mike carey

Noted!!! LOL

Yes, it's far better, the gutters don't flood in it.

Niccky has said that he has criteria by which he decides on which prospective clients to accept, and that age is not one of them. I have no reason not to accept that. Other may have, or think they have reasons to do so. He may have declined meetings after becoming aware of a client's age, but that does not show that age was the reason, only that he had learnt it, perhaps among other things, before declining. Sometimes people reveal more in their communications than they think they have. I'm not sure we're entitled to expect to be told which particular criterion he has used in deciding in any particular case.

This seems to me to be one of those moments that appear to signal a fin de siècle.

I have found, through observation rather than any analysis of the relevant data, that it is not unusual for a prevailing pattern of weather to have surprising exceptions one way or the other. I admit it is usually for a period, whether long or short during a season rather than for its entirety. Living in an area that is an exception to the overall pattern of the season can be either a relief or a particular burden. Also, I found the previous iteration of this thread, while it last operated, to have been interesting for me to understand the summer that was being experienced in North America, and to contrast or compare it with the winter we faced, a season that is rather milder than that which most of you face in six months' time. So, for the record, winter in Canberra has followed its usual course, mostly sunny but cold by Australian standards, with the usual range of mornings from frosty to simply cool. Last week I was in Melbourne, and the city defied its reputation of four seasons in one day and replaced that with a uniform grey accompanied by intermittent but frequent showers. Except for the sunlight finally breaking through as I watched the tarmac from the departure lounge. Back in Canberra, it was 2 degrees overnight, and the first signs of spring are arriving with a forecast of a clear day and 18 degrees.

An older thread.

I think 451 is enough (or 232 in SI).

There are two standing jokes in these maps that are posted on Facebook under a variety of titles (Terrible Maps in this case). They are that there is no data for Greenland, and that New Zealand is omitted or placed in a random position (often in the Eastern Indian Ocean). The legend on this map makes a joke of both of them.

Indeed not. There was a similar thing in this country. Although they are something that has faded into the mists of time, we are all familiar with their direct descendants, the coffee loyalty card and the airline frequent flyer programme.

This is very important.

This is not entirely accurate, and non-existent is misspelt, but the underlying sentiment is sound.

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The Paris fire brigade (Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris) is a unit of the French Army.

Lol, so true. I've found consistently that, at least in the US, the free breakfasts are worth every cent you pay for them, as are the paper plates and disposable cutlery (thankfully, in Australia, for the most part they're worth the steps and time to partake, and actual china and silverware - stainless steel more likely - are involved). In the US, the places where the breakfast is a status benefit, if you're lucky enough to have that, not just 'free' are generally worth the effort, so that would be me in the right picture at them. Had one in Melbourne this morning, the continental breakfast buffet included smoked salmon and espresso machine coffee. But not till 9am.

No just legal citizens, I have one, but the point you make stands.

I couldn't agree more!

Precisely. I understood that was what you were saying in your earlier post, but I had initially thought too, that you had been referring to Mr Akers. The responses speak to the instant assumption that anything with the vaguest outline of being anti-vax is often assumed to be just that before examining the detail within that outline. Being too quick to judge is an affliction not limited to one side of politics, despite the firm belief of some that it is only the 'other' side that is so afflicted.

For reference, there is another thread about services he provides other than massage.

I think this is the appropriate thread to post this.

How could you say that? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

In Twitter, many but not all replies understood the joke. In Facebook, from what I saw, a disturbing number of replies accused him of being a vaccine denier.

Okay folks, let's call a pause here. I think we've established what Jimmy is prepared to do, how he identifies, and that we have differences of opinion about whether he 'is' what he 'says he is'. We each have our own opinions about whether being straight or gay (or that useful but contested term 'queer') is a matter of objective fact or of self-identification. That is a debate for another place. Please confine further remarks to the gentleman in question.

Carrier pigeons.

@MascMuscleMarine Welcome to the site, Austin. Engaging with clients here the way you have can help smooth things over with them, and send a good message to the rest of us reading here. Reposting a link to your ad in case others, like me are seeing a corrupted version up thread. https://rentmasseur.com/MascMuscleMarine SF