DyersEnd, because it is the fashion, all the fifty to sixty platoon in our area have one. They wait until the sun shines then sit in their brightly painted decorated and furnished garden houses with glasses of something. Handy to put the Grandchildren in when they get noisy too. Frank.
My arm is aching throwing things at the Tv during quiz shows, what are they teaching kids these days i ask. Quiz Master, "what do you do Tarquin" I am reading such and such at Oxford. Ok first question who won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, "Oh I know that, Napoleon" wrong. it cannot be I took "A"level History at school? Quiz Master, first question Hortense Moonwalker (guess when she was born) where was the Battle of Cambria fought, "Oh I know that my Granddad fought in the Desert" "Libya", Wrong, "It must have been, oh hang on it was my great grandad, the Dardanelles"? The kids they get those shows know nothing of History or Geography subjects knocked into us at school we could list every Monarch from Canute to modern days. They have no trivia knowledge but then they do not read books and Encyclopaedia's as we did not having a house full of electronic gadgets to play silly games on. If the quiz shows are anything to go on the modern children will bring up the next generation totally ignorant of life before they were born. Frank, Gnashing teeth and cracking knuckles.
It won’t be needed in future days Frank. theres only so many places for historians, not many. maths and science will be the way to go. My grandson, who’s a clever lad, stopped doing history, geography and art when he was 12 so he could concentrate on maths and scientists. Most jobs in the future will be from computers, even tractor driving.
I dont think we learn trivia trivia at school, we pick up snippets as we go through life.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
... who won the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, "Oh I know that, Napoleon" wrong. it cannot be I took "A"level History at school? ....
We took Wonky and her brother to Waterloo ... thought they could learn a bit of history, but from the displays there you'd be totally convinced that Napoleon won
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The word 'humane' annoys me. It is often used to describe doing a bad thing in a nice, guilt-free touchy/feely way. (e.g. humane slaughter) It is also a word that holds the arrogance to assume that the default mode for humans is 'nice'.
I must be watching a different University Challenge. I am pleased with myself if I know the answers to more than a small handful of questions but some of these young people buzz in again and again with the right answers. That said, on other quiz shows the gaps in contestants’ general knowledge is often alarming, an ignorance by no means confined to the younger generation.
One of my favourites: ‘Whose flag flies over the Faeroes?’ ‘Errr ... Egypt?’
Lyn, It is always needed, we took Math Science and Chemistry as the main subjects then went into Industry, we found that many skills made an Engineer from how they built the Pyramids, rock formations (foundations) and often the History of things from the Industrial era came to our salvation. The fuel pump went on the truck I was driving miles out in the Desert, what to do. Luckily it was a machinery truck so taking a Jerry can and drilling a hole in it, soldering a nozzle to the hole fitting a rubber tube to that tying the can on the cab roof and the tube to the inlet on the float chamber i gravity fed the fuel to the engine. I had read the first engines were gravity fed in a Encyclopaedia as a lad it got me back. We use trivia more than we think in our everyday work and conversations, a lot of gardening knowledge is folk law we learned as wee ones, life would be very boring without it. Any one up for a game of trivia? Frank.
DyersEnd, because it is the fashion, all the fifty to sixty platoon in our area have one. They wait until the sun shines then sit in their brightly painted decorated and furnished garden houses with glasses of something. Handy to put the Grandchildren in when they get noisy too. Frank.
But as soon as I've finished painting mine will have gardening gear and bags of compost and old pots and seed trays so there won't be room for me and a glass of anything to sit around. I have a toddler great grandchild and she loves it in there but it's empty at the moment so she's allowed.
Typical brits! We get sun practically every day, our football team have made us proud, and best of all, the dry weather has kept the slugs at bay this year - and all you guys can do is find stuff to moan about. Well, I’m off to start a thread called ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’. I refuse to take part in this moan fest!!! Ya boo to all you grumpy types.
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Quiz Master, first question Hortense Moonwalker (guess when she was born) where was the Battle of Cambria fought, "Oh I know that my Granddad fought in the Desert" "Libya", Wrong, "It must have been, oh hang on it was my great grandad, the Dardanelles"?
The kids they get those shows know nothing of History or Geography subjects knocked into us at school we could list every Monarch from Canute to modern days. They have no trivia knowledge but then they do not read books and Encyclopaedia's as we did not having a house full of electronic gadgets to play silly games on.
If the quiz shows are anything to go on the modern children will bring up the next generation totally ignorant of life before they were born.
Frank, Gnashing teeth and cracking knuckles.
theres only so many places for historians, not many.
maths and science will be the way to go.
My grandson, who’s a clever lad, stopped doing history, geography and art when he was 12 so he could concentrate on maths and scientists.
Most jobs in the future will be from computers, even tractor driving.
I dont think we learn trivia trivia at school, we pick up snippets as we go through life.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
(e.g. humane slaughter)
It is also a word that holds the arrogance to assume that the default mode for humans is 'nice'.
You can buy black sticky bitumen type pint that waterproofs the shed and then you stick the felt to it.
One of my favourites: ‘Whose flag flies over the Faeroes?’ ‘Errr ... Egypt?’
The fuel pump went on the truck I was driving miles out in the Desert, what to do. Luckily it was a machinery truck so taking a Jerry can and drilling a hole in it, soldering a nozzle to the hole fitting a rubber tube to that tying the can on the cab roof and the tube to the inlet on the float chamber i gravity fed the fuel to the engine. I had read the first engines were gravity fed in a Encyclopaedia as a lad it got me back.
We use trivia more than we think in our everyday work and conversations, a lot of gardening knowledge is folk law we learned as wee ones, life would be very boring without it.
Any one up for a game of trivia?
Frank.