The totally off-topic thread

[love_the_life]

We preferred Per Se to Eleven Madison but our favourite NYC restaurant is Le Bernadin but you need to love seafood.

Not Maccas then?

 

[Quickstatus]

The figures are now out for the Commonwealth Games.
Of the 8103 visas issued for athletes and officials 190 have applied for asylum,15 for other visas and 50 have just disappeared.
Almost 200 Commonwealth Games athletes and officials seek asylum in Australia

I doubt if any sought asylum at the Russian Sochi Winter Olympics not at the Beijing Summer Olympics

 

[Quickstatus]

We preferred Per Se to Eleven Madison but our favourite NYC restaurant is Le Bernadin but you need to love seafood.

Never been to PS or 11M but Bernadin yes. However fav is Bouley. I once forgot a jacket which is not good there

 

[JohnK]

I doubt if any sought asylum at the Russian Sochi Winter Olympics not at the Beijing Summer Olympics

LOL. Was it you that mentioned that in another thread?

 

[Quickstatus]

LOL. Was it you that mentioned that in another thread?

Not if it were recent.

 

[JohnK]

Not if it were recent.

It was @Denali.

Wonder how many disappear when the Olympics or Commonwealth games are in Russia, China or India?

 

[Flying mermaid]

We preferred Per Se to Eleven Madison but our favourite NYC restaurant is Le Bernadin but you need to love seafood.

Thanks I will look at that one as well. Master FM wanted either Per Se or Eleven Madison. You can dress down for Eleven Madison which probably suits Master FM. He is West Coast Tech and they don’t understand jackets.

 

[Flying mermaid]

We preferred Per Se to Eleven Madison but our favourite NYC restaurant is Le Bernadin but you need to love seafood.

Le Bernadin looks really nice

 

[TheRealTMA]

have you tried either Eleven Madison or Per Se in New York?

No, never able to get a booking. Not a great NY fan. Mainly UK, Italy, Spain and France.

Did go to French Laundry and was not impressed.

We second Le Bernadin. Excellent. Also lunch at MOMA was v good,

 

[Pushka]

In the past 2mths, Ive developed a heel spur

Doc wanted cortisone injections, Chiro gave me stretches and very painful massage (and I have a high threshold for pain). Went the Chiro way for initial treatment and its been a about 4 days and feeling a world of difference already. My house is starting to look like a rehab ward, between hubbys flexibility exercises and my foot exercises & stretching. Rollers, spiky balls, resistance bands ect - we've got the lot.

I have one in my big toe from advanced osteoarthritis. The only thing I can have is surgery but not recommended until I can no longer walk.

 

[Denali]

Car rego. I got my CTP via NRMA and today I get an email advising me they have updated my policy changes and the policy is now: Miss AB Denali (me) and MR AB Denali (who does not exist).

I phone NRMA, they blame RMS. I phone RMS, they say only Ms AB Denali is named and Mr AB Denali is not listed.

Phone NRMA, they blame "the bots"

Me: So "the bots" are just creating random non existent people in the world to put on insurance policies? What if I crash and you guys prove that Mr AB Denali does not exist, is my policy valid or voided?

NRMA: *crickets*

 

[JohnK]

I have one in my big toe from advanced osteoarthritis. The only thing I can have is surgery but not recommended until I can no longer walk.

One for the medical issues thread but trying to deal with chrinic pain is awful. Arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, sacroilitis, tendonitis, bursitis. I'm sure I've left some off. Having one of those is bad enough.

 

[Quickstatus]

Car rego. I got my CTP via NRMA and today I get an email advising me they have updated my policy changes and the policy is now: Miss AB Denali (me) and MR AB Denali (who does not exist).

I phone NRMA, they blame RMS. I phone RMS, they say only Ms AB Denali is named and Mr AB Denali is not listed.

Phone NRMA, they blame "the bots"

Me: So "the bots" are just creating random non existent people in the world to put on insurance policies? What if I crash and you guys prove that Mr AB Denali does not exist, is my policy valid or voided?

NRMA: *crickets*

Can you get Mr AB Denali to pay the premium?

 

[Quickstatus]

One for the medical issues thread but trying to deal with chrinic pain is awful. Arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, sacroilitis, tendonitis, bursitis. I'm sure I've left some off. Having one of those is bad enough.

Ah. but none as bad as pancreatitis.

 

[Denali]

Can you get Mr AB Denali to pay the premium?

I wish.

Although my actual husband, Mr Not-Denali (we have different surnames) does pay my car insurance and road service.

 

[Pushka]

Ah. but none as bad as pancreatitis.

MrP had that a couple of months after surgery for abdominal cancer. Excruciating.

 

[RooFlyer]

Not liked

 

[Pushka]

I signed a Change.org petition while in Italy (the one asking for legislative change to protect emergency workers after those disgusting female cretins badly injured a paramedic and got off) and now I get these emails I don’t want and can’t understand. Tried unsubscribing but how?

Help please?

 

[JohnK]

Ah. but none as bad as pancreatitis.

No but I had a mild form of acute pancreatitis around the time I had chicken pox. I used to double over in extreme pain. Felt like dying. Luckily no other damage.

 

[Pushka]

Reposting this here as not everyone is into my travels but I think it’s cute.

Hanging out the window of a Swiss train


I heard that distinctive vroom of a large engine/powered car.

Passed in a second. Red. Fast.



Then another. Very very nice.



And another.



And again. A rally? Trying to beat the train?



Ha. Train 1. Fast cars 0.