Useless Subjects at School

[mike A]

And the periodic table, lest we forget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8dtquYDXEU

 

[Scunner]

Sex education was at 13 for us, it seemed very amusing indeed but pretty irrelevant. I'll never forget the horror of the scene before us, our teacher, fiddling with a johnny  

[Stan]

Did Johnny not mind ?

[Scunner]

He was fed up of being ribbed

[steveb1]

do not rub him up the wrong way

[stoop]

quote:Originally posted by Scunner

Now I recall a different problem. Being left handed, this caused the hand to follow the pen, and with fountain pens this caused smudging the ink and giving me a blue hand from little finger tip to wrist. Nobody cared.

I'm a lefty as well and can remember the great difficulty in writing with fountain pens. Nibs were not meant to be pushed!

Also simple things like writing in a book and holding the left page down with your right arm/hand. No thought for us poor left handers at all!

Subjects? Well I'm yet to find any use for the dovetail joints I was forced to learn how to make.

[mike A]

Some sinister people on this forum then.
 

[KKOB]

Well, we made allowances for you lot by driving on the left in the UK, how do you get on with driving on the right ? Or is that all wrong too?  

[Fredfox]

You may feel all this as useless, but we had to do our maths through Gaelic, also Latin, French as well as Teagasc Criostai (Catechism). All this certainly prepared me for a bright future in Banking in the UK!. This may have had some impact on the present day Banking Problems?.

[Fredfox]

You may feel all this as useless, but we had to do our maths through Gaelic, also Latin, French as well as Teagasc Criostai (Catechism). All this certainly prepared me for a bright future in Banking in the UK!. This may have had some impact on the present day Banking Problems?.