mike carey

Left field. Left-right out-field to be precise.

Timeless music (and other forms of art) can survive adaptation, style changes and the imagination of new performers. Purists gonna gripe, others will celebrate its new context.

Exactly!

True, but they worked that out hundreds of years ago (and directly in Europe not, I think, from observing native Americans directly). I seem to remember an account of Franklin or Jefferson bringing tomato seeds to the US from Europe as food plants, completing the circle as it were. Whether the idea of pizza developed with tomato or that was a later addition I don't know, I'm just happy it ended up being part of the mix.

It was 30° here today, quite the relief after a solid week in the high 30s, my car uses 6 or 7 litres per 100km, and yes it's a 200km drive from here in Tumut to Canberra. I'm 187cm tall but 8 inches is still 8 inches*. * When it's measuring rain, it's 200mm.

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You're absolutely right, and much of it, at least here, is contradicted by other posters. And looking back at the threads about you over the years, there has been a lot of non-gratuitous love for you here! I'm sure, having seen you comment here, there will be members checking, or rechecking your RM ad

'Class traitor' is an established term in revolutionary and socialist theory, and although originally used as a term for members of the 'working class' or whatever it's called in the society in question, it is also applied to members of the elite who are seen to take the side of the 'others' against them. Mangione readily fits that description.

'Bastardisation' is one way of looking at it, but there is another way to think about it. That is that a good recipe will be adopted and adapted, it happens here, and I'm sure it happens in the US. If a dish starts as the creation of one chef, it might have a claim not to be changed, but otherwise, in its home region, every cook likely has their own recipe for a local dish. Once a dish has been naturalised in another country, cooks will further adapt it. Some of them will have personal recollections, or a researched understanding, of what a dish was like before it emigrated, and some descendants of the people who also came from the same region will have personal opinions based on either the reality of what the original was, or their post-immigration history of what it became, and many will hold that their family recipe is the only authentic one. Once a recipe moves into the wider community, it will become a 'general idea' rather than a defined thing. If capsicums (bell peppers to y'all) and mushrooms fit into the 'general idea' then why not. In the bit you quoted, @Italiano said 'but generally it has ...' so that implies scope for some variation, even if those two ingredients are not part of the mix. Let a thousand flowers bloom!

Random, random, Qantas is acquiring a number of Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft from WestJet. Because of range limitations, they have to fly the long way, hence:

Gentlemen, a reminder that Cooper's note closes discussions about the rights and wrongs of the health care system, and the individual and collective actions that affect health outcomes. That includes not replying to points that had been made before the note if they don't relate to the topic of the CEO and his alleged killer. We have hidden several posts that added to the closed elements of the conversation. Thank you for your continued efforts to stay on topic.

Discussed extensively in this thread.

Folks, the Deli is for discussions about escorts, subjects like this are 'general news' and belong in the Lounge. So ....

No you're not, an escort I chat with had that message a little while ago. I haven't had it, I had this at one stage:

The Gods willing.

An interesting question, and not one I had in any way considered. Conflict of interest a matter of both reality and perception, and the latter can trump the former. As a client, I think nothing of whether a provider is a member or a supporter, and I'm certain that it doesn't affect the treatment they receive from the site. I think most participants would see a provider donating as being analogous to people making a donation to a free news site, podcast or substack they like, or a political donation. The vast majority of donors do so because they like what is offered and want to see it continue, a small proportion think that their donation will influence the behaviour of the recipient. I think here, the reality is that it doesn't influence management, and I don't think there is a perception in the membership that it does. With all that, the decision is entirely yours. If you're not comfortable with any perception that being a supporter would give the impression that you were seeking or receiving favourable treatment, don't donate. I don't think any members would see donating as an issue, but equally, I don't think any would think any less of you for deciding not to.

I have heard that life is possible without screen time, or at least without every conceivable source of content. Who knew? *Typed while sitting at a computer screen with the TV news (free) on*

@Act25, to add to what Harlow correctly stated, it is indeed useful to include a link if you are asking for comments on the particular masseur that you saw (although that would really belong in the Spa Forum). As I read your original post, that was not what you were asking for. It could also be useful if you want those sorts of comments as well as advice on whether the sort of experience you had is what customers typically have and want in their appointments. Of course, if you aren't interested in comments on the particular masseur, it's fine to raise it here as a 'was this a normal appointment' question without a link. I hope that the comments so far have helped you, and enabled you to more confidently navigate future appointments!

Not certificate of deposit, I would guess. Seriously though, probably cross-dressing.

A house with cute neighbours would perhaps be the better option. If they were the owners.

Occam's razor, no one has commented because no one here has yet tried him. This forum is not the hiring world, there will be escorts none of us here have hired, no matter how often other people have hired them.

Forest fires / wildfires / bush fires don't respect boundaries. In most countries fighting them is coordinated by the government jurisdiction in which they start as it's simply inefficient to have multiple agencies responsible for fighting them in an area. In Australia, each state has a fire and rescue service, largely responsible for urban fires, and a separate service for fires in the countryside, although there is some overlap between them and slightly different arrangements in different states. In my state of NSW the Rural Fire Service has local, largely volunteer brigades (some with a cadre of employed career staff), and regional coordination centres, and a state command centre that has the authority to move brigade elements around the state. It also coordinates public information and warnings, and runs an app to disseminate information directly to the public. The RFS also contracts and operates fixed- and rotary-wing firefighting aircraft (many of which also operate in North America in the northern summer). The NSW RFS has its own B737 tanker, that is available for, and is frequently deployed to fight fires in other states. In fire emergencies the respective state bush fire agencies (RFS in Queensland and the ACT as well as NSW, and the Country Fire Service/Authority in South Australia and Victoria) coordinate resources across the country, with brigades regularly being deployed to fight fires in other states. (When I lived just outside Sydney, during one fire emergency, I saw a CFS fire truck, from a town over 1000km away in South Australia across the street from my home.) Some agencies like the national park services in each state also have firefighting capabilities that are deployed initially inside park boundaries but they quicky fall under management control of the state fire coordination centres when events escalate. The federal government provides some funding when necessary to the states and IIRC assisted in funding the B737. Other than that they are a back stop, and provide some resources (like the Defence Force personnel, equipment and logistics) and funding. There has been talk of them funding more tankers, either as a federally run fleet of aircraft or more likely to be run by one or more of the larger states. Most of the aerial appliances here are commercial, either wet leased (that is, crewed and operated by their owners) or leased but flown by Australian crews. (One Canadian C-130 tanker crashed in our Black Summer fires with the loss of its three US crew members, and a B737 recently crashed in Western Australia, with the crew amazingly surviving.) There is no reason why the US couldn't also do that. I would add that resources and personnel from the fire services in Australia and New Zealand deploy almost every year to North America, and the assistance is often returned in kind (fire fighters form Ontario or BC arriving at Sydney airport make the news). In the long run, who owns and funds fire-fighting tanker aircraft matters less than having good coordination of all firefighting assets and having air tankers deployed and coordinated to effectively support the whole effort. You need fire controllers who understand the capabilities, and ideally a liaison officer from the aviators to provide advice to them.

It may well be interesting. One of the features of jury trials is that they don't give any reasons how they came to a decision or why, and the result isn't appealable unless there have been procedural errors in the trial or the judge gave inappropriate advice or directions to the jury. By contrast, in judge only trials (that are available in some jurisdictions) the judge has to set out the reasons in their judgment. A recent high profile murder trial in NSW, a notorious case that involved the disappearance of a woman in 1982, in which her husband was brought to trial this year and convicted, was judge only. Some may remember the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa was also judge only.

Hey, @Coolwave35, I replaced quoted version with a link.