General Chat

Lorraine - love the story of the melting chair in the pond!!! Brill

What about those questions that began - if ten men take three days to dig a hole-------how many men will it take to------------

I could never understand the question leave alone the answer

If, Dee you have a lens 80 mm diameter what is the area?
if you now have two lenses, of 50 mm diameter what is the combined area?

thanks, Bob

real question is what is better, a telescope? or binoculars?

The sad thing is, I left school 39 years ago and I still haven't had the chance to use Pythagoras’ theorem.

Was this a waste of the teachers time?

rofpmsl

sorry
Dee x

Dee - at least you can remember it!!

I hated not knowing what the wool/material was for!!!
I ended up with the most foul 'dirty mustard' coloured knitted hairband (primary school) - and a 'baby doll' and nighte and knicker set (big 'gathered' knickers I may add) made in thick brown polka -dot cotton at grammar school!!
mmmmm sexy .....not!!

Pythagoras’ theorem

The square of the hypotenuse, (c2), is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, (a2 + b2).
Pythagoras’ theorem: c2 = a2 + b2

Errrr, why do I need to know this?

Dee x

Kaz, oh no, not the Villa!

Sewing ..

pin, tack and machine five-eigths of an inch in.

T

An English teacher telling the class - "If you don't know anything - you must know something".

Gwyn, I unpicked many a stitch and if I only concentrated I might have an apron that fitted, well I thought the rouched look was in *tut*

I can sew but it is 'after a fashion' lol My boys save their sewing for Nan to do. but I can still talk the footie with them !!

Kaz

Lol Kaz.

I remember that in a sewing class I had to unpick tacking because my stitches weren't quite of a uniform size.
They held the material fine, but No, out they had to come and be of equal space and size !

Gwyn

I loved school and even the crap stuff taught me something !! However, the most useless thing must be my sewing teacher telling me sewing was more important than football!! er... no lol

Kaz (at the back wiv the lads talking about the Villa)

my comp crashed but must answer $andie's Q : I had a family of reputation so they didn't want me in their classes esp cos me cousin had kneecapped a teacher

i learnt how to tell someone the content of my pencil case- IN FRENCH. now where is that going to get me?!

we used to get an hours detantion for not having our kit for p.e. in year 7 to 9 i forgot it everyweek as i would rather have a detantion and then i took double languages so as to avoid p.e for the other two years. all i know of double languages no is Ich habe ein pony ( it's a great tune)

lol my friend and i once managed to set fire to our work bench in science when we spilt alcohol and still thought it'd be a good idea to light the bunsen burner! whoops.

Learnt the countries of Africa in geography - they're all different now!!

Ann

your story of setting fire to your hair brought back a memory

I went to a catholic school and because me and my friend jane used to hate maths we would volunteer to clean the chapel, during maths lessons.

well we were happily hoovering away and we smelt burning, jane had turned the hoover on and also turned on a 3 bar electric fire that was in front of the Fathers plastic swivel chair which was slowly melting all over the foor had to drag the chair out and push it in the school pond.

Shakespeare --learning all these plays for Higher English and all the quotes,don`t remember one of them now , Ros xx

Valencies in chemistry- What were they all about?

I could have got by in life without having to learn about them.

Gwyn

Allegra is no use to me now as a nurse. nor was playing hockey in the winter -remember being frozen. Also at Guides walking in the winter to make a fire -I was soo cold I couldn`t eat, Ros xx

agree with blue moon about algebra never used it in working life and never understood it either

The other was Latin although i do know the latin names of flowers being a florist but never used it anywhere else

My worst was techincal drawing i used to get the boy next to me to do all my drawings until the teacher called me up to the front congratulated on my wonderful drawing and asked me to demonstate how i had drawn it on the board , didnt do that again.