Mine was all boys, my sister went to a girls only school. We were certainly treated differently.

Ah yes, the announcement he made wearing a bullet proof vest

What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help

The web was pretty small in the '90s

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

To put dates on it (though South Australia is different) from colony onwards Australia was mostly Catholic, then the £5 poms came after the second world war, 1940s

Adelaide had a Protestant population of German heritage from early colonial days

As bad as he was, I think he was the last competent Liberal prime minister. I really don’t understand how that party still attracts votes.

The public funding of private schools was around before him.

Howard’s big legacy is GST replacing sales taxes

I wish I had gone through the public school system, the shit the Catholic system left me with and all. The men who I went to school with who I recently reconnected with are the most sexist and racist people under age 60 I have ever met. My circle of public school friends are much more progressive.

On the good side, that Pet Shop Boys’ song really resonates, though I avoided the internalised shame

It’s ok. They’ll work out which one is best and cancel it until one is left

I note that this is relatively easier in Australia as we have no right to free speech.

So it probably doesn’t account for the fact Americans must spend a large chunk of their spending money on health insurance which we don’t have to; not to mention the enormous cost should they become sick or injured

The system I work on uses “Y” and “N”.

If you’re able to use AOSP, I’m sure you can find methods of encrypted communication

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They hardly discount meat that expires the same day. I went in the Tuesday after Australia Day and they had a full display section of lamb chops expiring that day. Obviously they hadn’t had the Australia Day weekend lamb orders they expected.

None of the $~20 packs that I had gone there to buy were discounted more than 20c. I think they are allergic to offering actual discounts, to the point they’d rather throw out an entire display of lamb than offer them at a discount that would tempt people to change their that night dinner plans.

This feels like the mammal equivalent of a mast year

If it was it would be less than 3 hours not 4 hours

Now it just needs to be faster than cars

No java sounds like the best first choice in selecting a language

Raise Derry!

Loads of people use em dashes they’re standard typography marks with specific, distinct meaning to hyphens

So buy Australian. We have a small number of manufacturers