mike carey

That made it onto the Sunday morning sport program here today.

Empire Day!

I don't know. I've been seeing the trailers for the series a lot on the ABC lately, that could be a promising sign that there's a series two in the works.

To be pedantic, for the majority of human history we didn't have clocks so changing them was not a consideration.

@marylander1940 the subject is not political and the fact that the catalyst for starting the conversation was a senate resolution doesn't necessarily make it so. There is a general interest in whether and how daylight saving should continue and that is how the conversation in the Lounge is progressing.

Great to see true love blossoming in the forum!

I love daylight saving but when I had a long train commute and the sun rose as I stepped off it in the last week of it, it was totally time for it to end. Now I don't have to wake up early it matters less to me than it did then. I have no idea why a senator from Arizona would give a damn about it.

I don't know, if you tell people nine and a half things about yourself, would they stay away?

Clever trick to post his rates! And he's well enough known that people will know he's [almost certainly] not actually there.

I was contemplating whether I should add that he neglected to say, 'You mean "are"'. I thought you might point it out.

There should not be a policy at the Academy about sexual orientation. There would be one on drug use, it could be dismissal if a cadet has a drug problem or it could be one strike and you're gone. It sounds like 18yo experimentation that went wrong, but they would have known the rules.

Brazenly stolen from a twitter post of one of our escort members here. He didn't take credit for it.

I buy diesel. Looks like I'm in luck.

*Takes to the smelling salts and fans oneself*

I share your scepticism, and the article I looked at this time was loose in its language. In the case of Abidjan it referred specifically to its French speaking population, and for Kinshasa it was less specific. It ignores whether people have French as their first or second language or are truly bilingual. I suspect there are similar ambiguities over Francophone and Anglophone Montrealers but I take your point. I don't know enough about Francophone Africa and the language dynamics, probably different in capitals and the countryside. The closest comparison that I have any better idea about would be South Africa, where I think Cape Town and Johannesburg amongst others qualify as English speaking cities even though African languages are spoken by many of the people. Both cities are melting pots for different language groups in the country and English is a first language for some and a lingua franca for many of the rest. (I am cheekily including Afrikaans with the African languages.)

I realise this is a tangent and it has been mentioned before, but the start time is 0000UTC on 1 Jan 1970. What each of us sees reflects our current local time difference to UTC, so anyone in the US will see it as some time in the PM hours of 31 Dec and I would see 1100 1 Jan 1970.

Perhaps then, but now it's fourth, after Kinshasa, Paris and Abidjan.

Well, I wasn't confused. Mainly because it was already 10 Mar here when @easygoingpal posted his first comment. But I also knew I had plenty of time to text him because it wasn't yet 'the day' there.

'Hey Dudes, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better.'

In the past I've done the same sorts of conversions in this thread as they did, but last time I cited my experience (a month ago) I just posted the AUD price per litre, and someone else posted a conversion and comparison with their part of the US. The lowest octane petrol is now within a cent or two of $2/litre in Canberra, and diesel (which I use) about $1.85 (USD1.46 and 1.35 respectively at today's exchange rate).

I've always thought that referring to one's parents as 'mother' or 'father' in English reflects the sort of reserve that is common in the English upper classes (real or self-imagined), and perhaps elsewhere, or a lack of affection. 'Mother' does not mean the same thing in English as 'my mother'. I don't think French has a usage of 'mère' equivalent to this impersonal use of 'mother' in English. A translation that didn't adopt the tone that 'mother' does might have used 'mum' (or mom). I'm not convinced that borrowing the French word 'maman' is the right approach though. 'Maman' doesn't bring its French emotional weight with it when used in an English sentence.

Indeed, and as to the other question, his 'other country' travel omission was not unambiguously untrue. How long was he in Spain, was he there when that declaration was made, was going to Australia via Serbia travel to 'other countries'. It's generally the case that if you 'clarify' (read 'correct') your written declaration on arrival, Australian Border Force will take the oral clarification as your definitive statement. Still, there will always be some observers who will see grey as either black or white.

In Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand it's a feature of indigenous and Pasifica English.

In the pursuit of preventing the possibility of any rancour developing in this conversation, for the sake of precision, you are correct that @Benjamin_Nicholas did not have any link in the post you quoted. He did, however, post a link, in a separate post, to a source some 20 minutes later after another member had posted a comment, and before you and he had begun to discuss the issue. He did not subsequently add anything to the post you quoted. The effect of local prices and incomes in any city is a reasonable part of a discussion of escort rates there, and any information that adds to that data is appropriate.

I couldn't put a Haha reaction as I didn't want to laugh at your whole post. You hit the nail on the head right there!