mike carey

As long as we don't start talking about dangling clauses!

I suspect that isn't so much facial recognition software as photographing foreigners on entry (or transit) either for records or to match one's face to the one in their passport. I am photographed and finger printed as part of the US arrival process every time, and the automated passport gates everyone (including Australian citizens/residents) use on departure and entry at the Australian border require me to look into a camera. Facial recognition software more usually refers to software that scans a crowd trying to match every face in it to a person in a data base.

We've merged one of those threads with this new one. Of the other two, one contains only an OP with a link to the ad, and a cross-reference to previous discussion, and the other is for BradVersHung. That thread appears to be of the same escort but we had previously declined to merge it because we weren't sure that it was the same man, and we'll allow that decision to stand. In any case there is a link to it up-thread.

Too big, just too big!

LOVE that!

Easy to do, don't feel bad about it! I've added your post to the other thread.

Being single doesn't need to be coming from a place of that being your aim. Rather it can come from accepting that it is where you are, and deciding to make the best of it, of learning the creases of it and the parts of it that can make you. Regret can be a heavy weight to carry, it can make you wish for what you don't have rather than live for the things you do. It doesn't mean that providence won't deliver you more, if you are open to it and can see that it's being offered, and are prepared not to hold back. It may even be a relationship that arrives, perhaps when you least expect it.

I had seen him once, and wanted to come back for the final tour, but couldn't manage it.

When I looked at this thread when it was first posted, I saw that its original premise was from a satirical account, so in some ways there was no reason to take it seriously. Even so, there is the kernel of something to discuss, even if the only likely discussion is a tangent from the article posted at the outset. And so it has transpired. So I did some research. As @jeezifonly pointed out, 'self-partnered' and 'incel' appear to be polar opposites (or diagonally opposed quadrants of a question with two factors - partnered/single and happy/sad). Both terms are descriptions of living without a life partner, but one is a state of satisfaction, likely calmly so, of the situation, the other one of bitter resentment and blaming others for the failure to be able to attract a partner. A characterisation I read was, 'the term challenges the notion that being single is a transitional state or a failure, reframing it as a conscious, positive choice. It means prioritizing your own needs and happiness, which can be a beneficial mindset whether or not you are in a relationship.' It doesn't even seem to require sexual satisfaction as part of accepting the state, so the rejection Jeezifonly mentions may not matter. I wonder whether the idea of trying to equate the two might be nothing more than a way of pathologising the considered and healthy acceptance that being single is a reasonable way to live a happy life, if not one that most would choose. If you can't imagine living life without a partner, there's no reason to infer that those who can are being bitter, resentful or unfilled.

So it would appear that payouts at maturity are automated. That is something I would have expected, but given the nature of bureaucracies, both public and private sector, it would not have surprised me if they were not.

I use them too, but I also use the orange flavoured Metameucil, gummies and raw psyllium. Thank you for the translation, I was just showing off.

Some rather interesting comments in this thread. Clearly preferences differ, and the purpose of the thread isn't to find one (or even several) 'right answers'. I've been intrigued how different perspectives can be, and it's great that there has been much open and interested comment on what attracts others, and what does not. There's always been considerable interest in the forum when one provider here sets out his annual business statistics, and also when providers offer their opinions on financial matters. I have no idea whether any of them discuss such matters with clients, either over coffee or on other circumstances, but I would imagine they might exchange views if they shared interests along those lines.

Michelin star dishes and signature cocktails are all about show and appearances. Taste, flavour, heaven forbid health effects, are not just unwanted, they are in opposition to their very purpose. A sugar hit. Likewise, popping a pill or a capsule can be the best way to manage a health issue, but it can also be a short-cut, an easy way to resolve something rather than doing something that could be achieved by personal effort, perhaps difficult effort. Chacun à son goût. There are ways of incorporating psyllium in plain dishes where it becomes unnoticeable. Dishes where soft breadcrumbs might be used to bind other ingredients, meatloaves, rissoles, burgers. Things where elegance isn't the objective. That is not to say that capsules, commercial fibre powders and gummies can't be part of your decision, but often for pennies on the dollar for those options, simple psyllium husks can also be part of your solution. Just learn the places where it won't work.

I've never tried it in hot drinks, BUT, I have tried to use it in stews as a thickener. Epic fail. Unlike flour or corn flour (cornstarch), which works fine to gradually thicken the liquid as a whole, psyllium formed into gelatinous globs in the stew. What I have done successfully is add it to cereal (for me, along with fruit and yoghurt as well as milk). Adding a tablespoon works fine (adjust the amount of milk to get a consistency you like). I suspect it would also work in smoothies or in yoghurt without the cereal but I haven't tried either of those. (I'm not suggesting the abomination that is a kale smoothie, although if you're a masochist that would give you more fibre.)

Yes, but just 279 views in that time, speaks to an ad that was hidden or inactive for most of the time.

Rue Sainte-Catherine Montréal 1916

I guess I missed out by not trying to see him in Sydney even though he had been on my buddy list.

As indicated in his ad, Zac is Sydney based. In the past he has visited NYC and London periodically, so if you want you can keep track of any future visits by buddy listing him.

If he, or any escort, has a Twitter account that he hasn't disclosed on his ad, or done so himself in here, it would contravene forum guidelines for anyone else to post it here.

Hope you have a starboard cabin. Port out, starboard home and all that.

Of course! Crossing one of those rivers must be as profound a dislocation as crossing any ocean.

Sorry, that should have said that we don't have Thanksgiving here. Even if we did, having it in spring wouldn't make sense. Harvesting would be the time to mark it, not sowing.

No, Thanksgiving here. It was a reference to Canadian Thanksgiving.

@marylander1940 Is this a 'spot the 10 differences between the pictures' test or are these four images all the same?