mike carey

Thighs too?

You should go to the Blackpool Illuminations!

I have a small clipboard, A6 size, and I put 10cm lengths of supermarket receipts on it, along with sheets of paper that only have printing on one side, cut into quarters, and use those for my shopping lists. And yes, if I forget to take the list to the shops, I forget things.. Still, if I do forget, I don't mind the short drive back to the shop, as every time I spend $30 or more at one time, I get one free espresso coffee added to my loyalty account. (And it's a national chain, so I can redeem the free coffees when I'm travelling too.)

Yes he has updated it and the ad does sound inviting. A variation on getting hammered!

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Or you could use the (dry) polenta to make something else. Lemon Polenta Cake | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson WWW.NIGELLA.COM This cake is a sort of Anglo-Italian amalgam. The flat, plain disc is reminiscent of the confections that sit geometrically...

And this is the same RM account as he had been using back then (opened 2015), and has reviews calling him Reese.

Ya gotta use what ya got.

Douglas Adams (and others before him) had it right when he spoke about those who would be 'First up against the wall when the revolution comes'.

In other words, old money knows to keep its head down for fear of losing it. I heard a usually conservative commentator (and I'm not saying that he was deviating from his conservatism), who said it's no surprise that socialism emerges in times when plutocracy starts to intrude on the sense of well-being of the rest of societ,. He was reflecting on the gilded age in the US 130 years ago and its resonances with more recent trends. New wealth sometimes has a caricature of what 'classy' looks like and associates it with ostentatious display, and again for some, being comfortable is not enough, they want the world to know 'who they are'. (Consider how you feel if you hear someone say, 'Do you know who I am?' to that police officer?) In some senses, whether Bezos can afford this wedding (he can) and what percentage of his wealth it is, is beside the point. People at large take a dim view of conspicuous consumption when they see it as clearly unnecessary, and too far beyond what they can hope to attain (more would resent use of a private jet than flying commercial first class). More so when they see it as nouveau riche tackiness. Old money may or may not know for whom the bell tolls, but is well aware for whom the tumbrils may roll.

Or perhaps hashbrowns are nothing more than rösti?

There's a challenge! What's your secret to cooking hashbrowns from scratch? The rectangular or triangular bricks of grated potato from the freezer cabinet don't count!

How about, 'He has no respect for you'?

So it would seem that one of the aims of the credit rating companies is to signal to lenders, 'This guy is likely to borrow heaps from you so you can make huge profits from them, give them more credit cards'.

A Texas farmer went on vacation to Australia. He met up with an Australian farmer who proudly showed off his wheat field. "That's nothing" said the Texan. "Back home, we have wheat fields that are twice as large as this." Next the Australian pointed out his cattle. "They're nothing," said the Texan. "Back home, we have longhorns that are twice as big as your cows." Just then, half a dozen kangaroos bounded across the road. "What are those?" asked the Texan. The Australian replied, "Don't you have grasshoppers in Texas?"

But you're right, there's more to it than just the temperature. Humidity and wind all contribute to how it feels. And whether it feels like 'summer' (or in the same vein feels like 'winter') is a relative question. For me, April in Palm Springs is 'summer' enough, but for locals, the chill may only be slowly leaving the air. It's easy for heat to become oppressive, even if the thermometer doesn't say it's all that hot (whatever your personal frame of reference is for 'hot'). 35 degrees in Singapore (or in Washington DC to my experience when it's 150% humidity) is far worse than 40+ in Palm Springs (or Baghdad). Those of us even in temperate climates would not recognise summer in Scandinavia (apart from 20 hours of daylight), but the locals would certainly assure you that what you were experiencing was indeed that (and be wearing shorts and t-shirts to your more rugged-up attire). I'm sure the high veld or altiplano or whatever it is of Las Vegas brings different experiences.

12%! The humanity!!

Yikes, 13 degrees in C*****ntes, and that's almost in the tropics!

Meanwhile it's -3 here (at 3am, I'm watching the cricket from Barbados) and it was 9 yesterday. (That's 27 and 48 to you.) The weather in Bridgetown looks delightful.

Me too!

It could have been California.

He was asking about areas in a certain country, and asking about a heat event there. Whether that country uses Celsius is beside the point, he was citing the temperatures in a part of Ontario that does, and where there has been a heat event that may have been experienced below the 49th parallel DMZ.

Next blue moon is 31 May 26.

I bought some CK underwear a couple of weeks ago, made in Kenya.