mike carey

Stop laughing, it's a picture of two hands, a wash basin and a tap*. * Perhaps some of you may say 'faucet'.

Happy Saturday afternoon (AEDT), and it's 452 to to with one hour left on Friday (EDT)!

My previous car (current one is diesel) 'required' premium. Had knocking issues on hills and sometimes under acceleration with regular, and fuel economy was better with premium. Both were Citroëns.

According to his website, yes.

That's as may be, is it enough reason to fly with them?

I saw him in San Jose when I was visiting SF, one hour each way on CalTrain was pretty easy, and at the time he was close to the station.

I'm not sure that posters uniformly recognised the double entendre in this question.

That may be helpful for you to rationalise some [imo unwarranted] guilt but I don't think it's fair to 'blame' the wives. You can't know what prompted the men to have relationships with you much less that it was something lacking in their marriages that the wives were capable of redressing. Unless of course the men told you directly. Your regrets are entirely understandable but I don't think there is anything you need to take the blame for, or for you to find anyone else who should.

Agree with other posters, I spent a very pleasant few hours wandering around the museum last time I was in Palm Springs.

A saucer of cream for the table in the corner.

My understanding is that the last case of smallpox in the wild was in 1977, and that the WHO determined that it had been eradicated by 1980. The virus still exists in labs. (Polio, on the other hand, exists only in a couple of places on the planet, but has been eliminated in the developed world.)

Moderator's Note Please stop personalising the discussion, and attack the issues not other posters. This is about what the current state of the Covid pandemic is, and that can include differing assessments of what the data mean. If you challenge what someone else has concluded, do that without challenging their professional competency or intellectual capacity to draw their conclusion.

No argument from me!

IIRC lead-up tournaments like Queen's have not been stripped. I smell a stunt in the decision to apply the rule selectively to Wimbledon and not others.

My only exposure has been to the US version and I enjoyed it. I agree that a new idea would be better. QAF was yet another example of the US entertainment industry's belief that foreign film and television doesn't work in the US. This may be true, but it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. So remaking someone else's narrative or an old one is what the US industry often does. There can still be good reasons for doing it. For example the political and cultural environment in which the gay community lives has changed, as have the prominence of 'other' strands of the LGBTIQ+ experience. If the propose of the remake is to include these things in the new version that's reasonable, if it's just to do it again it's not. What can loosely be called 'remakes' of Romeo and Juliet have been going for a little while now, usually under a different name and nobody complains about that. There has been a debate in these forums about a cinematic remake of one of them that has attracted more heat than its earlier version would have for appropriating the original story. Of course QAF is not a single story the way R&J is, so its new version relies on name recognition not a compelling story.

From Twitter: A week ago my MIL began reading "The Exorcist". She said it's the most evil book she had ever read, so evil in fact she couldn't finish it, took it to the beach & threw it from the rocks into the sea. I went & bought another copy, have soaked it & put it in her bedside drawer.

The lyin' Paraguayan? How could you forget?

We've now had the first cases in Australia, among people who have recently returned from the UK. I heard an infectious diseases academic on the radio this afternoon say that it's not as contagious as smallpox, and that transmission has historically been unusual but not unknown between humans, and more common as direct transmission from an infected animal. She said that smallpox vaccinations are protective, as previous posters have noted, and also that there are smallpox anti-virals that are protective. We never had community vaccination programs against it here so perhaps 10% of the population has been vaccinated, me amongst them for travel in the 1970s.

His last visit was on 21 Jul 2017. If you hold your cursor over his name (the blue link in your post) a small window opens with basic details about his profile, including that date.

I'm a little surprised (not in a bad way) that the story on it that you found was from the ABC here. And yes, it has featured on the news here all day, preceded by a spoiler alert for people who may want to watch it on the other public network. (From the short grabs of it, I quite like the Australian entry too.)

Goose, gander.

Seen in an Australia Post outlet.

Damn, I had to wipe the coffee off my computer screen. Again. https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1524540861865897985?s=20&t=s_xns8lx5B60RpPfY1sB3g

They replace the display signs. That happened here when prices went above $1 a litre not that long ago. Or alternatively they decide to do away with the tenths of a cent. I mean, seriously? It's over $10 and you want to know that it's 5/10ths or 9/10ths? They only ever use that to make it look like it's one cent less than it is. 99.9 looks a whole lot less than 100.

It will be a JAL lounge at Haneda for the transit time, but at LAX which terminals do the flights depart from? If AA departs from 4 or 5 and JAL from Bradley, flying on JAL will give you access to the QF First lounge (assuming it's open) if you're OW Emerald (AA Exec Platinum or Platinum Pro). That's worth considering if you'll be there in enough time to take advantage of it.