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TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:20 pm

thebish wrote:

TANGODANCER wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

The past is made of gold. The older your qualification, the higher the standard. Tango must be a f&cking genius. Pru might aswell shovel shit all his life. Blah, blah, bleat etc.

No comparing what we learned with now. Most of our subjects aren't bothered with today

for example?

I was talking school, not university (never went). History, Geography, wood and metal-work, music, dance, tech-drawing, baking and hygene for girls etc. My point was each era is progressive, so comparison is all a bit pointless. We're all geniuses in that golden glow of recollection. I got a City and Guilds Advanced, finishing second in all England in my trade. It was never worth a carrot.

thebish · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:35 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:

thebish wrote:

TANGODANCER wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

The past is made of gold. The older your qualification, the higher the standard. Tango must be a f&cking genius. Pru might aswell shovel shit all his life. Blah, blah, bleat etc.

No comparing what we learned with now. Most of our subjects aren't bothered with today

for example?

I was talking school, not university (never went). History, Geography, wood and metal-work, music, dance, tech-drawing, baking and hygene for girls etc.

all these are still taught - and all three of my kids learned baking. so - I don't understand your claim that "most of our subjects aren't bothered with today" (also - girls "hygiene" is taught - but not as an qualifiable subject - and I doubt it was in your day..)

Worthy4England · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:37 pm

Seconds Out. Round 2. :-)

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:03 pm

thebish wrote:

TANGODANCER wrote:

thebish wrote:

TANGODANCER wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

The past is made of gold. The older your qualification, the higher the standard. Tango must be a f&cking genius. Pru might aswell shovel shit all his life. Blah, blah, bleat etc.

No comparing what we learned with now. Most of our subjects aren't bothered with today

for example?

I was talking school, not university (never went). History, Geography, wood and metal-work, music, dance, tech-drawing, baking and hygene for girls etc.

all these are still taught - and all three of my kids learned baking. so - I don't understand your claim that "most of our subjects aren't bothered with today" (also - girls "hygiene" is taught - but not as an qualifiable subject - and I doubt it was in your day..)

Since you must make a debate out of everything I say, then I bow to your superior knowlege.
Most of these things are taught today. Didn't know there was still a need for seagrass stools, pipe racks or sets of metal fire irons or knowing the words to The Ash Grove or dancing a foxtrot. Bring back Ceylon, Rhosesia and mental arithmetic I say.

Harry Genshaw · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:48 pm

I assumed Tango was referring to such subjects as Latin? I suppose there are still the odd crusty places that teach it but it wont be as widespread as it was pre say 1974.

Prufrock · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:56 pm

Oi, Latin is ace!

thebish · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:01 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:

Most of these things are taught today.

yep. really - what is taught today isn't as far removed from what you were taught in your day and what I was taught in my day as you seem to think - really it's not..

and - my own perception is that my kids have been better taught than I was...

(apart from Latin - they have covered every subject I did - and more - for they have done Italian and ICT, which I never did...)

it simply isn't even close to being true that most of the subjects you were taught are not bothered with today...

thebish · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:01 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:

I assumed Tango was referring to such subjects as Latin? I suppose there are still the odd crusty places that teach it but it wont be as widespread as it was pre say 1974.

if he was - he didn't include that in the list...

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:06 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:

I assumed Tango was referring to such subjects as Latin? I suppose there are still the odd crusty places that teach it but it wont be as widespread as it was pre say 1974.

I was actually referring to the "differences" and the pointless comparisons due to the progress of time, which I thought was evident. French was the foreign language taught at Bolton Tech, ( which I've all but forgotten) but I learned church Latin at eight years old (was an altarboy for seven years) and did GCE in Spanish at night school. All that old stuff said, I retired after 17 years at The National Computing Centre. Move with the times or die. :wink:

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:12 pm

Prufrock wrote:

Oi, Latin is ace!

Festinamus ut te adiuvemus - you sad feck.

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:17 pm

thebish wrote:

TANGODANCER wrote:

Most of these things are taught today.

yep. really - what is taught today isn't as far removed from what you were taught in your day and what I was taught in my day as you seem to think - really it's not..

and - my own perception is that my kids have been better taught than I was...

(apart from Latin - they have covered every subject I did - and more - for they have done Italian and ICT, which I never did...)

it simply isn't even close to being true that most of the subjects you were taught are not bothered with today...

Did you put the seagrass stools, pipe racks and the set of metal fire irons, which they'll obviously have made as part of their curriculum, on Freecycle then?

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:20 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Did you put the seagrass stools, pipe racks and the set of metal fire irons, which they'll obviously have made as part of their curriculum, on Freecycle then?

They're all safely packed away and will be making an appearance shortly on The Antiques Roadshow.

Prufrock · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:23 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Prufrock wrote:

Oi, Latin is ace!

Festinamus ut te adiuvemus - you sad feck.

Where the feck have you dredged that from? You still got Cambridge Latin Course I knocking around somewhere

?

Grumio est in culina.
Quintus est in horto.
Melissa est bangin'!

ERMAHGERD SPERCKLE! http://www.sporcle.com/games/miniyoda008/clc_characters

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:35 pm

Prufrock wrote:

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Prufrock wrote:

Oi, Latin is ace!

Festinamus ut te adiuvemus - you sad feck.

Where the feck have you dredged that from? You still got Cambridge Latin Course I knocking around somewhere

?

Grumio est in culina.
Quintus est in horto.
Melissa est bangin'!

ERMAHGERD SPERCKLE! http://www.sporcle.com/games/miniyoda008/clc_characters

No, not at all. You know those things that just stick in your mind, like your family's phone number from when you were a kid (Ours was Bolton 55347) well that's another (and it's taken me 33 years to be able to use it

)

My two worst subject's at school were Latin and woodwork, though I can similarly just about remember how to do a mortice and tenon joint (though it still might require a big, feck off nail through it to keep it together)

Wandering Willy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:19 pm

I got an A in Latin.

:oyea:

Lord Kangana · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:32 pm

What year?

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:38 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:

What year?

MCMLXXXII, I shouldn't wonder.

Wandering Willy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:41 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:

What year?

Fifth year obviously.

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:04 pm

Wandering Willy wrote:

I got an A in Latin.

:oyea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGXYkfLJ4s

:mrgreen:

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:36 am

Wandering Willy wrote:

I got an A in Latin.

:oyea:

gosh !

You could have done the judgin'.

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