Yes, if you're always hysterical, if you have one glib answer for everything ("He has dementia," "He's a Russian asset," etc), you'll sound silly and people will stop listening. But looking at 2015-25, the "This is REALLY BAD" journos were right 90% of the time. The "calm down" crew? Mostly wrong.

Australia, 80s: Dip dip dog sh*t, who stepped in it, what colour was it (stop on child who nominates colour, colour spelt out, 1 letter per kid,). Trust Australians to throw a swear word in.

My kids use one from day care which I think is a Nepali rhyme which sounds like “mini mini mango” to me.

Good luck! A colleague’s parent spent 4 days on the ground and was found by meals on wheels in bad shape. Definitely worth having.

No, happened to me this morning for the first time. Barangaroo station

Well, today I learned…

This is a thing apparently! Cannot find the reference for the life of me, but basically ghrelin and leptin gets calibrated to your heaviest weight, so your hunger drive gets higher during weight loss and stays high after weight loss. Not sure how that interacts with semaglutides though.

Official name is Bibendum.

My sisters suspected Turkish van was found orphaned in a park. Used to like to hang out on top of the fridge.

Is that a Turkish Van?

That kid (9ish?) knew I’d saved his bacon. Big shaky breathe, cough, clung to me, said thanks.
I was a bit nervous to intervene given his dad was so close and he’d been swimming well earlier, but so glad I did.
Cliche alert: both times totally silent, and so flipping quick. Eyes on always.

I saved a kid last summer. His dad was on the side of a small backyard pool, calling out to check on him, kid didn’t yell back like he’d been doing. I looked over, saw he was climbing an invisible ladder and bobbing near the surface. Grabbed him, put him on the side.