Thisfox

joined 2 years ago
[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We all know a yank asked this one. They always assume we are all from the US.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Similar to Memrise, which was really fun when you could make your own mems using imagesearch and customise everything.... And now is a rubbish duolingo clone.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Theyrealmost all just their faces.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The public school uniforms are heavily subsidised and students parents tend to buy them for them. If a family member cannot afford one, for whatever reason, they can have a confidential meeting with a yearmaster and the school will buy it for them (it's the same uniform, the school just sends someone out to the uniform shop to buy a uniform of the correct size), but that rarely happens, as it is cheaper than buying the kid a shirt and shorts that aren't a uniform. A lot of kids just live in their uniform weekdays, as they're cheap hard-wearing clothes the parents don't have to pay as much for.

No idea about private schools, but they're probably richer families, I guess.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Here in Australia school uniforms are compulsory for public (gov run) primary and high schools, and usually in private schools. Students wear a uniform to school from age 5 to 18. They are thought to place everyone, rich and poor, on the same level. They are definitely not political. How odd to think what a 10 year old wears to school is a political statement!

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Cruise causes microplastics in whales and is the creation of people consulting a buddhist monk? Hmmm.

Bloody stupid bot.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Yet more proof that the US is foreign as hell.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If your plug is not plugged in completely flush with the wall power point so a penny (or etc) can fit between the plug and powerpoint and yet the power can get through, then there is something very wrong.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

No one seems to be paying much attention to it.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Rental cars are incredibly expensive in some states. If I wanted to rent one in Tasmania for ten days, it would have been cheaper to buy a car and abandon it than rent one. Less of a problem at home in NSW.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I have, incidentally. Not on purpose: My father rearranged a room whilst I was away, putting the entire disc collection on the north-west-facing wall of the house. Bookcase heated and cooked the lot in the afternoon summer sun that January. He was upset when I explained why nothing worked any more.

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

No idea. It seems obvious that this is designed for the vision-impaired.....

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