Yup. Calling themselves a "secondary college" is just a fancible term some high schools like to use. Gives them delusions of adequacy.
In Canberra, high schools only went up to year 10, while the secondary colleges had years 11 and 12.
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All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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billytea - Apr 01, 2005 6:57:59 pm PST #7591 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
evil jimi - Apr 01, 2005 7:11:10 pm PST #7592 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
yeah but Canberra is pretentious. Lording it up all over the rest of Australia.
Fiona - Apr 01, 2005 10:11:10 pm PST #7593 of 9843
Lovely Twistblog article, Jim, thanks for the link.
billytea - Apr 01, 2005 10:45:57 pm PST #7594 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
yeah but Canberra is pretentious. Lording it up all over the rest of Australia.
I'm sorry? Remind me how many years you lived there?
evil jimi - Apr 01, 2005 11:14:45 pm PST #7595 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
You couldn't pay me to live there. That close to that many federal MPs... ::shudder::
billytea - Apr 01, 2005 11:43:51 pm PST #7596 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You couldn't pay me to live there. That close to that many federal MPs... ::shudder::
So basically you don't know what you're talking about.
evil jimi - Apr 02, 2005 1:02:18 am PST #7597 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
oh for fuck's sake, I was joking
Sorry. I forgot Adelaide was the only Australian city Aussies are allowed to piss on. Won't make that mistake again sir. Sooooooooooo fucking sorry.
There, happy now?
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 1:54:39 am PST #7598 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
There, happy now?
Not particularly. Canberra gets flak all the time, and it's not joking. Plenty of places around the country are the butt of jokes (Adelaide is way down the list), but Canberra's the only place that deals with actual contempt. Canberra's the only one the rest of the country is actually resentful about.
Scrappy - Apr 02, 2005 5:32:38 am PST #7599 of 9843
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Why is that, Billytea? I know lots of Americans are contemptuous of New York City, but there is also an underlying respect for it, so it balances out.
billytea - Apr 02, 2005 5:39:58 am PST #7600 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Why is that, Billytea? I know lots of Americans are contemptuous of New York City, but there is also an underlying respect for it, so it balances out.
Because it was built to be the seat of government. So, Australia treats it as being somehow complicit in said government. A high proportion of the workforce is in the public service, which also attracts scorn, and the city was planned, which leads to jibes about sterility and being a city without a soul.