mike carey

@WilliamM's thread on her death has been merged with this earlier one.

Different cards may apply interest in different ways, but my understanding of the method that applies in general to cards in Australia is that the due date, which is at the end of the interest-free period, is the decision point. If you do not pay the balance by then, interest is charged on the amount owing from the date that each charge was debited to your account, so that could be up to 55 days' interest on amounts owing. Interest after that date is then charged on the daily outstanding balance, including any new charges incurred, until the debt is paid down.

I'm listening to the Saturday afternoon sports show on ABC Radio and in between the coverage of the tennis being played and that will be played with the AO starting tomorrow, and the imminent pool rounds of the Asian Cup in Qatar, they had a story about the Bills putting out a call for people to show up at the stadium on Saturday night to shovel snow off the pitch.

I recently bought a half-kilo bag of psyllium husk for about $14, at the supermarket. That's about $US9.50.

I don't think he was saying you did anything shady. Rather, he more likely meant that by saying you'd caught up with Apollo you were throwing shade in a different direction. That was how I read it anyway, and thought it was funny!

If he hasn't answered, are you sure you are using a current active phone number? It's not unknown for escorts who retire or make themselves available only to existing clients to disconnect the contact details they used when they were actively seeking clients.

Alternatively, "If you want more salt, add sliced hot dogs."

Australian humour or naïvety?

Let me think about that, I'd have to leave tomorrow, and DC -10 degrees, Canberra +25 or 30? Yeah, nah.

And if someone were to announce now that it was on, that could be somewhat too short notice for some of us to arrange to attend!

Queensland (state in Australia) or Queenstown (town on the South Island NZ)?

Indeed they are, but @BSR was not comparing them to each other, he was comparing them with each other. And there are similarities between them.

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

On a far smaller scale, Amazon has also acquired the Australian broadcasting rights for all International Cricket Council, or ICC, events abroad for the next four years. ICC events held in Australia must be law be offered first to Australian free-to-air broadcasters, but there are none here during the contract. In what I'm sure is totally unrelated news, the existing rights holder cut my monthly subscription from $25 to $10 for the next year. They have other content I will continue to watch although I may pause my subscription more often now ICC content won't be there. I had never considered Amazon before but no doubt I'll be checking their offerings soon.

Kia ora everyone. The issue came up a week or so back of a member not seeing a provider's signature (which contained a link to his ad) and asking the provider to post that link. The display (or not) of signatures had been canvassed as an incidental comment in an earlier thread in this forum. As that was some time ago, and this time it was raised in a Travelling Providers thread which we will delete once the provider's trip is over, I thought I'd repost my reply to it here in a thread that likely won't be deleted. Initially I had noted that it may have been an artefact of viewing the thread on a mobile device, as I recollected (with no level of certainty) that some devices may hide signatures. I also said I didn't know whether visibility could be selected in settings. Until I looked at settings later. I'm happy to be corrected on any of this.

For a momentary tangent, if you want to chalk up airline experiences and Emirates A380 first class is one of them, they operate Sydney to Christchurch as an add-on to one of their Sydney flights. It's only three hours so not the full EK long haul first class experience, but you can book the two fifth-freedom sectors for cash as either an EK fight or as a Qantas code-share. If you have miles with an airline program that offers you reward flights on Emirates you may be able to find seats there. Qantas FF members can also book reward seats via the QF web site. Despite QF selling the sectors for cash on a QF flight number, they may only show up in reward searches as EK, so if your airline partners with QF but not EK you may not be able to find reward seats.

And there's a swimming pool named in his honour by Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney Harbour. Google Image Result for https://accessabilityaustralia.com/staging/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0K1A2003-scaled.jpg IMAGES.APP.GOO.GL

I hope it wasn't Hep C. 😁

Were you perhaps staying on the Isle of Islay?

And of course @nycman, as a renowned opera critic, can be trusted to know such things. Tee hee.

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From the Shingles vax thread. Public health advice, in Australia at least, differs and recommends Covid updates in many cases, and is generally based on the value of the updated vaccines in mitigating the severity of the disease if you catch it, not preventing you from doing so. Herd immunity is a population level protection, and is different from a general level protection derived from the immunity that most everyone (you included) would have from exposure to the disease and from earlier vaccinations. That may have been what your PCP was talking about. Herd immunity results from a high enough proportion of the population having a level of immunity (however acquired) that means that it is unlikely those without, or with a low level of immunity will be exposed to the disease and contract it. It is also localised, not necessarily regional or national level. If you travel to a city or country where the disease is prevalent, your home herd immunity doesn't protect you, you depend on your individual level of immunity. By way of examples, most of Australia has measles herd immunity, but cases occur in regions with low immunity levels, or when unimmunised people travel to overseas regions where it is prevalent and bring it back. Pertussis, or whooping cough, has herd immunity (mainly from childhood vaccinations) but vaccinations are highly recommended for certain groups of previously vaccinated people who are not at risk of severe disease (eg grandparents) but who even with a mild case would pose a significant risk to unvaccinated people (their new-born children too young to be vaccinated). None of that is to diminish the importance of the advice of your PCP or your decision on taking their advice. Their advice would be tailored to you personally and not simply be a statement of general immunity in your community.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Not humorous at all, and sorry to hear that. But you're right, a mat to prevent you from slipping in the shower or the bath is a great idea.

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