mike carey

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

On a far smaller scale, Amazon has also acquired the Australian broadcasting rights for all International Cricket Council, or ICC, events abroad for the next four years. ICC events held in Australia must be law be offered first to Australian free-to-air broadcasters, but there are none here during the contract. In what I'm sure is totally unrelated news, the existing rights holder cut my monthly subscription from $25 to $10 for the next year. They have other content I will continue to watch although I may pause my subscription more often now ICC content won't be there. I had never considered Amazon before but no doubt I'll be checking their offerings soon.

Kia ora everyone. The issue came up a week or so back of a member not seeing a provider's signature (which contained a link to his ad) and asking the provider to post that link. The display (or not) of signatures had been canvassed as an incidental comment in an earlier thread in this forum. As that was some time ago, and this time it was raised in a Travelling Providers thread which we will delete once the provider's trip is over, I thought I'd repost my reply to it here in a thread that likely won't be deleted. Initially I had noted that it may have been an artefact of viewing the thread on a mobile device, as I recollected (with no level of certainty) that some devices may hide signatures. I also said I didn't know whether visibility could be selected in settings. Until I looked at settings later. I'm happy to be corrected on any of this.

For a momentary tangent, if you want to chalk up airline experiences and Emirates A380 first class is one of them, they operate Sydney to Christchurch as an add-on to one of their Sydney flights. It's only three hours so not the full EK long haul first class experience, but you can book the two fifth-freedom sectors for cash as either an EK fight or as a Qantas code-share. If you have miles with an airline program that offers you reward flights on Emirates you may be able to find seats there. Qantas FF members can also book reward seats via the QF web site. Despite QF selling the sectors for cash on a QF flight number, they may only show up in reward searches as EK, so if your airline partners with QF but not EK you may not be able to find reward seats.

And there's a swimming pool named in his honour by Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney Harbour. Google Image Result for https://accessabilityaustralia.com/staging/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0K1A2003-scaled.jpg IMAGES.APP.GOO.GL

I hope it wasn't Hep C. 😁

Were you perhaps staying on the Isle of Islay?

And of course @nycman, as a renowned opera critic, can be trusted to know such things. Tee hee.

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From the Shingles vax thread. Public health advice, in Australia at least, differs and recommends Covid updates in many cases, and is generally based on the value of the updated vaccines in mitigating the severity of the disease if you catch it, not preventing you from doing so. Herd immunity is a population level protection, and is different from a general level protection derived from the immunity that most everyone (you included) would have from exposure to the disease and from earlier vaccinations. That may have been what your PCP was talking about. Herd immunity results from a high enough proportion of the population having a level of immunity (however acquired) that means that it is unlikely those without, or with a low level of immunity will be exposed to the disease and contract it. It is also localised, not necessarily regional or national level. If you travel to a city or country where the disease is prevalent, your home herd immunity doesn't protect you, you depend on your individual level of immunity. By way of examples, most of Australia has measles herd immunity, but cases occur in regions with low immunity levels, or when unimmunised people travel to overseas regions where it is prevalent and bring it back. Pertussis, or whooping cough, has herd immunity (mainly from childhood vaccinations) but vaccinations are highly recommended for certain groups of previously vaccinated people who are not at risk of severe disease (eg grandparents) but who even with a mild case would pose a significant risk to unvaccinated people (their new-born children too young to be vaccinated). None of that is to diminish the importance of the advice of your PCP or your decision on taking their advice. Their advice would be tailored to you personally and not simply be a statement of general immunity in your community.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Not humorous at all, and sorry to hear that. But you're right, a mat to prevent you from slipping in the shower or the bath is a great idea.

Sam Haynes talks to Sally Sara on ABC RN Breakfast about last minute planning he needs to do to account for the challenging forecast for the race, now under way off the NSW South Coast. Sam Haynes looking to retain Sydney to Hobart crown - ABC listen WWW.ABC.NET.AU Last-minute adjustments are being made to the fleet of the 78th Sydney to Hobart race this morning as skippers weigh...

And in 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami took the lives of almost a quarter of a million people, mainly in Aceh province in Indonesia but also many in Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, but others as far away as Somalia.

It's not always entirely as it seems. Sometimes a thread is revived and that prompts members to make comments that they might have meant to make, or where they had not seen a post on which they then comment, in the thread's first life (or on rereading the thread to leave reactions on earlier posts). In this case, the thread was revived by a new poster making two spam posts and although they have been removed, the thread was still active at the top of the 'recent posts' for a while. If no one had made any further comments in that brief time the thread would have disappeared back to 'seven months ago', but it was seen and on-topic discussion of the subject restarted. MC as Mod.

OMG, it's the end of days! Bozo referred to himself in the first person!!! Sort of.

Christmas night and I've watched carols from Westminster Abbey, the usual news coverage of politicians' and religious leaders' messages, and of British tourists getting sunburnt on Bondi Beach and festive stories from around the country, vision of a white Christmas in the NSW central west (don't worry, it was a hail storm not snow although it was hard to tell) and the snippets of messages home from servicemen and women in Germany, the Golan Heights, the Gulf and the South Pacific. The predicted rain materialised as showers and a sharp storm (thunder here but no hail) followed by temporarily clear skies. And then (and this is still somewhat jarring to stay, even after a full year), the Christmas message from the King. I hope that the day is bringing all of you everything good that you hoped for.

Joyeux Noël tout le monde! I'm sitting here on Sunday evening (at about 2030 AEDT) and there's no cricket on at all. Have to wait till Boxing Day for day 1 of the second test in Melbourne (followed by two domestic short form (T20) games in the evening, so about 13 hours on the TV). I have the ham, a chicken roast, and Christmas pudding, custard and ice cream, so I'm set. And a Marlborough sauvignon blanc ready to go. The day promises to be mild, a bit under 30°, although there could be some rain in the afternoon. Enjoy the day, whether you're going to be with friends, family or a gentleman you're able to engage, or if you're on your own.

At the risk of deviating from 'Florida' and 'high speed rail' I've seen two things that could foreshadow some changes even in the US (although between some intermediate city pairs not cross-country, and I'm not holding my breath!). In Europe night trains are making a comeback with, for example ÖBB starting Berlin-Paris and Vienna-Brussels services (they cross in Mannheim and carriages are swapped between the two trains giving passengers the option of Berlin-Brussels and Vienna-Paris}, and Eurostar is running London-Switzerland ski trains, admittedly with an across-the-platform change in Lille, to allow people to avoid flying. The second data point is the recent upsurge in demand for the two daily Sydney-Melbourne trains which have a sleeper option on the night one. No extra services so far, but they have added carriages on some occasions.

A regular and I text a lot (with gaps at times, it can be feast or famine) about all sorts of shit. Today he sent me a photo of his Christmas grocery shopping (we'd been discussing supermarket bonus points of all things) and then of the ham, and pork roast in his fridge. Totally normal, lol. Then every so often one of him lifting weights or a dick pic.

The widow always makes for a pleasant time!

I agree with you that doing that would help you, and it would also potentially benefit clients by making a second and subsequent appointments go more smoothly. I think, however, that the question was about RM profiles that clients can make for themselves with their preferences and in some cases pictures of themselves, and whether providers find such profiles useful. I have a profile, and it seems that some providers look at it while others do not (I won't know if a provider has their profile set to hide who they view). I've had guys I was meeting who didn't look at my profile during the booking process but did in the hour or so before we met.

I always thought that 'mean drill sergeants' was a tautology.

Oh, his face you say. Yes, he does have a handsome face ...

Better yet, be a vegan. That way there's no menu anxiety, AND you have something you can talk about loudly in the restaurant! (sniggers to oneself)