While we were visiting our son and DIL over Easter we got into a discussion on this topic. So my OH wrote a whole lot of numbers on a piece of paper and asked them to add them up without calculator or anything else. He did it very fast, they were still struggling after 5 mins. My OH had a basic education, these kids have 6 uni degrees between them.
Two very red faces and one smug OH.
:^O :^O :^O point made eh Jean.
Arvo gerries.
half way down the second page----lift your games-lol.
Darki-something else from the past is imperial measurements.
Still used in the spare parts caper.
Try and get someone under 30 to work out what 1 7/32
is in metric.............Richo.
BBL to see who has survived the last couple of days.
Hahaaa yes that's another one Richo, or how to live with real money in their pockets and not a plastic cards.
centimetres into inches or visa versa...
I am cheesed orf today. I was going through my credit card statement and found someone has been taking out $49.95 a month for the past month and I hadn't seen it.
I have no idea who they are or how they got to arrive at that amount, but I rang the bank and they have stopped my card and will pursue the individual and get my money back... I will get a new card next week, which means I have a whole new set of numbers to learn. Sigh!
JAYZUS! I think I'd rather go back to real money 😞
Sure its a horse Gilly--might be a descendant
of the Unicorn you had as a pet when you were a kidB-).
~~waves to Lyndal and the other gerries....Richo.
Snap Richo, I was thinking the same. :^O
How's the horse Gil?
Cold and wet down here, so just sitting and doing Ancestry... well it keeps the old mind alive and kicking.
