General Chat

We must all have something at the back of our minds and never had chance to use it.
Mine is Twelfth night - an airy fairy way of saying 'you can have too much of a good thing'.

If music be the food of love,
give me excess of it;
So that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and thence die.

Your little bit of stored knowledge.?

Happy days

The only bit of French that stuck in my mind

"ce n'est pas une vache c'est un taureau"

Translates to

it is not a cow it is a bull

Not used it since

Hi Harry.

My piece of useless school knowledge is the Latin verb to be:

Sum
Es
Est
Sumus
Estis
Sunt.

Can safely say I have never used it since xx

Osmosis is the transpiration of water through a semi-permeable membrane from a weaker to a stronger solution

Learnt that for my biology O'level and couldn't believe my luck when it was on the paper as I hadn't revised anything else! lol

Ooh so much...metalwork (took me 3 years to make a bottleopener that wouldn't) woodwork (3 years to make half a toast rack), chemistry (set fire to the lab) biology (thought it was going to be about sex and it was about plants!)....in fact looking back most of what I learnt turned out useless!

The devil favours his own Jeanette.

three good replies. thanks for the interest.
XXXfive - thanks DeeXXX (and Colin)
Happy days

A quoi sert an aspirateur?
Un aspirateur sert a nettoyer les tapis.
(French O level oral exam)
I use that one constantly every time I go to France - always gets me out of a situation.

(What good is a vacuum cleaner? A vacuum cleaner cleans carpets.)

I deliberately hang out in French hotel bedrooms waiting for maids so that I might pose just such a question to test their professionalism (marks from un to dix).

LOL Errol xx

'The quality of mercy is not strained
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath'.

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (O Level)

Errol I'd get a "holiday" if I replied to that one!

How to darn a pair of tights

1 i dont wear tights

2 id rather have a life and buy a new pair lol

Allgebra and trigonometry--what use are they to me in nursing?
Ros xx

Ros they only teach you algebra and trigonometry so you can help your kids with it in later life who wont use it either lol

Grammar........... no one uses it much these days, have you noticed the news readers??

AND..... how to make an Apple ball, with custard!!

It's an apple pie for one.;-0(
Once married I had to make apple pies for 'many'.
That is all I can remember at the moment.

Deanna X

Latin Mythology - only comes in useful in crosswords!!

Stood up in class and asked the teacher what good would this subject be to me in later life - she went mental!!! Replied "What do you keep in that curly head of yours"!!!!!!!!!

Colin - the nearest we ever got to sex in Grammar school was the reproduction process of the common fern - stimulating it was not!

sex lessons were given free in the playground when I was at school.

I did not believe a word of it!!

Deanna X

did sound very unlikely didn't it!! strange but true as they say

How useful to Know the difference between a cow and a bull LOL

Domestic science, runny apple crumble and inedible stews.

What were Logarithums for and all those tables. When did you last use an adjective with a pronoun? Future perfect and past participles ? Who knows the rules of Hockey.

Boy were we ever prepared for the big bad world !!!!

Like Ros - definitely Algebra and Trig + Logarithms! .....and decimal coinage - etc. to this day I struggle (without a calculator) to multiply or divide them!

The maths teacher used to say I was wasting his time - and I would reply that I felt my time was being wasted - and then get detention for insolence.... so after a while I just didn't attend the lessons.