mike carey

Yup. How's that for healthy!

Yes, of course, an emergency so pressing that he had to block the client's phone and RM account so he wouldn't be interrupted while he dealt with it. Makes perfect sense.

We can use our judgment there. Sometimes the city reflects a place they are visiting, sometimes it's their home base. We might merge them using the new or the old title (and hence location) and at times we might opt for a title that omits the city because the provider pops up in different places. But you're right, we can't adjust them all the time. But we have to balance the importance of having the correct city against the benefit of combining all the relatively recent discussion about the provider. That said, a lot of the accessibility of the information here depends on members posting titles that facilitate other members' identifying threads that interest them and of searching for information, we can't fix it all. So, if I could add one thing to the OP's plea, try to spell the provider's name correctly or at least consistently.

Short answer .... !

What happened to 989 down to 890?

Correct, Newbies can't post a poll or vote in them.

Viewing from afar or not so far (AU and CA), we may worry but don't have the worry of having to make a personal choice in that one. But back to actual douche bags and not the product of using one.

The privacy setting only stops other people from seeing that you viewed their profile, it doesn't stop anyone from contacting you. It's not the same as blocking. Also, it's easy enough to turn the privacy setting off, view a profile you want to be seen to have viewed, and turn it back on again. Any views you have made when privacy is off remain visible to the other party when you turn it on.

Right there, that's scientific proof!!

Thinking about recent commentary here on amending laws of consent to include the idea that it has to be freely given and can be withdrawn at any time I looked for a definition, and found this one from a Cornell U site (bear in mind this was an internet search, but to me it appears to include a good list of elements of consent:

Gents, a mod's reminder to avoid political commentary.

Well, who said comic book sound effects weren't funny?

I turns out that RM accepts Visa cards from Australia, another point of weirdness in what they are doing. I had the card on file with them, hit send on the transaction, my phone pinged with a message from my bank that the charge had been made, my RM account reflected the payment and I received an e-mail confirmation (not in RM).

We have become accustomed to assuming that Visa and Mastercard are interchangeable, if a merchant accepts one they will accept the other. Most people who use Amex are accustomed to those cards not being interchangeable with the other two, and are ready with an alternative. RM may be a one-off or it may be the start of a trend, we don't yet know. I was always a Visa person until a card with the features I wanted was a Mastercard, and now I have both, otherwise I'd be in the same boat as others here. Some merchants already differentiate between credit and debit cards, mainly when you pay deposits rather than final payments. Gift cards, even those issued by Visa and Mastercard carry their own limitations that differ from credit and debit cards (not so much of an issue here as we have the same legal requirements for identification as credit/debit cards). So far, it's only RM, which most of us can live without, but it may be the shape of things to come if regulators in the US look more closely at whether the two are colluding to exploit the market. We may be forced to consider what each type of card offers and either pick one on that basis rather than habit or 'just liking' one or the other, or of diversifying our card holdings. Lamenting that your chosen card isn't accepted somewhere won't help any more than lamenting that someone wouldn't take my Amex has helped me so far.

At last, some overdue culture in the debate!

It's easy to make incorrect deductions from limited data. One could draw the implausible conclusion from your experience that since two thirds the men who attacked you were straight, and that a far higher proportion of men are straight, that straight men are under-represented as perpetrators of sexual assault. On a separate point, saying that straight men do something does not assert that all straight men do it.

Some amazing works! On a recent visit to the National Gallery of Victoria I spent some time in a couple of galleries of art from a similar period. Many were on a theme of the Cult of Saint Katherine, including both semi-iconic images and other narrative art of her persecution and torture. It was interesting to observe both the art for itself and to reflect on the overwhelmingly religious nature of it, and also on the contrast between the iconography of art in Orthodox Christianity and the art in later Latin rite Christianity.

It was an attempt at a geometric pun, but I guess it failed.

Is that a tangent?

The OP said 'near' DCA and that DC proper and Alexandria work too. King Street Metro meets that requirement and those two hotels are a couple of minutes' walk from the station. Convenient for him and for the guest he later mentioned. I've stayed at those and, at the Embassy Suites and a Marriott at Crystal City, and I would pick Alexandria over them. But I guess the luxury of a free shuttle in a van can be important.

I had wondered why you typed in cuneiform.

Cheques really aren't a thing in Australia any more, and this bank doesn't offer them with its accounts, so that won't be an issue. Some people still use them, but very few, and most banks both issue them and accept them, but not all. Shops won't take them and the government will no longer issue cheques from 2028.

Yes, @RadioRob, the search I mentioned above now returns the set of results I would have expected, which it didn't yesterday. Thanks.

Did you mean Toulon? Toulouse is inland.