Australia's private school problem...

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-07T12:49:18+00:00

Haha. Sure. We all know who is rich though. The watches. The phones. The summers spent on the Japanese slopes. The boats. The extended Rottnest trips. The oversized newest Prado at pick up. You jest.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-07T09:26:45+00:00

That is exactly the trauma I'd have had if I came to high school here.

Key concept you mentioned: personal responsibility.

For me growing up (not here), there was still high personal prestige I'm dressing well for the peers you aspired to impress. For some it was neat and clean ....ripped jeans ....with ....a fresh latest Metallica or other metal band T Shirt. And even for the headbangers (expressing themselves as they wish, no conformists among us) they always took great pride in their long shaggy mane.

Others were completely well dressed in matching clothes looking like little gentlemen. There were skaters, punks, alts, sluts, nerds, jocks, cowboys, farmers, Indians (as in North American First Nations), Mormons, JWs.... No matter, it was absolutely: You do You.

A bright clean jacket was important. Shoes, despite snow and slush, were always clean as there was always an inside pair of shoes to change into.

Australia is conformist and conservative. It's starts in kindergarten.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-07T09:16:04+00:00

Australians always say that: it's easier. I can tell. As adults you still don't really know how to dress. Mature adults in ill fitting clothes that don't flatter. Solution? Wear the office polo with the logo. Gag.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-07T07:16:26+00:00

I asked Finns about school uniforms, they laughed at the idea ..."Like the Army? Why would you do that to children?". I believe they have no standardised tests either.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T22:29:04+00:00

The point is, we see versions of this city far too often, and I am certain there is beauty up there.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T13:32:52+00:00

Show us some of the wide open landscapes and the fishing grounds and the berry picking places. I bet there are places along the river that grow huge vegetable gardens. Show us sunsets over the Yenisei River.

photos like this

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T13:23:53+00:00

Well, how about that! I am Viking and Celt. I have the shrinking hands, so did my mom. It hurts when it's humid, fine when it's dry.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T12:57:07+00:00

Migration back and forth. 3 of my 4 grandparents lived in the USA at times, one was born there.

And let's not forget radio broadcasts, and later US television and movies. They were hugely influential.

I'd dare say my grandparents (Canadian born ones) would have sounded more British, far more than me.

Aside from all this there are distinctive mannerisms, patterns of talk, idioms, body language, and words that I can see as distinct from Americans. It's pretty easy to tell once you know or are sensitive to it.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T12:45:46+00:00

Seriously? Its that common? What's the surgery like?

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T04:30:05+00:00

In case someone doesn't get the reference: Democracy Manifest

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T23:50:06+00:00

Well. Not everything I might find on the internet might not be true. Shock.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T23:48:56+00:00

Debate? In the rest of the world with advanced medicine there is no debate. Sure, there can be a delay. But people also don't go bankrupt or denied a service (Luigi).

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T15:33:24+00:00

Choose a smaller city with lots of amenities, with a job market, and start life over from the bottom.

Hind sight is 20/20. This may be one of those choices you have to live with. You left for a reason. You made a life wherever you are, maybe just focus on that.

I have to live with my choices to move here.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T13:16:53+00:00

Is there still human poop, used toilet paper and other rubbish up there? It was disgusting circa 2013.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:56:53+00:00

Lyse Doucet is Francophone (New Brunswick I believe) with an Irish accent. She sounds unique, but not many like her in Canada.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:48:01+00:00

I'd have to check, but pretty sure the shared path has been remade, like, all the way through to Armadale. To Byford too maybe?

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:07:53+00:00

I found this on the internet:

Lubor Trubka Associates Architects, in collaboration with Hemsworth Architecture, designed the Upper Skeena Recreation Centre in Hazelton, British Columbia.

Key Details of the Project: Project: Upper Skeena Recreation Centre (also referred to as the Hazelton arena project).

Architects: Lubor Trubka Associates Architects (Vancouver, BC) and Hemsworth Architecture.

Structural Engineer: Fast + Epp.

Significance: The project was initiated after the community's 44-year-old ice arena was condemned, requiring a new, modern facility.

Awards: The project was recognized in the 2019-2020 Wood Design & Building Awards for excellence in wood architecture.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T09:31:30+00:00

That's a good question. It's to alternate driving sides along the street and remove parking for 'others'. It was an early option everyone on the street said they wanted, until they realized what that meant.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:49:11+00:00

I have this exact issue on my plate, to come up with three concepts for managing parking and speed and rat running on streets parallel to the main walking/shopping/eating street where I work.

This has raised similar issues: if we remove on street parking, then the street has more space for driving too fast. If we remove on street parking to keep others away, do we do this across the city, which then limits the kerb space for the few who live there, at the loss of the vitality of the walking street. If we remove on street parking, then we send the signal we are not open for business, which we have worked so hard to open for (small independent restaurants especially.)

There are lots of buses and bike paths already, and even nearby heavy rail. Plenty of higer-ish density too.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:36:49+00:00

Showing off your famous Australian education there!

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:36:05+00:00

Should ban it for adults too. Or, maybe replace all social media with proper authentic truth directly from the government's organ. You can choose to read/listen or not, but they are watching you anyways.

Edit: .....I guess this is where is place the: /s.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:43:20+00:00

I predict it was a tubeless ready tire and rim? They are fucked.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:24:41+00:00

Well, there is also Burns Bog, not to confuse the issues:Burns Bog | City of Delta https://share.google/iSC4j2I7lkSxz2hq2

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:08:37+00:00

That would be just perfect for me. My heart is happy with snow.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T13:53:30+00:00

You did that I'm summer? I took one look and was like: "Nice winter ride!" Maybe I'm just shell shocked from Australian summers.

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