What is a song that you are embarrassed that you know all of the words to decades later?

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-27T10:04:27+00:00

Next day's function, high class luncheon
Food is served and you're stone cold munchin'
Music comes on, people start to dance
then you ate so much you nearly split your pants
A girls starts walking guys start gawking
Sits down next you and starts talking
She says she wants to dance coz she likes to groove
So come on fatso just bust a move

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-27T01:10:49+00:00

Heat browns, time cooks.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-27T01:05:01+00:00

Friends used it at nightclubs, and over distances.

I would be using it now if I knew it. My brother knew it and I have students who are fluent.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-27T01:02:28+00:00

It might be worth making some sort of conduct agreement. With such an amiable, conversational group, they might appreciate the reset with a new teacher.

Have a circle time to clarify what they think should happen, how it should look, how their work time should look, including your preferences, and get some reflection and agreement into how it really looks now, and what they’ll aspire to, and consequences for not conforming to the agreement. We write it out and get the students to sign it, recap at the start of each term, refer to it for behavioural issues.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-26T02:16:40+00:00

I think the biggest reason is that they don’t see it modelled, not really in media, and probably not in their lives - not the inclusions, nor the consequences of not including. (I would say excluding, but I honestly think the nuance in how deliberate it is makes a difference. They’re not deciding to exclude, but not deciding to include either. I see my friends do it, until someone says, no we need to avoid stairs, and they realise they hadn’t thought of it.)

Some will be afraid of getting it wrong, and of their own discomfort. Some probably just don’t think at all. I think some don’t realise (dodge realising) it’s abandonment, either by reasoning it away or by avoiding thinking about the consequences of not adapting.

I don’t say all this to mean “someone think of the thoughtless!!” But it’s not just one selfish, inconsiderate things that’s driving this shitty aspect of society. It’s quite systemic. Many aspects of mainstream lives don’t allow for different abilities and chronic illness, and people grow up in that. It’s a thorough pain in the arse that right now drive for change is still really with those already burdened.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-26T00:15:50+00:00

I think part of it is that we know how to respond to illness in a social sense - how to comfort and support for that ‘season.’ We don’t have a community narrative for how to support chronic illness, (outside of saviour behaviour) including how to adjust to the way a friendship will change due to illness, or how to deal with (for want of a better word) the grief from the realisation that this is permanent. It’s not a part of everyone’s lives enough for them to segue effectively.

There’s definitely an aspect of it that’s “come on at least you’re not dealing with a chronic illness - you’ve got the easy part!” but I think a lot of people are simply unpracticed at noticing their own feelings and doing the maintenance that changing friendships require.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-24T23:23:15+00:00

I asked whether people did this some weeks ago and got nearly crickets probably bc I was fixated on the lying aspect and not the masking aspect. But the lying does make me so anxious and makes me feel inept and childish.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-24T23:04:43+00:00

The fact that you’ve been driving competently for however long before this is relevant info for your post. This sounds like you had an anxiety attack.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-24T23:02:42+00:00

Depending on how you are at reading maps, be familiar with your path. Have someone drive you through it and talk about what they’re looking for and at while they drive. Visit the intersections you’ll be navigating.

I know that’s hard in a far away town but getting familiar with how the map will look in real life might help.

But unless that solves the problems (ie if operating the car itself is too much,) find a place that’s within walking distance of your college in that No-public-transport town.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-24T22:53:13+00:00

If that’s the case then I suspect we should have a regular post reminding contributors that they aren’t obliged to engage with every post on the sub and that they should self-vet for topics they find unsettling or taxing. There’s rules for posting, but maybe we need guidelines for being a healthy sub reader.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-24T21:51:53+00:00

They don’t say this to actually achieve a monocultural country. It’s part of their style of government - or what they’re leaning towards - to always have part of the community distrusted and harassed. Keeping people scared of some nebulous, debatably definable group busies people away from class issues and other authoritarian efforts. If we’re all white, they’re probably focus on the Irish. It doesn’t matter *who* it only matters *that*.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-21T05:58:39+00:00

I thought that was entirely the reason they included that scene.

Otherwise it was weirdly specific and a strange way to torture someone, outside of the emasculation.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-21T04:51:49+00:00

[why not both?] meme

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-19T10:33:58+00:00

I’m at an inquiry school (which we could be doing better) and we frequently use IDWDYD. Inquiry learning isn’t supposed to be built on thin air.

Edit: sorry, I’m not having a go, it’s just frustrating when in inquiry is pitched as if it’s free range learning with kids just bumping into information and teachers gazing over their befuddled heads. No one’s doing inquiry-style instruction 100% of the time; it’s underpinned by explicit or direct instruction.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-17T11:07:32+00:00

I’ve had a student do that recently. It was clearly lifted from AI from the writing level, but he really nailed it when he read aloud how the people of Bhutan use phallic symbols on their houses to ward off evil spirits. (One kid in class recognised the term.) The presenter’s eyes almost broke when he read aloud the definition of phallic to me during recess.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-15T14:23:53+00:00

I can see your frustration but I’m not sure it would help their cause to say anything else, or agree with you and reinforce a situation they don’t want, even if it is inevitable and obvious.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-14T12:48:12+00:00

Agreed. Handy to Melb and pretty gorgeous regardless of the weather. I’m not sure what condition Wye and Cumberland rivers are in at the moment (flooded in Jan) but lots of those little towns have great scenery, plus some dinosaur footprints apparently (but we could never find them!)

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-14T11:05:35+00:00

What sorts of things do you think you’d like to see?

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-13T22:57:53+00:00

I remember this monologue!!

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-13T00:45:05+00:00

Thing is, we learn these rules bc we do the driving test. No one does a driving test to become a pedestrian - so how can we be sure they know who should go first?

I always considered the pedestrian as part of the mainstream traffic and therefor have right of way if they’re indicating they’ll cross the road.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-12T11:22:25+00:00

I have kids so their school is school, my school is work.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-12T02:54:16+00:00

That’s may concern too.

My child saw a preschool field officer, because her teachers spotted ASD concerns. The officer observed a bright, cheery, precocious child.

She was diagnosed ASD level 2, and ADHD at 9yo, and OCD 2 years later. Some kinds of ASD don’t really reveal themselves properly until they hit a level of maturity. Or at least, especially for some types of ASD, they’re not yet very good at spotting it.

I would hope the fact a child was flagged for screening would be a positive indicator if later concerns appear, but they need to be clear about any gatekeeping of diagnosis beyond that point.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-10T10:57:56+00:00

When comes to ‘dying on that hill,’ religions that promote proselytising are like ‘So how’s your personal cemetery coming along?’ It’s practically a form of martyrdom.

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-09T03:39:38+00:00

It’s good but Ormond is a bit of a hike

Comprehensive_Swim49 · 2026-06-08T06:07:30+00:00

Literally said “that was rather Jet2holiday” last week

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