mike carey

Guilty! I checked to see if I had the wording right, 'wordsforlife.org.uk' with the National Literacy Trust in its page header, no less. I had started with 'never' in final bit rather than the negative being in the first part, and took their wording as accurate, but seeing your post, I knew that I had already known that it was 'I know of' not 'I see'. Idiot! There goes my carefully crafted illusion of having some pretence at being literate.

I considered posting this ironically in the 'Cute Critters' thread because it starts talking about shark attacks (there was a fatal one on (or rather, off) a Sydney beach last week), but there's so much more here, 40 minutes of thoughtful conversation about several subjects. The two people talk a little about themselves, almost in passing, but by way of background, Julia Baird is an author and journalist, was working at the NYT and one of those present in 2015 at the first in-house discussion the paper's staff had with a now-prominent politician, her father was a state and federal politician and her brother a premier of NSW, and Darren Saunders, as is mentioned in the program, is a science academic and now deputy chief scientist of NSW.

I've had him buddy listed for some time, I've just never been in Melbourne with the opportunity to try to set something up. A lesson to me to make opportunities, rather than wait and hope that the stars align.

Jamais! Oops, I meant 'never'. But it's something else that, to paraphrase, 'I see no reason ... should ever be forgot'.

A different perspective on the defendant and on trials more generally, and a revealing one on the art portraying her and other defendants in trials. The court artist whose Erin Patterson sketches went around the world: ‘I definitely need to get some therapy’ | Erin Patterson mushroom trial | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Anita Lester’s distinctive mushroom murder trial portraits show someone she perceived to be ‘consistently sad’

Indeed, 'In America they haven't used it for years'!

You're right, there is only one place that speaks unaccented English, respectfully it's not Canada.

There's a separate thread that Justin (@GentJ) posted about having posted an RM ad. For the moment, that remains a separate topic, but here's a link to provide some context to this thread.

One of the thousands who 'came from away', whose story gave us a glimpse of the humanity that the day could have caused us to lose. I worked in a Defence headquarters, and was at home having already gone to bed. I don't recall the time, maybe 11.30pm, I was awoken to a call from one of my guys who said, 'Boss you've got to turn the TV on'. I sat transfixed and horrified at the spectacle that was unfolding on the other side of the world. I knew it would change everything in my immediate future as we would be scrambling at work to understand what the ramifications would be for the Defence Force and even for the country. I didn't imagine that what happened that day would shape almost everything for the rest of my career.

Her late Majesty had the benefit of a childhood that Charles, William and George could never have. Not the seclusion and privilege that wealth afforded, they all share that, or shared, even though the weight of that privilege has lifted somewhat. Until she was 10 years old, her future was that of a minor princess with a life that promised comfort and the freedom to do much as she wished. At 10 her life suddenly changed to presage the one she became destined to live, she became the heir apparent and had to prepare for a different life to the one she may have thought awaited her. Her heirs were destined to the future they now have from the moment they were born. For many years, Charles knew, or at least hoped, that his reign was in the distant future so was able to combine his preparation for it with the freedom to develop his own ideas and values. As his time approached he adjusted to the strictures that would then face, one which he now seems to have grown into and carried out with a sense of duty. Willaim and Harry grew up with different futures, roles that came to be confirmed when William and Catherine had children, William the duty that he would assume, tempered by the years he has and would have before that time came, and Harry with the relative freedom that Elizabeth had in her early years. That has shaped the men that they today are. If the unthinkable happened and he were to ascend to the throne, from a distance I can see a man who would understand the new weight of his position and be able to meet its demands.

There was some equivocation in this thread, and more widely, about how to consider the event that prompted this thread. On a day when another event has prompted almost universal condemnation and overwhelming sadness, even in social media (there are always outliers), it is well to consider humanity not what people said or stood for. This comment that I saw puts it eloquently. It applies as much to this thread as it does to politics. We should condemn political violence, even against people we find abominable, unless we are prepared to trust the judgement of every violent individual as to who the villains are. We can believe this and express sympathy for the victim's families without retroactively lionizing their politics. If we say we can accept what happens to someone based on not what they did but on what they said or represent, we are accepting that we should be happy if the same thing happens to us based on what some random individual thinks of us.

There were two separate threads running in parallel about @Daniel narssi so I've combined them. That may lead to times where a post doesn't appear to follow on from the one above it, but it will ensure that neither Daniel nor other members will need to repeat things they have said in another thread.

@BSR I'm so glad you had the chance to see both sides of the falls and confirmed my 20-year old recollection of the value of doing so. Must have been in a different thread, or I imagined saying it. Also the boat trip under the falls.

Another vote for 'Welcome to the Forum'. Most members here appreciate openness and honesty from escorts who come here, and it can so easily be a corrective to negativity and speculation. It's all the better when that negativity is countered by the sort of calm rebuttal that you offered, rather than anger. Best of luck as you reembark on this journey.

There's a thread from a couple of years ago on this provider, but it contains no useful information about them.

Well, I generally watch the public broadcaster, and they can tend away from some of the more click-bait style stories that other channels show., and that now social media scream. Not that this isn't something of a 'look at this' story. From my times living in and visiting the US, the tone and feel of what piques broadcasters' and also the public's interest differs between the two counties.

It started just over two years ago with a story of four people who had become ill in mysterious circumstances. Over the next days it emerged that they were all suffering from poisoning, soon identified as being from poisonous mushrooms. Suspicions grew as it emerged they had shared a lunch of beef Wellington, perhaps a tragic accident, the use of foraged mushrooms, 'death caps' that are similar to edible field mushrooms. Three of the four victims died over the following days, one despite a liver transplant as their own had failed from the toxins. The fourth went through a slow recovery in hospital in Melbourne. The cook and host of the lunch, Erin Patterson, maintained that she had used mushrooms from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian grocery store. That story gradually crumbled. Accidental contamination of commercially sold mushrooms seemed implausible. It emerged that Ms Patterson had been less than forthcoming in her discussions with investigators. She denied having foraged, or of drying those mushrooms. She was photographed taking a dehydrator to a waste management centre. It was recovered by police and residues of death caps detected. That, of course didn't demonstrate that she had done anything deliberate. She could have simply been lying about foraging, and mistaken the poisonous mushrooms for edible ones. It was not to be. Police detected evidence in her search history of searches for toxic mushrooms, and phone records showed she had travelled to places where foragers had reported death caps (as warnings not as suggestions). The supreme court trial began a few months ago at a court in a regional city near the area where she and her victims, her parents-in-law and her mother-in-law's sister and her husband, had lived. The trial lasted 10 weeks and ended in her conviction on three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Today, the final act in this drama. Erin Patterson was sentenced to 25 years for attempted murder, and three life sentences for murder, to be served concurrently. Parole was set at 33 years. She had never shown remorse and had lied and obfuscated to investigators throughout the process. All this may have flashed across your screens, or passed you by. It did make international news, even the Economist reported on it. Most likely only because it was an almost fantastical story. Bizarre stories of things that kill you seem almost to be a staple for reporting about Australia. But it has been a constant presence here, to a greater or lesser extent, the first item on the evening news on many days. Erin Patterson: Mushroom murderer sentenced to life over toxic family lunch WWW.BBC.COM She will serve a non-parole period of 33 years for killing three relatives and trying to kill another.

Fortuitously for a forum like this, that's what is known as a hard conversion from metric to imperial. A hard conversion is when you take the measurement in one system (often not a precise measure, say 'he's 6' tall') and convert it to the precise one of two decimal places. A soft conversion is when you round the converted number to something that wouldn't sound weird in conversation. No one (or not most people) would describe someone's dick any more accurately than the nearest inch or half inch, no one who normally speaks metric would go closer than the nearest centimetre. RM, it seems, uses a hard conversion from metric to imperial, although I never see dick sizes listed other than whole centimetres, no decimal points.

Couldn't arrange a time with DznNYC when I was in New York. Next time perhaps!

How very dare you!

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What's the old chestnut? Two countries divided by a common language?

Well, I'm sure PK is not the only one to remember you from, was it 2023?