mike carey

I'm sure you remember it well!

Not poutine?

That's a well known (if not widely known) allergy. I thought it was an Australian thing, but while it was first identified here early this century, apparently there are ticks on six continents that are linked to it. The sugar molecule that causes it is not found in primates, so presumably primate meat would not trigger an allergic reaction, but that is not particularly useful dietary information. For most of us. Ticked off: how a bite can turn meat against you WWW.CSIRO.AU Exploring the rise of tick-induced meat allergy and its connection to cardiovascular disease.

And on the following day, deep and crisp and even.

Большое спасибо! С Новым годом вас, 2026 годом! Thank you very much! Happy New Year to you, 2026.

The Australian Minister for Home Affairs at the time of the foundation of Canberra in 1913 was a larger than life character called King O'Malley. There is a suburb of O'Malley in Canberra. He was also responsible for the banning of alcohol in the Australian Capital Territory at the time, a decision that was a boon for publicans in the NSW border town of Queanbeyan. Appropriately, there is a well known pub in the centre of Canberra that bears his name. He was an American chancer (ahead of his time as far as the 18th Amendment was concerned) who, successfully at the time, claimed to be a Canadian (ironic given the Canadian role with the 18th) to overcome the ban on those holding allegiance to a foreign power being elected to the Australian Parliament. It was only much later that that constitutional provision was narrowed to exclude from eligibility citizens of Commonwealth Realms other than Australia.

Dark, very dark. But I'm sure it will brighten up in a couple of hours. Seriously though, looking forward to it, please join me. It's a new day!

Yes, I'd noticed!

I'm watching the fireworks over Sydney Harbour Bridge (and the rest of the harbour), glass of a nice red in hand. A happy and prosperous new year to all, may it bring everything you wished for yourselves and those dear to you.

Moderator's Notice Gentlemen, we've gone down something of a rabbit warren about relative safety, and hinting, not always obliquely, towards political explanations of it. Stick to possible reasons for people leaving, don't debate them, perhaps except to say you wouldn't move on that basis. Different people have different perceptions of risks and different risk tolerance levels. Stick to the core topic.

... And having seen this last week, I opened a recipe on the internet, and lo and behold it suggested adding some parmesan rind to the soup for the umami. The recipe also has soy sauce, more umami. I'd also consider including ginger, a centimetre or two of ginger root, not the powdered type. Access to this page has been denied. WWW.THEKITCHN.COM

I see what you did there!

Nice to see you back, Travis, after your engaging first post last year. You haven't lost your flare for writing. (Nice profile, btw.)

Ladies and Gentlemen, This thread is about a quite specific topic, how to deal with a situation where an escort cannot achieve an erection. It is not about any escort's business model, so discussion of that or anything else that is not relevant to the topic of the thread stops now. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and your cooperation from now on.

Seems the answer is, 'It's complicated'!

I will indeed Indulge myself next April.

TBF, by 'Near Travel', they could mean, 'I'm near, so you can travel.'

G'day @Britguy and welcome to the forum. You'll get a lot of advice here, mainly good. If you search the site (top right of the page, make sure you select 'Everywhere' in the drop down at the right of the search box) you'll find other threads with advice for new hirers, mostly it will be in the Questions About Hiring forum. You're asking about London, and the advice will be slighty different because of the different legal status of hiring from that in the US. I would suggest you take note of what @Jamie21 says. As has already happened, people may offer specific hiring suggestions for London. With that in mind, I've moved the thread to the Europe forum so that your thread doesn't fade into a general advice discussion rather than being focussed on advice relevant to the UK. Happy searching. To completion, as you put it.

I've edited it for you. You could have edited it but the process, while simple, isn't intuitive. To do it, you click on the three dots at the top right of the first comment (not in the title), the one you posted to start the thread, and select 'Edit'. That enables you, as the originator of the thread, to edit both the opening comment and the title. If you want to see how it works, you can go through the opening parts of the process, then close it without changing anything. Hope this helps.

This was a concept I had thought about yesterday reading this thread, and was considering how to put it in words. But the nub of my 'analysis' (to use a pretentious word for what I was thinking) was not that your final sentence was the answer, but rather that it was one way this could play out. How a couple who both worked in this industry would treat any link between clients and each of them as providers would depend on the depth of their relationship. It is certainly possible that 'jealousy' or rather competition between them for clients could exist. If they were partners more of convenience, or not yet sure of the depth or permanence of their relationship to each other, if they had separate finances with only sufficient sharing for the day to day running of their household, then competition for clients would not be surprising. At the other end of the spectrum, if they saw their work as a shared enterprise where they each had marketable attributes that might appeal to different clients, but whoever the client chose would still contribute to their shared enterprise, I can image they might be perfectly relaxed as to whom the client chose. In between those two scenarios there are those with degrees to which they see their businesses as complementary, competing to some extent, but where it is not a zero-sum game. Any couple who both escort will have their own place on this spectrum and we, as clients will not necessarily be aware of how the personnal dynamics of their relationship work. But we should not make assumptions, or judge them by their reactions. They are entitled to run their businesses and their relationships as they see fit. But we are entitled to respect, whatever they choose, and if there is drama in how their businesses and relationships intersect we don't need to be drawn into it.

This is Cooking 101. Complexity is flavour in soups and casseroles. Starting with stocks made from meat and vegetable scraps, bones, meat trimmings, bacon rind; adding things with intense flavours, like anchovies, that many find unpalatable on their own but blend and disappear into dishes, giving them an intensity they wouldn't otherwise have. Some dishes shine in their simplicity, soups like these crave the opposite.