mike carey

Correct, Newbies can't post a poll or vote in them.

Viewing from afar or not so far (AU and CA), we may worry but don't have the worry of having to make a personal choice in that one. But back to actual douche bags and not the product of using one.

The privacy setting only stops other people from seeing that you viewed their profile, it doesn't stop anyone from contacting you. It's not the same as blocking. Also, it's easy enough to turn the privacy setting off, view a profile you want to be seen to have viewed, and turn it back on again. Any views you have made when privacy is off remain visible to the other party when you turn it on.

Right there, that's scientific proof!!

Thinking about recent commentary here on amending laws of consent to include the idea that it has to be freely given and can be withdrawn at any time I looked for a definition, and found this one from a Cornell U site (bear in mind this was an internet search, but to me it appears to include a good list of elements of consent:

Gents, a mod's reminder to avoid political commentary.

Well, who said comic book sound effects weren't funny?

I turns out that RM accepts Visa cards from Australia, another point of weirdness in what they are doing. I had the card on file with them, hit send on the transaction, my phone pinged with a message from my bank that the charge had been made, my RM account reflected the payment and I received an e-mail confirmation (not in RM).

We have become accustomed to assuming that Visa and Mastercard are interchangeable, if a merchant accepts one they will accept the other. Most people who use Amex are accustomed to those cards not being interchangeable with the other two, and are ready with an alternative. RM may be a one-off or it may be the start of a trend, we don't yet know. I was always a Visa person until a card with the features I wanted was a Mastercard, and now I have both, otherwise I'd be in the same boat as others here. Some merchants already differentiate between credit and debit cards, mainly when you pay deposits rather than final payments. Gift cards, even those issued by Visa and Mastercard carry their own limitations that differ from credit and debit cards (not so much of an issue here as we have the same legal requirements for identification as credit/debit cards). So far, it's only RM, which most of us can live without, but it may be the shape of things to come if regulators in the US look more closely at whether the two are colluding to exploit the market. We may be forced to consider what each type of card offers and either pick one on that basis rather than habit or 'just liking' one or the other, or of diversifying our card holdings. Lamenting that your chosen card isn't accepted somewhere won't help any more than lamenting that someone wouldn't take my Amex has helped me so far.

At last, some overdue culture in the debate!

It's easy to make incorrect deductions from limited data. One could draw the implausible conclusion from your experience that since two thirds the men who attacked you were straight, and that a far higher proportion of men are straight, that straight men are under-represented as perpetrators of sexual assault. On a separate point, saying that straight men do something does not assert that all straight men do it.

Some amazing works! On a recent visit to the National Gallery of Victoria I spent some time in a couple of galleries of art from a similar period. Many were on a theme of the Cult of Saint Katherine, including both semi-iconic images and other narrative art of her persecution and torture. It was interesting to observe both the art for itself and to reflect on the overwhelmingly religious nature of it, and also on the contrast between the iconography of art in Orthodox Christianity and the art in later Latin rite Christianity.

I'm not sure that @Simon Suraci is looking for people, especially those outside the five boroughs to tell him what does and doesn't work, and what he can and can't do in New York (so I have just disqualified myself, as I should anyway), but rather for New Yorkers to tell him what they would and wouldn't do, and specifically if they'd take the Metro-North or Path train a few stops to see someone, or to see him. For those who haven't, perhaps go back and read the situation he posed in his OP rather than simply launch into a boiler-plate 'what works in the big city' response to the thread.

It was an attempt at a geometric pun, but I guess it failed.

Is that a tangent?

The OP said 'near' DCA and that DC proper and Alexandria work too. King Street Metro meets that requirement and those two hotels are a couple of minutes' walk from the station. Convenient for him and for the guest he later mentioned. I've stayed at those and, at the Embassy Suites and a Marriott at Crystal City, and I would pick Alexandria over them. But I guess the luxury of a free shuttle in a van can be important.

I had wondered why you typed in cuneiform.

Cheques really aren't a thing in Australia any more, and this bank doesn't offer them with its accounts, so that won't be an issue. Some people still use them, but very few, and most banks both issue them and accept them, but not all. Shops won't take them and the government will no longer issue cheques from 2028.

Yes, @RadioRob, the search I mentioned above now returns the set of results I would have expected, which it didn't yesterday. Thanks.

Did you mean Toulon? Toulouse is inland.

I had similar issues today looking for a thread that I knew was there about an escort. I tried a variety of combinations of words and search options and eventually resorted to Google where I found two threads.

Interesting development from a bank I use almost as much as my main one (it's not an on-line bank but close enough, it has so few branches). For some time they've been paying 4.75% on their savings account and on their transaction account. As a result I've been lax in transferring funds into my savings account. I just received an e-mail from them that from Thursday they will increase the savings rate to 5% and cut the transaction account rate to 2.75% (still a good rate for that type of account). If my discipline in minimising the transaction account balance is anything to go by, they'll probably end up paying less interest in total. The RBA hasn't yet started post peak-inflation cuts to its cash rate from the high of 4.35%, and is still suggesting it'll be next year before it does, but in the last few days the commercial bank prognosticators are starting to predict a 25 basis point cut this year.

Trains only as far as I know - Biden and Johnson certainly travelled to Kyiv that way. The older review says 'Горячий кавказцев' which is 'hot Caucasians' in Russian, and that's as in men from the Caucasus not the usual meaning we use.

As is often the case with respiratory viruses, probably not, but it is likely to reduce the severity of an infection if you contract the disease.