Experience Whose Australia Exactly?

I went to government school in Australia for 12 years. I can honestly say I have never witnessed a student wearing a tie, long sleeved shirt with shorts (or acubra).

In fact, I have never seen any student wear a tie. Or (since 1986) a long sleeve shirt.

http://www.ajf.australia.or.jp/english/studyaus/primary/eakit/index.html

Why is my government lying to the Japanese?? See that picture at the bottom of the page of Japanese students? Yeah, that's more like what we wore -- what they're holding? Not so much.

(For the record, boys wore shorts and girls wore skirts / shorts. Both wore polo tops (plus jumper / tracksuit in Winter). In high school jeans replaced tracksuit bottoms.)

Modern Definition of the Working Class

From a Metafilter comment:

"If your inability to exchange your labour for capital renders you fucked then you are working class."

Needless to say, this places me firmly in the working class...

Ribena. Not so much with the Vitamin C

So it turns out that while blackcurrents do indeed contain 'four times the vitamin C of oranges' Ribena, does not.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1882695.htm

Obligatory First Post

Every post to The Radioactive Yak is carefully considered and drafted. This blog is the exact opposite. Whenever I send an email to a friend about something I've seen online or read in an email I'll BCC this blog. The end result will (hopefully) be a free-form archive of cool crap I've seen online and thought worth sharing.

The original readers of these posts know when I'm being serious. So. If you don't know me, and you're offended by something you read here, assume my tone was either joking and / or sarcastic.

Also, I have to point out that I've shamelessly stolen the concept from this blog that I stumbled across while checking my Technorati backlinks.