Irony.

Originally Posted by Rai86

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1 I try to go once a month. There is a place in Exeter called the Phoenix which host quite a lot of alt theatre and some really interesting stuff

But lets not tar us "youngens" with the same brush, old folk are just as uncultured as some of the young folk

Most of these old folk probably didn't try pasta until they were 30. Cultured?!

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Most of these old folk probably didn't try pasta until they were 30. Cultured?!

Oi not our fault, it didn't exist until we turned 30. Except for cans of spaghetti. We came from a generation that was exposed to a TV April fool of a report of the annual spaghetti harvest in Italy where you could see them cutting the spaghetti off the trees. People believed it.


We were also told to be really cultured we should drink Blue Nun and Black Tower. Although these days I like a nice Amarone

Originally Posted by timwilky

Oi not our fault, it didn't exist until we turned 30. Except for cans of spaghetti. We came from a generation that was exposed to a TV April fool of a report of the annual spaghetti harvest in Italy where you could see them cutting the spaghetti off the trees. People believed it.


We were also told to be really cultured we should drink Blue Nun and Black Tower. Although these days I like a nice Amarone

I've met more cultured yoghurt!

On the subject of irony

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Originally Posted by timwilky

We were also told to be really cultured we should drink Blue Nun and Black Tower. Although these days I like a nice Amarone

Aye, and angel cake covered with Angel Delight was the height of sophistication at dinner parties

If those who haven't read it only read one book in their lives then, to my mind at least, it should be 1984.

Civil liberties and the Labour govt? Google for statistics on CCTV cameras per head of population. Then read some of the arguments for and against ID cards. Look up whe previous government's plans for a DNA database and the child database. Then make up your own minds.

Then re-read 1984.

Oh, and Mr Squid - great picture, dude

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

It's not big and it's not clever

That'll be a dyslexic Dwarf then!

[L3nny]

There is no need to read 1984 as there is a film. Many hours of your life saved there.

It's funny how some people are amazed when someone doesn't know something they do. I was taught the volume of a cube in school and in the 16 years since I left I have never used it once, nor have I have I ever had to work out the value of a hypotenuse by using the sum of the square of the other two sides.

In fact 90% of the stuff I was taught at school has been of no relevance to me in adulthood a whatsoever. What would have been more helpfull would be if they teach you life skills such as how to service your car, how to buy a house etc which is what I thinks schools are starting to lean towards.

Most people in the world don't know the difference between a pointy and a curvy, doesn't mean they are thick or uneducated just means that that piece of information isn't relevant to them.

Noone knows everyting (apart from my Mrs of course lol)

Originally Posted by L3nny

There is no need to read 1984 as there is a film. Many hours of your life saved there.

It's funny how some people are amazed when someone doesn't know something they do. I was taught the volume of a cube in school and in the 16 years since I left I have never used it once, nor have I have I ever had to work out the value of a hypotenuse by using the sum of the square of the other two sides.

Really? I used the volume of a cube last week, I have a pretty much cubed shaped pond, and the instructions on the anti-algae chemical said 25ml per 1000 litres of water. So I measured the width and depth and calculated the volume, then converted cm3 to ml to figure out approx how many litres of water were in the pond.

I'm certainly not knocking people for not knowing something. Chris Tarrant says it bang on in who wants to be a millionaire, "only easy if you've been taught the answer". It's not about forgetting useless information over 16 years either, it's the under 20's I am talking about.

What I am knocking is the education system that seems to be failing those under 20's. I see it in every communication I have with my young cousins, young guys on this forum, my wife is a languages teacher and I see the kids books when she brings them home, etc. Some of her students know their French grammar better than they know their English.

And just because you've never used something it doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught, surely you are better off knowing the geometry of a hypotenuse so that the one day you do need it you are not stumped not knowing how to work it out. Last time I used it was measuring up and drawing out a design for a pannier rack for the tail of a bike, and needed to know on paper how long one of the bits of metal bar would need to be, the cross member that was going to brace the rectangle.

I'd like to think I would never decide not to read a book, because there was a film, but that's just me. I have two weeks on a sunbed in Majorca coming up and I'll take 2 or 3 books and get through the lot.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

I love this, you couldn't make it up.

That's doubleplusironic!