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  • The ACT has done a fantastic job in this field. If you’re a commuter you’ll rarely find yourself on a road, and if you do it will most likely have a permanent bike lane (no parked cars in sight)

    Sure, if you’re more of an adventurous cyclist like me and do more advanced rural cycling, you might end up on some roads (eg. when riding to Queanbeyan) but even that route has a bike lane.

    Shame that Adelaide, the “cycling capital” because of the Tour Down Under, has terrible bike infrastructure and timed bike lanes so people are allowed to park in them off-peak.
















  • This post is not going to express my support for or against the LGBT, for it is quite nuanced. However, I will offer my theory on why this lack of openly gay players exists.

    First of all: AFL players aren’t just put into a team. They have to go through years of training before they start professionally playing, in smaller, more local teams. While many gay players might enjoy the sport, many would be deterred from the sport because the training they do before becoming professional has a culture that make jokes about LGBT people, which can be commonly perceived as threatening to their identity.

    The truly gay men that do make it through fear loss of respect or sponsorships in a career that they throughly enjoy. They fear losing sporting progress. There always will be those who actively dislike the LGBT, as well as people who deeply support them. This brings about uncertainty.

    To conclude, as the world shifts to a more diverse and inclusive society, we are likely to see an increase of openly gay players in sports.




  • At a time I was working in a certain resteraunt, I was in the drive thru and a woman did laps of the drive though asking me how to make an account in the app, and then EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. DAMN. ORDERING. PROCESS. she did a lap of the drive through because she was puzzled and had no idea how to place an order. I suggested we could help her at the front counter but she insisted that she was in a hurry and the app was stupid. In the end, it was just a couple of simple menu items, that I could have added to the order manually within seconds. Some people…