mike carey

Including the weather.

This new post has been merged into an existing thread on the provider.

It's fine and delightfully sunny, if a little chilly, thank you for asking!

Indeed, @nycman, you are present, clearly!

I somehow doubt they ever were, or needed to be aware that money was exchanged, lol.

IV, it's enough to drive you up the wall!

If they're a reasonable investment in their own right, an alternative would be to buy more so you held a marketable parcel of shares. This thread is directed mainly at the prospect of the failure of a bank of which one was a customer, not one in which one held shares (or about shareholding in general), so this is a tangent from that, which we should best avoid.

Why not Minot?

From this and @foxy's other thread, I'd say it's time I took one of those 24 hour flights to somewhere interesting, and visit London again.

If I'm understanding things correctly, the government is planning to sell its share of NatWest that it acquired in order to keep the bank afloat earlier. If that's the case, and the rest of its shares are already trading on the stock exchange you would be able to get a reasonable idea of its prospects from its publicly available financial statements and the performance of the shares that are already on the stock market. Look at the terms on which the government's 35%(?) will come on the market. Stock brokerage firms will most likely have recommendations on whether to buy shares when the government's sale takes place, and some of them will be available to people who are not their clients. One question to ask yourself is whether you would consider buying these shares if you didn't have this money from Royal Mail or are you treating it as 'free money' that you can use to speculate on NatWest. Get advice from as many places as you can. None of us are you, and we all have different reasons to decide on things like this.

A 1000 year flood in one place in 2023 followed by a 1000 year flood a year later in another place doesn't prove anything. It's only an indication of something if they're in the same place.

And, lo and behold, you’re in Thunder Bay!

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, in the last few hours this thread has moved onto a tangent about rates in NYC. The topic here is Blessed Boy. There is already a thread about New York rates, so please take your comments on that subject there and leave this thread for discussions of the gentleman about whom it was created.

@Enzo Falcone can't edit his posts while he's a 'Newbie', he will be able to after 30 days.

When I lived in Hawai'i 'island fever' seemed to be a consistent concern, although few people I knew (mostly from CONUS) travelled far from their homes or workplaces on Oahu. The psychological impact of the perceived accessibility of desirable places 'elsewhere' should not be underestimated, and being able [relatively easily] to drive 'there' is valued. That said, it's not difficult to fly to somewhere else from either Las Vegas or Palm Springs. To quote (or perhaps paraphrase) the late great Dame Edna Everage, 'Australia is so central, you can just pop on an aeroplane and in 24 hours you can be somewhere interesting.'

Until today he was the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything, now he's just 43. Happy birthday, I hope you have some treats lined up for today! (How did I miss that in the home page list of birthdays?)

If you want to continue wider conversations, I've started this thread.

There is an active and interesting thread in the Personal Finance forum that started out asking about issues involved in retiring to Vietnam on $US1,000 a month. The thread has ranged widely to discuss moving to lower cost countries to enjoy a better lifestyle on a first world retirement income, dealing with issues like health care in an unfamiliar system, living abroad part time and the difficulties (or reluctance) to learn the local language. The last applies to retired people moving to lower cost countries and workers from them living in rich countries. That thread has strayed from the personal finance involved (and also from just Vietnam although many observations are universal), and needs to return to the financial issues. This is a place to continue the wider conversation. Have fun, and plan away. I think I feel a visit to CDMX coming on, although not permanently and not by train and bus from a US border city this time.

Done. Merged with the Boyfriend Experience thread quoted in a comment above, but this one (Does it mean he's a good actor) left separate as it asks a specific question.

Gentlemen, this thread seems to have run its course, with a lack of comments recently on the threat warnings that were issued in relation to Pride events, and increasing numbers of comments about the nature of Pride events, the image they project to wider society, marginalisation, real or perceived, of certain groups at those events and in the wider LGBTQI+ community, and to the broader subject of discrimination. While worthy of discussion, they are outside the scope of this thread. Feel free to start new topics on those issues if you wish.

Moderator's Note A reminder, gentlemen, that religion falls into the same prohibited category as politics in the forum. The initial discussion about which groups (including those with a religious motivation) might have prompted the government warnings was okay. We've done that now. Speculating about a specific religious motive for potential attacks is outside what we permit, as is broadening this into a general discussion of the attitudes of entire faith groups towards LGBT+ people, as if they were universally held and causative of attacks. Several posts have been removed. Please stay on topic, and within forum guidelines.

He can call a longer appointment whatever he likes, if he tells you what his overnights involve before you agree to the appointment, then there is no deception. If you agree to his terms and set the appointment and then later tell him that it wasn't an overnight, that's on you not him. I like over-night meetings, but a 5-6 hour appointment seems too long to me as a regular meeting (unless it involves agreed out-of-the-bedroom activities) and too short as an overnight so I wouldn't accept that version of an overnight. Blue text added to remove potential ambiguity in what I was saying.

I would be most surprised if that were the case. Eleven inches is somewhat more likely.

Which strikes me as odd. It's a clear case where there are easily calculated costs of collecting cash from machines (and processing it) and different clear costs of processing (but not collecting, apart from the EFT technology) credit and debit card payments. I'd be surprised if the cash costs are greater than the card costs, but you never know.

The morning news here commented that a felon can't vote, but a guest pointed out that in some states felons who are not in prison can vote. Two states, totally at random, where they can are Florida and New York. The guest also noted that a felon on probation is required to seek the permission of the probation board to travel out of state.