Where does beef come from? etc.

Originally Posted by Venom

Sorry, I wasn't making fun of you. I was just stating an obvious fact that doesn't help like Plowsie did.

Like you mentioned, you can't assume East or West unless you know the road signs say the direction or which direction the towns lie.

Thats what I was trying to get at in my first post - obviously it didnt come across that way...

try spaghetti junction, yeah sure "East" is easy to figure out there...NOT
the M8 in Glasgow isn't much better. Anyway...

back to the topic in hand lol

Originally Posted by Venom

Like you mentioned, you can't assume East or West unless you know the road signs say the direction or which direction the towns lie.

My point was that if you are heading (roughly) south, then east is left and west is right. For about a mile and a half, I tried to pry this information out of her but to no avail. In the end, I had to resort to telling her to turn left.

There is a wide margin of intelligence between people of any age...not limited to apprentices or younger people!

I left school four years ago and I did know and still do know all of the things mentioned in the original post. However, other people within my year at school, the under-achievers so to speak, didn't know their butt from their elbow so it is not exactly suprising that some apprentices don't know what the definition of radius is. It's all about the calibre of the specimen if you get what I mean!

Originally Posted by Venom

Plus the sliproad off is always on the left on the motorway....

unless your on the M8 heading westbound where if you want to head Northwest (NNW)to Loch Lomond you take the left exit slip whereas head back southerly into town you take the right slip - it gets really confusing and could only happen here

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by fenjer

Neither would I... I'd expect left or right as directions, unless I had a map with me, then i could work out East and west.

Some of the nursery children my wee one goes to always answer with "Asda" when asked the source of any food product.

Eggs? Asda
Milk? Asda

But what animal do they come from?

A truck brings them to asda.

This is what comes from stupid giant supermarkets, and not proper butchers/greengrocers etc...

they have found scientific proof from the cavemen that foodstuffs have always come from the supermarkets



and many tribes in developing countries still hunt the old fashioned way


(both banksy )

Originally Posted by madness

I've just had my lunch in our works canteen and was amazed to find out that one of our apprentices didn't know that beef came from a cow!

your beef probably didnt come from a cow

When I was at college there was a lass who though that countries floated. As oppose to the Earth being a big ball of dirt she assumed somehow that it was a ball of water with islands floating on it.

She thought she could swim under England.

Originally Posted by Quedos

unless your on the M8 heading westbound where if you want to head Northwest (NNW)to Loch Lomond you take the left exit slip whereas head back southerly into town you take the right slip - it gets really confusing and could only happen here

You know I nearly wrote "you've not been on the M8 have you?" in an earlier post... I should have done... lol

The one that gets me is people working on tills
Bill comes to £8:47 so you give them £10:47 expecting £2:00 change
they just seem completely bamboozled,giving you the change from £10:00 as per the register on the till and your 0:47p back and when you ask why they didn't give you £2:00 instead of all the change
Makes me wonder how the modern generation would have coped with £.s.d.

And bar staff who find that the time it takes to pull two pints isn't long enough to work out the price in their head.