mike carey

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Perhaps he'll be able to transfer his elite status from Delta to that well known low-flying specialist Greyhound Lines.

And he has graphs to illustrate it all.

27, 28 or 31 ... at my age the difference between them all is a rounding error.

I did that early on and discovered a useless but interesting piece of information. One of the backgrounds has a pattern of stars on it. When it comes up, as you scroll down the page the site overlay moves and the pattern remains fixed behind it, so the windows in the site overlay appear to have stars moving in them. Obviously that's how the background works, but with a single colour it isn't apparent that the background and the overlay remain as separate entities rather than the former being incorporated into a single thing. My two cents worth for the day.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, at the left there's the word Theme. Click on that and there's a drop down menu listing the options.

I use the dark mode but switch back when some embedded images and the like were created with the assumption that they'd have a white background and don't work on a dark one. Also, sometimes a member will manage to set the text that they type as black (which stays black on a dark background) rather than automatic, which adjusts. I can't know whether they did that deliberately or accidentally, or perhaps they imported that attribute from another application.

In part this is a sign of the times. In the general community the idea of 'presenteeism', where people turn up to work when they are ill and 'soldier on' has fallen out of vogue. Here, we've even had health officials and others in authority telling us that if we're sick stay away from work (and from crowded places). A sore throat or a dose of the runs can develop overnight or during the day. Many people are still extremely cautious about any sort of cold or flu symptoms. Perhaps we always should have been less cavalier about the possibility of passing on even a minor illness. That's not to say they are all being truthful. But neither should we assume the worst.

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Or your right arm for some off us!

@Unicorn thank you for raising this subject. Even of only one other person is given pause to think about e-mail addresses you've performed a service for all of us.

I suspect you could add those who have gained some insight as to who you are by reading what you post here (and as a result have sought out your ads and website [circles back to your words that I quoted]).

@Unicorn I don't think it's a hanging offence but it's an increasingly common view that it's bad form to share other people's private e-mail addresses unless you're sure they would be happy with that. Even if you think they know each other, you won't always know what the state of their current relationship is. Using BCC rather than TO or CC is the easiest way to do this. Some e-mail apps allow you to create address lists that I'm pretty sure don't allow recipients to see the actual addresses that are included in it. Some time ago I received an e-mail about a reunion that had all the addresses in the TO line and even though I hadn't really thought about it before, I thought then it probably wasn't the best way to do it. (Later correspondence used the BCC method, and not on my suggestion.)

Oops, good catch.

Gentlemen, allow me to reinforce AZDR's reminder to refrain from ongoing discussion about providers other than Dallas Muscle in this thread. My apologies, I misspoke. Vin is in Dallas so he qualifies as Dallas muscle.

The way I've understood, and seen the liquid container rule enforced is that it applies to container size not to the content remaining in it. Thankfully that rule was short lived here for domestic flights. It does apply on international flights so Australians aren't always aware of it on those trips. I've never had any problem with the TSA when I've had an empty water bottle so the trigger appeared to be whether the container was obviously empty. I was caught once having a small roll-on of sunscreen that I'd forgotten was in my back pack so it wasn't in a zip-lock bag. All they did was fish it out of my pack and check it out (it was fine).

FFS, what a preposterous assertion. I did not say anything of the sort. Not for the first time you are twisting what other people say to draw a different conclusion. I did not say there was no wisdom in honesty. I did say that most people can evaluate a given situation and determine the degree of honesty that needs to be adhered to. They are also aware of potential pitfalls for lies of omission and commission, and can adjust if necessary. You conflated a point that I made clear was a separate issue, that some people who are not neurotypical have difficulty distinguishing literal from figurative speech, with the general points I was making. I did not link the two points, that was you, and you did so with the only apparent intention of sneering. That seems to be your strong suit.

A few years ago I received a few texts purporting to come from my mobile phone company (at least it was the right one!) saying that due to service changes in my area I should click on a link in the text to arrange for them to send me a free new phone. Yeah, right. Another text and I got curious. But I didn't click the link, I called customer service. And not on a number in the text. After chatting for a couple of minutes while the agent was looking at my file, turned out it was genuine and a week later the new phone arrived in the post. It was a basic Samsung 4G phone, but it lasted me five years, and it was a no-strings attached, no surcharge, free phone. But, don't click on links that are the slightest bit suspicious or even most that appear not to be. You may be able to avoid giving personal or banking data but all they want may be to confirm that there is a person who uses that number as a mobile phone.

If I'm not mistaken, she played Samantha in Bewitched.

Never did that, although I did use poste restante a few times travelling in Europe. I do remember going to American Express offices in London and DC to cash an Australian personal cheque. I use the term 'cash' loosely as above a low amount the proceeds had to be taken in another 'are you old enough' thing, travellers' cheques! Don't leave home without them!

No, in this case not, but that doesn't mean it was the wrong thing to say. Unless you are precise there's the chance of misunderstanding and you need to be ready if that happens. They may misunderstand naively or in an effort to be manipulative.

Most people understand the difference between social contexts where white lies are a social lubricant, and situations, such as clinical and other technical contexts, where precision and accuracy in communications are essential. With children there are issues of trust that could develop with 'this won't hurt' or 'this tastes great'. Those two may not be the archetypal examples, but learning what things need to be taken literally and which need to be taken [not literally] with a grain of salt (or in some cases a kilo of salt) is part of learning how to interact in society. (Some people on the spectrum have difficulty with that distinction, but that is a separate issue.)

Birthdays are like chocolates, after 25 we stop counting. Bon anniversaire @Jamie21!!

So, paternal advice to live by.

They had ASL then?