British or Dutch company? The latter was far more vicious and greedy but the Dutch's international reputation somehow got away with it today. Let's not forget that after being colonized and brutalized by the Nazis in WWII, the Dutch went back to their old ways and did the same things to Indonesia.
Chickenstalker
What? You never hang out near the doors because the toilets are next to it?
In retrospect, that short story is my first exposure to guro fetish.
Biology is complexity built upon simplicity. By asking this question, you are actually asking the same question philosophers and religions have asked for millennia: do we have a soul/free will?
I mean, why don't YOU post interesting stuff then? Hmm? Hmmmmm? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Well, yeah. Life began in the oceans and sharks were one of the first fishes. Land organisms evolved much later.
Our lung-fish ancestors were cowards. When the seas got too spicy, they swam to the shores and marshes to hide like hikikomori neets.
No billionaire or even tensmillionaire will fly first class if they can avoid it. They still have to breathe the same air as the cattle class. True rich people fly in private jets.
In this setting, Terry is like the stray cat who moves in.
A mark of a true gentleman is the consideration that they give to others without anyone forcing them to do it.
I bet the night sky is beautiful though. I was floored by the stars while in rural New Zealand. Stars like sand.
They've done away with naming diseases after people. Most new diseases now have descriptive names. E.g., Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).