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Hence use of the phrase 'power-generating' rather than 'electricity-generating'....
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| Posted: 07:55 - 04 Jul 2019 Post subject: |
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You might have pretended not to be talking about electric generation, |
You do make me laugh!!! It isn't a matter of me 'pretending' to not talk about electricity generation when talking about Victorian prisons - I wasn't 'pretending' about anything because I wasn't 'pretending' that Victorian treadmills in prisons were used for generating electricity.
A lot of the time the power wasn't actually used for anything, and the treadmill was used for exercise/punishment. This is part of the reason why the Government banned them.
If you want to try to score points, pick a subject you know something about rather than assuming that your ability to Google makes you cleverer than everybody else 
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Well the point of my idea is that it's voluntary. It'd fail dismally of course. After the initial flurry of mini-celebs being pictured on the modified exercise bikes and "doing their bit" (selflessly, I might add, and without desire for publicity to boost their so called career...)
Anyhoo, after the song and dance the place will be deserted. I'd then try and drum up some interest in the local press:
"...it's this generation. They say they want to save the planet but they just don't want to put the effort in! That's why, from this weekend, we're introducing a new incentive system. For every kilowatt hour you generate you'll be rewarded with a virtue point and you can spend these at the end of a session on a range of vegan-friendly milkshakes available in the cafeteria. What's that? Flavours? No, I'm not expecting anyone will actually drink them..."
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| Posted: 12:22 - 04 Jul 2019 Post subject: |
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Ah, you've Googled it so you now know what your talking about. Good one.
I'll believe you. Nice back pedal. 
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I presume that is a pun? 
No, I happen to know about these things because my daughter is studying crime and punishment for GCSE History and Victorian prisons is a topic I have helped her with.
Also, I don't need to Google to know that Victorian treadmills weren't used to generate electricity, because the rotation of a treadmill is very slow and not sufficient to generate a useable current without complicated and potentially unreliable gearing. Also, any current generated would be sporadic due to a lack of practical batteries. Also, there was no National Grid until after WW1, so any current generated would have to be used locally, and Victorian prisons didn't use electricity until a reliable and consistent source was available. This doesn't require Google to understand, but I'm sure if you Google it you will find that I am correct....
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| mpd72 wrote: | | Diggs wrote: | my daughter is studying crime and punishment for GCSE History and Victorian prisons is a topic I have helped her with.
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That should come in useful in life. |
Not sure if you are being sarcastic here... Assuming you are, how else can a kid learn about who they are bar studying history?
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I wanted to study subjects which may be useful in life and career |
I am very happy for you and your positive life choices. Given that you do something in computers for a living, that makes English Language, Computer Studies and possibly Maths as relevant. Actually, forget Computer Studies as you would have been learning outdated stuff, and Maths you can do on a calculator, so that just leaves English Language. What did you study for the other 8 GCSEs that was more relevant to life than History?
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| Diggs wrote: | [so that just leaves English Language. What did you study for the other 8 GCSEs that was more relevant to life than History? |
3 sciences, maths, geography and 2 extra languages for a start. Living your life in the past with history, is hardly a way to prepare for the future, not is "media studies" or "art", unless you;'re that 1 in a 1,000.
On top of that, our history teacher was a twat living in the past. He spent more time teaching rules about how we needed to draw a margin exactly 30mm from the left of the page, to write his dictated abbreviations next to, than he actually did teaching the boring subject of history.
"In the ind. rev. .... blah blah blah.."
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Out of curiosity, what use is knowing the difference between kinetic and mechanical energy, the difference between a chloride and a chlorate, what a stamen is and which countries produce coco-beans to your job with computers? Languages perhaps if you use them in addition to English...
Face it, other than English Language and a bit of Maths, 99% of what is taught at school isn't strictly relevant to our jobs. Without it though, you wouldn't know who you are, where you came from and what exists beyond your PlayStation. Without that you don't have the ability to form a reasoned view on anything...
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| Diggs wrote: | Out of curiosity, what use is knowing the difference between kinetic and mechanical energy, the difference between a chloride and a chlorate, what a stamen is and which countries produce coco-beans to your job with computers? Languages perhaps if you use them in addition to English...
Face it, other than English Language and a bit of Maths, 99% of what is taught at school isn't strictly relevant to our jobs. Without it though, you wouldn't know who you are, where you came from and what exists beyond your PlayStation. Without that you don't have the ability to form a reasoned view on anything... |
Those studies teach you how things work in the here and now. A skill set which can come in useful from everything from technology to mechanics to medicine, which let’s face it, is just biological mechanics.
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| mpd72 wrote: | | Diggs wrote: | Out of curiosity, what use is knowing the difference between kinetic and mechanical energy, the difference between a chloride and a chlorate, what a stamen is and which countries produce coco-beans to your job with computers? Languages perhaps if you use them in addition to English...
Face it, other than English Language and a bit of Maths, 99% of what is taught at school isn't strictly relevant to our jobs. Without it though, you wouldn't know who you are, where you came from and what exists beyond your PlayStation. Without that you don't have the ability to form a reasoned view on anything... |
Those studies teach you how things work in the here and now. A skill set which can come in useful from everything from technology to mechanics to medicine, which let’s face it, is just biological mechanics. |
I agree, but you criticising a child's choice of History because she may not use what she learns in later life is so hypocritical unless you actually use all the things you learned at school in your job.
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