mike carey

It's a bit of a stretch to call Filippinos Pacific Islanders or Polynesian, but they are distinct from most mainland South East Asians. There are racial, cultural and linguistic links between Filippinos, Indonesians, Polynesians and Malagasy people (Indonesian and Samoan numbers are broadly the same). Then again, Polynesians aren't the only Pacific Island people, Melanesians and Micronesians are different again. But the broad sweep of Polynesians from Aotearoa to Rapanui to Hawaii is amazing.

I'd say it's another string to your bow. If you're happy with your business as it is you may well question the benefits of participating here. My take on it is that this is a community of well informed people, many of whom hire and who use what they read here to inform their hiring decisions. I don't hire often but my list of potential hires comes from here. There are some who have Fixed Ideas About How Hiring Should Work but most of us don't. You've explained how you run your business, and that it's working for you right now, so that should be the end of the discussion. Just don't sweat any negativity about your business model, there'll be plenty of other people who will understand and be happy to chat and get to know you.

Ok, I've never met Vin. I note the comments others have made. I respect his sadness that people have made comments that are hurtful, and he has a right to feel hurt. I certainly would if I faced similar comments. That said, I have chatted with Vin in the main forums here, and (as I recall) in PM as well. I have said things that are far more familiar than should happen between total strangers in a forum such as this. When I did, he was a total gentleman, he responded with grace and humour, and was open. I don't know if we could have met but that is beside the point. He is sweet and considerate, and that is the image of him that I will retain, unless of course I can meet him and update that image!

Weather announcer 'tells it like it is': http://newsthump.com/2016/01/16/no-sanction-for-bbcs-carol-kirkwood-over-cold-as-fck-weather-forecast/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

You will never enjoy anything as much as this Husky enjoys a pile of leaves.

Oui.

@Gar1eth, the 'gig economy' is temporary contract employment with independent workers on short term engagements, hence 'gig'gled; spine = back.

Speaking theoretically, I suspect that is often the case if potential clients are relying on the stated preference to filter ads, but if they get past that the description can make it clear that versatile means the escort is equally happy both ways. I guess you'd already worked that out, though!

A photo taken during the campaign for the election in Canberra (which was yesterday):

From flights of plaster ducks on the wall in our houses to ...

Maybe not, it comes from Latin via French to be a Middle English word for an ecclesiastical decree, and a decree could be in favour or against something. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sanction

To me, cut along socioeconomic lines just didn't work as English in this context. I don't see cut along and cut across as being opposites. Cut along works when you have scissors and something with a line along which to cut it. I can't think of a simple construction that describes something you'd expect to be indisciminate affecting a town differently in a way that reflects unrelated characteristics of the town. Perhaps the flooding affected the town along socioeconomic lines. Bottom line, newspapers dispense with their subeditors at their peril.

Fair call!

@Truereview, I know there is no metro there, but where are the photos from Punta?

Hmm, why mention an American talk show, when this is an Australian or Argentine plug?

I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his favorite book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them

You show-off, TR!