mike carey

I admit I was switching back and forward between the cricket and the tennis tonight, but what an amazing final tonight. To have a hard-fought men's final after an equally hard-fought women's final was amazing. And yes it was 38 degrees in Melbourne today, but cooler in the evening (it's 31 there at 11.30pm) and the roof was closed for the final. Special moment in the presentation, when Rod Laver took a photo of him in the arena. In the TV scenes leading up to the host broadcaster interview, there was a shot of Roger with the presidents of Tennis Australia and Tennis USA, and the chairman of the All England Tennis Club.

(Source) Rare photo of a shark stepping on a Lego. [ATTACH=full]15047[/ATTACH]

Interesting, it doesn't for me in Firefox, Microsoft Edge or on my phone. Perhaps your browser or computer can create a link of something that looks like a URL. Dunno. One of life's mysteries! (Returns to scheduled programs: no info in the guy.)

... If you copy and paste it. If you had pasted it in the text rather the title it would have worked as an actual link. That was what the others were saying, not that it wasn't a valid URL.

(Source) Just my luck, 250 million year old salt and it expires next year. [ATTACH=full]15046[/ATTACH]

They are a drama queen works for me. Just as 'You are a stud' defies grammar but works.

It's not new, if you read back through the thread, this has already been discussed. The singular they has been used by good writers for hundreds of years.

There is still a Welsh speaking community in Chubut province. I can remember seeing a BBC program (Songs of Praise) in which they reported on an Argentine doctor working in a hospital in Wales. He spoke Spanish and Welsh, but not English.

Completely unrelated to Buenos Aires, there are remnants of Australian agricultural practices and people called Kennedy (and other Anglo names) in rural Paraguay. They are the traces of an 1890s socialist experiment of a new society (New Australia) set up in that country. To illustrate LatBear's point about the influence of the original people, the remaining descendants of the settlers mainly speak Guaraní now.

Consider demands that people might make, but decide for yourself and post the details. If people really want to meet up, the venue will be of secondary importance.

Indeed, and industrialised or not the two richest countries (per capita) in 1900 were Argentina and Australia. Argentine won the close race to be the first to send refrigerated beef to Europe (we might have been aiming for lamb, I'm not sure). As I recall, the British response to the Argentine seizure of the Falkland Islands stunned the Argentine middle class for just that reason.

It's a statue of Pilate's fwiend!

That's the message that comes up if you're blocked, although I don't know if it appears in any other circumstances. Try logging out of your RM account and checking the ad. If you can see the ad at rentmen.eu and not at rent.men that could be because you are logged on at the latter and not the former. Logons to the two versions of the site are separate. although it's the same account and password.

There's several of us here! Lol, of course we have learnt to use the same calendar as you, you're just behind the times. I see this anytime I fly to LA, I arrive there before I'd left Sydney. As for flying back, a whole day vanishes somewhere! As @Bertster noted, the characterisation of the day as Invasion Day and therefore a day of at least reflection, if not mourning, is becoming increasingly prevalent. I doubt it will happen soon. I have no doubt that something needs to change, but I'd prefer to see the day be made more inclusive and address that sensitivity. Solemn reflective and commemorative ceremonies in the morning, with the happy celebrations (including naturalisation ceremonies) held over until the afternoon and evening. The day itself is a perfect way to mark the end of the summer holidays, and for the country to shift back into 'serious' mode. I agree that in some ways it's a peripheral issue, but to me part of the government's job is to identify such issues that have the potential to be deeply divisive and nip them in the bud. This is an issue that has the potential, like equal marriage, to become a big issue if it's ignored or dismissed. Anyway, I went to the supermarket and bought a lump of roast lamb to mark the day, and watched Australia (finally) beat England in a one-day cricket match.

Interesting how something that was the watchword for something that is polite and demur became the name for something so different.

It's a fox (I added that to my post just now) but not a small one. These eagles can be over a metre long and have a wing-span of almost 3m.)

Hmmm.

I've posted this before (not sure if it was here). [ATTACH=full]15045[/ATTACH] This is a wedge-tailed eagle (ed: taking a fox) in the WA wheatbelt in 2013. http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2013-12-05/flying-foxes-in-the-wheatbelt/5138450

It seems like a pointless bureaucratic imposition. I can see that the state wants to capture a record of prescription for auditing of individual and collective health care, and for statistical purposes. I don't have a regular pharmacist, and I suspect I'm not alone. Luckily doctors here can issue paper scripts (and all do) but they are printed from the doctors' computers not hand written. Surely the reasons for the NY regulations would be satisfied if doctors gave their patients a printed script that their pharmacist could use to access the computer version? (My cynical side suspects that there is no data basing or collective use of the data, rather they have mandated a point to point electronic dissemination method that has more in common with pigeon post than a modern digital system.)

Only half a pound(ing)?

@youngboldone, find an escort you like, book a time, go and see him and let him pound you into oblivion (or vice versa). Stop beating about the bush. Once you've been there once, refine your approach. I have met several well regarded escorts who are on here and didn't discuss things in excruciating detail. Guess what, it worked each time.

Nope, why do you ask? I have interacted with him on Twitter and periscope, but I don't 'know' him.

I guess it's a fine line between being hired from Twitter and being discovered on Twitter and then hired. Some people, I'm sure, find escorts on Twitter and elsewhere at roughly the same time, chat and perhaps hire. Social media is everywhere and sometimes it's hard to know which it the 'first contact' medium.

The ad expired (during a period that was before it had stated that he would be back in NYC) and then was gone (error code 404, not found, as opposed to expired) for a time. Killian posted a comment (#64) here that he understood why people would be sceptical as to whether it was he who had posted a new ad with his pics. As you noted, the ad is back and current.

(Source) 'I swore this was a flying carpet at first glance.'