mike carey

Fantastic offers. I would note that JFK to Sydney is roughly three times as far as JFK to Zurich.

There is also medicinal cannabis (cannabis oils and the like) that may be an option if your state permits that.

I wouldn't feel guilty about it if I were you. If the government sets up programs of any type to provide services to eligible people it does that because it has decided that those people need the services. It's not charity. In this case, Kaiser as your health care provider has identified Medicare as a source of some of the funds for the health services it provides you. You have no cause to worry about that or any other way that Kaiser obtains funding for the care they provide you. If you still feel guilty donate to a sexual health charity that supports people who are not eligible for any government funding for their care.

It hasn't got to that stage yet. There are 140 Australian forest-fire fighters in California as we speak. Our bush fire services typically have a small cadre of professional staff and a huge cohort of volunteers, it's mainly the professionals who deploy to the US and Canada. It makes the news here, when they deploy and in the last couple of days, coverage of what they are doing there. (I was going to say up-over as the opposite of down under, but thought that was too obscure!)

The last few days, through drought and wind but not hot weather, we've had bush fires in NSW and Queensland. In fucking winter.

There'll be hell to pay next time I make one!

You're welcome. I don't try to be obscure in the words I use, honest.

Rather apposite in that case!

Coming so soon after the flurry of conversation on the metric system (of which I had said I was done, but oh well), I had to laugh at this. Saying 'over 40°C' means 'hot', and makes a general point about temperatures in the 40s. Using 'over 104°F' makes it about that specific temperature in a way that the original didn't. When we converted to the metric system, a topic of note was soft versus hard conversions. A hard conversion is where you write 'add 226.8g of butter' in a recipe when you meant half a pound, a soft conversion would be to use 250g (a quarter of a kg) and adjust proportions of other ingredients to match. I always find it amusing when news items cite ridiculously precise measurements of things because they have made a hard conversion, and it's just as amusing whether that conversion is to or from SI.

'Inaccessible' means he has blocked you.

Yup, it ain't rocket surgery, as they [don't] say!

Meh, the whole hour is actual sex. Talking about it, playing around, PIA sex all counts. The division between those is up to you. How could a tight embrace not count?

Why? Because they can. People with other related pursuits cross promote. Leaving aside American puritan judgment, porn is a way for people to advertise whatever else they do.

Happy Birthday, PK, have a great day!!

Sorry to see you leave, @escortrod. I'll miss your contributions here. Thanks for the insights you've provided, not the least for potential travellers to the UK.

There was a prize for fifth place? What ever happened to 'Silver Medal = Loser'?

Yes, I know I'm trivial!

Slava is a diminutive of the Russian name Mstislav. (Diminutives for men's names often have an 'a' ending, Misha short for Mikhail and Sasha for Aleksandr.)

Exactly, BUT the photo you're copying has to be on the internet, not in one of your personal folders. You post a link to the photo in here, not an actual copy of it. If copy and paste doesn't work, click on the 'image' icon in the bar at the top of the box you post in and paste the URL into the dialogue box.

For those who don't know, 'Holding the Man' is the story of a love affair between high school friends who played [Australian Rules] football in a country town in Victoria. It's a story of the AIDS plague and the sadness that arose from that.

Close.

A very particular demographic there!

Something Australians can relate to! (We can compete as to who speaks faster, Rod!)

I was not aware that Tim Conigrave's sad story had made it to the stage abroad. That support would be reason enough for me to support the company. It's especially poignant that 'holding the man' is a penalisable offence in Australian rules football.

I'll volunteer to be your test case, although I suspect you'll find one sooner.