mike carey

С Новым Годом! (That's literally 'With the New Year' which is the Russian version.) Or as they would say in Kyiv, 'З новим роком!'

I mentioned the fourth cricket test (the Boxing Day Test) in the thread about Boxing Day. The game has just finished and was an epic. Australia had been on top after the first innings (that ended half way through the second day). India lost early wickets in their first innings but came back by the end of their innings to be far closer to Australia's score than anyone had thought possible. 87,000 and 85,000 people attended the first two day and another 80,000 on the third. It was pushing record territory. In their second innings, Australia's batting collapsed early on making it appear likely that India could score enough in their second to win the game, but in the latter half of the innings Australia ended up making a respectable score. At the start of the fifth day all four results were possible, either team could win, it could be a draw or it could even be a tie. (In a draw, time runs out before one side can score enough runs to win, or the other can bowl all of the opposition out, a tie happens when the final innings of the game finishes with the team all out but the total scores level - there have been two ties in 2,573 tests in history.) India lost some early wickets, and was scoring steadily, but a draw seemed to be becoming the most likely result. Late in the day, India lost more wickets and were eventually bowled out. A tense draw would not have been a completely unsatisfactory result, but as an Australian, a win was better. The largest ever crowd to attend a test match in Australia was 350,000 for an Australia-England test in 1937. This game had 373,000 spectators pass through the turnstiles in Melbourne. It still fell short of the largest ever test cricket crowd of 463,000 at a test between India and Pakistan in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1998-99. With the size of the Indian diaspora here, at all of the games so far, you could be forgiven for thinking that India was the home team! After the game I heard a vox pop with a fan, and when asked whether he was from Melbourne replied, 'No, I've come here from Washington DC for the [previous] Brisbane test and this one, and I've been to all five days.'

Based on personal experience or from reports in the Forum?

This didn't start as a question about an individual masseur, and as it's progressed it's become a general discussion about personal responsibility for sexual health, so we're moving it to the Men's Health forum.

Gentlemen, please resist the temptation to discuss the merits of what others post, or make the conversation personal. And remember this thread was started by @Coolwave35 to ask for advice, and he now seems to have worked things out. He's even told us some of what they had agreed. Precise details beyond that are really none of our business, unless he chooses to share them. Thank you for making this an interesting thread with ideas we might all be able to use in the future.

Gosh, so I had it wrong all along?

People have different, sometimes conflicting perspectives of any event. This whole matter was canvassed at length in the forum, and the client told us that the money had been returned. Some of the posts about it were subsequently deleted or hidden by their authors. The client who raised the issue considered it closed but that doesn't mean that all traces will be removed from the forum.

And how exotic that is!! All sorts of incomprehensible dialects!

There was a number of similar cases during the year in Canberra and the local region, as reported here by the ABC. Police search homes, seize electronic devices as they investigate alleged homophobic assaults of men on dating apps in Canberra - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU ACT Policing say they have executed five search warrants as they investigate the alleged assaults of three men using an... (The reports refer to ABC Policing rather than ACT Police as the local police here are provided by the Australian Federal Police under a service agreement with the territory government.)

Mine's no longer a prime number. But two of the next four years will be!

I had noticed it too, a few days ago, and it appeared to be that way on ads both in the US and elsewhere. Happened on both lap top and mobile in Rent.men. But it's now reverted to normal. Who knows?

Both threads had been dormant since 2023 and were revived this month, so it's a fair question to ask about both of them. But the answer is that both are serviceable threads with a range of opinions on the Tin Room. It makes sense so to merge them to make it easier to read them simultaneously in one chronological sequence, so ....

Interesting, it uses a decimal point for the Imperial measurement but the French (or European) decimal comma in the SI measurement.

This was posted in a different forum. It's an article published on the Delish website, generally one for recipes but in this case, talking about food. Why Can I Tolerate More Foods On Vacation - Gluten & Dairy Intolerances WWW.DELISH.COM It's not your imagination!

29 and some months.

'Just For Fans', a site for content providers to publicise themselves. Similar idea to Only Fans. It's not for people to advertise for meetings.

Yes, a rough year, the first fatalities since 1998. The CYC has defended not calling the race off when things started to go south in other than the usual way. They made the entirely rational point that once the race was underway skippers can (and would) make their own decisions, and it is by no means certain that retiring or turning around in those conditions would be a better option than continuing. LawConnect took line honours overnight, for the second year, with a time of about 1 day 13 hours, a couple of hours over the race record.

I appreciate the comments here telling clients the thing that they have consistently been offered and had delivered, sometimes with gusto, in overnight sessions is not possible and all the reasons why that is so.

Bloody hell. The TUC at it again.

Mod's Note A member some time ago reminded us that this is about the way Mr Mangione was being fetishised, and that there was a thread in the Lounge about the crime. I made a comment as a Mod saying 'Exactly' in reply to it. A reminder to keep discussions on that aspect of the fallout from Mr Thompson's alleged murder. If you can't manage that, you'll be aware of what can happen to the thread. We have had quite a few reports of content here and taken action where necessary, and also deleted some of the comments that have gone too far. I realise some members may have preferred us to be more active in doing that (and some that we did less). We will continue to monitor this, and the complementary thread and edit them as necessary.

Heaven FORFEND!! Seriously though, I wasn't, it was a throw-away line not really aimed at anyone. But I expected (in fact hoped) that someone would take it as a challenge, and your name did cross my mind. I actually thought you were more likely to respond to me calling NYC a foreign place! Tehe.

On two continents, Boxing Day means the Boxing Day [cricket] test. 80,000 people were in the Melbourne Cricket Ground to see day 1 of this, the fourth test in the series, this year between Australia and India. Nine hours later, the same rituals were being played out at Centurion Park in metro Pretoria where South Africa is playing Pakistan in the first of two tests. The home teams were ahead in both matches after the first day's play, Australia having amassed a large score and Pakistan having been bowled out cheaply. Both Australia and South Africa will play a New Years test starting on 3 Jan, in Sydney and at Newlands in Cape Town respectively. Boxing Day and New Years tests are also being played in Zimbabwe against Afghanistan but there are none in New Zealand as they played their tests against England in December. The other big events of the day here are the Boxing Day sales, which have lost some of their fervour now that Black Friday is becoming a thing here (despite there being no Thanksgiving and no actual Black Friday), and of course the spectacular start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Boxes? Yes, being flattened and consigned to the recycling bin.

This same, or at least a similar vein of conversation comes up in many threads about 'foreign' places (you know, like LA (don't say anything, Vegas), DC or NYC) and it's always 'I wouldn't [not 'I don't'] feel safe there, I'm too obviously [gay/American/Western/touristy/white], so I know I'll be targetted. The thread about Playa del Carmen is a case in point. The reality is, blend in, don't be conspicuous [dress/mannerisms/what you carry] and you'll mostly be fine. I'm not in a rush to go to most of the Islamic Middle East [yes I have walked around in a mall in Kuwait City, but I was there in atypical circumstances and wearing camo] but would not hesitate to go there if there were a particular reason. Do I care about their politics and religious practices, yes, but that's not the only place I have such concerns. I do understand many of the concerns, even those of some of our more excitable posters, but generally the intersection of valid moral concerns and valid safety concerns is there but it's small so you can consider them separately, and it's up to you whether either make the region a no-go area. On the morality side, I'm firmly in the 'I'd prefer not to' rather than the 'I refuse to' camp. Happily, there are options other than the ME3 airlines and layovers in their hub cities. Maybe I'm odd (no comments from the usual suspects, please) but I use public transport in the three US cities I mentioned above, and not reluctantly. I don't fear for my safety, but I do try to be aware of my surroundings and watch my six and, as I would in Sydney or Melbourne, listen to my gut. If you don't see anything in a destination that interests you (or in the case of Playa del Carmen, you've read that the things you want in a Mexican city are lacking, but are available somewhere else) don't go there. If you're interested in a place, spend more time researching how to be safe there rather than search endlessly for every little reason why it might be dangerous. On second thoughts, I'm not going to NYC again because someone might throw a one cent piece from a window and hit me on the head and kill me.

You want to make his ass straight?

It all seems to melt here - it's 36°C today (about 97 of those other ones).