mike carey

I thought the baby's face said, 'Just another Tuesday.'

Oh? Was that today?

I'm not sure this is the right question to ask. Yes, there is a possibility that you could be scammed on either an in- or out-call. Perhaps a more appropriate question is to ask how likely it is that you will be scammed in an escort interaction. If the answer is 'not very likely', then the question of whether it is more likely when you host or when they do, becomes less pressing. It's probably more productive to try to understand what things you should look for to assess whether a scam is likely or not. What the yellow and red flags are, how to evaluate their behaviour. Then, when to give the benefit of the doubt and when to withhold it. This would not be the first thread in which this issue had been discussed.

Gentlemen, a new thread on deposits was opened seven or eight hours ago and ran for over a page fairly quickly. Predictably it rehearsed many of the same opinions as have been expressed on this topic over the years. @56harrisond posted a useful link to some of the earlier threads. One, in 2023, ran for over six pages in a little over a month before pizza was served. Another ran during December last year and is still active, and we've now combined it with today's thread. Despite it's wider title, still reflected here, it focussed almost entirely on the issue of deposits, something it shared with the new thread. A reminder that, as indicated by the asterisk in the title, we issued a warning in December to stay on topic. That warning continues to apply to the now-combined thread.

Is that all?

At the top of the page, click on the icon second from the right (you won't see the exclamation mark icon with the number one in your view): And this screen will pop up: With that you can customise the view you see. I have the random option selected, and this is in 'dark' mode, so it might vary in the light mode.

Or as a well-known British entertainer once said, I'm bisexual, I buy sex.

Raise? Got it.

It's also correct.

Hah, I've never studied Latin, but when I read 'Et tu Brutus' the first time, my immediate thought was that it should have said 'Brute'. Must have been muscle memory from the play.

Yes, she was elected for a single term in 1916, and for another single term in 1940.

That's a necessary skill, one that made it possible to write essays in exam conditions. In my university days, course work essays were submitted either hand written or typed from a hand written draft. I can remember editing drafts by cutting up pages of hand-written text and taping them together if I needed to rearrange the order of paragraphs (having rewritten drafts of those paragraphs). All far more tedious than being able to edit, cut and paste on a screen, so I suspect editing in one's head is a skill less valued now, and so, less effort given to acquiring it. So maybe it's not a skill that's atrophied, rather one, like remembering a phone number, less necessary and less common. It's still satisfying to be able to write with minimal backtracking and tweaking. But I will still notice typos, and curse, on re-reading a post here after an emoji has been posted to it.

Gents, @Leopard Bodywork posted an 'Ask Me Anything' thread last year. The moderators have left it as a discrete thread to allow conversations with him to remain separate from conversations about him. He may choose to participate in both threads, but that's up to him.

I didn't ever try to learn speed reading, I see it was a decision well taken.

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No replies generally means no one has any information to offer. Asking again doesn't usually mean people will suddenly have anything more to say.

Gentlemen, please limit your comments to the movie itself and reviews of it, and avoid commenting on the people portrayed in it.

Further to my comment yesterday, and going to the part of the question musing about the correlation of an encounter being followed by mild symptoms, I have often wondered about apparently coincidentally having a cold while travelling. The idea that it might be an immune response to changes in environmental stimuli, the body adjusting to different microorganisms, pollens and the like, sounds plausible. Sort of a spike in immune response resulting in respiratory discomfort as it adapts to a new normal. I can recall similar nasal reactions after working in dusty conditions. Whether it's the body clearing up a minor viral infection or reacting to altered environmental conditions is immaterial, something, if it's minor is worth musing about rather than worrying. It's part of the price of admission to enjoying life.

The somewhat mischievously named 'Heard Island Government' Blue Sky account (named as a totally, like totally serious reference to certain economic policy decisions from nowhere near the actual, real Heard and McDonald Islands) quote posted a comment from elsewhere in the social media universe about the derivation of the word Arctic (it's a reference to bears), and by extension the naming of Antarctica. The reply that won the day? In the comments, someone asked what the Greek would be for Penguins and No Penguins, and someone dutifully provided an answer. Because of course they did.

It's a strange thing, I had always had colds, nothing extreme, but noticeable symptoms progressing over a week or more at least once a year, sometimes more. I don't know when that changed, but I did notice that I had nothing of the sort during Covid. The isolation, mask wearing, the distancing, the limited outside interactions we were allowed, whatever it was, ended up with me having no respiratory infections through the winter of 2020, and still nothing into December, and January 2021 or the times over the next year when we had so many lock downs. Since then I haven't had a severe cold, only minor symptoms that built up a bit and faded (not always quickly). I have no idea what it was. Perhaps the Covid vaccinations, the flu vax I was more careful to get providing wider immunity than they had promised, or simply aging or the virus free years during the pandemic. I hope the hell that the absence of that part of my earlier life continues!

Defo!

That makes perfect sense, @PhileasFogg. Aside from the bare financial analysis, there's an intangible value in having a place that you can use in a city (or area) you like to visit. It brings some certainty by being available. Of course, that only works if you can manage the finances comfortably, if it's even close, the accounting reality soon intervenes. I have my old family home, two hours from Canberra, and I like having it to go to for breaks, or just to be there for a while. But I do keep reassessing it from both a practicality and a financial point of view.