mike carey

I've read they are also introducing a basic economy fare, so it will be interesting to see how it fares changing its business model so significantly, removing the things that made for a point of difference with other carriers.

The word has come up here frequently. It's a direct substitution of the English word 'morbid' for the Spanish word mórbido. The Spanish word has more meanings than its English twin and some of them are, shall we say, less 'morbid' than the English word.

As the OP stated, his ad is no longer on RM. Could be a name change of course.

Probably bought it at a thrift shop.

Aww, you're so harsh! He could be ... But he clearly isn't, it would seem. Harsh but probably not harsh enough.

What is this "30" of which you speak?

Thankfully 'you' and 'I' are gender neutral, so that at least removes one layer of confusion!

If you had the question correct in how you quoted it in your first post, then the pronoun confusion may have been the point of how it was written. There is also a possible tense issue that @sniper identified above. The initial situation is in the present tense, and the 'after' situation is also in the present tense. Logically the two statements can be in the present tense but the statement 'you pass me' means they are at different times, but a pedant could argue that both being in the present tense means that they were both at the same time (that's not how narrative use of tense works in English, and it's illogical, but pedants be pedants, and the pedantry may also have been part of the intent of the question). If you break down the question to make the sequence and who is whom explicit: I am in second place THEN you pass me What place are you then in? ..then the answer becomes clearer, but the answer is 'I am in second' and the "I" in that answer is the person who was "you" when they passed "me", not the "I" in the first statement. Clear as mud?

In your answer you switched which of the racers each pronoun applied to between the question and the answer. The question posed had "I" in second place and "you" passing "I", that would put "I" in third place. @purplekow's answer is correct.

Yes, that is irrational. It would not be irrational to be turned off by √4.

On the rent.men version of the site, if you click on the three dots next to the 'Add Buddy' button an an escort's add there's a pop-up to block or report them. I assume you need to be logged in to an account to do it, but that shouldn't mean it has to be a paid account:

Although they are similar and could be the same escort, it's not clear that Big and Hung are the same. Both ads are still on RM (the BradVersHung ad is inactive but still there). For now we're leaving them as separate threads.

What you said there is a powerfull thought. In these days of identity consciousness and identity politics, 'identify as' has become something of a loaded term. It's usually used as a term for aggressively claiming 'an identity' or to denigrate people for wanting to claim an identity that the accuser disputes. I don't want to identify as an old man either, but that is not a way to claim that I am not one, I clearly am. Nor is it in any way analogous to someone not wanting to 'identify as gay', as a way either to evade or deny their acceptance of what they are or to avoid opprobrium. What I want to do is say it isn't central to my identity, I'll still freely admit that I am one if asked, and I'm making small allowances for it all the time, but I still don't think of myself as 'old', I'm just me. Unlike some other 'identities', I don't need to claim it, it's obvious. My politics, sexuality or religion can't be seen when you look at me, but my age is clear and your assumption about my gender and racial identity is correct. What you identify as, and what it means is nuanced, sometimes identifying is important, sometimes not, and sometimes it's irrelevant to the rest of your life. If you don't want to identify as 'an old man' you don't have to, and even if you do so, that doesn't have to affect your lived experience.

Or washed away in a flood, had their house burned down in a bushfire, or demolished in a cyclone. Truly horrible place.

Yes, it's horrible here, far too dangerous. Stay away!!!!!! (Opens bottle of delightful chilled white wine and kicks back!!)

Earlier today a member started a new thread on response times, which we merged with one started earlier in the year. So the OP that has been mentioned today was the OP of the older thread (and the one to which @BenjaminNicholas's comment above refers). I have just added a third thread, from last year to the mix. While I'm here, there are a couple of other threads that are more or less relevant but which through age (2021 for one) or being differently focussed are best referenced here rather than be merged into a single thread. There is a degree of consistency, although not unanimity, in the responses.

I had all three as a child, but I probably should enquire about a booster shot.

I'm sorry that words like 'catamaran' dog you so! Shall we just call it a 'fairy'. I mean 'ferry'.

A little off-topic, but a shipyard in Tasmania is building an electric fast catamaran to operate from Buenos Aires to Colonia. Building the world's largest electric ferry - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Over the centuries ferries have evolved from using paddles to steam engines, to burning diesel and gas. Can the...

Those who've been in past years will understand this!

Quite a few grandmas have run out of fucks to give and now say and laugh at things they might once have thought inappropriate. 'Growing old disgracefully' is not said without reason.

I hope he's been okay in the cyclone this weekend!