mike carey

I had two Renaults too, a 12 and a Fuego. They were both a delight to drive but the Fuego had an intermittent electrical problem that made the engine stop and not start, most annoying. For the last 20 years I've had two Citroëns.

Rugby league, not rugby, but that's a distinction few outside NSW and Queensland and the north of England understand. Ian came out over 20 year ago, but none has done so since then (in either rugby [union] or rugby league). Andy is the first male (soccer) footballer who has ever come out here. The same is so in most male professional sport.

The only thing flat-earthers have to fear ... [MEDIA=twitter]1129225831258107904[/MEDIA]

I sat across from him at Trios, based on that and this thread I share your assessment @Pensant.

No, I'm not sure.

Based on the ferry, Istanbul?

After this thread was posted I checked return fares for random dates in September, and from Canberra to New York it was about AUD2700 PY and AUD4700 on J. That's comparable to what you cite. These fares used the SQ service CBR-SIN and had an 18 hour layover in Singapore. Travel on SQ's service via Frankfurt was more expensive.

@Benjamin_Nicholas I was fairly sure it had been operating for a while, but didn't check to confirm that.

I would fly it, but wouldn't pay too much of a premium for it. I'm with a previous commenter that having a layover is good. As many of you would know, long sectors are normal for me (and unavoidable for the most part) but SYD-DFW is my longest so far. (Only 13.5 LAX-BNE going home from Palm Springs.) As AZDR noted Singapore Airlines uses a specially configured all-premium seating A350 for this route. It only carries premium economy and business passengers. The alternative to New York with them is SIN-FRA-JFK which operates in a four class configuration. Going to NYC I'll probably stick with QF11.

I don't have direct experience of this but I'm sure many can relate to this Saturday morning experience. The replies are worth reading, of course. [MEDIA=twitter]1126975965152759808[/MEDIA]

Getting enraged over half the facts is so 2019.

Beverley Bass was the first woman to be a captain on American Airlines. She was a check captain on an American B777 flying CDG-DFW on 11 Sep 01 and hers was one of the aircraft diverted into Gander. In Gander for the 10th anniversary she was interviewed by the playwrights and later invited to the premier of Come from Away. She was stunned to discover at the performance that she was of the characters portrayed in the musical. This is an interview with her aired this morning on her life in aviation, that day and that musical. She will be in Melbourne for the opening in July. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/beverley-bass/11060672

With all this discussion, now I've gone off and checked out your website!

I knew there would be providers (and clients) far more able than I to debunk this apparent New Theory of Sex to which all escorts needed to adhere. Thank you @hypothetically, @Benjamin_Nicholas and @SundayZip for stepping up to the plate.

I behaved myself impeccably!

Yes, I did, thanks. And in Vegas. And I had a good few days in LA.

Both the test postings worked for me.

If you're outside the US (or RM thinks you are) you can see the comments in both rent.men and rentmen.eu.

Sorry, yes I realised that, it was more to welcome you back to posting here!

What @azdr0710 said in post No 11, pointing your to a proxy server/vpn. The review text is there, but not visible to readers in the US. @sydneyboy and I are in Australia so we can read them, but for US users work arounds like Azdr's are necessary.

Juanita is the ABC news reader in Sydney. [MEDIA=twitter]1123785142084997120[/MEDIA]

Welcome back to the forum Josh!

I'm sure it's not the only place it happens, but there are restaurants in Sydney that require a credit card number to book a table and they bill no-shows.

Well, that was fun. I'm now safely home, still 23° today and much the same tomorrow (1 May) but that won't last. The 13½ hour flight went quickly enough despite (in the words of one of our forum colleagues) not drinking enough in the airline lounge at LAX. I want to thank everyone who made the weekend so pleasant, our hosts @Epigonos and @Oliver, @David-SF our host on Friday, the 'cool kids' at InnDulge and everyone else who attended the various festivities. It was another memorable occasion. I greatly enjoyed renewing old acquaintances and making new ones. You'll no doubt be relieved to learn that I managed over the rest of my stay in the US not to drive on the left-hand side of the road again, although a couple of kilometres of roadwork with alternating traffic on a two lane road, where they had me driving on the left almost reset my brain to 'keep left'. I enjoyed driving to Las Vegas and on to Los Angeles, and had pleasant stays in both cities. On the day I was flying out I saw that @Brian Kevin was arriving in LA that day, but there was no time to arrange to meet even for a coffee.

I've noticed my message count doesn't change when I send private messages, and that my status changed when the message total ticked over a relevant number. From that I'd say private messages aren't counted.