mike carey

State taxes? In the UK? I'm curious.

The one from APPLE1 that you quoted in your post above mine.

I agree with the comment you quoted, and I'm sure others have taken more notice after the 30s comment!

I have had that issue for a few days on my phone (via a web browser not an app) but it's worked all the way through on my laptop.

It's not that people here are using the app_dot links still, it's that those links are still here from when that was the default format of the URLs from what was then the Beta version of the site. If you copy a URL now from RM it will work. As @azdr0710 said, the legacy app inks don't work now. Annoyingly RM didn't map them to the current URL for each provider but rather to a general home page so it looks as if the profile had gone even if it hasn't.

Thank you, David, always one of the highlights of the weekend!

The thread title leads with a loaded assumption, as if something the US and specifically its young people have done is somehow the 'cause' of what is perceived as a decline. Young people being less happy than their elders is an almost universal global phenomenon. To pick one issue, home ownership in Anglo countries at least is more difficult than it was, and as new entrants to the market this affects young people more, to the point in Australia that many of them feel completely excluded. So of course they are less happy than their elders, who are already home owners, and perhaps less happy than they themselves were last year. Young people in the US aren't on their own. Second, this survey is about the relative standing of countries. There is nothing that I could see that said the aggregate absolute level of happiness in the US has declined, only that it has fallen in the list of countries. Even if the overall level of happiness in the US had increased, the US would still have gone down the list if the happiness levels in other countries had increased by more. So, probably nothing to see here, but don't let that get in the way of a clickbait thread title. In some ways things never change. Old people who've created the problems and insecurities that many young people face (and, granted, many of the positive aspects of our societies) rail, as ever, over the ingratitude of the young. How very dare they feel unhappy with the world their elders have wrought.

Just under 6'2".

I'm not too tall, 187cm, but that thought came to mind today. I was on a coach (rail track work so they'd replaced trains with buses) and observed that I was at about the upper height limit to fit in the seat with any degree of comfort. I already check the seat pitch when I book flights. There was one five-minute stop where I could have got off, umm I mean disembarked, but didn't feel the need to, so I still had a slight margin!

That's probably why there was no need to camp out for tickets.

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer the idea of travelling to meet guys rather than flying them to me. Two or three days in New York or Toronto (or both) would give you the opportunity to meet two, three, or however many you choose, of these fine gentlemen. If you're expecting to pay a return fare across the pond, it may as well be your bum on the seat.

There's even an award for that, or so I have heard.

Ouch! But well said, we can so easily lament someone's misfortune, not just their death, because they have some quality we admire.

A man who was a minor councillor on the city council of the Gold Coast, a self-absorbed locality on the outskirts of Brisbane, who allegedly murdered his father, and I should care? Nah, not happening.

I heard Simone Young talk about the performance a couple of days ago on ABC RN (on the Music Show, I think). I'm glad it lived up to her ambitions for it.

Not a very good good likeness of Edith Piaf.

Gary? Who cares about a little thing like a state border!

*Plans Ottawa stopover on my next US trip*

Gentlemen, I'm as guilty as anyone else of going down the rabbit warren of who Taylor Swift is rather than sticking to the point that @FreshFluff raised about her having set a trend on long nails, but we've pretty much done the issue to death now. Please keep to the topic of wearing nail polish from now on.

No big deal, she was just here for seven concerts in 80K and 100K stadiums, and there was nothing else on TV (I exaggerate) for a couple of weeks. I'm surprised her attendance at the Superbowl to watch her boyfriend play didn't saturate everyone's consciousness in the US. And now back to our regular scheduled programming.

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To be pedantic AF, I wasn't quoting him I was reporting what was said, so I was writing the word as I would always write it. If I had wanted to make a point about how Ford recorded what he had said I could have written 'color' and followed it with (sic) to indicate the non-standard (to me) spelling. But now I'm being silly, and that would be my defence in court! Now, back to deposits.

I had always understood that he said the word. If indeed he spelt the word, I am grateful for that additional snippet of information!

I remember it being claimed, probably apocryphally, that Henry Ford said of the Model T that you could have any colour you want, as long as it's black. His factory, his choice. That's why to this day all Ford cars are black.

A Meta joke about Alphabet?