mike carey

I have an unfair advantage on that, the main ferry wharves in Sydney are at Circular Quay. Which isn't circular or even an arc of one.

A river-front public development in Perth is called Elizabeth Quay. It is often referred to as Betty's Jetty.

Yep, we are. I suspect we see the 'landscape' in this question differently and our views are in part a product of our healthcare 'environments'. For me the government part of healthcare is much larger, and the government health bureaucracy (that sees my GP visits and any tests they order because if funds them, at least in part) looks more like 'healthcare' than 'government'. The part that is purely government differs between our countries too. The county clinic referred to in the OP is a small government run facility answerable to a county government so its purpose in asking the question is not clear. There is no analogue to that in this country. Here, it would be NGO run (say, the AIDS Council perhaps with some government funding) or a sexual health clinic overseen by the state health department and you would assume, probably correctly, that the data was being collected for a genuinely health related purpose.

Since I've previously posted on this subject in this thread I'll continue to do so. The second research flight landed this afternoon, non-stop from London to Sydney, roughly the same time as JFK-SYD but about 1500km further (tail winds). https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-centenary-celebrations-take-off-as-direct-london-sydney-research-flight-lands/ Tomorrow (Saturday) is Qantas' 99th birthday and the aircraft is in a commemorative livery for the airline's hundredth year. As the article notes, early next year the Royal Australian Mint will issue a commemorative $1 coin into circulation.

That's the difference. You are talking to your primary health care doctor, they need to know about this for your care. A sexual health screening service does not need that information (in most circumstances that I can think of). I disagree, it's got nothing to do with whether it's public or private. Your GP needs to know, whether they are publicly or privately funded. An STI testing service, public or private, does not need to know that detail of who you have sex with.

Stroessner was mentioned briefly, but only in the context of advancing the use of Guaraní. I was interested that Australian colonists in Paraguay were featured in the images shown but not in the narrative. New Australia was established by William Lane as a utopian socialist project in 1893, with about 230 people. It was intended as part of a white English speaking movement, rather at odds with wider Paraguayan society, but it was only short lived. Many of the settlers stayed there after the experiment ended, when I first read about it the descendants were more likely to speak Guaraní than Spanish, and certainly not English, and there was an unusual number of Kennedys (for example) in some parts of rural Paraguay.

They are variously called 'mileage', ''frequent flyer' and 'loyalty' programs. None of these terms is strictly accurate. Number of miles isn't everything, number of flights can be trumped by other statistics, and flying with another carrier doesn't disqualify you from a loyalty program. They are what they are. At the most basic level, one overseas return trip will probably give you enough points for a short domestic flight (hello, @azdr0710). To me, that was enough to justify joining but I can understand why others wouldn't bother. As can I understand why some posters here no longer want to bother about UA Premier 1K. News flash, they are marketing devices for the airlines aimed at getting you to have as many, and as expensive as possible BIS miles. It's your choice whether the baubles they offer are worth the extra $100, $1000 or 5,000 miles you have to spend or travel to get them.

Or perhaps a 'role reversal' meeting. Wouldn't turn away the smart-assey version either.

It's certainly a longer way down that it was when I was 10.

Very droll.

Does the US military still vaccinate people against smallpox now that it's been eliminated?

I suspect you get that flirty attention more than most do!

The Australian Red Cross specifies in its exclusions from eligibility to donate anyone having had anal or oral male to male sex. (It also specifies having sex with a sex worker as being a disqualification from donating.)

The Australian Red Cross specifies in its exclusions from eligibility to donate anyone having had anal or oral male to male sex. (It also specifies having sex with a sex worker as being a disqualification from donating.)

South Korean?

Not quite 'cute', but a great video. [MEDIA=twitter]1192337958575185920[/MEDIA]

So many nice bikes. And so serendipitous that each just happens to have a hot dude in-shot!

Not an escort, but I have an example from a different setting. I recently sold a flat, and when the estate agent knocked it down to the successful bidder, he had a bottle of Moët each for the buyer and the vendor (me). In that case rather than prospectively making the money back, he had already made his money from me.

Not sure if what I've seen is the same (HP PC, W10, Firefox), but I've noticed that if I click on Home or follow a link to a thread it will open those pages in not-logged-on versions but otherwise I'm still logged on. I can go back to wherever I was, or if it had launched a new tab the original tab stays logged on.

Only in England. Well, I guess Wales too, they lost the 3rd/4th playoff to the All Blacks the day before. I saw several tweets on the night from Aussies and Kiwis urging the Boks on. I can neither confirm nor deny that I might have sent one of them myself.

In Australia bonfire night was only on Guy Fawkes Day in Western Australia. Where I grew up it was on 24 May, which was Empire Day (Queen Victoria's birthday, Victoria Day is still a holiday in Canada, but I'm not sure it comes with bonfires and fireworks). By the time I left school our celebration had moved to the Queens Birthday holiday, second Monday in June.

The first time I heard about this (not too long ago) I thought it was weird AF, but I guess I'd ignored it because I'd heard each in context rather than one after the other so hadn't realised they were homophones there. In Australian English they are all pronounced differently.

Here, a salad is usually a side dish with the main course rather than a separate course, but I'd expect to finish any other starter (soup or what we call an entrée) before the main was brought to the table. In Asian restaurants where dishes are generally shared, I've found that they will pace the dishes according to the number of diners, and whether a set menu was ordered or the guests chose their own combination of dishes. We don't have the history the US has of a diner culture, where, I understand, people ate out because a lot of them didn't have cooking facilities in their lodgings. That could have brought about the 'bring it all out so I can slam it down' approach.

As I posted elsewhere: Remember remember the 5th of November etc

Interesting, I've always understood it to mean that you had to do everything, that is you were not only in charge, but also had to do all the other jobs. I haven't done a thorough search but can only find citations for the latter meaning.