mike carey

bawl verb 1. shout or call out noisily and unrestrainedly. 2. weep or cry noisily. noun a loud, unrestrained shout.

It's 100% without using the shift key for the 5, I mean the %.

In Blue Sky, the caption added was 'Buddhist Humour 2.0'.

Truth!

Looks like the Gold Coast (if it's east coast it's in the southern hemisphere).

Bon anniversaire!

His late Majesty, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Emperor of India. God Save the King!

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Sad news indeed!

This exhibition has just opened at the National Gallery of Australia. It looks at the development of modernism in Australian art and draws on works from the Berggruen Museum in Berlin. I have yet to go to it but it looks interesting. National Gallery of Australia exhibition Cézanne to Giacometti traces origins of Australian modernism - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The National Gallery of Australia's newest major exhibition, Cézanne to Giacometti, traces the roots of Australian...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if @BenjaminNicholas were able to negotiate all sorts of confined spaces!

It's a web archive, which in the instance above had an archived copy of the escort's web site. It's at Wayback Machine WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG There is a Wikipedia article on it as well.

Bon anniversaire! I'm sure I've said this before, when I was in primary school (at least for the first few years) there was a half day holiday on 24 May to mark Empire Day. More importantly, it was cracker night, or bonfire night (except in WA where that was on Guy Fawkes Day, 5 Nov).

With the other streaming services I use (analogous to Prime at least for the streaming element of Prime), I can 'cancel' my service but it runs until my paid period ends (most are monthly, but I'm paying Prime annually to use an Amex statement credit that covers it), but I can still log into the 'cancelled' account and resume payment. From what's been said above (and I haven't tried to pause because I've timed my 'cancellation' so I used the balance of the month's access), 'pausing' seems to offer the chance to stop your access to the service and use the remaining paid time later. It would be worthwhile checking any paid accounts to see if they offer both 'pausing' and 'cancelling' or only the latter. In either case, it appears that your account is inactive, not deleted.

I've noticed this a couple of times, but I'm not sure whether it was anything the escort did. It may have been that we had settled into a routine so although the experience hadn't objectively changed, it could have been more that it lacked the element of the new. I've had a couple of discussions recently with new (to me) escorts whom I'd like to see, and the level of engagement by text is promising. One of them, I know hopes to have regular clients, and the other hasn't given any indication in that respect, but I suspect would, but in both cases, our respective circumstances mean that regular is possible, but frequent is less so. Of the first two I mentioned, I no longer see one of them, but haven't stopped seeing the other.

Here's a link to ThicckyNiccky's RM ad.

Indeed, it's been some time since I've been in London, but when I was I don't recall a locale called the Marais. Of course, many things change over time.

I think it also depends on the extent to which the USD is part of the financial ecosystem in the country concerned. From my observation, the USD features in local people's lives in some Latin American countries (and is perhaps preferred to the local currency) in a way that it does not in most western countries. Few if any businesses in Australia would accept payment in USD cash.

I think that's less a harbinger of a cashless society than a recognition that having pennies makes less sense than in the past when a cent was actually worth something. It's not uncommon for low value coins to be withdrawn but for cash to remain an important payment method. Both Australia and New Zealand withdrew one and two cent coins last century, and in 2006 New Zealand issued new, smaller coins with 10 cents being the lowest value. In both countries, the low value coins were completely withdrawn from circulation, but in many settings there were still prices to the nearest cent, and exact payments were still made electronically (and by credit cards and cheques at the time). In Australia at least, the law specified how prices for non 0 and 5 cent totals had to be rounded when using cash.

I've only ever hired one US escort in Australia, and he was someone I had hired in the US. We didn't discuss the rate before the session and he had no idea what the going rate was here, and I offered him his US rate (I had USD as I travel there from time to time), and he was happy with that. It's an unusual case and different from yours, but paying in USD can work if you have them and are prepared to go that way. But they have no right to expect payment in their currency.

Agree, and I find it tacky when escorts assume that you would want to pay in their currency. You are in Japan, so you are entitled to expect a JPY price. Perhaps ask for their rate in yen. At the least, tell them that they are not in the US.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.