in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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... ah after a while we found out he had a real severe eye disorder. And he needed an operation. So that pretty well held him back from all sports. He couldn't throw a basketball because his vision was not straight. He would always have to turn his head to look straight. So he wasn't eye-hand-coordinated at all and he- he couldn't play any sports. |
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I-don-t-know, there was three of us and we did what we had to do. ... And ah he's- ah he- pretty well modeled after me. He got into trouble with the lo-- he'd like to do what I liked to do and kind of worried me but in the end he got out of it so. |
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I-mean, when we were growing up, we had long, cold winters. Minus fifty, minus sixty was pretty well every year for nine months. But now, we got about six months- five, six months of winter and that's it. So, it's more nicer to live here. Ah the houses are a lot nicer. |
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It just continuation from building houses I guess. It's ah, it's not too too complicated once you figure things out. ... Yeah, well, they're all pretty well built the same way. It's ah- it's not so so bad. |
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The same way for building a house? Well, you got your diagrams, you like- when you're- whenever you build a house you got to have your diagrams and everything now like building codes now they have it's built, so everything has to be pretty well built the same way. Like if you got to build a house now, it's all two by six construction or- your studs are always going to be sixteen inch centres. |
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... every year try to update the family so whenever you change an address or somebody has a baby in the family they send it to her and she updates the list and- ... So we've always pretty well had a list of ah- as all the changes but ... it's quite the chore to keep it change- going ... |
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... like I could do other stuff but I was just as worried about that. ... I didn't know what would happen there. ... But anyway ah, that's pretty well, I-guess, up until now. I've been in here for- ah- well I came in in nineteen-eighty-two. |
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... TERRA changed me a lot because bef-- before high-school I had my pretty tight knit group of friends. ... Ah, most of my friends that I grew up with like in grade-eight and-stuff-like-that, but TERRA because you're pretty well secluded from everybody for an entire semester, like my friends group changed- ... |
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Speaker: Oh, it would be the atypical high-school groups. You got your preps, you got your geeks, you got your nerds, your jocks, yeah, like- Interviewer: That scene in Mean-Girls (laughs). Speaker: Yeah pretty well- Interviewer: The tables and- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah. Interviewer: Oh that's terrible. |
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Speaker: And there are the jocks that all play hockey and fool around and- ... And there's the little Catholic girls that all sit- ... Over in one corner and yeah- Interviewer: It's like their assigned seats. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well, yeah- |
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The mines used to have ah have a party once a month. ... Oh it was- it was- it- mostly dancing. Pretty well dancing. And there were lots of bands in those days. |
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No, I- I think we covered pretty well everything. |
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... it was just, ah, you didn't know these kids that well. And ah, they didn't know you. And ah, so- ... Yeah, so you stayed pretty well in your own area. You had your own group, and you hung around together. |
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Interviewer: So you were raised in Cobalt though? Speaker: Ah, I lived my first year and a half in North-Cobalt and then moved here in like ninety-four. Now we live in- in this trailer my whole life. Pretty well. |
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Speaker: Everyone's related. Interviewer: It's just like all family. Speaker: Pretty well. It's just all my cousins and- ... So, it was just small- it was just still really small. |
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Interviewer: Is the drama here worse than Liskeard? ... Speaker: No like you have- there's like two groups of people basically it's just like- like stoners downtown pretty well- |
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Speaker: I drank way before Peter ever did. Interviewer: For a while you and Peter were like inseparable and you- whenever I saw you guys, you were drunk. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well. |
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Yeah you just mess around all the time. That's why I jedi'd pretty well. That's the only reason why I wanted to. |
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I do part of Arthur's job, I can do part of Brandy's job which is you-know part of the invoicing. Um, Arthur does the ah quoting and-all-that. I can do the graphics. Ah, I do some of the binda-- I-mean, you name it, I can pretty well do it in here. |
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I-mean the water's pretty well polluted down there anyways ... |
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