mike carey

Perhaps a 'Dear John' note?

I assume many do. National taxation authorities tend to pay attention to people whose declared incomes to not match their financial positions.

Do that!

Another of those cases where the quotation doesn't mean what we think it does. At the risk of going off on a tangent, 'blood is thicker than water' is another where the meaning in context is the opposite of what the accepted wisdom would hold. [The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.]

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It seems that even leaving aside 'sex work' however defined, the tip exemption is going to be an enforcement nightmare challenge. Glad y'all got the Puritans and we got the convicts.

There was a case in Canberra some years ago (you may have heard about it) where a client agreed to pay an escort for sex and afterwards declined to pay (both were male fwiw). I think I mentioned it here at one stage and was met with a degree of incredulity, not unlike some commentary in this thread. The client was successfully tried for rape as the sex was legally deemed to have occurred without consent in the absence of payment.

I think that having a 'customer is always right' mindset is good to start with. But that doesn't mean they have a free pass to do whatever they want. I would say that it's best to hope for, or even assume the best, but plan for the worst, and some worst case plans need to be brutal. Some customers need a gentle reminder that always 'being right' comes with conditions, some need their assumptions on that to be torn to shreds. Bad customers are owed [almost] nothing.

Or two, and make it 100 Years of Solitude.

Thanks for the special shout-out this Thursday. MC.

On an entirely unrelated point, I've had a visit to Toronto on my list for quite some time.

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I wish to report a very speedy and friendly passage through border control and arrival formalities at Los Angeles International Airport. I know this will come across as a work of fiction, but here we are.

It can mean that they had previously posted their rates and had deleted them from their ad. I've seen the same thing happens with escorts in Australia. Even when I am logged on at home, I can never see rates posted for escorts from the US or any others who are there temporarily, but I have no idea whether in either case they have the ability to include rates in their ad despite those rates being hidden to viewers in the US or when they themselves are in the country.

Thanks, @RadioRob, with the prolonged error message I figured something like that had happened. Glad to see it's back.

Thanks for this post confirming the impression I had gained.

I think you may have meant artisan. artesian adjective ar·te·sian (ˈ)är-¦tē-zhən : involving, relating to, or supplied by the upward movement of water under hydrostatic pressure in rocks or unconsolidated material beneath the earth's surface

Ms Tate, really?

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She's the chair of the Australian Government's Productivity Commission. But I don't think that's the one he was talking about.

Does Bozo think so?

Some may have noticed I have changed my avatar. It's a bad photo of a red poppy I grew last year or the year before, a symbol of remembrance with its origins the Flanders poppies that grew in the ground of earth disturbed in war, In Flanders Field.

I suspect he meant complaisant, which it turns out is a word in English, although I checked it to see if he had used a French word. It means "marked by an inclination to please or oblige'.