Speaking of stupid people...

[woodsltc]

Don't worry about where things are headed today. They will have to cross the street eventually and natural selection will take place.

Can't happen soon enough IMO.

Just hope it happens before they suffocate the whole country.

Don

 

[Tom Beavert]

converting fractions

My son runs a millwork shop. The stock comes in bark on, rough sawn, in sizes 4/4, 5/4 6/4 ect. Much on the eqipt. like planers are set in decimals, 1.0, .75 ect. He says it takes forever to train a new employee.
TB

 

[ACORN]

A friends wife suggested to him that they buy a calf, raise it, the slaughter for all the pork chops they'd get. True story

 

[delcrossv]

My high school aged daughter has a summer job at a local chain fast food shop and I get frequent updates from her about her similarly aged workmates. Here's two:

She told one coworker that she was competent at her job-
The coworker did not know the meaning of the word "competent".

She told another worker that he was "batting a thousand"-
He had no concept of what that phrase meant.

This isn't in some impoverished area- the shop is in a well- heeled 'burb with heavy taxes to support the (supposedly excellent) public schools.

 

[Mule Packer]

Chip you should have said, "your going to be a butt holder in about 10 seconds after I put my boot in your behind of you don't get that grass mowed."

I bet there is not a judge or jury in Utah that would convict you of anything If you had to make good on the threat. Probably no Utah prosecutor would even press charges.

John, you're probably right. A couple of us have gotten a group together, including some young people in town, who are going over to this couple's place this Saturday morning and will be doing some yard work for them. The son informed me that he wouldn't be there because he "had some things to do."

I was grateful that I had left my gun in the truck or you good folks would be reading about me in the papers.

 

[Dave_n]

"Dozen" isn't in the metric/SI system, so nobody has been taught about it since 1990.

One small problem, the US does not use/understand the metric or SI systems so a "dozen" should still be in their lexicon! Dave_n

 

[UncleEd]

The young lady at the fast food place
referred to by the OP was quite correct.
Her computer register is for 6, not a
half dozen. The OP should learn to
speak the language of that fast food
chain. It is not up to the employee to
learn the OP's language.

 

[Dave_n]

But would they know if they got a "Baker's Dozen?" The Maple Donuts chain over around York actually sells "Baker's Dozen" donuts as a regular offering. That's 13 donuts.

LVSteve might be the only one currently on the forum who would recognize a "guinea" as 21 shillings, but it was a coin used for centuries in the UK , and even as late as the middle 1960s, solicitors (the legal type, not the others!!) would still bill in Guineas. Dave_n

 

[DWalt]

I had a British friend from long ago who told me that a Guinea was a Pound plus a tip, a monetary unit the British upper classes once used. I don't believe it is still in use as the British went to decimal system with their money, along with the bob, tanner, farthing, penny, shilling, and crown.

 

[JS Esq.]

Don't know any of you personally, so not saying this applies to anyone here, but in my life experience it always seems like the people who rail against public schools the loudest are also the ones who vote against local bond measures to fund said public schools and vote for state and local politicians who promise to cut the budget. People need to understand they can't have it both ways - if we starve public schools of resources, the education will necessarily suffer. A desk, a slate board, and a piece of chalk are not sufficient to educate people for the 21st century economy.

Funny enough, the people whining about public schools are often also the ones screaming about "personal responsibility" - but never take the time to actually teach their children anything. My 6-year-old can make change - though not necessarily with the most efficient use of coins - because I taught her what the coins represent and combined that with a basic lesson in addition and subtraction.

Also, if you think things are bad now, imagine what the population was like at the time it was determined that compulsory education was a matter of national security.

I'm sure I'll get a point for this because what's considered "political" on this board is clearly more a matter of viewpoint rather than strictly based on subject matter. But, it needs to be said.

 

[dmn57]

On a much darker note, all of the people mentioned above are eligible to vote.

 

[ladder13]

$15 an hour will make em smarter.

 

[federali]

Two or Four Zeppole But Not Six!

A number of years ago I was at a boardwalk fair in Long Beach NY. Went to the Italian delicacies stand where the zeppole (deep fried doe balls) sold for two for fifty cents and four for a dollar as I recall.
A asked for six. I might as well have thrown a monkey wrench into the counter girl's brain gears. She said, "We sell them in bags of two or four." "But I want six," I respond." I even calculated the cost for the young girl. "six would be a dollar fifty." "Nope, sorry, the boss said two or four."
I responded, "Are you people here to make money or to make people crazy?" Just then the alleged boss showed up and instructed the girl to sell me six zeppole. I'm not the confrontational type but I sure wanted to spit into his vat of hot oil and watch it sizzle.

 

[Rule3]

A number of years ago I was at a boardwalk fair in Long Beach NY. Went to the Italian delicacies stand where the zeppole (deep fried doe balls) sold for two for fifty cents and four for a dollar as I recall.
sure wanted to spit into his vat of hot oil and watch it sizzle.

Is it only Italian Female deer that have balls?

 

[NYlakesider]

$15 an hour will make em smarter.

Most of them are way overpaid at a lot less than that number.

Seems like their IQ and age are about the same number!-

 

[fordson]

What a waste of oxygen and gravity..........

 

[crazyphil]

Folks are dumb where I come from,
they ain't had any learnin.
Still their happy as can be,
doin what comes naturally.

I think there is a song that goes something like that.

 

[Sistema1927]

"Placeholder" is hanging around until the old folks kick the bucket. You should suggest to Mom and Dad that they should changed their wills, quick.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Plenty of stupid people with gray hair and bald pates and no brains in the "senior citizens-mature adults " age groups, but it seems they get a pass.
If the kids come home from school to "adults" who have been living for years on SSI, "disability", welfare, spend their day in front of the TV, what are the kids supposed to think ? One elementary school-grammar school in my day-teacher told me when she urged one of her young charges to read more, not sit in front of the tube, he replied "Well all my gramma does is watch TV !"
My experience with the fast food chains-Burger King and McDonalds in this area-is they do an excellent job of training their employees, have procedures that must be followed to the letter.

 

[delcrossv]

Don't know any of you personally, so not saying this applies to anyone here, but in my life experience it always seems like the people who rail against public schools the loudest are also the ones who vote against local bond measures to fund said public schools and vote for state and local politicians who promise to cut the budget. People need to understand they can't have it both ways - if we starve public schools of resources, the education will necessarily suffer. A desk, a slate board, and a piece of chalk are not sufficient to educate people for the 21st century economy.

Funny enough, the people whining about public schools are often also the ones screaming about "personal responsibility" - but never take the time to actually teach their children anything. My 6-year-old can make change - though not necessarily with the most efficient use of coins - because I taught her what the coins represent and combined that with a basic lesson in addition and subtraction.

Also, if you think things are bad now, imagine what the population was like at the time it was determined that compulsory education was a matter of national security.

I'm sure I'll get a point for this because what's considered "political" on this board is clearly more a matter of viewpoint rather than strictly based on subject matter. But, it needs to be said.

Sorry, that's baloney. Mt kids get a far better education in private (parochial) school for HALF THE PRICE of what my local school district spends per student.

Monopolies (government or otherwise) ALWAYS deliver worse product at a higher price.