oldandknew wrote:When I showed my daughter how to do long division & multiplication, she said can't you use a calculator dad. I told her we didn't have them when I was in school. So we learnt to use our brains instead
They've stopped teaching long divisions in school! Just this year, here, they stopped teaching how it works, altogether.
so if you get stuck without a calculator, how are people going to work out how much anything comes to in total. like 150 guests at a wedding & the cost of the food & drink
Mind you, I have problems converting feet & inches into metres & milimeters
My buddy just got a job coaching freshman girl's basketball(high school). He wore a Pearl Jam t-shirt to practice earlier this week, and a bunch of them didn't know who it was.
I don't know if I should chalk that up to them being that much younger, or just stupidity...Pearl Jam?
i got thrown realising that "wham!" was about as long ago to school kids now as the beatles were to me ...
When my granddaughter asked me how old I was and I couldn't remember
My 50th high school reunion did it for me --- BBB
My 50th high school reunion did it for me --- BBB
ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
By BumbleBeeBoogie
A telephone call came from out of the blue---
we're getting together and we need you
to help us organize a reunion of peers
after an amazing span of fifty years.
As I drove to the restaurant in a suburban town
childhood memories, long forgotten, were found.
At our '57 ten-year reunion I'd seen classmates last
and eventually lost track of them and my past.
As I entered the meeting room, I gasped with surprise
at white-haired people with bifocal-covered eyes
and stiff joints and waists no longer thin,
bald pates where thick brown hair had been.
I looked into their faces for signs of their youth
as I struggled with the unwelcome astonishing truth.
What were all these old, OLD people doin'
at my high school class' fiftieth reunion?
eoe -------- your account about over reliance on hi-tech applies nearly everywhere. A lot of the old manual skills are fast vanishing. and that's a shame. I'm no Luddite & I do like the idea of hi-tech applications but they are not the be all of life.
And they are only as good as the person who uses them. Hi- tech often means tighter deadlines & very often lower budgets.
People want instantaneous pruducts/output. A case of just add water. As if it were instant soup.
The ministrone is off today, would you like spring chicken instead
When you wonder what happened to the days when bigger was better.
Bigger IS better. Especially with a few key body parts...
When bigger was better with the exception of anatomy and homes...
The age I am always seems to be younger now than then, if you know what I mean. There was a time when to be over thirty was dismissed in some circles. I even remember feeling sorry for a nurse in our office who wasn't married at twenty-six, the poor thing. Did I have a lot to learn....
I looked on people of 50 as almost another species. They seemed very stultified to me, and perhaps they were to some degree. Now eighty is looking younger than I thought it was...
The surprise to me is how short time has actually been, a too quick whirl, even though it appeared almost endlessly long to my adolescent self.
And, if I had really understood that, I would have either taken many more risks, or many less. Given who I am, that would have been more.
