Australian native speaker. “Two thirty.” If it needs clarification, “in the arvo”. Or if it was just organising a casual meeting it would definitely be “mid arvo” and everyone would understand that to be 2:30 pm.

It just occurred to me he wants this done in time to throw himself a birthday ball for his 80th, doesn’t he?

It drives me insane that he says this and then it just gets repeated as if it’s fact now. It’s utter nonsense, completely made up, and wouldn’t matter even if it was true! Maybe there’s good reasons no one has tried to build a gilded hall onto the people’s house before?

"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Is he going to dump all Elon’s stuff on the front lawn of the WH and text him “come pick your shit up”?

I think this is a good thing! A lot of our mums were lonely & isolated when they had young kids. It was much harder keeping in contact w extended family & husbands that travelled for work or served overseas. Social media can suck and we’re addicted to our phones, sure, but there’s also positives.

Recently rewatched this with hard to please teen daughter and even she agreed it’s a banger. Holds up surprisingly well.

Some nights you make amazing dinner and the children refuse to eat it so they end up with box Mac n cheese and tell you you’re an AMAZING cook 🙄

I owe my three babies to this hero. What a champ.

This is the problem with never having watched The West Wing.