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Anything fairly useless, you learned at school

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CATHKIN

CATHKIN Report 11 Feb 2008 11:33

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

Jax in Wales

Jax in Wales Report 11 Feb 2008 11:28

How to darn a pair of tights

1 i dont wear tights

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

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o°

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° Report 11 Feb 2008 11:23

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

SheilaSomerset

SheilaSomerset Report 11 Feb 2008 11:17

'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)

Researching:
Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia

♥~Muffy! ~♥

♥~Muffy! ~♥ Report 11 Feb 2008 11:16

LOL Errol xx

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 11 Feb 2008 11:15

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).

Researching:
Happy

Harry

Harry Report 11 Feb 2008 11:13

The devil favours his own Jeanette.

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

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 11 Feb 2008 11:12

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!

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){

}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 11 Feb 2008 11:09

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

♥~Muffy! ~♥

♥~Muffy! ~♥ Report 11 Feb 2008 11:05

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

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o°

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° Report 11 Feb 2008 10:57

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

Harry

Harry Report 11 Feb 2008 10:53

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

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