mike carey

I think he was referring to the search window (a small dialogue box with a magnifying glass in it) that is on the computer version of the forum. If you click in that a long menu that includes a 'in this topic' option drops down. Your description matches what I see on my mobile which doesn't seem to include that option in the drop down menu from the magnifying glass there.

I read that far in the sentence and was expecting an insight into doing so. Drat!

A cautionary reminder before the start of the new year.

I would pronounce them differently, and have difficulty understanding why someone would hear it that way. That said, I know some Americans misunderstand Australians saying he letter A. I recall a colleague who worked at our embassy in Washington say he had been spelling something out over the phone and in exasperation say it was A as in Alabama, to be greeted with a pause and response, 'But there is no I in Alabama.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Campion Yes, New Zealand has knghts and dames. They are not British honours but awards as part of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Welcome to the forum @AnthonyNYC. Thanks for putting your case here. Many of us see this sort of engagement with us as a reason to think better of working guys. Not all of us are in NYC all that often, unfortunately!

Although perhaps there will be more porn starts than porn stars.

Sometimes, if you don't like one herb or spice it's just as good to leave it out and rely on whatever other flavours there are in the dish. Which reminds me, I love the tang that fish sauce adds to Thai curries. I've been making them without it for some time and enjoying them, but I need to buy a bottle of it!

A Guinness and some fish and chips beats a whole lot of travel experiences!

It certainly is in December. A couple of days ago I had the heater on in December!! Oh wait, you're talking about North America.

You're entitled to play down your part in this forum year, and acknowledging the part others play in the success of an enterprise is the essence of leadership, but the rest of us can honour the roles of both you and the moderators equally.

Not just Americans!

Indeed although I can typically depart at 10am and arrive at 6am the same day. Seriously, the 24 hours is before departure not arrival, and I read up thread (I think) that you have to have a test the calendar day before departure, so an evening departure widens the window a bit. Still, the whole thing is making me hesitant. If I were determined to travel, or in the unlikely event that I needed to do so, entering the US in Honolulu or stopping for a couple of days in Vancouver would be options.

We are in an adjustment period with this virus (one of probably many). We don't know whether pre-travel testing will remain a requirement, and if so 24 or 72 hours or some other time. We are also yet to find out if testing will be an entry requirement in other circumstances (either as well as or as an alternative to vaccination). Until that becomes clear testing opportunities will remain challenging, by cost, availability or timeliness, or some combination of the three. If it becomes clear that tests will continue to be required I would expect the time interval eventually to be standardised and for testing labs to provide publicly accessible testing targeted at meeting the time requirement (and meeting requirements for the format of certificates to facilitate check-in), and for many governments to cap prices or provide a service themselves. I haven't seen any self-administered tests here that are accepted for travel, but I have seen international travel tests at pathology labs for about $AU150 that can be linked to your passport, but they are targeted at meeting the 72 hour timing. I'm reluctant to book any US travel until it's clear I can find a US-accepted 24 hour test that also meets Australian departure test requirements. (For domestic travel that requires a negative test, which apply for some interstate travel but not all, a notice from one of the free state-run testing sites set up to do the normal community testing is acceptable.)

My reading of this issue is that 'Available Now' is an option that the escort selects but that it is linked to the profile itself and not to a location. So if they set their profile as available it is wherever they are. The search function will place them in the location that they have selected, and I think the site will relocate them if they have entered a travel location and their date of travel arrives. If that is so, they could appear as available in their travel location if they had neglected to delete travel they decided not to make, and set their profile as available without checking. If someone is on your buddy list you will see that they are 'Available Now' wherever they are at the time. On the other hand, I believe the 'Online Now' indication is automatic, so they could be online to review messages or edit their profile but not be ready to respond. I don't have any particular expectations about when (or if) I'll receive a response to an RM message, but I realise some readers do. (As I seem to recall has been said in other threads, there is no guarantee that every escort and every client has the same interpretation of 'available now'. It doesn't necessarily mean the escort is ready to walk out the door, or for you to arrive, in the next five minutes.)

Stands to reason that the city would celebrate the start of its month in some style!

The heritage of Al Andalus obviously still runs deep!

Very few Australians in the 17th and 18th centuries spoke French, or engaged in diplomacy. I suspect that the British, here from 1788 did, and the La Pérouse expedition arrived here the day after the First Fleet and spent six weeks in the new colony. Nicolas Baudin and his expedition in the Géographe and the Naturaliste that was sent to map the coast of New Holland did encounter British mariners (in Encounter Bay, in South Australia) and visit Port Jackson (Sydney harbour), but that was not until the first years of the 19th century.

Puts a whole new slant on 'pay wall'.

No, not 'crickets'! I realise the sport of cricket is so much not a thing in North America that there is little that happens in the sport that might interest, much less excite most people in the forum. (Although Canada has competed in four of the 50 Over World Cup competitions, and the US will co-host the 2024 Twenty Over World Cup with the West Indies.) I've made the topic title general so it can be the place where anything about the game can be posted rather than make it about one particular cricket-related subject. Why now? I'm glad you asked. (OK, so you didn't, but I won't let that stop me.) International 'test' cricket, the longest version of the game has been played for almost 150 years since the first game between Australia and England in 1877, and in that time about 2400 tests have been played. In a game, the player who bowls the ball when a batsman is given out is credited with that wicket (what the 'out' is called) when they are out in the process of playing a shot (so not when they are dismissed by being run out, the equivalent of a baseballer failing to reach a base). In the current game between India and New Zealand being played in Mumbai, the New Zealand bowler Ajaz Patel took all 10 wickets in India's first innings. Bowling in cricket, unlike pitching in baseball, is rotated between usually four or five players in each innings, so that is not an easy feat to achieve. In fact this is only the third time in the history of test cricket that it has been done. Poignantly, Patel was born in Mumbai and emigrated to New Zealand with his parents when he was eight, and members of his extended Indian family were in the crowd. Understandably this has been the talk of the cricket world for the past 24 hours. (It turned out not to be New Zealand's finest day, they were bowled out for 62 runs in their first innings, India had made 325.) Now, back to your scheduled sports coverage.

Is that the real McCoy?

You got me with that one!

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MOT is the UK annual safety checks for renewal of car registrations

One can be aware of the vicissitudes of flying steerage without having to actually endure them.