mike carey

Not as insufferable as English colleagues would have been to others had they won.

Among the other dignitaries, the French and Croatian presidents came onto the presentation dais hand-in-hand.

La France, black, blanc et beur. (A motto of France, black, white and Arab.)

Vive la France. A great game, I was prepared to say Croatia was robbed after that penalty, but in the end it was probably not decisive. Les Bleus are worthy winners It has to be said that Russia put on a great tournament.

The boys are straight, but they are gay allies (with the equal marriage survey here past year, a host of people and companies came out in support of it). At one stage, someone stole their mother's handbag in the club. It fairly quickly became public knowledge whose bag it was and it was returned intact very quickly.

Kenwood are a company that make electric food mixers, they were (and may still be) a sponsor of the South Sydney Rugby League Football Club in the National Rugby League. The four gentlemen are the Burgess brothers who play for the club.

Bon anniversaire!

Been there, but only for refuelling stops and in the middle of the night. An American military base, no local population but they drive on the left.

There may be exceptions in some cases.

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.