mike carey

I understand your point of view, but to me buying something in the expectation that it will appreciate in value (like company shares) is just as much an investment as buying for cash flow. Of course if you are buying for capital gain, timing is everything. What one invests in is a matter of personal choice. *Yes, I realise shares often provide an income stream in the form of dividends.

I'm a bit like you @BasketBaller, I like to catch a train if I have the option. That trip to Chicago sounds great, but the delays not so much. In big (in area) western countries like the US, Canada and Australia, there's a threshold when you probably need to start thinking of train travel as more like a cruise than a scheduled passenger service. When meals are included in the fare rather than being available to buy would seem to be an indicator of that (even though in the case of the Capitol Limited that's only for the sleeper fare). A long distance trip in North America is still on my list of things to do. I've done them here and in Russia.

I saw that! Rather than 'Next year in Jerusalem', Matt is an exemplar of 'Next year in Palm Springs'! Or anywhere.

Not the look of Cassius for us!

@sexymonk I absolutely agree about @peterhung85 he is a delightful man.

Does it make that much difference? I travelled between NYC and DC several times when I was last there and couldn't justify business class on the regular service, much less using the Acela. When you factor in travel to airports and security etc, Amtrak is most likely quicker. That said, I'm sure there will be a demand for it.

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It's a great trip. When I did it, it was an early departure from Chihuahua and a late arrival in the evening at Los Mochis. Copper Canyon itself is spectacular, but so is the descent to the Pacific coast from altitude.

@sexymonk you've got me checking air fares again, dammit.

As I commented in another thread, I don't mind receiving random escort messages, but they don't necessarily prompt me to hire, or even to reply. But I would look (or look again), regardless of whether I was ready to commit. Yes, it is a bit pushy, but hey, nothing ventured nothing gained. The calculation would be different (one way or the other) if I had seen him on here.

https://m4m-forum.org/threads/romani.148130/ https://m4m-forum.org/threads/411-on-grey-romani-in-indianapolis.149646/ https://rent.men/Romani There you go. @Romani

Mike Carey was going to say something similar but Kevin beat him to the punch. No prize for second.

Lol, I get that! Shorter version: if you can't replace the word with it is, who is etc then no apostrophe.

I looked at this and wondered what it was trying to say, clicked on it to see if it linked to something deep and meaningful. [MEDIA=twitter]1152936315698188289[/MEDIA] Slowly the penny dropped. This was BBC News' successful entry in the Twitter 'Stating the Bleeding Obvious' prize for 2019.

Is that perhaps a euphemism?

A way of thinking about (and hopefully remembering this) is that with pronouns an apostrophe is always a contraction, and the possessive pronoun doesn't have one. So, its, his, hers, yours, theirs, whose (possessive) and it's, he's, she's, you're, they're, who's (contraction with the verb 'to be'). Obviously it's easier when the root word changes between the two (eg she's uses nominative case and hers derives from the accusative), or the verb is plural.

Not at all, easy to mistake it. I recognised the club uniform and the brand of ball.

Not American, Australian Rules (or AFL), 18 a side oval field.

Australian rules football, actually.

@Jim_n_NYC, in the few days after I joined I received a few unsolicited messages from escorts but didn't reply. But that was all, I haven't received many since then. I was in a small city, not one of the larger markets so that may explain why they stopped quickly. As @Ichabod noted if they see you've looked at their profile they have no way of knowing if you intended to leave a track or not, so they have a business reason to check. (You can change your settings on your dashboard so they can't see that you have viewed their profile.) If I received a message I would treat it as a 'Hello' but it doesn't make me more likely to be interested, but still I'd check them out. I would tend not to reply but if their message was particularly engaging I might do so even if only to say. 'Thank you but no'.

I've given up worrying about the 'immigration experience', it's going to be what it is, and I haven't had any recent horror experiences. That said, I've only used LAX, SFO or DFW (and only been able to use them while I fly Qantas, even when flying with them to JFK as those flights clear immigration at LAX). Perhaps I'll get to use some other gateways if I fly Singapore, Cathay, JAL or Air Canada, or arrive from Europe. And I'm not a US or Canadian passport holder so I can't use MP. I've arrived in Australia at Sydney,, Melbourne and Brisbane and there's not much difference.

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Yes, I was talking mainly about the south east. The Ghan and the Indian Pacific are a different type of experience as you said. They do have one or two 'coach' carriages for sit-up passengers.

Yes to going as far forward as possible at DC Union Station, and yes the queues can be long. Whether it makes sense to fly rather than catch the train depends on your mindset as much as anything else. I would be cautious about the idea of flying from La Guardia, even if it were cheaper, getting to the airport is more problematic than getting to Penn Station. More broadly I think of a train trip as a part of the travel experience but a flight as a necessary step before 'travel' starts. So, I would take a train from, say, New Orleans to Washington for the experience. Trains here are more like the US than Europe, few, slow and not all that convenient. They are largely run by state governments and they are a public service rather than a business proposition. In my state, NSW, there is a good network of trains and connecting bus services (mostly with reserved seats so the DC Union Station rush for seats doesn't happen). It's no comparison in scale with the NE corridor, but Canberra to Sydney (300km) has 15-20 flights a day (discount from $200 each way) and three trains ($50). There is also a non-stop bus service every hour for $30-$45. [Those are AUD.]

@liubit, what did you not like about my post?