mike carey

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.

He went on to say that he now drives to Buffalo or Vermont, so I can only think that he was flying from Canada.

I remember a trivial pursuit question, what is the first foreign country you reach travelling south from Detroit. People were guessing at Mexico and Caribbean islands when the answer was across the river.

No, it's a Gaggia. I'll be looking at other brands now I know the sort of things they can do. Thanks for the recommendation on Jura. My sister's been through a succession of coffee makers, Nespresso, an Aldi brand capsule machine and now this. The local coffee roaster I mentioned was the place we bought coffee when we shared a house in Canberra in the late 70s. (No fancy, or even basic machines then, water boiled in the kettle and poured through a filter funnel into a coffee pot.) They no longer have a shop in the mall, but they still have a shop-front in a light industrial area about 1km away. I'll buy some of their beans to take to her next time I visit.

I do, at least in the filter coffee maker in my house in Canberra. My other machine has a reusable ultra-fine mesh filter. I don't add a paper or any other filter when I use the coffee plunger (see earlier post for translation into American)., just the mesh in it. If I hadn't heard of the American meaning of 'fag' the expression wouldn't have made sense. 'Blowing' isn't a verb I'd use about a cigarette. 'Suck on a fag' most Australians would interpret as meaning smoking.

In Sydney and Melbourne, the rates are about the same in dollar numbers (so about 30% lower). I'm not sure that legality affects availability or demand, legality doesn't appear to be an issue in the US.

Thanks, @TruthBTold, I hope the gods change their rules, but I suspect not.

My sister's machine has you load beans and water in it and put milk in a carafe, and it dispenses coffee, either with or without hot milk. There are no capsules or anything like that involved. That said, I haven't found out how much the machine costs! I suspect a lot!

Thanks!

Yes, it is @RexB, but it's good for these wonderful guys to gain a little more attention in the forum. They have been solicitous of my indelicate praise of them. I should stop talking about @TylerandAce.

@tassojunior, those options are not generally available here. I haven't seen the Keurig machines here at all, although they may be.

I have an ethical objection to coffee pods as they are unnecessarily polluting. My usual coffee has been a plunger (US=French press). My sister used to use a pod machine and I used that when I visited despite my reservations. I mean, you need good coffee. Last time I visited she had an automatic machine that you used coffee beans in and it was sublime. I need to buy one. When I do (inshallah) I will buy my coffee beans from a local roaster that I used when they had a shop in the mall years ago and now operates in a less commercial setting.

Since I last posted here, sadly the chances that I could attend have not improved. I may be lucky enough to be vaccinated some time in April, but the chances of Australia's borders opening by then are about zero. A MAL-aligned event, as we have had in the past and as @jrhoutex suggests, is more likely in January 2022, and it would be good to be able to be there regardless of the weather. I have frozen my arse off there before and could do it again. Minus 10C, ugh!

That would be a good idea.

Now, you're being deliberately obtuse. If they were not trying to converse in English, and they may not have been, we don't know, then it matters not whether English was the escorts' first language or if they spoke English at all.

I know, my point was that for him whether they spoke English is immaterial if they both spoke a different language as their first language.

Yes, sometimes you think WTF, but other times it actually is a great question. If you're gonna use it, mean it, don't use it as a gap filler.

Or in Wolfer's case, French or Flemish.

I suppose a boyfriend experience could be two guys sitting on the couch watching TV and not talking to or touching each other, but that's not one I would sign up for if it were for one night.

Reading the title of this thread I decided to come in and make an off-topic remark about GOAT meaning greatest of all time, only to discover that was what the thread was about (saves my comment from being off-topic and removed). Nathan Lyon, a spin bowler who has taken over 300 wickets in test cricket (but who is not as old as a certain former Patriots quarterback, who looks far younger than his alleged age), is an Australian cricketer who wears that title. A former Australian rugby player (and Wallabies captain) rejoiced in the nickname 'Nobody' because, it was reasoned, nobody is perfect. OK, back on topic.