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Old 26-08-2009, 11:53 AM
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Ha HA!,

Jeez you are getting hammered on the "grammer" mistake Trevor, I was going to point that out but was beaten to it by at least 4 people.

I personally hate bad spelling, being a pedagogue myself and something that I found out recently is that the NSW state high schools are now offering Maths as an OPTIONAL subject in Year 11 & 12. Whilst this sounds very forward thinking in their marketing sound bites when they say "most students don't require maths in their professional careers or as a pre-requisite to enter a University Course" it seems to me there will be a generation ZZ which will be handing over the incorrect change and over or undercharging us at McDonald's etc for a long time to come....

Possibly great as a windfall for us who can add up in our heads, but sooner or later we'll all be stuffed.

I find it ironic that my eldest who is going into Yr11 next year can't do maths very well with respect to simple arithmetic at the shops or in life, but can easily tell me how may 50 calibre bullets he emptied into an enemy and explain the rate of fire of his off-hand weapon when smashing me into the ground if I attempt to play Halo 3 with him.

Oh well, at least I will be able to rip him off when he has to look after me in my retirement.......hang on, maybe he will still be living at home by then....bugger!

Oh, and DON'T get me started on incorrect placement or bad spelling when it comes to apostrophes and plurals! e.g. mangoe's AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Cheers

Chris
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