My feeling was she felt confronted by the question, then by the impromptu history lesson, but she was really upset by the comments being made - not to them - by the people in the bar watching the world news. She considered it generous to allow that the bar was allowed to play the news.
Good work! Pancakes are for sure something to celebrate.
Christianity and catholicism have many problems. Many. More than that. No, think bigger. And I am very much not a churchy person. But I am totally willing to appropriate Pancake Day as a day of personal celebration.
I just need to stop forgetting about it until too late.
There was this triple punch of public health improvements to water and food preventing massive infant mortality due to diarrhoea, vaccines preventing infectious diseases, and antibiotics for infection/sepsis within around 50 years.
Also water and food hygiene. So many babies and small children essentially shitting themselves to death. Diarrhoea was lethal.
There are worse rabbit holes. I think we've touch on several already.
Red dwarf also has the dinner party that starts with medical equipment, moves through to a polymorph in the pants.
This is getting to be a) a theme, and b) a long way from social awkwardness and c) hilariously inevitable.
There is something about how much a plot can move when a social event goes entirely pearshaped. When they don't involve a slaughter, there is a delicious shiver of, omg glad I'm not there.
Less delicious when canabalism is involved of course.
While possibly meeting criteria, it isn't a fun read / watch... Probably failing on vibes? (Since I haven't read / watched it, I cannot make the call.) Certainly terrible experience.
I am sure there is one in Austen, but not just the evening that Darcy flings in Elizabeth's face re: her family. Not coming to me.
Technically, also the entire movie Clue.
My also favourite (they are all my favourites!) is in Bujold's A Civil Campaign which end with fleeing into the night, alcohol, binge eating, and a bug infestation. By different participants.
I have fallen into a Nirvana in Fire rewatch, and am reminded of one of my favourite plot devices - The Worst Dinner Party Ever. This one ends with seige in a pleasure pagoda with crossbows, destruction of 2 families, and exile.
Tell me if you have any favourite Worst Dinner Party examples?
I don't think the romance market necessarily works that way. I remember some statistic that romance readers just devour books, like a ridiculous amount. So having similar genres is more likely to encourage than compete.
I suspect that Pratchett wasn't a huge fan of NG, because if he'd wanted to there would have been a sequel. Pratchett was a machine for production at that stage. There wasn't much he "didn't get around to".
How good must it feel to be a ~former~ foreign minister and be able to talk about how toxic any relationship with the USA is right now, without fearing the national safety consequences? Probably. They really are a cut snake right now, who knows what will trigger an off the rails response.
Oops, my apologies! Can I plead ADHD and distraction? Apparently I can't keep focus for the length of a thread.
This isn't an us good you bad, it just demonstrates the importance of public heath programs, and the impact they can have.
So much suck on so many levels. Ironically just after reading that there were no cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in under 25 years in Aus for the first time since recording started in 1982.
RACGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination share.google/z3aGa3pPonlb...
Wow, that is absolutely unreasonable but also, how much? In Australia it is free for eligible people (includes teens) but if you aren't eligible, it costs (translates AUD to USD) ~$130.
Why wouldn't you?
Ganymede and Titan...
They do research this! It's actually hundreds of different respiratory viruses, just different enough that you don't get cross immunity. And people go out with them and don't mask and spread them generously.
That looks great, I love the colours.
The Aus women's team is doing so good.
I am replying because this is an amazing resource! So much love for this genre.
did anybody else in the US watch The Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries and feel a visceral jolt when the whole pilot turns out to hinge on the lack of safe access to abortion in 1920s Australia and the women characters’ rage about it
like “oh wow okay this show was NOT made in this country”
This happened years ago in crisis time (2 weeks), but there has to be a German word for being horrified but also unsurprised by a statement revealing hypocrisy.
The Productivity Commission out there saying that we can improve productivity by not paying workers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
