mike carey

I had noticed it too, a few days ago, and it appeared to be that way on ads both in the US and elsewhere. Happened on both lap top and mobile in Rent.men. But it's now reverted to normal. Who knows?

Both threads had been dormant since 2023 and were revived this month, so it's a fair question to ask about both of them. But the answer is that both are serviceable threads with a range of opinions on the Tin Room. It makes sense so to merge them to make it easier to read them simultaneously in one chronological sequence, so ....

Interesting, it uses a decimal point for the Imperial measurement but the French (or European) decimal comma in the SI measurement.

This was posted in a different forum. It's an article published on the Delish website, generally one for recipes but in this case, talking about food. Why Can I Tolerate More Foods On Vacation - Gluten & Dairy Intolerances WWW.DELISH.COM It's not your imagination!

29 and some months.

'Just For Fans', a site for content providers to publicise themselves. Similar idea to Only Fans. It's not for people to advertise for meetings.

Yes, a rough year, the first fatalities since 1998. The CYC has defended not calling the race off when things started to go south in other than the usual way. They made the entirely rational point that once the race was underway skippers can (and would) make their own decisions, and it is by no means certain that retiring or turning around in those conditions would be a better option than continuing. LawConnect took line honours overnight, for the second year, with a time of about 1 day 13 hours, a couple of hours over the race record.

I appreciate the comments here telling clients the thing that they have consistently been offered and had delivered, sometimes with gusto, in overnight sessions is not possible and all the reasons why that is so.

Bloody hell. The TUC at it again.

Mod's Note A member some time ago reminded us that this is about the way Mr Mangione was being fetishised, and that there was a thread in the Lounge about the crime. I made a comment as a Mod saying 'Exactly' in reply to it. A reminder to keep discussions on that aspect of the fallout from Mr Thompson's alleged murder. If you can't manage that, you'll be aware of what can happen to the thread. We have had quite a few reports of content here and taken action where necessary, and also deleted some of the comments that have gone too far. I realise some members may have preferred us to be more active in doing that (and some that we did less). We will continue to monitor this, and the complementary thread and edit them as necessary.

Heaven FORFEND!! Seriously though, I wasn't, it was a throw-away line not really aimed at anyone. But I expected (in fact hoped) that someone would take it as a challenge, and your name did cross my mind. I actually thought you were more likely to respond to me calling NYC a foreign place! Tehe.

On two continents, Boxing Day means the Boxing Day [cricket] test. 80,000 people were in the Melbourne Cricket Ground to see day 1 of this, the fourth test in the series, this year between Australia and India. Nine hours later, the same rituals were being played out at Centurion Park in metro Pretoria where South Africa is playing Pakistan in the first of two tests. The home teams were ahead in both matches after the first day's play, Australia having amassed a large score and Pakistan having been bowled out cheaply. Both Australia and South Africa will play a New Years test starting on 3 Jan, in Sydney and at Newlands in Cape Town respectively. Boxing Day and New Years tests are also being played in Zimbabwe against Afghanistan but there are none in New Zealand as they played their tests against England in December. The other big events of the day here are the Boxing Day sales, which have lost some of their fervour now that Black Friday is becoming a thing here (despite there being no Thanksgiving and no actual Black Friday), and of course the spectacular start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Boxes? Yes, being flattened and consigned to the recycling bin.

This same, or at least a similar vein of conversation comes up in many threads about 'foreign' places (you know, like LA (don't say anything, Vegas), DC or NYC) and it's always 'I wouldn't [not 'I don't'] feel safe there, I'm too obviously [gay/American/Western/touristy/white], so I know I'll be targetted. The thread about Playa del Carmen is a case in point. The reality is, blend in, don't be conspicuous [dress/mannerisms/what you carry] and you'll mostly be fine. I'm not in a rush to go to most of the Islamic Middle East [yes I have walked around in a mall in Kuwait City, but I was there in atypical circumstances and wearing camo] but would not hesitate to go there if there were a particular reason. Do I care about their politics and religious practices, yes, but that's not the only place I have such concerns. I do understand many of the concerns, even those of some of our more excitable posters, but generally the intersection of valid moral concerns and valid safety concerns is there but it's small so you can consider them separately, and it's up to you whether either make the region a no-go area. On the morality side, I'm firmly in the 'I'd prefer not to' rather than the 'I refuse to' camp. Happily, there are options other than the ME3 airlines and layovers in their hub cities. Maybe I'm odd (no comments from the usual suspects, please) but I use public transport in the three US cities I mentioned above, and not reluctantly. I don't fear for my safety, but I do try to be aware of my surroundings and watch my six and, as I would in Sydney or Melbourne, listen to my gut. If you don't see anything in a destination that interests you (or in the case of Playa del Carmen, you've read that the things you want in a Mexican city are lacking, but are available somewhere else) don't go there. If you're interested in a place, spend more time researching how to be safe there rather than search endlessly for every little reason why it might be dangerous. On second thoughts, I'm not going to NYC again because someone might throw a one cent piece from a window and hit me on the head and kill me.

You want to make his ass straight?

It all seems to melt here - it's 36°C today (about 97 of those other ones).

I can remember cards being displayed on mantel piece, hanging from a string from one end of it to the other (no concerns about them accidentally falling into the fire, of course) or slotted into venetian blinds. You can't do that with an e-mail. Still, I neither sent nor received any this year. Not so far, anyway.

And happy holidays to you too, @samhexum. I'll leave Martian dust storms and dry ice snow to you, though. Some things are constant though, it's Australe.

+1. Although on my one trip Drake Passage lulled us into a false sense of security. Southbound it was a mill pond. North bound, not so much. Pulling into the lee of Cape Horn was blessed relief, but short lived.

Game, set and match.

Whatever holidays you celebrate, have a fulfilling and enjoyable holiday season. A special call to those who celebrate Chanukah or Christmas which started or is being celebrated today.

You do realise that Platinum is not a 'ranking', but rather it's an advertising priority level that escorts pay for? His ad is still up, he visited it today and is showing as 'available now', and in the almost two years since the previous post here, has had numerous RM reviews (with several raters having written multiple reviews) all but one of them five stars.

Warning: This is not about chicken cacciatore, but instead is a diversion onto a tangent about immigrant or 'ethnic' cuisines, which had become one of the themes of this thread. Pizza (the actual dish, not the standard CoM reference) isn't chicken cacciatore either but it fits one of the themes of the thread, so here we are. I couldn't help but think of our discussions about the authenticity of CC recipes and the complications of recipes that migrate between countries when I heard this interview on ABC RN this afternoon. It is with the author of a book about Balkan cuisine, Irena Janakievska, a London lawyer who had emigrated from North Macedonia in the 80s. It's a fascinating examination of the overlay of a largely shared cuisine that is shared across the sharply divergent politics of the region. It also talks to the difficulty, perhaps more pronounced in diaspora communities, of convincing elderly cooks to document their recipes, and be more precise than 'a bit' of this, 'a handful' of that, 'some herbs' and 'enough of' that to make the right consistency. It runs for about 18 minutes. Balkan food and nationalism - ABC listen WWW.ABC.NET.AU A Macedonian-British food writer celebrates the foods from the region she was born in, while also noting the misplaced...

USN Harbour Tug Santaquin manoeuvring USS Portland into her berth at Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek VA in 1991. This photo was literally the top of my search for YTB 824.

24 hour sexual marathons? A man is not an antechinus!

5280 is an easy number to remember!