mike carey

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

Who are you calling a strumpet?

Sweet gesture, my friend. Hope you have a great Christmas and that 2025 brings you plenty of joy and happiness.

Longer term engaged readers of the Forum will appreciate the resonance of this recipe from the Kitchen Goddess, Devilled Eggs | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson WWW.NIGELLA.COM I cannot begin to tell you how good these are. There’s not much that can get me squeezing a fancy-nozzled icing bag...

I follow Nigella Lawson on Blue Sky and have a recipe of the day appear in my feed. Todays, Devilled Eggs | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson WWW.NIGELLA.COM I cannot begin to tell you how good these are. There’s not much that can get me squeezing a fancy-nozzled icing bag... RIP our dear friend.

Regular posters here are adept at recognising whom to take seriously when given advice about their choices of escorts, and assessments of their character. Minor variations on a single theme delivered with condescension, are a sure-fire winner.

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Ahh, but does 'too short' apply to 170cm or 20cm?

This time of year, farting Jingle Bells would probably be more appropriate.

I think @samhexum is suggesting that I'm an old fart.

However worship is defined. Some Samoan speakers are worthy of admiration of many sorts.

Cool.

Might help if you posted a link to their RM ad, or at least make sure that the title you post includes his name and not just https://rent.m so someone else can post a link.

Well, there is the old folklore that blue and green should not be seen without a colour in between. What more could one need? I have to say that if someone is that far into the Apple cult, we're probably not a match. //sarcasm//

I'm not 70!!! Perish the thought!* He was going to be in Sydney last year and contacted me several months out to see if I was interested. (Of course I was.) Maybe I was the only person he knew here. Six months after we met, he contacted me to apologise. He had assumed that Canberra was a Sydney exurb (not the three hours' drive away that it is) and travel wouldn't come into it. *That's not until next year!

@harlow, the term 'pop up jail' was new to me, but google was my friend (and confirmed my guess). Huge caveat, I have Amex cards in Australia and here the rules seem to be no sign-up bonuses if you've ever had an Amex card (the laws on what card companies can charge merchants, and therefore have available to distribute as rewards points, are far more restrictive here than in the US), and their card range here is different to yours, and the Platinum card benefits are different. I was 'pre-approved' for one about five years ago and wasn't then alert to the concept of sign-up bonuses. I weighed what I got for the eye-watering fee and decided to go ahead. What you do depends on your initial motivation for applying. Is it the regular features or the bonus. If it's more the bonus you could apply for a card that you're not in jail for (my reading is that it's assessed separately for each card or card type in the US) and wait for your Platinum jail to time out (assuming it does). If you like what the card delivers, and you can use the benefits, go for it, but don't count things you wouldn't use, or already have from another card as a 'benefit' (or ruthlessly ditch the other card). You can only use one hotel or rental car status upgrade for the same company, but you can use as many travel credits or free hotel night that cards throw at you. (It can change, I was never going to sign up to Amazon Prime, but ICC cricket tournaments are now only shown on their streaming service and I had two years of Amex statement credits for Prime, so I'm watching free, at least until the end of next year.) So, I would say if you like what you see, say 'screw it' and sign up. Read up on the comparison sites (including the frequent flyer blogs) to see which cards offer what, by all means. All I've read says that the US Amex Platinum is a worthwhile card if it meets your requirements and the benefits match the cost. Its travel-related benefits in the US seem from afar to be pretty positive. I saw this article, among others, when I searched jail. AmEx ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Rule: How It Works - NerdWallet WWW.NERDWALLET.COM American Express restricts each card welcome bonus to one per person, per lifetime, but there are a few workarounds to...

Seen on Twatter, and as a gentleman of a certain age, I have some sympathy for this sentiment. Of course it doesn't apply to moi! One minute you’re young and fun, then next you’re excited because you bought yourself a new kettle and toaster…..matching…..in black…… And a reply, Damn! You’re out of control girl!! Surely you’d space such joy out over a couple of weeks? That’s new kitchen appliance overload!

Hat tip to @EastCoastBtm for your pointedly angry title for your now merged thread, duly plagiarised. Sorry @BuffaloKyle for supplanting your original title!

No comfort for most here, but it seems to vary by territory, and certainly applies in the US. I renewed my membership ($AU89.95 for six months) manually with my Visa card they had on file.

The England group of touring fans, the Barmy Army (they're still around, I bought one of their shirts on their 1996 Australian tour) posted this handy guide to the fielding positions in cricket. Cricket is a simple game, they say in the caption. There are 11 players on a team so after the bowler and wicket keeper, the captain has the job of deciding where to place the other nine players. You'll hear shots that batters play described using the field positions shown here, regardless of whether there was a fielder in the position. This chart is for a right-handed batter. When the batter is left handed, field positions are a mirror reverse of this.

You're a good egg, Ben.

What's your question?

Three-time Australian winning Davis Cup captain, Neale Fraser has died aged 1991. He won three grand slam singles titles, and on two of those occasions in 1959 and 1960 won the US National Championship triple crown winning the singles, doubles and mixed double titles at Forest Hills and the Longwood Cricket Club. Neale Fraser, Australian tennis great and Davis Cup captain, dies aged 91 | Tennis | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Former Australian Davis Cup captain and three-time grand slam singles champion Neale Fraser has died aged 91

Not the salmon mousse. Thank goodness for that!