mike carey

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.

Opposites attract is true except when it's not. (Not to be trite.) Maybe it's coincidence, maybe shared sexual preference reflects other shared interests. Since this isn't a public advice column (well, Dan Savage may agree), perhaps meeting the urge to top could be fulfilled by a third participant. Or by agreeing that play outside the relationship, hookup or hire, is a possible solution. Hoping, or worse, expecting your top partner to flip sounds like a recipe for disappointment. But I'm not a top so what would I know?

And we had our first win against the Crusaders in 16 years last weekend!

Haha, indeed! It's a hard conversion of 20cm. People round measurements to a whole number (or in this case, perhaps half inch), they wouldn't say 7.87 inches any more than they would 20.3cm. Now, back to the topic, ahem, at hand.

I too know what 8 inches is. I also know what 20cm is and 7.87 inches is just weird. And what they feel like depends as much on their owner as the measurement (within reason). But in most things, Je parle SI. Just don't get me started on kPa.

The end of the Cold War perhaps?

Moderator's Note Let's stick to the topic and avoid any sniping. Two-way shooting ranges are inherently risky. Off-topic comments will be removed.

There are only three, all taken in the same place, and two of them are remarkably similar. When there are as few shots as this RM repeats them across the screen so it looks like there are more similar (or identical) pics than there actually are.

If DHS is posting this warning it's because they have picked up chatter from someone. Unless the warning specified who was involved we don't know whether it was Islamic or right wing (perhaps purportedly Christian) terror groups or some state actor.

He was at the Palm Springs gathering last month, and he is indeed a lovely guy.

David is in New York at the moment.

This is clearly fake. Rugby is the game they play in heaven.

It's been all over the news.

Previous threads on this provider have been merged into this one.

If they travel frequently between Canada and the US this is probably true, but otherwise not so much. If they live their lives in Canada and have no particular use for USD why would they want them? If the CAD is sliding against the USD, of course having USD would be useful but if the rate is constant it benefits them not (unless they quote a dollar figure in CAD and the client pays them that number of USD).

Two comments for situations in comparable rich countries: The default should be pay in the currency of the country you're in, and if he tells you his rate and doesn't specify the currency, assume he means local But ask him, and if he says USD is fine, ask what his rate is in USD, don't assume that your conversion of his stated rate is acceptable (he may not be able to convert at that rate, or he may want more than the going rate to compensate for real or perceived inconvenience - or his bank's fee - for converting the cash)

I'm entirely unsure what the second post has to do with the thread. Is there some other motive for starting a thread ostensibly about a portrait? On the topic at hand, it is the first new portrait of the King, but it depicts him in the uniform of the Welsh Guards, and was commissioned when he was Prince of Wales before his accession to the throne. I quite like it, but it is quite a contrast to this portrait (currently part of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.