The mushroom poisoning in Vic.... I am gripped - Part 2

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Hi everyone, Aussie Mumsnetter here. As some have requested a new thread be started by an Aussie I decided to do it.

I am still gripped by this case and like many, I am awaiting updates of new information.

Will a matching donor for a liver for Ian be found soon? I hope he makes a full recovery.

Will he be able to shed new light on the lunch they all shared?

And of course is she guilty of deliberately poisoning them or was it an innocent mistake?

Our toilet water going around another way is a myth.

WHAAAATTTT?! Wait, have I been fooled my whole life? What else isn't true? You definitely do have duck billed platypuses, don't you?

doesnt the water go down the plug hole in the opposite direction though?

Apparently not, though I haven't found recent articles:

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/11/18/1244639.htm

The platypupses are real! I took the cork thing to mean that sitting acts as a cork? I dunno. Not a phrase I've heard used before.

Totally irrelevant comment but I wish we called them 'servos' in the UK!

Of course they're servos, what else would you call them? A service station? Pfft, we have no time for that.

We also have the Ambos, Copshops, Fireys, Chippies, Sparkies & it goes on like this. We love our abbreviation for some reason I cannot explain in written words.

Works better in the spoken work for some reason!

Exactly.

Typical Aussie sentence turned into one long word...
Gonnavotethengetademocracysausageatbunningsbeforestoppingattheservoforachoccymilkandpiethenheadtothebottloforacaseofbundys.

We're a sophisticated lot 😄

@Sagealicious You're right

I love these!

OK. After today, I give up. I’m convinced!

i only know This Arbo, from Neighbours

Close...Arvo. where the v comes from who knows 🤔

So has she tried to pass her wee off as diarhoea. I mean surely not?
Why wasn't the nurse more clear. Surely it would smell of wee.

‘Sick of this’: Erin Patterson told friends she wanted ‘nothing to do’ with in-laws, mushroom lunch trial hears | Victoria | The Guardian

That is bizarre. We all know the difference!

So she didn't like her inlaws much. That's likely true of many people but I guess it does go to motive. I never liked mine either but topping them didn't occur to me.

The suffering of Don and Gail Patterson laid out by Professor Warrillow makes harrowing reading.

Horrific!

Sadly, we don't abbreviate beyond 'services', or if talking about a specific one, using its name, e.g. 'Sandbach' 'Leicester Forest East'. I always think services in the UK have names that sound far more interesting than the place actually is.

On a positive note, we do at least have 'chippies' 😃

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Chippies are Carpenters. Not a shop where you buy chips. From "Chipmunk" or animals who deal with wood.

Same as Sparkies are Electricians. Don't ask what plumbers are

I'm off to the local takeaway for a chicken kebab with chips & chicken salt. Been looking forward to it all week. Please 🙏 tell me that makes sense!?

@Dustyblue that sounds amazing ! (Or should I say, awesome 😉 ! )

I know what you mean about the messages to the group chat - obviously lots of separated couples have in law tribulations. I agree it isn’t a motive as such. But I think in my mind, the balance of the evidence so far was already tipping so far away from genuine accident that I’d have had to see a very different ie strongly positive relationship with S‘s family evidenced for to swing it back in the other direction…

I would say the Chippy is the chip shop, a Chippie is a carpenter. 😁. In my head the different spelling matters! 🤣

Not to defend her, because any doubt I had has gone. But (sorry TMI) I have had diarrhoea once that looked like urine. It was horrendous, and I had to keep drinking water because I was so dehydrated. Wouldn't have dreamt of white trousers!!

I think we can all agree that there are some situations where you would never, EVER wear white trousers!