mike carey

When I saw him I caught one of those tunnel trains that NYC has from my hotel near Penn Station. It seemed no different from going by tunnel train anywhere else in the city.

A propos of absolutely nothing, I've had Toronto on my list of places to visit for some time.

Why oh why does everyone hate Spirit Airlines' premium service???

The Macquarie Dictionary has come up with its word of the year, and the winner is enshittification. Not how I would have spelt it, but that's just me. (Not -tt-.) The article I saw this in is paywalled, this one it not. Australian Dictionary Picks 'Enshittification' As Word Of The Year WWW.BARRONS.COM Australia's quasi-official Macquarie Dictionary has picked "enshittification" as the word of 2024, tapping into a... They've called it quasi-official, as although it is a private project of Macquarie University in Sydney, it has become the accepted national standard used by government and other institutions.

But none of that is relevant because ... reasons.

'Flushable wipes', one of the great oxymorons of history. Nothing but poop, piss and toilet paper. Even tissues, and paper towels and napkins are formulated to be strong when wet, not what you want in the sewers! Don't even think about condoms. If your kink is wallowing in sewerage, don't try to arrange it in your local street with the things you flush. As with most kinks, they are kinks because most people don't, or don't want to share them!

Gosh, you come up with some left-field solutions!!

I'm fairly sure Ethan Woods is a different person, not an alter ego of Jarrod. The language registers they use are fundamentally different for a start. I would go so far as to say incompatible.

Papers!!

After a week with two speed-dating sessions for presidents and prime ministers in South America (I'm sorry, that should have read '... the APEC and G20 leaders' summits in Lima and Rio'), the Australian prime minister had the opportunity of another on the way home. [And hence why I posted in the air travel forum.] The jet streams in the southern hemisphere were uncharacteristically strong this week so the prime-ministerial RAAF jet (a modified A330) flew [apparently] 2,000km further but saved four hours and a refuelling stop by flying east from Brazil. They had a layover in Mauritius, enabling the prime minister to have a meeting with the Mauritian prime minister to add to the god-knows how many he had during the week of speed dating, err Summits. (I think we saw smiling footage of every damn one of them on TV news coverage.)

Also, 'The law is an ass'.

After writing in here, I went shopping for a few groceries, and when I came to the yoghurt section of the fridge, one of my usual two brands was on special (tubs of yoghurt with a swirl of some sweet stuff through it, usually fruit in a fruity puree) and a new flavour was Affogato. So. not just milk. I am enjoying it!

It was a dream, and the accession of Johnson to the presidency represented a 'return to our regularly scheduled programming'. What may have happened had he not been assassinated is a counter factual. It's possible to deduce, and many do, that there was a lack of substance to the Kennedy presidency, that it was all image and that would have continued had he lived. The strands of what he was doing might have come together into something better. Or a major event could have precipitated a major change to how the administration operated, for better or worse. But we will never know which of these alternative futures would have played out. In any loss we lament what might have been, without knowing what would have been without that loss.

A shower pic in F on an EK A380 perhaps?

Departure cards that everyone has to complete when leaving Australia ask whether you are a resident or visitor, and whether you're departing temporarily (and for how long) or permanently. Similar questions are asked on arrival. I don't think US border formalities include such data collection, so the only way anyone will have any idea if moving is a trend will come from foreign statistics of Americans becoming semi-permanent or permanent residents. Anecdotes about famous people (who in reality can live almost anywhere they want, and for a short or long time) departing, or of the bloke in your street who moved to Ireland or Singapore will be just that. Interesting perhaps, but they won't give you an idea of whether there has been a material change in the numbers of Americans choosing to leave. And serious numbers of departures would be prompted by new lived realities for those people, not the atmospherics of what one or other party has 'promised'.

I finally had my prescription for PrEP on occurrence filled, the young [female] pharmacist explained the dosage pattern in a very matter-of-fact way, in the same terms as the doctor at the clinic had (the instructions on the vial referred to taking two tablets 'before activity' and continuing every 24 hours until after 48 hours after 'last activity'). It cost me the standard PBS $31.60 pharmacy copay for 30 tablets. I'll still be mindful of the risks of other STIs, both for me, and for prospective partners if I were to have an asymptomatic infection.

I'm so sorry to hear that @Charlie. Requiescat in pace.

This from someone who can see New Jersey from their kitchen window!

I'm glad to see it's only the black sheep of the family!

When I was a kid a little while ago in Australia, the idea of caffeine as the 'reason' for coffee or tea was foreign, and iced coffee was a thing in the same way that chocolate milk was. It was basically a milk drink that kids or anyone else would drink. Nothing fancy, and although available in shops and milk bars, often made at home with instant coffee and milk, usually some sugar, and gasp! a scoop if ice cream as a treat. Iced black coffee would have been regarded as terminally avant garde. If someone had put this on the pavement, people would think they were mad, or a complete wanker. Iced coffee is alive and well in this country, equally in its old iteration as a flavoured milk drink, and a fancy product of our coffee culture.

The sequence for calculating this is first (X-Y) then divide by 5 and then add Y (which is 20). If you're over 20, X-Y and therefore (X-Y)/5 will be positive, so the answer will always be above 20.

Remember, the question here was Are people actually leaving not are they talking about it.

Well, you could be both. GGG is a willingness to participate, not about level of experience.