VermilionFire wrote:Badmike wrote:I remember starting Junior High School in 1975 (7th grade) and being told by a snotty ass superior bitch of a math teacher that we HAD to learn the metric system by the end of the semester because by the 1980s (a far away time then) they would be teaching it in 1st grade instead of the standard system and by the end of the century the US like the entire world would be using the Metric system. I'm proud to say the only piece of the metric system I deal with now is yards in a pro football game. I hope that teacher retired knowing everything she taught us that semester was worthless, much like her entire career. BTW, anyone remember the failed experiment in the states of having the speed limit signs list both MPH and KPH?Mike B.Reminds me of this snotty bitch nun Spanish teacher I had in high school. She kept telling us how Spanish was really useful to learn, especially for the future, but we kids knew better than she did and just blew it off. Spanish useful? Bah! How dare she attempt to mangle our tongues with this foreign speech! I really showed her how wrong she was when, as an adult, I visited beautiful Spain for a month and had a really difficult time trying to communicate with the locals.
Badmike wrote:I remember starting Junior High School in 1975 (7th grade) and being told by a snotty ass superior bitch of a math teacher that we HAD to learn the metric system by the end of the semester because by the 1980s (a far away time then) they would be teaching it in 1st grade instead of the standard system and by the end of the century the US like the entire world would be using the Metric system. I'm proud to say the only piece of the metric system I deal with now is yards in a pro football game. I hope that teacher retired knowing everything she taught us that semester was worthless, much like her entire career. BTW, anyone remember the failed experiment in the states of having the speed limit signs list both MPH and KPH?Mike B.
guerret wrote:I know English very well. I studied Spanish. I also followed some German courses for my doctorate. I did not think they would come of any use to me, but a few days ago the mother of our German coworker called searching for him, and I answered because I was the last person in the lab.Sie sagt dass sie nechsten Tag angerufen hattet.My German is quite poor, but at least I managed to understand and be understood by her.
MShipley88 wrote:guerret wrote:I know English very well. I studied Spanish. I also followed some German courses for my doctorate. I did not think they would come of any use to me, but a few days ago the mother of our German coworker called searching for him, and I answered because I was the last person in the lab.Sie sagt dass sie nechsten Tag angerufen hattet.My German is quite poor, but at least I managed to understand and be understood by her. She said that she had the next day to bark loudly? Mark
