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Trampolining. My school had a relatively successful team so everyone had to do it in PE.
Mixed PE so did get to see a lot of female teenage gusset action when I was 'spotting'.
Wasn't so good when one of the lads forgot his kit and had the PE teachers 'baggy blues' on (as we called them)
from the spare kit box. Saw many a hairless nutsack in a grotesque display of repeated brief weightlessness followed
by full testicular freefall. I probably deserve compensation for having had to witness that. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Latin.
Hated it but in my day and at my Grammar school the masters liked to beat it into you if you were a bit slow so I can still remember some Latin - to love AMO, AMAS, AMAT, AMAMUS, AMATIS, AMANT. It shows how good a stick is to get you to learn as that was 45 years ago and I have never used it between then and now ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Not sure about hadrons,but i learnt a lot about hardons as the old page 3 bird Maria Whittaker was in my year at school. ____________________ Current Bike - 2000 ZX-7R |
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jnw010 wrote: | Particle physics. Quarks, neutrons, hadrons. |
Surely it's always useful to know how the world and the universe works? Sure, it's not useful in day-to-day life but it's part of a rounded education. You could argue that trampolining is less important, or learning about Mondrian or something, but science is key to everything that happens around us.
Without science we'd probably still be doing human sacrifices to fictional deities.
I remember a lot from school, and I honestly can't remember anything that hasn't been useful at some time. Maybe the project I did on the site and service scheme in Blantyre Malawi for GCSE Geography... dunno. Or Football. I never found that productive or useful. However, I have used my schoolboy German and French, I've used lots of maths. I find science endlessly fascinating and studied physics at University. RE, although boring enables me to argue on a reasonable level with religious nutters, and cooking, needlework, woodwork and metalwork have all been useful to me at some point or other. I've never been able to draw but I don't recall my school ever trying to teach that, but teaching the history of art and things like that which I do remember a bit when I go into museums and stuff.
Even music, my GF is a grade 7 or 8 Flute player and just to know what the notes are called and the basics like that enables me to talk to her on some level about it, even if I'm not at her level myself.
If I didn't study English at school, I wouldn't be able to write this post in such an eloquent way... go figure! ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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The entire subject of English literature (as opposed to English language).
I can appreciate the value of literature, I'm an avid reader. Studying it as an academic subject however is a waste of everyones time and effort and I suspect has turned more people off the concept of reading for pleasure than anything else. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Force feeding kids Shakespeare is a great way to put them off it. It should be ostentatiously banned in schools to give it some cred.
Derailing, my most life-informative class was geography. Not because of the curriculum, but the teacher, an ex squaddie who would regale us with tales of being stationed in North Africa, a wretched hive of scum and villainy. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I don't mind English Literature, except for all the poncing about, making excuses about why the author wrote it. I don't care about social commentary, I just like a good story. If your opinion didn't agree with the teacher's, they didn't like it. You were supposed to learn what academics had to say about the book, not have your own ideas, which kind of always annoyed me. You got marked down if you didn't pretty much say the same as what it said in bloody Cliffs Notes.
... but I hated poetry.
I had elocution lessons when I was about 11, and I had to recite poetry ad infinitum ... did my fuckin' nut in. It put me right off poetry as a genre when I got to high school. My attitude was that Percy Bish-Bosh can go and do one, and so can Beowulf. Kind of wish I'd read Beowulf now, of course, but I still can't get over that dislike of short lines of text concocted with general poetic smugness. (apart from limericks, of course )
The problem with English Lit is that I prefer to read a book literally, as a story, not as a complicated disposition on modern society. I hated having to unpick why they said this or that, and I didn't really care why Eliza Doolittle was a victim of her upbringing or who the fuck Pygmalion really was . I just wanted to enjoy the story. And get a chance to go to the cinema and watch the glorious Hepburn and Harrison at work
I'm thinking about picking up some A levels in my spare time, to move forward with some late-in-life-learning type of thing, and English Language and Literature is one of the ones on offer at basic-mature-student level, so I might have to pretend I know what they all mean to get through that, but I only really want to read the story. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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MarJay wrote: |
Without science we'd probably still be doing human sacrifices to fictional deities. |
There is a certain culture that claims to have had the jump on everyone else where it comes to science, maths etc, and yet many of them do subscribe to human sacrifices to a fictional deity. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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A large proportion of what I was taught at No.2 School of Trade Training, RAF Cosford for an Avionics and Aerospace Studies course. I never thereafter needed to know how a Colpitt's oscillator works, not even during any of my subsequent postings. But doing it at tech rather than mech level was a fast track to better pay, so on second thoughts, maybe it wasn't entirely useless ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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AshWebster wrote: | biggest waste of time was English lit. who cares about writing stories? |
People who write stories? Many of them seem to do rather well out of it, wish I was good at it. "Here you go Mr. King, here's a $2million advance for your next work, let us know when it's finished." ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 297 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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