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Yes. another Leccinum species

It's just difficult to identify Agaricus to a particular species anyway.

What does it smell like?

I lives a few miles from there and there is a bit of a wooded area (few square miles or something) surrounded with agricultural land where they can be seen daily and you can get pretty close to them without them being bothered. They can often be seen in the crop fields surrounding the area. I...

I'm interested to know what they are now. I can't tell. Also bad tasting mushrooms won't bulk out a dish as much as ruin it with their bad taste.

First might be a Clitocybe species like Clitocybe gibba or maybe Lepista Flaccida, hard to tell from just that one specimen and with the colour of the lighting. Second is an Inocybe species That is ripe for innuendo! Lol

Likewise. I learned and became familiar with most of the species i know now from the old website (using it as a reference. It was especially useful because of the way common species were grouped together and the fact it was relevant to England - making it much easier to narrow down the search...

Unless the Bolete was growing with Birch then it will be something else. Would need pics of the stem to say whether or not it is a Leccinum species. There are a ridiculous amount of Bolete species

The second one is indeed Paxillus involutus, the 'Brown roll rim'. Such a great name!

The morphology is correct but there are a few other species that have very similar proportions. When i mentioned about pore colour being important i meant for that one too. The cap is darker than I'm used to seeing. But if the pores are white that don't bruise then it will be something close to...

3rd pic looks like Chlorophyllum rhacodes. Last is Hypholoma fasciculare

It's really difficult to say without pictures of the gills (not for the purpose of seeing their colour, which you already mentioned) and other important identifying features. The first one looks like it could be a Chlorophyllum species, with a ring that has fallen off.

I'm pretty sure no one will tell you that they are by looking at pics. It would be too risky given what it can be confused with. The over-exposure of the pictures makes it harder too. The very least you need to do is make a spore print, which should be pink if you are correct. The fact there...

The last 2 are a Russula species. You are right about the Laccaria

First one is Amanita rubescens. The yellow pored bolete is probably a Xerocomus/Xerocomellus species. What size are these? I'm guessing up to 5cm across. Last one might be a Pluteus species. What colour are the pores of the staining bolete? This is an important piece of information.

I had considered that but from the picture the pores don't look very yellow. But it might just be the picture (and my monitor). Compare with this as well: http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/boletus-chrysenteron.php

Most likely a Xerocomus species

A picture of the gills is needed at the very least for anyone to make a remotely confident ID. It looks like some kind of Bolete (assuming it was growing near trees) from the stem and the flesh that is visible through the eaten parts of the cap. But it could be just an illusion and i could be...

2 is Paxillus involutus

I don't think the answer to the problem is avoiding mushrooms altogether though. I think understanding enough that there can be no doubt about what you are looking at (or no doubt about what it isn't) is the way forward. That doesn't mean you need to eat them. It's not difficult to avoid eating...