mike carey

Today's cartoon from the 'Tiser. (The 'Tiser being the Adelaide Advertiser, the city's daily paper.)

As I remember it, when she took time off from tennis in '15 or '16 it was a break from the sport not a retirement. She played professional cricket during that break. She describes herself as a homebody and misses the company of her family on the tour. She may well be back in a couple of years or she may take up another sport where she can travel less, or at least not as far. Golf wouldn't qualify on the last criterion but she apparently plays off 3. In her press conference today she told people to be patient about what, if anything, she might do next.

Moderator's Note. Please keep this thread on the light-hearted (and shamelessly superficial) topic of his attractiveness, or otherwise (but what are naysayers thinking). Avoid political comments on his leadership abilities.

In what I think fairly qualifies as actually being a genuine surprise, Ash Barty has announced her retirement from tennis. She said that winning at Wimbledon gave her a sense of fulfilment, to which winning the AO added. She's done it her way, going out at the top. She chose to make the announcement in a video interview with her close friend Casey Dellacqua that's linked in this article. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-23/ash-barty-announces-retirement-from-tennis/100932944 For most of us, this came out of the blue.

As I look at it, the icon to the left of the form name in the list (the rectangle with the two speech bubbles in it) is coloured for forums that have unread content and greyed out where you've read them. The text isn't bold the way it is for unread threads within the forum views.

And I could say, 'Where better to go for a hot date', but that would be off-topic so I won't.

Steven Draker is one name that comes to mind. I don't know if he is the one they thought of.

Veering off topic, I know, but I was listening to Dan Savage tonight talk about the Chicago book shops where he as a gay Catholic school boy bought books that the school library would never have, and how they let him sit for hours reading those that he couldn't even contemplate buying and taking home.

And the leadership adds to anything physically attractive about the man.

Funny how tastes differ (it's not really, everyone knows they do), I haven't met Damian (the years of living Covidly kept me away from that PS meeting) and share your apparent liking for him, but I have met William socially and chatted with him. Neither is off my list.

That made it onto the Sunday morning sport program here today.

Empire Day!

I don't know. I've been seeing the trailers for the series a lot on the ABC lately, that could be a promising sign that there's a series two in the works.

To be pedantic, for the majority of human history we didn't have clocks so changing them was not a consideration.

@marylander1940 the subject is not political and the fact that the catalyst for starting the conversation was a senate resolution doesn't necessarily make it so. There is a general interest in whether and how daylight saving should continue and that is how the conversation in the Lounge is progressing.

Great to see true love blossoming in the forum!

I love daylight saving but when I had a long train commute and the sun rose as I stepped off it in the last week of it, it was totally time for it to end. Now I don't have to wake up early it matters less to me than it did then. I have no idea why a senator from Arizona would give a damn about it.

I don't know, if you tell people nine and a half things about yourself, would they stay away?

Clever trick to post his rates! And he's well enough known that people will know he's [almost certainly] not actually there.

There should not be a policy at the Academy about sexual orientation. There would be one on drug use, it could be dismissal if a cadet has a drug problem or it could be one strike and you're gone. It sounds like 18yo experimentation that went wrong, but they would have known the rules.

I buy diesel. Looks like I'm in luck.

*Takes to the smelling salts and fans oneself*

I share your scepticism, and the article I looked at this time was loose in its language. In the case of Abidjan it referred specifically to its French speaking population, and for Kinshasa it was less specific. It ignores whether people have French as their first or second language or are truly bilingual. I suspect there are similar ambiguities over Francophone and Anglophone Montrealers but I take your point. I don't know enough about Francophone Africa and the language dynamics, probably different in capitals and the countryside. The closest comparison that I have any better idea about would be South Africa, where I think Cape Town and Johannesburg amongst others qualify as English speaking cities even though African languages are spoken by many of the people. Both cities are melting pots for different language groups in the country and English is a first language for some and a lingua franca for many of the rest. (I am cheekily including Afrikaans with the African languages.)

I realise this is a tangent and it has been mentioned before, but the start time is 0000UTC on 1 Jan 1970. What each of us sees reflects our current local time difference to UTC, so anyone in the US will see it as some time in the PM hours of 31 Dec and I would see 1100 1 Jan 1970.

Perhaps then, but now it's fourth, after Kinshasa, Paris and Abidjan.