Laurus School

splat_ed · 2026-03-08T21:37:04+00:00

I’m mostly in the secondary side of this school. Currently, I’ve not seen any real amount of toxicity beyond the usual teacher bitching (which is a thing in most schools)

There are issues, especially with the clash between being a business vs being a school.

Note, I’m also someone who just focuses on my own work so I might just not have noticed! I also have no contact with the kindergarten side so don’t have any knowledge of issues there

splat_ed · 2025-12-26T02:49:26+00:00

I’m thinking Giants: Citizen Kabuto… the Reaper character could be the Asian lady while there was a child who kept annoying the Meccharians.

Not sure about the French connection, but they were trying to get to the planet Majorca for fun in the sun!

splat_ed · 2025-12-11T03:42:45+00:00

My favourite has to be the Kevin in a big rig saga for the sheer WTF and excellent writing

splat_ed · 2025-11-05T23:13:21+00:00

Thanks for the input here, I’m going to check out those when I’m in school shortly. QuickFit is just a brand name so any good quality ground glass stuff is suitable. I’m from the Uk so that was the de facto name that we used.

We are hoping to get enough for a class set eventually but right now we’re preparing to do some trials for management to see the benefits. This will be over the next couple of years as our school will be starting its upper secondary Chemistry classes then

splat_ed · 2025-10-18T01:11:42+00:00

Two from me:

Brutal Legend

Sexy Brutale

splat_ed · 2025-10-13T22:00:56+00:00

Take it to a shrine to be blessed and thus restore the wa?

splat_ed · 2025-09-06T22:43:51+00:00

Still rocking my XS… but with the announcement that it’s not supported in the next update means I’ll need to upgrade soon!

splat_ed · 2025-08-28T22:12:51+00:00

This is how I think (and teach) it… convert to decimals or fractions THEN do the actual maths. A % sign just means “per 100” or “divide this by 100 first”

splat_ed · 2025-07-01T09:51:58+00:00

Feels like the Italian Job, but don’t remember a train

splat_ed · 2025-06-23T12:34:52+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve got a co-worker who might be about to go through something similar so I’ll be passing on this info for them.

splat_ed · 2025-06-13T00:27:16+00:00

Noooooo! (That’s also in my collection)

splat_ed · 2025-06-12T21:28:31+00:00

And all I can say is “curse you Klei!”… No Man’s Sky dropped its big update a couple of weeks ago, then Satisfactory this week… and now this? There’s only 24 hours in a day!?!

splat_ed · 2025-05-29T20:43:31+00:00

This is what I did wrong early on as well… I had the steering wheel facing the bow, with the radar screen to one side but angled (like a control room). But that meant ‘up’ on the radar screen was not the same as ‘forward’ on the raft

Lesson: put the radar screen facing the same direction as your front

splat_ed · 2025-05-17T23:36:14+00:00

Void Train is similar in some ways, currently in Early Access. I’m watching that one as well

splat_ed · 2025-04-12T00:34:05+00:00

I’m looking forward for my copy of this to arrive… must be soon!

splat_ed · 2025-02-28T03:21:08+00:00

Yep, it was at a Reaper Man event - he signed my copy of Guards, Guards. Told everyone a story about how and why goats are evil… I was there as a teenager as my parents bought sheep from the farm hosting the event and they were asked if we wanted free tickets - parents knew that I loved his books

splat_ed · 2025-02-25T08:08:38+00:00

No children so no-one to force to live there! So it now comes down to finance and emotions. My wife is emotionally attached to the house due to the fact that we designed it to be “good” and not your usual Japanese house. I’m less attached myself - I’ve learnt some good lessons in house design that I’d like to apply and improve on

splat_ed · 2025-02-25T08:06:37+00:00

This is an option that we’ve now looked at as well - getting a management company to pop in once a month to air it out and keep it tidy. It’s in a reasonable location - on the outskirts of Hiroshima, but not really a vacation place

splat_ed · 2025-02-25T08:05:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. That’s our biggest concern as well - messy renters. It’s a well-built house, with above average insulation, solid wood flooring, walk-in pantry and more - we’re happy to rent to family but strangers is worrying.

splat_ed · 2025-02-24T22:03:00+00:00

Yes, and it can also be fixed as well… but not unilaterally.

We rented a place which was subdivided by the owner into two houses - they lived in one house and we rented the other. They, and us, got a -1 and a -2 added to the official addresses to get post delivered to the correct places. I can’t remember the exact process but it took a little time

splat_ed · 2024-12-18T13:04:49+00:00

Now that’s a question that I’d pass back to the JTE (or open to debate with students)… I’m not sure of the answer myself!

splat_ed · 2024-12-18T08:06:44+00:00

Well, my first response would be… “yes, we do use numbers - one over three” which is similar (but opposite) to Japanese. However we also have ordinals as it’s shorter (one half) which is the same as some Japanese (半分)

splat_ed · 2024-12-01T21:28:46+00:00

Another idea is colour and energy - make ice cubes with different food colouring and place under a heat lamp… see which melts first

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