, that's their decision not something that some other country has done to them. Australian and US internal tax arrangements (and their costs of production, including labour costs) each affect the prices they can afford to charge on products they export. We could claim that US national minimum wages that are lower than ours give your producers an unfair advantage selling into Australia. (We don't.)

Rita Panahi? She's a fringe right wing Australian commentator, so I would treat anything she posted with extreme caution. Several kilos of salt.

Not true, the US has applied 10% tariffs as a baseline regardless of what applies to US exports. Australia has effectively no tariffs on US exports but we have 10% on our exports to the US.

Not an entirely unreasonable observation, but still ... !

Ok, gents, lets get back to the subject at hand and cut the sniping.

Welcome to the forum @Gilfson! Hope you find it useful.

It does suck indeed, I've been there once or twice. Any resemblance to food is purely coincidental. Sometimes those places will have some sandwiches which are meh but better than having nothing but a packet of chips. Spray cheese can be made sort-of palatable, but that would need something like celery sticks to spray it into, and those sorts of places sure as hell won't have that!

Definitely a bottle of Yellow Tail, no half measures!

I often add essential toppings (like anchovies) to supermarket pizzas, frozen or fresh, and also a little extra cheese. To me, any pizza made with a bought base is 'semi-homemade'. Even making the base using self-raising flour for the dough rather than a yeast dough is sort of cheating. But I don't really care!

Adding my two bob's worth to AZ, PA and PK, I flew into EWR Terminal A and the bus between there and the monorail was fine, just add a little time.

As there is when certain other posters refer to hit pieces.

Some of those rules are advice or guidance, others are ex cathedra pronouncements.

His choice to be called Leo XIV has prompted that view of his intent, as it evokes Rerum Novarum, the noted encyclical of Leo XIII.

You're right about that, big diverse countries produce most of the food that they need, importing niche products or things they can't produce at a competitive price. Vanilla beans are one example, production is very labour intensive and even at a high price, countries like the US (and Australia) can't produce it at scale. Both of us could, in our tropical areas, but demand would be for high-end products that want the cachet of having domestically-produced vanilla. A tariff on the rest of the supply from Madagascar would have near zero effect on overall inflation. One US import that may surprise is Australian beef, which from what I understand is mainly grass-fed beef that is used in hamburger meat to complement the grain-fed US beef. The current 10% tariff is likely to have a negligible effect (assuming that it's still imported) as it's a small impost on the cost of getting a burger out of the door at McDonalds.

It's most likely nothing to do with 'Escort Ads' as such, it most likely refers to Genevieve (or Genoveva) of Brabant: Genevieve of Brabant - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG The story is also the basis of the Schumann opera Genoveva. What aspect of the legend, the underlying story or even the opera that the escort is alluding to is beyond me. I very much doubt this will ever come up in another escort ad, although some of our more learned gentlemen may be aware of, or be able to incorporate themes into play, so inadvertently the Lounge is probably the best place for this question rather than the Questions forum!!

Oh dear, I had buddy listed him but didn't act on it when I was in NYC. More fool me!

The 25% tariff will result in price increases from 0% to 25% depending on how much of each car is foreign, or USMCA non-compliant. Don't be surprised if retailers charge the full 25% regardless, and also increase the price of 100% US-sourced cars by the same amount just because they can.

Long story short, I don't think it's appropriate to ask anyone here or when hiring, nor would I generally share my views. Generally I don't care about affiliation when I'm hiring, BUT if a provider aggressively prosecutes their political views I'm more likely to back away, and that applies whether they share my broad preferences or not. I don't want someone telling me how Party A or Political View A is the only one that a sane person would consider, either because I don't agree, or because I don't want to be forced to discuss a more extreme or differently focussed perspective on the politics I support. I don't mind talking about political views, but I don't want it to become the dominant narrative in a conversation I have in these forums or with a provider, and have had such conversations with a few here or around the pool at InnDulge.

The two threads are now combined so there is some duplication of comments that were made in both. The ad with the new name Threethousand has been deleted so there's no point in adding that name to the title.