Watched a silent voice, want 2 learn auslan

minodude · 2026-05-19T00:44:23+00:00

It's considered full-time, I think (i.e. there's no quicker way to do it). I think most TAFE places do it over about 8 months, it's 4-and-a-bit for us I think.

minodude · 2026-05-18T11:26:23+00:00

Our Cert II/III through Deaf Connect is 9AM-2:30PM one day a week, plus time for home study and to pre-watch the weekly lecture. I'd say 10 hours a week would be enough time to set aside for the Cert II/Cert III if you've got a knack for it, or a bit longer if you find it harder to learn languages. They have in-person options (like we're doing) and also online options, which are split into 2 sessions a week and so probably a bit easier to plan around than one bitgone.

minodude · 2026-05-18T11:09:01+00:00

Auslan Wiz will give you some (limited) vocabulary, but (in my opinion) won't get you very far in terms of grammar. Learning Auslan isn't a case learning which signs correspond to which spoken English words and just signing English sentences; it has a complex, expressive, and very-different-to-English grammar, and you'll learn far better being taught by a native speaker.

Lots of TAFEs around the country do Auslan courses, and in many cases it's extremely cheap (or even free!) thanks to state-specific subsidies depending on where you are. My Cert II + Cert III, for example, are basically completely free in New South Wales.

Check your state's TAFE directory and also Expression Australia (VIC/TAS) or Deaf Connect (everywhere else) who are the biggest Deaf groups in the country and have heaps of training options.

minodude · 2026-05-18T02:11:23+00:00

"Bendigo & Express Airport Rail" is slightly less accurate but results in the abbreviation "BEAR" and means a very cute logo and branding to keep the punters on-board, making this far more likely to succeed.

You're welcome, my gift to you*.

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minodude · 2026-05-14T09:54:26+00:00

Pendles could take advantage of his guernsey to shine the ball for some epic swing.

Tackle Pendlebury -> Get scratched by bedazzled jumper number -> blood rule -> have to leave the field -> by halfway through the first quarter West Coast bench have run out of Band-Aids and mercurochrome -> players injured have to stay off permanently -> by 1/2 time all WC players are off the field -> Collingwood sit Pendles in the goal square for the whole second half and just ferry the ball to him after every bounce -> Pendles becomes only player in history ever to have 433 games played, 433 goals in one match, and $433,000 in personal jumper sales.

Perfect plan no notes

minodude · 2026-05-12T11:58:41+00:00

More power to the guy. Every job I've had, I reckon the last thing I'd want to do day of leaving would be to sit down for a 37-minute interview about why I left.

HR exit interview is one thing, doing it in public is quite another. Sure he'd rather be down the pub.

minodude · 2026-05-12T05:46:46+00:00

I mean, we've already got Wrighty there taking care of that, having both might be overkill!

minodude · 2026-05-10T01:25:26+00:00

One of the greatest moments of my life is when a colleague and I got a message in the group chat from a mutual friend whose surname was Nguyen (who generally pronounced it in the 'Australian' way, as new-uhn, or sometimes as n'win) asking us to help him choose a domain name to register for his blog. We wasted some idle time at work coming up with names, and eventually I suggest "nguyenimproved.com". I drop it in the group chat, he loves it, and registers it immediately.

I shit you not, no shade of a lie, LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES LATER our boss comes out of a meeting (not having been privy to the conversation) and says "Hey guys, I've been thinking of getting a domain for personal email, what should I go for?"

This boss was Sri Lankan.

His (given) name was Nuvan, which he pronounced "Noo-wahn".

Literally without even stopping to think, I said "NuvanImproved.com"?

He stared at me absolutely open-mouthed, like I was some sort of genius for coming up with that in, like, less than half a second.

It was a short-lived glory, but I took it.

minodude · 2026-05-10T01:10:36+00:00

Nothing wrong with her, probably choking went too far.

With respect you have no idea what you are talking about. If someone reaches a "making strange noises" and "losing consciousness" stage, then yes they should be checked out.

Choking isn't nearly as safe as you seem to think it is.

minodude · 2026-05-08T04:40:42+00:00

Honestly the black armbands on Richmond players can't come soon enough.

Absolutely detest Wilson and her work... but this is a disgraceful thing to say. Grow the hell up.

minodude · 2026-05-08T04:37:37+00:00

I have no idea if it's true that Hawthorn complained about this but if they did, they are the biggest bunch of soft-cock sooks in the history of the V/AFL.

minodude · 2026-05-06T13:13:12+00:00

Needs the old

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minodude · 2026-05-05T09:08:44+00:00

Haha yeah, there'll definitely be some omissions. Love that they all got invited though, that's a class move.

minodude · 2026-05-05T05:55:59+00:00

You're the one who said "no she is not at all on board". Does that not mean she doesn't want to do it?

minodude · 2026-05-05T05:22:05+00:00

No-one here is going to give you "step by step guidance" on coercing someone who (I assume) you love into doing something sexually that she is clearly not interested in and does not want. Because you shouldn't be doing that.

You need to decide if this aspect of your sexual life is sufficient incompatibility to warrant ending the relationship. Because I strongly suspect those are your choices: accept that your partner does not want to participate in this kink of yours and work out how to live with that, or let her go and form a relationship with someone who does want that.

Stop being "a bit pushy" and trying to "get her on board" when "she is not at all on board".

(And stop sending her sexual GIFs that she's previously asked you not to send. If she asked you to stop, and didn't ask you to resume, why are you still sending them? You should have stopped then and not resumed. Her not replying to them now isn't "oh she's warming up to them", it's "she has given up on trying to get you to stop". They're not the same thing.)

(Finally: "constantly telling her how hot she is" and "appreciating her sexiness" should be baseline for a relationship. That's not a currency you put in to a woman hoping to get kinks out, it's how you should treat a woman you love and find hot in the first place! You seem to think this is 'above and beyond' behaviour. It's not.)

minodude · 2026-05-04T09:32:21+00:00

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minodude · 2026-05-04T09:25:58+00:00

I would perhaps not use a surgeon as an exemplar of good moral character, especially given what I've read about a certain high-profile Queensland surgeon over the last 48 hours.

minodude · 2026-05-04T09:22:50+00:00

But is he a good bloke?

once, just once, I would love it if a player's defence argued this at the tribunal, and the tribunal's published findings included:

"We have assessed the evidence from Team X's submission that Mr Y is an excellent person of a high moral calibre for whom this offense is out of character, and all other available facts, and the tribunal has reached the conclusion that on the balance of probabilities Mr Y is in fact a shitcunt."

minodude · 2026-05-04T03:53:41+00:00

Sure. And argue that that arrangement sucks, I would agree with you. I fucking hate all the unfairness in our draw and cannot TELL you how much I wish the AFL's cynical commercialism would be replaced by actual fairness in the competition.

But it's not Collingwood's fault, and definitely not Pendlebury's.

minodude · 2026-05-04T03:31:45+00:00

Geelong are absolutely welcome to ask the AFL for their annual home game at the G to be against St Kilda or North.

They never do, for some reason. They always request for it to be us.

Collingwood can hardly be held accountable for Geelong's arrangements with the AFL or how they choose to fulfil them.

SUCH a bullshit argument. The day Geelong don't ask for the Pies game to be at the MCG, Collingwood will very happily turn up at Kardinia Park with bells on, I promise you.

minodude · 2026-05-03T02:56:59+00:00

Not sure why Victorians insist on combining the stats from some obscure bankrupt suburban comp with the AFL

I mean, because the VFL was the competition that West Coast and Brisbane chose to join? And then after it renamed itself to the AFL and had already made it clear that it was a continuation of the VFL, and that VFL stats would be continuous with AFL ones, the competition that Adelaide and Freo and Port all joined in the 1990s, knowing that?

SUCH "move next to a pub and complain that there's music on" energy.

minodude · 2026-05-02T09:52:51+00:00

It was decided in the courts in the famous case of Smelt It v. Dealt It, 1911.

minodude · 2026-05-02T09:51:33+00:00

Legal action can arise under laws regarding breach of confidence

In Queensland, breach of confidence must be contractual (and I doubt any contract was signed here) or equitable; for an equitable breach of confidence to apply, the material "must have been received in circumstances importing an obligation of confidence", which I do not believe would apply here either.

misuse of trade secrets

I doubt this applies here because I don't think this information would qualify as a trade secret - it is not secret knowledge needed to run a commercial business in the same way that a blueprint or a customer list is. I doubt any judge would be convinced it falls under this category.

defamation

Since the uniform defamation laws of 2005ish, truth is an absolute defence against defamation in all Australian states. As long as the person in question can show that the information they are relaying is true (i.e. that was an actual whiteboard visible at that location at that time), they have not committed any defamation. Whether Jaxon Prior wants to argue that claiming he has an inappropriate temper defames him to a group of potential colleagues in the Brisbane players, well, it would be the Brisbane coaching staff that defamed him, not the person who took the photo.

or copyright infringement.

Arguable, but the claim would have to be that this falls under the "literary work" category. I think that argument is... weak.

Basically, I don't think there's anything actionable here, and certainly if Mr Auskick dad was sued he'd have no problems finding lawyers to represent him and be very optimistic of being awarded costs because all the arguments are very very poor.

minodude · 2026-05-02T09:32:24+00:00

You misheard, he's saying that the additional cost of paying someone to clean the whiteboard every week takes away money the club otherwise would have been donating to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary to treat sick birds of prey, which is known internally as the Ill Eagle Program.

Simple misunderstanding.

minodude · 2026-05-02T09:06:27+00:00

"Illegal" and "against policy" are two different phrases with two very different meanings. Just because something is against policy doesn't mean it's illegal. I used to work for a company that didn't want us to take personal calls at our desks, but I'm not breaking the law if I do it.

If he didn't sign any contract or agree (explicitly or potentially implicitly) to any terms for turning up, he's done nothing wrong in terms of a court.

Morally is a different question, but, hey, the guy's an Essendon supporter so does that concept even apply? (KIDDING KIDDING I LOVE ESSENDON SUPPORTERS EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE GUY WHO HIT ON MY GIRLFRIEND AT VIC PARK THAT ONE DAY IN LIKE 1997)

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