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Gets stranger all the time. I can now see all of them. I right-clicked on the image I couldn't see and chose "Copy image location" and pasted that into the browser URL bar to see the image in the first place. It may just be to do with the sizes of the originals. Either way, we are there now.

Erik, The first of Steve's images appears on my machine. The second doesn't. Could be your ad blocker that is stopping them from appearing. One odd phenomenon: If you reply to the message and scroll through to the original post in the reply screen, you see the images. Very strange. This is a similar...

Hi Steven, Looks like Walmart don't like you linking to their pictures. Your second photo does not show up. Here is a different photo of the same bottle: https://d2lnr5mha7bycj.cloudfront.net/product-image/file/large_6bd32c4e-4368-4374-b4a2-01d5f63bc7b8.JPG I don't really know the answer to your que...

It is quite alarming. I have a short list of all my elderly acquaintances and am ringing them frequently to make sure they are OK. Suddenly I realized that several of my younger acquaintances have taken to ringing me frequently... There is a message in there somewhere! Fortunately, Sheba and I can g...

As the coronavirus pandemic begins to tighten its grip on countries throughout the world, may I take the opportunity to urge all of our readers and contributors to stay safe. Whatever your government in your country is telling you to do, please follow the advice, however difficult it might be. Think...

I understand it as a rather unpleasant comment about the long-term unemployed. The writer is suggesting that they do nothing and have no intention of doing anything and yet the government is still paying them large amounts of various benefit payments very often (the payments are "flying" through the...

It is all an illiterate misunderstanding. The virus is spread by aerosol, not arsehole.

Yes. Erik is right. We tend to use "a lesson to" when something bad has happened (usually as a result of doing something wilfully wrong or foolish) and we are saying that a person should learn from the unpleasant experience. It carries a little of the sense "that serves you right". We see the expres...

I understand it to mean "Despite its (Australia's) faults, we're lucky to live in Australia."

For me, it's a clumsy way of saying it, but perhaps "with" is used like that in Australia.

Now that coronavirus has been declared a pandemic, does this make it an "unchained malady"?

Is it reasonable to call a conference of senior executives from trade and industry a "managerie"?

I'm glad you worked it out, trolley! I had no idea what the writer was on about!

I think they just slipped off to the pub, Bob.

Note: You had a typo in your examples. They should read "on this subject", not "in this subject". Depending on your intended nuance of meaning, either could be correct. The punctuated version makes the phrase "by other authors" parenthetical. They have the same effect as putting the phrase in bracke...

Happy St. David's Day, Bob!

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod!

Hi Steven, These vehicles, commonly called "black cabs" are still common on British roads. They are also called "Hackney cabs" or simply "Hackneys", but none of those are brand names. There are two types of licensing for taxis in the UK, one for Hackney cabs and one for "radio cabs" or "radio taxis"...