mike carey

I wasn't trying to correct you. I knew what you meant, I was just clarifying it in case it wasn't clear to some readers.

'Cathy' is Cathay Pacific. It's a One World airline so that's useful if you are an American Airlines frequent flyer.

This from 12 months ago, but it popped up again today, so ...

'With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal, in silence dread, our cautious way we ...' Oh, wait, that's 'burglar'! [Or pirate to be precise.]

Lance, I understood where you were coming from, and agree that being stiffed 100% is far worse.

Lance, I don't think 'I was ripped off more than you' is the way to go. It's the fact of being stiffed, not the amount involved that rankles. I agree that Junior could have faced a worse loss. He seems, however, to have adjusted to his loss. I hope of course that he doesn't face the situations that you outlined.

'They say that we are so quick to see in others what is true of ourselves.' A perceptive comment indeed!

Junior, it's sad and disappointing that this has happened to you. As this is the first time anything like it has happened in over a year of escorting, the incident is about this client, not about your business model. I won't say move on, because even one such incident can leave a bad taste in your mouth. As Smurof suggested, the client may not have realised that he shorted you, but that's likely giving him too much credit (and he did screw you around in the lead-up to the meeting). All that, and the fact that the meeting seemed like hard work, seems to be telling you he's not a client you would want to repeat. Accentuate the positive!

Source (Panti Bliss): Man mistakenly takes my bag from carousel but I stop him. Another woman leans over: "He'd have got quite a shock when he opened your bag!"

I'm sure any such paralysis would only be temporary!

Sounds like one is what he measured and the other is what the website calculated from the length in inches that he had to post.

'I've found the most important thing on wikipedia.' Source

True dat!

@TruHart1 I'm sure (without checking) that TB might have weighed in on the subject as well.

Wasn't it Alec who alerted us to the malign existence of the Dallas Mafia?

OK, guys, just take the man at his word that he is a jerk and stop talking to him or about him. Why would we want to talk to a self-confessed jerk?? That way, the next time I'm in the States, there will be less competition and I will have a clear path to hiring him.

Not to be too much of a pedant, but it's not quite the second largest, more like the fourth. As well as Paris, Kinshasa and Abidjan are larger than Montréal.

A story in one pic (source):

The wisdom of the young: [Tweet from a prominent Sydney journalist and author] Very pleased to learn my 8yr old son and his mates refer to KFC as Kid's Fattening Centre. [source] The observations was quickly confirmed by the parents of other 8-12 year olds. One, however noted that his son referred to it as Kentucky fucked chicken.