mike carey

Yes, it is. As you would expect he's featured heavily in Australian TV coverage, and not just on 10.

Yup.

Gentlemen, we've had an occasional mayonnaise sub-theme here since last June. People have been Duking it out about whether Hellmann's or some other is top shelf and what would make it so. It has juiced things up a bit adding some actual acid to the conversation rather than the sometimes tart commentary about the gentleman we're here to discuss. Alas, it's time to move on, so back to Gold, and away from sandwich spreads, with or without lime.

Even in Google, if you capitalise Turkey you get the correct answer, or at least a better one. I won't check what Google does if you try it with Türkiye.

I see what you did there.

I won't add a moderator's note here, just a post to note that we could pontificate for ever about the long term causes of increased fires in and out of the usual season, and long term state-wide management of water supplies, but the here and now is that there is disaster unfolding in LA, and that, and the recovery from it should be our focus for now.

If I'm not mistaken, a provider selects 'Available in the next n hours' (where n is a number from 1 to 6) and RM attaches a label 'Available Now' that is on their ad for that period. As to what a provider means by 'available' it's as well to remember Humpty Dumpty's explanation of what words mean. So it means what the provider wants it to mean, and the nuances of what can be expected have already been discussed in this thread. You'll make heaps of friends in life if you insist that what they say means what you want it to mean, rather than what they know they meant. If the two meanings are polar opposites, you'd have a point, but if the two are in the same postcode but not the same street or house you'd do better to clarify rather than insist (or to write a letter to the Times to explain why you are right and they are wrong). By all means come here and vent about why you dislike 'Available Now' but then build a bridge.

I like the French word, entartement!

It's not at all clear that lack of water availability was the main factor in the destruction. Those fires in that wind were probably unstoppable. In addition to water, you need firefighting personnel and equipment, and the scale of the fires was such that no feasible amount of either was ever going to be available. Sea water can be used by fire fighting aircraft, but there's no way that anyone would have built reservoirs to fill with sea water just in case it was needed on the ground, and aircraft were not being used due to the winds on at least one day, and those winds (or at least the sea-state they created) would have prevented fixed wing (and probably rotary wing) firefighting aircraft from taking on water from the sea anyway,

Yes, it is about him. If you click on the arrow at the right of the reference line, it takes you to the post that was referenced so you can see the context.

I remember in Black Summer, Canberra had worse air quality than any city in the world. It was extremely uncomfortable, and as we learnt, was deadly. This morning I heard on the radio news that today LA had the worst air quality in the Western Hemisphere.

One of those candidates who are 'holier than thou'.

Three threads, and two of their titles merged.

I've been watching this all day and it's profoundly disturbing. My thoughts are with everyone living there, especially anyone in that beautiful coastal area. Santa Ana causing as much pain now as Santa Anna did all those years ago.

He was 'found' doesn't really describe it. A group of hikers who weren't involved in the search came across him and called 000 (that's the Australian equivalent of 999 or 911). Hiker describes the moment his group stumbled upon Hadi Nazari, the missing bushwalker in Kosciuszko National Park - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU A group of hikers responded to shouts for help and found 23-year-old Hadi Nazari, who had survived in Kosciuszko...

Although not on the tip of everyone's tongues, a constant feature of the news over the last two weeks has been of a medical student who was missing on a hike in the Kosciuszko high country in south-eastern NSW. He was separated from his hiking companions on Boxing Day. Today, to the relief and to an extent amazement of all, he was found alive and relatively well. Hiker Hadi Nazari found alive after 13-day search in NSW Snowy Mountains - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The 23-year-old university student from Melbourne has been found in "good health" after he went missing in dense...

Moderator's Note Since this thread was revived a little over three days ago after being dormant for a month, the discussion has been almost exclusively about tips (in general, not for this provider). Please limit future comments to his merits or otherwise.

I think thie thread has now run its course, as it seems one aspect of the discussion has managed, sadly, to drown out most of the quotidian discussions of Angus' practice of his craft.

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, this thread is about one escort, so please return to talking about him. We're done with this discussions about the rights and wrongs of a particular set of interactions with a client. Everything that can be said already has been. Thank you for your cooperation.

I hoped this would be the 451 reference, and not surprised that @azdr0710 would deliver the goods!

He has an Australian phone number, can your phone both send to and receive from foreign numbers? I know I have been unable to contact people in the US because of that issue.

I'm not sure whether comparing Spain and London is a fair way to look at it, London is an expensive city, Spain is a varied country. By all means compare London to Madrid or Barcelona, but in neither country is one major city, or even two, representative of the entire country (or in the UK, or more contentiously in Spain, is one city representative of all the constituent countries).

The 'flip side' seems to me to be a reasonable view to take if you are considering the effect it's having on him (although not realising anything was wrong does not mean that it isn't affecting him negatively, if he can't communicate that it's happened, he also can't communicate what he thinks about it), but surely the test in these cases is the intent of the perpetrator. The crime is defined by what they did, and that is objective fact, not by the impact it has. 'It can't have been too bad, it didn't affect them much' is so often a perpetrator's conceit to justify or excuse their behaviour. We shouldn't let them get away with it.

I read that a British tourist was killed in a random attack in New Orleans on New Years Day, so I'm worried about safety in the USA.

I second Mérida and Guanajuato, although my experience there is very dated, and is as general tourist destinations, not the array of interests usually discussed in this forum.