mike carey

Entirely sensible of you, and I think there is an important distinction. Of course, anyone providing any sort of service is entitled to set their pricing however they chose, but pitching it to the market in which they are operating always makes sense. I'm guessing that the two long appointments were from people who contacted you based on your US ad and would expect your usual pricing to apply. A casual appointment in a Canadian city would expect, unless you made it clear otherwise, to pay in local currency. How you determine the local currency price is entirely your call. I won't say anything about 'soft' or otherwise.

In payback, overnight the Sharks defeated the Jaguares in the super rugby in Durban, although both qualified for the playoffs.

Dr Richard 'Harry' Harris with the other Australian personnel involved in the rescue flew home on an RAAF aircraft, arriving this morning at an air base near Adelaide.

Does Dan Savage count?

The UK went decimal in 1969 so in 1988 anything you saw would have reflected the £2.50 or 95p mode of citing prices rather than the LSD (or £SD) version. In Australia before decimal currency (i.e. pre 1966) household items would often be priced in guineas (21s) rather than pounds.

To be pedantic, they would have written £2/10/0 at the time, and they wrote 10/0 or 10s, and 5d (pence) [now 5p since decimal currency was introduced there] in the same fashion that Americans, as @Golem noted, write 10c.

Happy birthday Greg, have a great day!

@Mikegaite is an absolutely delightful man, I cherish my recollections of meeting him.

SMH $3, Canberra Times $2.20.

FIFA invited the boys and their coach to attend the Cup final as their guests, but they are unable to attend for medical reasons. Separately Man U have invited them and their rescuers to Manchester during the coming Premier League season. https://www.yahoo.com/news/manchester-united-invite-thai-cave-143503634.html

In a sad postscript to the rescue, Dr Harris' father died in Adelaide overnight. The doctor was the last person out of the caves.

IIRC correctly Peter Hung is Hungarian, so no.

Everyone is a newbie at some stage, and when you are everything since the dawn of time shows up as unread. If you're not careful it's easy to scroll through a host of posts and light on some of them and comment without noticing the date it was last used. You can excuse that. Less so newbies who come here not out of interest but on a mission to respond to one specific thing. I roll my eyes when long-standing posters revive long dead threads with only vaguely related comments, but not if their posts are pertinent to the subject of those threads!

The medic who was with them is the Adelaide anaesthetist I mentioned up thread. He is, I understand, well known as a cave diver and is a member of a rescue squad in South Australia. A news item about him here a couple of days ago included footage of him on his own cave dives. It appears that all 13 have now been brought out.

Nor in Australia. I guess writing 25$95 (instead of $25.95) would blow some people's minds. It's done in France for euros.

Meh, it's a convention, and although possibly a rule in some contexts, certainly not a rule in social media. And it sort of makes sense to write 25$ as we say 25 dollars. Putting the currency symbol after the number is common in many countries. Call me conventional, but I wouldn't write it myself (well, maybe rarely) but I have been tempted to write 25 bux at times.

I can see reasons for that and would have thought they would take the weakest out as the middle cohort. The first ones taken out would be a 'proof of concept' and they want to make sure that they could succeed in taking children who had never used scuba gear out through a challenging series of flooded chambers. If the weakest went first and there was a problem that would have a chilling effect on the whole enterprise and particularly on those who had not yet attempted an exit. In line with your thoughts, once the concept is proven the weak ones should be the next with the strongest last.

Safe travels and best wishes for your new life in the sun. Another reason to go to Las Vegas!

True, in part because a lot of furniture is imported and reupholstering is done locally (with higher wage costs). There is also the use of new materials and the cost/impact of sending the old stuff to landfill (if that is a concern to you).

Sofas and the like can be reupholstered. Often that is the issue rather than springs and padding that are worn out.

I'd be happy to participate in an experiment on that issue!

I would have to wonder what the purpose was of writing such a narrative that 'needs' to include words that are now offensive. I agree that it would be clumsy and inauthentic to substitute another word in a simple 'replace all' mode. But it is not necessary to write in a way that there is a perceived need to use that word and one should be able to navigate around it. Using indirect speech rather than direct is one device for doing so.

The link to the world cup is that they are members of a soccer team, but it is only the timing of their ordeal that draws attention to that link.

There's much we don't know. There may be a diving solution with all the factors you list, but that may not be the best way to solve the problem.