mike carey

Possibly so, although without the hyphen in Dutch. However, the title was originally posted as St Maarten, so the spelling of Maarten in it wasn't my decision.

A timely and sobering recollection, @nycman!

Gentlemen, a reminder not to post links, or the handles people use for their social media profiles, if they have not published them in any of their public-facing professional documentation or advertising.

I've been watching some mindless YouTube videos that are spoken narratives with random images or videos, sometimes relevant to the story, often not, and the narrative also in printed text on the screen. The mismatches and howlers in the spoken versus written narrative are frequent, as are random flips into Chinese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, French, Italian and whatever other language the software selects, usually only for a few seconds. One frequent flip is for the spoken narrative to spell out amounts of money as, say 'dollars 142 zero zero zero' and sometimes substitute 'ling ling ling' for the zeros. That's Mandarin. The videos are a variety of morality tales of familial or financial betrayal, parents' wildly extreme favouring of a 'golden child' over another to the point of heartless and absolutely complete exploitation of the, often by then adult, non-favoured child. You get the picture. Small variations on a few themes, but enough different twists and even witty or pointed one-liners for you not to give up on the whole genre.
Well, over the last week or so I had heard hospital scenes where they would refer to a 'for line' in the narrative, and my mind dismissed it as something that I could ignore because not knowing what they were talking about didn't detract from the story being told and I couldn't be bothered stopping and trying to work it out.
Fast forward to today, and I happened to be watching the screen at the same time as they repeated the phrase, and I had to snort my coffee. The text on the screen showing when they mentioned the 'for line' said 'IV line'.

And this, my fellow forum member, is the difference between a true professional and someone just looking to make a quick buck. My hat’s off to you, sir.

A timely and sobering recollection, @nycman!

Could you come to Australia and buy the most fuel-efficient car you can, please?

I got mine!

A little last minute but I'd like to attend! Have heard wonderful things about past editions, glad its happening. Those dates will line up well with some other West Coast travel I'm locking in today. Looking forward to meeting and greeting  

A timely and sobering recollection, @nycman!

Scientifically Proven™

It seems to me, being a 'fan of green' is not altogether unusual in these parts.

Let me know when you’re hanging out in the Cathay first class lounge in Hong Kong. It’s sexy as fuck.
(subtle flex)
Honestly, I haven’t been to that airport in over a decade and I’ll probably never return. China scares me.
You’re right though the airport is huge and at times it’s massively confusing.

A timely and sobering recollection, @nycman!

Moderator's Note
Gentlemen, this thread is about an escort. Clearly there are differences of opinion, some robustly stated, among the members talking here. Please confine your comments to the gentleman himself. This is not the place to attack each other for having opinions that differ from yours, not matter how firmly held they might be.

Could you come to Australia and buy the most fuel-efficient car you can, please?

As he mentioned earlier, posts from 'Guest' are not random outsiders who posted a comment, they are former members whose accounts have been closed. There have been variations over time with some showing as 'Guest [name]'. Two 'Guest' posts a year apart in the same thread might be from the same closed account, but not necessarily.

Moderator's Note
Gentlemen, this thread is about an escort. Clearly there are differences of opinion, some robustly stated, among the members talking here. Please confine your comments to the gentleman himself. This is not the place to attack each other for having opinions that differ from yours, not matter how firmly held they might be.

Moderator's Note
Gentlemen, this thread is about an escort. Clearly there are differences of opinion, some robustly stated, among the members talking here. Please confine your comments to the gentleman himself. This is not the place to attack each other for having opinions that differ from yours, not matter how firmly held they might be.

Im going to be attending this year for the first time ever. A friend will accompany me who I am guessing will cause quit a stir. he's fairy new to the business and is utterly charming very very fit and drop-dead handsome. I'm hoping his debut at the weekend will give his career an auspicious boost.

Moderator's Note
Gentlemen, this thread is about an escort. Clearly there are differences of opinion, some robustly stated, among the members talking here. Please confine your comments to the gentleman himself. This is not the place to attack each other for having opinions that differ from yours, not matter how firmly held they might be.

That was today?

'Tradie' is more than a look, and often here it doesn't always even include 'that' look. People here are more likely to use 'bogan' for the look (in my part of the country at least), which is a borderline derogatory term for poorer and 'unrefined' people. Tradie is essentially a term that refers to people in the building trades (hence the typical Australian abbreviation/diminutive—shorten the word and ie or o at the end), and extends to tradesmen you'd employ to do minor home repairs, or who work in licensed trades like plumbing and electrical work, and also carpenters and the like. It also refers, more obliquely, to the proportion of them who have become increasingly prosperous as their small businesses do well with that kind of work and don't take on any of the pretensions that wealth can generate (some making a virtue of not doing so, a sort of reverse snobbery). To me at least, the word 'tradie' sits in a neutral to positive register, not a negative one.
But back to the gentleman in question.

That was today?

Could you come to Australia and buy the most fuel-efficient car you can, please?