mike carey

For those of you who want 'thoughtful' to go with hot, David Pocock is your man. He was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Australia as a kid when his family was forced off their farm. He now plays rugby in my city. He runs charities helping people in Zimbabwe. He has refused to marry his [female] partner until equal marriage is the law in Australia. He called out a homophobic slur on the rugby field in a professional match (with the result that the slurrer went to a Sydney Convicts [gay] rugby practice session to make amends). He was arrested for chaining himself to a fence at a disputed coal mine site in NW NSW to protest the environmental damage.

Shameless, TR, shameless!!

@Truereview, summer will be here within weeks, provided you stay in Punta del Este!

Some great pics there @Truereview from subways and the tube. Thank you!

John Kerry.

@Truereview so, more photos from out front of your beach house?

@Truereview has a collection of alluring avatars!

Oh, @Truereview why do you have to post pictures of the people you meet on the playa de Punta del Este?

Lol, you have succeeded in that! Out of left field, these guys have been posting gay Uruguay comments in their timeline.

@Truereview are you so busy in PdE that you have to keep teasing us here with these pics?

Saw this posted on Twitter: 'Watched a girl take a 'broken, do not use" sign off Whole Foods sliding door, take a pic w it over her heart, then walk into the broken door.'

I can't compete with an account of service in any of the various first class cabins. I've only travelled in first class once, from Penang to Singapore (via KL) on MAS. (AA first class on a J class QF ticket doesn't count.) If I planned to travel once every two or so years I might consider flying first class, but I hope to travel more often. I value a decent experience in the air, and in the lounge before departure. I flew economy SYD-DFW early this year (in an A380), the service was good and I was complimented for wearing a jacket and tie (why they would do that I have no idea). The person in front of me said that they had requested a vegetarian meal, the cabin staff were unaware but arranged for the first class chef to prepare a vegetarian meal for the passenger. On my return flight I upgraded to premium economy. First class it ain't, but the leg room and the service was good. More recently I flew across Australia in business class (flat bed seats, but it was a daylight flight so who cares), and taking into account the business class lounge, I was sufficiently pampered. I understand that competing first class cabins are interesting, but for me competing steps above economy are enough.

I agree, @poolboy48220, it's not something that I would throw in the face of a Christian friend, but I might raise the mathematical calculations with them if they raised the truth+god equation with me. Just to point out the mathematical consequences of the equation!

Oh dear, my memories of the stage are so mundane! I was in the chorus of the Gondoliers and Patience in 1st and 3rd form at high school and had the minor role of Samuel in Pirates in 2nd form (I was still a boy soprano at the time). With cat like tread ...

I'm sure I've said this before, but timing is everything. I read in the Economist years ago that when asked whether the Portuguese word amanha had the same connotation as mañana the speaker said that yes, it did, but without the sense of urgency.

@Truereview, I thought you'd be far too busy with tradesmen for all this salacious posting!

Well is both an adverb (in a proficient manner) and an adjective (healthy). Usually context tells you which one is being used. To feel has two meanings, the use of the sense of touch, and to sense your emotions or wellbeing. So I feel the ground (which could be modified by an adverb like 'well') or I feel happy. I feel well could mean either version of feel, so it could mean that your sense of touch is in good order, or you sense that your health is good. There is no such ambiguity with taste or smell. (With the possible exception of cancer sensing dogs that detect cancer by smell - their handler could well tell you that the dog thinks you smell well or unwell.)

Yet 'I feel unwell' sounds perfectly normal. To me, 'I'm feeling well' sounds less pedantic than 'I feel well'. There is less difference between 'I'm well' and 'I'm good' when you're asked how you are.

There was one episode where they filmed one of them having a bacon buttie from a roadside van (think taco trucks). They needed seven takes to get the scene right, and the fat lady in question (Clarissa) ate a new bacon buttie for each shoot.