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Alternatively, use of non-standard grammar can be a marker used to filter out people from things like employment. Pointing out deviations from standard grammar can help the person concerned overcome the barriers that its use would otherwise impose on them. Picking the time to offer the advice, or even whether to do so, can be the tricky bit.

On reading the OP I thought around what constitutes 'great', and it is not just one thing: a great voice, a great catalogue of performances, an iconic style, a notable backstory or one great role. The first name that came to mind was Édith Piaf. Others when I think about it rationally rather than in any sense emotionally include Julie Covington for her role in the original recording of Evita, Paul Robeson, each of the three tenors. There are others.

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Did the doctor tell you to avoid completely or minimise? Did they also tell you what you should eat to make sure you ate enough, and the right things for your energy and nutritional needs? Did they give you target amounts of protein (meat and plant) and which vegetables and how much of them to eat? I don't know the answers to these questions. Removing whole groups of food from your diet makes it more difficult to eat a balanced diet, I suspect that's why Diabetes Australia recommends consulting a dietician. Finally, did your doctor make his 'avoid' suggestions based on your level of disease progression and residual insulin levels or just give you all-purpose advice; and have they reviewed it as your condition has changed. I'm not asking you to tell us the answers to these questions, that's one of our business. Rather they are questions you might consider in dealing with your doctor and any other health care professionals assisting with your health. (Does your doctor have any sort of special interest in diabetes - I know a lot of gay people chose a primary care doctor who specialises in LGBTI health issues - and is there a diabetes organisation in your area who can recommend doctors and assistance services. If there is, they may even have a local Facebook group.)

I hadn't looked at anything about type 2 diabetes, but some things about his treatment that @Avalon described didn't ring true. I had never had the impression that someone in his situation could not eat carbs under any circumstances, more that highly refined carbs (sugars, white bread, white rice) that enter the blood stream quickly (High GI) are a problem because they cause a sudden sharp rise in blood glucose levels. Obviously don't know the details of his condition so I pass no judgment. I did some quick reading on the Diabetes Australia website. They have this page on Managing Type 2 Diabetes, https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/managing-type-2 (there is more detail on linked pages, including a page on eating well and a specific document about using a low carb diet). There may be some information there that is informative for those of us who are fortunate enough not to suffer from this disease. One thing that is mentioned on the page I posted is, Your healthcare team including your doctor, specialist, dietician and Credential Diabetes Educator, can help you with blood glucose monitoring, healthy eating and physical activity. Clearly that is easier achieved in our health system than in yours. It also recommends that people living with diabetes should consult a dietician for personal dietary advice. I hope you have been able to do that and are not just relying on your own research. Others have mentioned services that may be available. It may be worth investigating what ability some of those have to tailor what they do to provide assistance in a way that helps your diabetes management. I know that exercise is next to impossible, and I have mentioned it before, but exercising in a pool if you can possibly get to one (and I don't mean swimming) using the water to provide buoyancy and resistance can be an option for people for whom exercise on dry land has particular hazards.

A seal slapping a man with an octopus. (Not 'a man with an octopus', the seal uses one to do the slapping.) https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1045043649363496960

Oops, indeed! My bad.

That way of listing ingredients is a little confusing, it seems to list the components of the meal and the ingredients of each. Here, labels have to list the ingredients in descending order of their proportions, and they also have to list the mass of carbs, protein, fats and salt (maybe others) they contain per 100g and per serving. They also have to list the kJ per serve. Do US labels not have to do that?

Twixt means between, so it meant there is a cold plunge of some sort (tub or something) between the steam room and the showers. (Edited to correct my stuff-up.)

Pfft! Next thing you'll be claiming there's a palatable use of kale.

Oh, wait, you said being a dick, not looking for dick. My misunderstanding. Sorry.

Well, doesn't that sound like #notallmen? I'm joking of course. To be serious for just a moment, it's a common enough occurrence for the joke to ring true.

The theatre, comedy and cabaret scene in Melbourne can be pretty damn good.

Ok, this isn't about what I ate today, but it's about food so close enough. It's about a young Kiwi who was writing sweary Instagram reviews of cafés and restaurants for the benefit of his university mates and after the owner of one establishment responded and some of its customers chimed in he was interviewed for an article. His Instagram following took off so thespinoff.co.nz met him for a visit to Dominion Road in Auckland. It's a good read. https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/25-09-2018/bagels-bigots-and-bad-language-meet-nzs-most-controversial-food-blogger/ *Language warning*

When things went wrong on QF32 in 2010, the plane might have crashed. But it didn't for a number of reasons, including quick-thinking, teamwork and effective systems. The Qantas A-380 had just taken off from Singapore on a flight to Australia when it had a catastrophic engine failure that disabled many of the aircraft's systems. The aircraft had a flight crew of three and happened to have a check captain and a trainee check captain, so three of the five were senior captains. (As an aside, yesterday the results were announced of an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation into the crash last year of a light aircraft in Melbourne in which the pilot and four passengers were killed. There had been an incorrect setting of a control, that had occurred because the pilot had failed to follow a check-list.) This is an interesting 25 minute discussion on the lessons that health care could learn from the systems and flight deck dynamics that are enforced in the aviation industry. The discussion involves a medical academic and the pilot who was the captain of that Qantas flight. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/what-the-healthcare-industry-can-learn-from-aviation/10265132

Lol, touché! I can work it out too. I meant that saying 'weight 180lb' does not convey to me an idea of how big a person is in the way that 80kg does, or even 14 stone still does

Before the SI was introduced here, the stone (14lb) was the weight measure (it was mass, to be precise) used for people, we never weighed people in pounds. I knew I weighted 13 stones but had no idea that that was 182lb. I now know I am about 83kg, but still have no idea how much that is in pounds.

Here a tonne is 1000kg.

The origin is largely irrelevant now, it came into vogue in the revolution, and SI just makes sense. The multiples of 10 being the biggest factor in its favour. If the imperial system were based entirely in base 60 (the way time and degrees of arc are) that would be understandable, but weights that go 16oz = 1 lb, 112 lb = 1 hundredweight, 2240 lb = 1 ton, and lengths that go from inches to feet to yards to furlongs to miles are crazy. An acre is what, 43,560 square feet or a chain by a furlong (10 square chains) and a hectare is 100m by 100m.

You may be right, I regularly read all the recent posts so I don't miss the posts requesting donations (I blow the spa entries away but that's a separate issue). The number of red thumbs up icons speaks to the number of members who have donated this year. Pinning it everywhere could be tiresome for people like me, if not for you. In any case, welcome to your new status as a funder of the site!

@VictorPowers, I assumed you were speaking from experience and that you were using multiple platforms and that 90% of your traffic was from RM. Reading it again, you didn't say that. You said that if RM was 90% you would advertise there. The advertising is not all at RM, so you have options, stud.

Spring here officially starts on 1 September.

@Lance_Navarro turns me on every time.

'Substituting' is not a path to either being a vegetarian or a vegan. You need to decide on ways that do not call on the use of meat or other animal products. Substituting implies that meat is normal, you can work on the basis that meat just isn't there. I'm not about to do that but that is a separate issue. I'm a white man who lives in Wiradjuri country.

Oh, he will start to push your limits in how you chat. Isn't that so, young master?