As you raised it - the connections are many eg both members of 5 Eyes, both British Commonwealth Countries ... but in more general terms the thread header invites wider reasons as to 'Why I can't take it any more ... '
But then - why would my asking be of concern to an Australian ?
I can donate a restaurant made chicken shahi ... I bought a couple from the local place before lockdown. It occurred to me it would be good to have a treat in store for a rough day and one container divvies down to two meals with rice.
I hear your Government is offended because you will soon have US Troops lining up along your borders ... did you ever read WAR PLAN RED ... the pre WW2 scheme to simultaneously invade Canada and GB in order to take over the Commonwealth?
Boris has been bought n paid for already (that was obvious even before he was PM ) Will Canadians fight to keep their territory ... or are you all too polite and will apologise and step aside as you;re annexed ?
As you're new, it's reasonable to expect this level of naivete, wet behind the earsness and all the other signs of the excessive optimism of the over-enthusiastic newbie !
There's no way to let you down gently so, sorry if this is a hard landing!
If someone sends you a like and you are unable to contact them in return then they are f&&&ing with your head ... that's it, plain and simple.
This never was really a dating site (none of these sites really are that - but they work because (like lottery) you can;t win if you don;t buy a ticket!
It was a billion to one chance of finding romance before any countries locked and now, since LDs memberships are rising rapidly ... but it's all totally futile since y'know it, no one can fly anywhere, or get a train, bus or even drive any place!
Pics that have been copied from sites like this ( very easy to do BTW ) are often used by scammers to lull individuals ( such as yourself ) into a false sense of security.
The presence or absence of a pic on a 'public site' has absolutely no bearing on the authenticity of the member - from my own experience scammers are more likely to use stolen pics than no pic.
But you CAN get that sort of service from dating sites if you want it - just gonna cost you lot$ of $$$$
But, I'd be interested to hear how you think CS could achieve the criteria suggested ...
Didn't have you down as a Russophobe or as so out of touch MW
Fact is that Russia has a VERY streamlined and VERY efficient oil industry and most of the profits have been going into infrastructure for the benefit of the Russian people ... the Kirch Strait bridge to connect Crimea for example but there are hundreds of social and infrastructure projects under way, not to mention their co-operation which china on the new silk road ! The Russian oil industry is NOT servicing massive debt to foreign bankers and Putin has stated plainly that Russia can SURVIVE comfortably on $20 a barrel. At that price he has stated that 'some domestic projects' will have to go on hold for a time... ie that Russia will NOT go into debt but rather will spend according to her means !
It is in fact the SAUDIS and NOT Russia who are guilty of 'flooding the market' and they are doing that simply because the Russian Government refused to cut their own production and they made no bones as to why. They stated it very plainly "Whenever Russia cuts production to stabilise or support prices the capacity they cut is more than made up by US and (esp) US Shale oil producers." Why would they help the US that way when all of the US's efforts are directed at causing harm to the Russian economy?
Those latter producer (esp Shale) have extremely high production costs because they are both highly indebted to the banks and they are also highly inefficient - if I recall correctly drilled oil in the US needs $50 a barrel to break even and shale needs a price of $70
This is a game that, unless there's some huge unforeseen event occurs, neither the US and (perhaps particularly) the Saudis can hope to win because they have such enormous debts to service.
No doubt raphael will be along shortly to call me a commie ;-)
They took early steps in respect of limiting entry, Putin has announced (today or last night) that there's to be a Sunday to Sunday 'stay away from work and remain at home' week ...
In general terms it would appear that they are better prepared (on the national scale) than most nations (and don;t forget that the Siberia region alone is bigger than all of the EU Countries combined)
Their confidence in capability though might best be gauged by the facts: that they have sent considerable medical resources to Italy and also to Iran.
Your girlfriends are fictions of your imagine ... from this we can deduce that both events ie 'you being chased by a dog' and you 'being dumped' were also fictional events ...
But, regardless of those events having only occurred in your head ... who can blame her when you are telling us all that you imagined yourself running away !!!
p.s. to The Imaginary GF ... Tomcatty is into 'Imaginary GFs' so hit him up ;-)
Without any doubt I'd set up a team from the CS Admin team ... the speed with with they track down and obliterate scammers would mean a very quick resolution !
Given that the US Govt hold a patent on the virus, and one cannot obtain a patent on a 'naturally occurring substance or item' then I'll leave you to think about the answer for yourselves !
p.s. If it helps you think more deeply the US Govt hold patents on a great many other bio weapons too ... make it a bit of a challenge to always blame China and Russia eh ?
You have to laugh eh ... Right Wing Tories being forced to adopt 'socialist' price controls ... but you can safely bet your very last quid that 'none of their own' will face any prosecutions ! The big companies can gouge extra millions with small, acceptable and therefore 'justifiable' increases across the board ... just add 5 or 10 pence to every item in a supermarket say...
NZ is now also in lockdown ... gonna do more harm than good vs other measures that could should have been taken. Like Italy the Govt worried too much about pc and 'The Economy' so, we have tens of thousands of tourists wandering around and ignoring the self containment rules ... and no flights to ship them out !
RE: Rohaan is doing fine
''so ... you and he .... have a thing going on ?