mike carey

This is a somewhat unusual example of British slang that is not commonly used in Australia.

It seems that another Australian Government twitter account is trying to engage the public. Not everyone can be convinced that statistics are cool. Also, not sure the Twitter demographic and the 'I know who George Jetson is' cohort overlap by too much, but for those of us who do both ...

The country held its breath for three days until the sole survivor Stuart Diver, a ski instructor, was rescued from from the rubble of the two ski lodges. His wife was one of those who died. Some of the victims drowned while trapped in the rubble when the site filled with water. The landslide had been caused by heavy rain saturating the hillside.

You're right, the economy is the sum of our individual circumstances, but I'm not in the same economy as you, and that was the point of my comment. My circumstances in Australia are not relevant to a US recession.

Georgia on mah mahnd! Best not to go further down this track!

Some words are underused, for example malapropism!

My twitter feed delivers again!

Boom tish!

In the commentary here it's been noted that although the US is in a technical recession, there is a panel in the US that weighs the drops in GDP and other factors in the economy in its determination of whether the country is 'officially' in a recession. (The technical definition is what is used here.) To BnaC's question, my circumstances are not relevant to your discussion, but there is too much else going on in the economy here for any prospect of us being recession-bound (Q1 was positive, so Q2 (released next month) and Q3 would have to be negative to meet the technical definition). There seems to be too much happening in the US too. My circumstances insulate me from many of the effects anyway.

I haven't read it, but I know enough about it to say I have no intention of doing so. Don't deny, tell people what you think about it (but except for in here, however no need to offer your opinion to readily!). The only book I can remember that I found disturbing was The Time Machine but I suspect HMT might be another.

Someone tweeted a pic of a menu notice sign that listed the 'spesial' as salmon served with mashed potatoes and Aspergers, to which someone replied with:

This is a little bit brilliant!

If you were old enough you would certainly have some tales to tell!! But I would have to wonder what species of animal I was talking to.

This has probably been around the world five times in the past 24 hours but I've only just seen it. It cracked me up. https://twitter.com/eliistender10/status/1551132084890132482?s=20&t=zigtfVp7axTvPPtttVBHwA

What's that you say? Metric isn't standard?

I believe these are the gentlemen in question: https://rent.men/AnthonyFlex https://rent.men/ZRush

Close enough (that would be $US8.20) but it varies so that's the high marker. That was for iceberg lettuces, others like cos were much less, at close to normal levels or slighty more. Here, high produce prices have been almost entirely caused by repeated floods in the farming areas. More of the 'specialist' lettuces (for want of a better word) are grown hydroponically and have been less flood-affected. (I was about to go to the shops so waited. Today at my local, one of the two big chains, icebergs were $6.90 (US4.75) and a pack of two cos $4.50 (US3.10).)

The concert hall at Sydney Opera House has just finished a two-year refurbishment. To mark the occasion, and to celebrate its 90th anniversary, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed a gala concert. Last night the concert was broadcast on ABC TV (it's also the ABC's 90th). The concert opened with the premier of Of the Earth by indigenous composer (and didgeridoo player) William Barton. The balance of the concert consisted of an epic performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, Symphony No 2. The reviews have been very good.

He can call himself whatever he likes. We see pics of the man and can draw our own conclusions. I'd still line up if he said he was pink with polka dots. I wouldn't put much store on blonde/blond in the v7.0 version, that's a pick list not a spelling test.

There was but it has been disabled except for RM sending e-mails to us, and for any convos that were open when they restricted it. I can't speak to whether both had to be on line for chat to work in earlier iterations of the software.

My experience (and it's with rent.men not v7.0) is that it's set to your local time. That is clouded because (IIRC) it says n minutes/hours ago to start with. The time stamp in messenger is different to the one that shows the 'last on' time for escorts, which uses UTC. In V7.0 if you sort your buddy list by 'last time online' (not previously an option, as far as I could tell the default list from last you followed to first was all that was available) those who have chosen to display 'private' rather than the actual time will be listed at the place in the chronological order where they belong so you have some idea when they were last on line.

The AEC (the electoral commission) had one of the sharpest social media teams I have seen and kept many of us amused by its combination of pertinent and impertinent tweets during the course of the campaign and while the votes were being tallied. It appears they are still at it. Someone tweeted a photo and caption: Don’t remember exactly when/how I got this ruler, but it seems appropriate for reading election results. Who knows how they got it but it is a ruler supplied to election staff, clear so they can read text through it when they are using printed electoral roles, and purple because that is the colour the AEC uses in its signage. The AEC quote tweeted it with: Democracy means we all have a say in choosing our rulers. Because of course they would.

Hahahaha! I did not say which side of the discussion I was sitting. Let's just say you might, just might not have made an entirely accurate assumption!

What?? Praise the lord! Someone uses 'rein' when they mean 'restrain'. Everyone else seems to use 'reign'. Not everyone (and there may be transatlantic anglophone differences in perspective) has the same view on the vulgarity or otherwise of the sensibilities of the nouveaux riches.