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Bill Grey 27-01-2011 04:06 PM

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"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 2011-01-27 10:19:28 +0000, "Bill Grey" said:


"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:22:15 -0000, "Bill Grey"

wrote:


Nick says people can use a calculator, but I have yet to see anybody
doing this
in a supermarket, for example. Our two kids did arithmetic using a
calculator
at school. I don't think they even own one nowadays.

If you can't learn tables and can't learn the mathematical tricks,
then any sane person would buy one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

It's no great encumberance to learn the times table at an early age -
it
can
only help in future years.
There maybe more than one way to skin a cat, but it doesn't hurt to
have
more than one string to your bow.

Children at the age that times tables were taught could readily absorb
the
information, why deny them such a wonderful experience of learning a
technique that could serve them well in their future
lives.

They can also absorb new languages at the same age.
--

Martin

Definitely !

Bill


Yes, I've always thought it a big mistake that schools wait so long to
introduce a foreign language into the curriculum. I started learning
French when I was 4 and while no way am I fluent, I speak fairly well for
a foreigner. I just don't remember actually learning verbs because we
started so young and I was very lucky to have good French teachers at all
the schools I went to.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon


I spoke Welsh long before I was formerly tought Welsh. Funnily, it was
then the trouble starrted.
The difference between colloquial Welsh and grammatical or literary Welsh
was a bit traumatic. The differences were slight, the pronunciation
sometimes, and learning the correct word as opposed to a word distorted by
collquialism in another ( eg in English innit as opposed to isn't it, or is
it not)

Bill



Bill Grey 27-01-2011 04:09 PM

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wrote in message
...
Bill Grey wrote:
There maybe more than one way to skin a cat, but it doesn't hurt to have
more than one string to your bow.


Skinning a cat with a bow seems a cruel and unnecessary approach


The cat gut comes in handy though.

Bill



[email protected] 27-01-2011 04:35 PM

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In article , Sacha wrote:
On 2011-01-27 11:41:15 +0000, said:

The boys' primary school have introduced French, the boys both got Spanish
and Urdu (!) sessions when at nursery.


Spanish is much useful if they get a choice at any point! Not sure how
widely spoken Urdu is!


Don't bet on it! Urdu and Hindustani are very closely related and
are the native languages of a large chunk of India and most of
Pakistan.

I think that's LONG overdue - I would have introduced it 20-30 years
ago in relevant places, and got the English and Urdu speakers (I mean
children) to teach each other. Yes, I know that would have created
a weird composite, but so what? English is already one.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

jasmin101 27-01-2011 05:24 PM

planting herb is the most i love, it is easy and useful, we are now making use most of herb in the garden as a supplement for our health especially our grand ma as she need more care, our neighbour get helped with this type of mostly-herb-garden, what a wonderful life sharing with others.

Quote:

Originally Posted by floydie-pink (Post 910657)
We have moved house last september and have a faily dececnt sized front and back garden (Both of wich need alot of work!).
I started clearing the back before the bad snow hit us (pulling out brambles, weed spraying, digging what will be the rockery over and lineing a patch i was hopeing to start with).
I spent an afternon in the garden this week lobbing the tops off grass (growing between the paveing slabs) putting together what will be either a veggy patch or deep border (not decided what to put were yet really) and just tidying up alittle (hopeing to get out there later today too if the weather holds off!).
I also had abit of a play about on the yard area by my back door as i wanted some colour not a scrap of mud that was there before (we made a small raised ish border) my winter flowering plants have now died back and spring bulbs are pokeing through.
Sorry if my post is long i just want to give an idea of what i am working with (basicly a garden thats mostly paving slabs :-().


No Name 27-01-2011 05:57 PM

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Sacha wrote:
The boys' primary school have introduced French, the boys both got Spanish
and Urdu (!) sessions when at nursery.

Spanish is much useful if they get a choice at any point! Not sure how
widely spoken Urdu is!


I think Urdu is probably the 2nd language of the area of London their
nursery was in, hence the choice. It was only a short intro. Actually, I
think they had French for a term, too, cos Daniel came home one day shouting
"ooh la la!"


No Name 27-01-2011 06:00 PM

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Martin wrote:
But it would help if more than 20% of primary school
teachers knew the answer to "what is one plus two time three".


My answer would be "do you mean one plus two-times-three, or one-plus-two
times three?"

Do I win an apple?


Are you the teacher?


Well, I seem to agree with the majority. :-P

Seriously, you can't claim only 20% 'got it right', as asking where the
brackets are is a perfectly reasonable (and imho, much more sensible
response than assuming there are none) question. Brackets are very hard to
hear in spoken questions. (I assume it was a spoken question - if it was
written it would be a slightly different matter)

Tom 27-01-2011 11:35 PM

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wrote in :
In article ,
Martin wrote:

Tell us about your tricks, Nick? I am sick of supermarket tricks :-)


I did. zx8 = 8x7 = 7x(4+4) = 7x7 = 10*7-3*7 and more. Also using
factorisation, so 44x75 = 11*(4*25)*3. Make a habit of that sort
of thing, and you will soon develop your own collection.

Also, using iteration (usually binary chop or interpolation) to do
division, square and cube roots etc.

Make a habit of such tricks and you will soon develop your own
suite. But mental arithmetic is no longer taught.


Watching my daughter grow up over the past 20 years
was interesting in this regard. Yes, the rote learning
of multiplication has been "deemphasised", but she
was also taught that there are several ways to get
the right answer to arithmetic problems. This has
the advantage that examples such as yours weren't
ignored and were taught (at least in the limited
sense of examples of how to solve an specific question).

In that sense, I greatly *approve* of the "new" teaching
methods.

On the other hand, lack of knowing the
"algorithmic" techniques for long multiplication and
division mean that she wouldn't have a clue how to
start coding multiple-precision arithmetic routines :)

I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths

Tom 27-01-2011 11:39 PM

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wrote in
:

Martin wrote:
But it would help if more than 20% of primary school
teachers knew the answer to "what is one plus two time three".

My answer would be "do you mean one plus two-times-three, or
one-plus-two times three?"

Do I win an apple?


Are you the teacher?


Well, I seem to agree with the majority. :-P

Seriously, you can't claim only 20% 'got it right', as asking where
the brackets are is a perfectly reasonable (and imho, much more
sensible response than assuming there are none) question. Brackets
are very hard to hear in spoken questions. (I assume it was a spoken
question - if it was written it would be a slightly different matter)


Sorry, no cigar, nor apple.

There is a single correct answer without brackets.

Tom 27-01-2011 11:46 PM

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"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
.253...
Martin wrote in
:

In real life being able to instantly recall a product is better than
knowing how to derive it from scratch.



And much better than either is knowing how and
when to use/apply it, and to use the right tool
to get the correct answer.


Try solving a quadratic equation using the "formla" method, oh damn! -
you've forgotten the formula (shame)

Now use the "completing the square" logical method.- no formulae
involved.

Nice to kow how it really is done.


But that is less trivial for x^2 + x + 1

Tom 27-01-2011 11:50 PM

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wrote in
:

Tom wrote:
I like* things like '75% fat free' ... meaning 25% fat? Eyww.

To digress, in California you can get egg-free omlettes and
fat-free sour cream. I have a container of the latter, but
couldn't figure out how to preserve and transport the former.


fat free sour cream I could possibly comprehend, but ... /egg/ free
omlettes?? My ghast is flabbered.


So was mine, to the extent that I almost ordered some
just to see what they were like. But I didn't, since
the eggs benedict were so nice :)

Bill Grey 28-01-2011 08:54 AM

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"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths


The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952 unfortunately.

Bill



No Name 28-01-2011 10:57 AM

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Tom wrote:
fat free sour cream I could possibly comprehend, but ... /egg/ free
omlettes?? My ghast is flabbered.

So was mine, to the extent that I almost ordered some
just to see what they were like. But I didn't, since
the eggs benedict were so nice :)


To be fair, I've had vegan 'scrambled egg' before, which I hated - not
beause of the texture, but because they piled tumeric into it. Noidea why,
it's not as if you tumericise your scrambled egg normally! (do you?)

No Name 28-01-2011 10:58 AM

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Sacha wrote:
I take your point but in the past, languages were taught because they
were useful in diplomacy or commerce. French is the language of
diplomacy and Spanish is spoken in large tracts of the trading world.
I don't know if that's the case with Urdu or Hindustani so I don't know
if those languages will be useful in a modern child's business life.


Given how a lot of UK work is now farmed out to India to get it done on the
cheap (see call centres + IT work for the obvious examples), I can see there
being a call for Indian languages.

No Name 28-01-2011 10:59 AM

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Martin wrote:
But it would help if more than 20% of primary school
teachers knew the answer to "what is one plus two time three".

My answer would be "do you mean one plus two-times-three, or one-plus-two
times three?"

Do I win an apple?

Are you the teacher?


Well, I seem to agree with the majority. :-P

Seriously, you can't claim only 20% 'got it right', as asking where the
brackets are is a perfectly reasonable (and imho, much more sensible
response than assuming there are none) question. Brackets are very hard to
hear in spoken questions. (I assume it was a spoken question - if it was
written it would be a slightly different matter)


I agree with you.

It wasn't me who made the claim. Whoever it was has been snipped.


Apologies, it was my over-zealous snipping, but I did think it was you.
Apparently (from another branch of the thread), it was Tom.
Congratulations, I've merged you with another poster. :-)

No Name 28-01-2011 11:00 AM

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Tom wrote:
But it would help if more than 20% of primary school
teachers knew the answer to "what is one plus two time three".

My answer would be "do you mean one plus two-times-three, or
one-plus-two times three?"

Do I win an apple?

Are you the teacher?


Well, I seem to agree with the majority. :-P

Seriously, you can't claim only 20% 'got it right', as asking where
the brackets are is a perfectly reasonable (and imho, much more
sensible response than assuming there are none) question. Brackets
are very hard to hear in spoken questions. (I assume it was a spoken
question - if it was written it would be a slightly different matter)


Sorry, no cigar, nor apple.

There is a single correct answer without brackets.


Yes, there is a single correct answer without brackets. But if you speak
the question you can't tell if there are brackets that you can't see. It is
perfectly valid to ask.


Mike Lyle[_1_] 28-01-2011 11:44 AM

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:17:44 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:35:44 GMT, Tom wrote:

wrote in :
In article ,
Martin wrote:

Tell us about your tricks, Nick? I am sick of supermarket tricks :-)

I did. zx8 = 8x7 = 7x(4+4) = 7x7 = 10*7-3*7 and more. Also using
factorisation, so 44x75 = 11*(4*25)*3. Make a habit of that sort
of thing, and you will soon develop your own collection.

Also, using iteration (usually binary chop or interpolation) to do
division, square and cube roots etc.

Make a habit of such tricks and you will soon develop your own
suite. But mental arithmetic is no longer taught.


Watching my daughter grow up over the past 20 years
was interesting in this regard. Yes, the rote learning
of multiplication has been "deemphasised", but she
was also taught that there are several ways to get
the right answer to arithmetic problems. This has
the advantage that examples such as yours weren't
ignored and were taught (at least in the limited
sense of examples of how to solve an specific question).

In that sense, I greatly *approve* of the "new" teaching
methods.

On the other hand, lack of knowing the
"algorithmic" techniques for long multiplication and
division mean that she wouldn't have a clue how to
start coding multiple-precision arithmetic routines :)

I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths


Calculus was first year A level maths and not GCE maths in the 1950s.


It must have depended on the board, then. Oxbridge joint board set
"Elementary" and "Additional" maths as separate subjects: calculus was
in "Add Maths". Of course schools may have varied in the way they
programmed things.

--
Mike.

[email protected] 28-01-2011 11:49 AM

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In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:44:05 +0000, Mike Lyle wrote:

It must have depended on the board, then. Oxbridge joint board set
"Elementary" and "Additional" maths as separate subjects: calculus was
in "Add Maths". Of course schools may have varied in the way they
programmed things.


I did Oxford GCE maths in 1956. I have no recollection of it being called
Elementary Maths, nor is "elementary" mentioned on the actual certificate.


It wasn't called that, even in the 1960s, but that's what it was.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Mike Lyle[_1_] 28-01-2011 03:09 PM

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:55:57 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:49:40 +0000 (GMT), wrote:

In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:44:05 +0000, Mike Lyle wrote:

It must have depended on the board, then. Oxbridge joint board set
"Elementary" and "Additional" maths as separate subjects: calculus was
in "Add Maths". Of course schools may have varied in the way they
programmed things.

I did Oxford GCE maths in 1956. I have no recollection of it being called
Elementary Maths, nor is "elementary" mentioned on the actual certificate.


It wasn't called that, even in the 1960s, but that's what it was.


as opposed to Advanced Level.


I think purposes are being crossed. I mentioned "Oxbridge", meaning
the Oxford and Cambridge Universities' joint schools examination
board: this wasn't the same as the "Oxford Local" exams board. "Oxford
and Cambridge" definitely set "elementary" and "additional" maths at
Ordinary Level in 1958, and "elementary" in that context wasn't as
opposed to "Advanced Level". I don't know what other boards did (one
of the absurdities of the system was, in my opinion, the existence of
a number of distinct examining bodies).

--
Mike.

No Name 28-01-2011 03:42 PM

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Sacha wrote:
Given how a lot of UK work is now farmed out to India to get it done on the
cheap (see call centres + IT work for the obvious examples), I can see there
being a call for Indian languages.

But aren't they supposed to be speaking English to the English
customers that call them? There might be a small number of jobs for
English people who would need to speak local languages for training
purposes but not to an overwhelming degree, it seems to me.


Just because they're supposed to speak English, doesn't mean things aren't
easier if you have another common language between you.


kay 29-01-2011 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin[_2_] (Post 911379)
At least the certificates were worth something.

A pity that most people didn't even have the opportunity to study for them.

Tom 30-01-2011 10:38 AM

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"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths


The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952 unfortunately.


Maybe, maybe not.

In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi? :)

When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.

All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.

Tom 30-01-2011 10:40 AM

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wrote in
:

Tom wrote:
fat free sour cream I could possibly comprehend, but ... /egg/ free
omlettes?? My ghast is flabbered.

So was mine, to the extent that I almost ordered some
just to see what they were like. But I didn't, since
the eggs benedict were so nice :)


To be fair, I've had vegan 'scrambled egg' before, which I hated - not
beause of the texture, but because they piled tumeric into it. Noidea
why, it's not as if you tumericise your scrambled egg normally! (do
you?)


Probably the same reason that Quorn is processed to have
the texture (but not flavour) of soft chicken breast.

Personally I prefer "honest" ingredients, not "faux" ingredients.

Tom 30-01-2011 10:49 AM

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Martin wrote in
:
Calculus was first year A level maths and not GCE maths in the 1950s.


I've just checked my certificate, a tatty piece of fanfold paper.
I took University of London O-level maths syllabus d in 1972.

The teachers chose that syllabus (presumably not a nor b nor c)
since it contained calculus. The calculus was limited to
integration and differentiation of polynomials excluding 1/x

Tom 30-01-2011 10:52 AM

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Tom wrote in
6.253:

"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths


The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952 unfortunately.


Maybe, maybe not.

In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi? :)

When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.

All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.


Oops, I meant 1972, but I doubt that it had changed by 1974.

'Mike'[_4_] 30-01-2011 10:53 AM

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"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths


The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952 unfortunately.


Maybe, maybe not.

In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi? :)

When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.

All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.


I feel that training everywhere has been dumbed down. I did my Radio and
Radar Training in the Royal Navy in 1958 and it was very deep. I was given a
conducted tour of the Royal Navy's Radio and Radar Training facilities at
the Maritime Warfare School at H.M.S.Collingwood earlier on last year and
things are certainly easier, BUT, it has to be because the technical content
now is to a certain degree, 'identify the PCB which is faulty and chuck it'.
I was with one of the Officers who is one of the Radar Lecturers the other
night at a function and I raised this chuck it syndrome and he explained
that with the manufacture of the boards being so complex, they cannot be
repaired. Fortunately, the training is deep enough to at least identify what
and where.

Mike



--

....................................
Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive
....................................




Tom 30-01-2011 11:01 AM

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"'Mike'" wrote in
:



"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths

The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952
unfortunately.


Maybe, maybe not.

In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi? :)

When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.

All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.


I feel that training everywhere has been dumbed down. I did my Radio
and Radar Training in the Royal Navy in 1958 and it was very deep. I
was given a conducted tour of the Royal Navy's Radio and Radar
Training facilities at the Maritime Warfare School at
H.M.S.Collingwood earlier on last year and things are certainly
easier, BUT, it has to be because the technical content now is to a
certain degree, 'identify the PCB which is faulty and chuck it'. I was
with one of the Officers who is one of the Radar Lecturers the other
night at a function and I raised this chuck it syndrome and he
explained that with the manufacture of the boards being so complex,
they cannot be repaired. Fortunately, the training is deep enough to
at least identify what and where.


Find-n-replace-the-PCB seems like a very sensible procedure

Are you Mike Crowe?


'Mike'[_4_] 30-01-2011 11:04 AM

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"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
"'Mike'" wrote in
:



"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
"Bill Grey" wrote in
:


"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
wrote in :
I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths

The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952
unfortunately.

Maybe, maybe not.

In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi? :)

When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.

All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.


I feel that training everywhere has been dumbed down. I did my Radio
and Radar Training in the Royal Navy in 1958 and it was very deep. I
was given a conducted tour of the Royal Navy's Radio and Radar
Training facilities at the Maritime Warfare School at
H.M.S.Collingwood earlier on last year and things are certainly
easier, BUT, it has to be because the technical content now is to a
certain degree, 'identify the PCB which is faulty and chuck it'. I was
with one of the Officers who is one of the Radar Lecturers the other
night at a function and I raised this chuck it syndrome and he
explained that with the manufacture of the boards being so complex,
they cannot be repaired. Fortunately, the training is deep enough to
at least identify what and where.


Find-n-replace-the-PCB seems like a very sensible procedure

Are you Mike Crowe?


:-))

I do have that honour :-))

Mike


--

....................................
Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive
....................................




[email protected] 30-01-2011 11:07 AM

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In article 3,
Tom wrote:
wrote in
:

To be fair, I've had vegan 'scrambled egg' before, which I hated - not
beause of the texture, but because they piled tumeric into it. Noidea
why, it's not as if you tumericise your scrambled egg normally! (do
you?)


Probably the same reason that Quorn is processed to have
the texture (but not flavour) of soft chicken breast.


I regard that sort of supermarket chicken as loathesome in itself.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Tom 30-01-2011 02:47 PM

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wrote in :

In article 3,
Tom wrote:
wrote in
:

To be fair, I've had vegan 'scrambled egg' before, which I hated - not
beause of the texture, but because they piled tumeric into it. Noidea
why, it's not as if you tumericise your scrambled egg normally! (do
you?)


Probably the same reason that Quorn is processed to have
the texture (but not flavour) of soft chicken breast.


I regard that sort of supermarket chicken as loathesome in itself.


Well, yes, just so.

I would, however, make an exception when a decent
chicken has been cooked slowly so that its flavour
has mingled with other ingredients

What baffles me is why vegetables that can be cooked
in pleasant (and sometimes delicious) ways are heavily
processed to resemble (and I use that word in its
loosest sense) meat-based foods.

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 03:45 PM

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Sacha wrote:

You may call me Beatrice! ;-)


IRTA 'You may call me Beetroot!'

--
Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 03:51 PM

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Martin wrote:
On 25 Jan 2011 23:56:43 GMT, wrote:

Baz wrote:
I remember 'completing the square on a generic quadratic from first
principles' suddenly clicking whilst I was in the dentist chair having
a tooth removed ...
No doubt it is completed now?
I wonder if you would like to share your findings with us.

I'd rather not have another tooth pulled out so I can re-remember it!


How do you do long multiplication and division, with or without having a wisdom
tooth pulled? I am just trying to understand. :-)


You do long multiplication - eg -
7 X 64 =

64
64
64
64
64
64
64 +
448

or if you prefer:

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
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HTH

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 03:54 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
kay wrote:[i]
Bill Grey;911046 Wrote:
"kay" wrote in message
...


I'd happily settle for less ability to multiply numbers together in
ones
head in exchange for greater understanding of what the numbers
actually
say, and therefore a greater ability to separate scientific argument
from opinion and quackery.


But one has to start somewhere!


But I think learning times tables by rote up to 12 x 12 is the wrong
place to start!


And as someone who did so, I think it's the right place to start.

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 03:56 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
kay wrote:

What do you mean by "it worked"?

Do you mean "everybody could multiply relatively small numbers together
in their heads" or do you mean"everybody had a good understanding of
percentages, differentials, risk and the other concepts that are
necessary in order to make decisions in everyday life"?


What has that to do with learning your 'times' tables?

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 03:59 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
Martin wrote:

The difference between our generation and the young ones, is that we can do
mental arithmetic. Tables are part of the basic tools needed to do this.
Nick says people can use a calculator, but I have yet to see anybody doing this
in a supermarket, for example. Our two kids did arithmetic using a calculator
at school. I don't think they even own one nowadays.


I have a calculator - somewhere.

Last time I went to use it (to find a square root) I found that the
batteries had died, so I had to resort to the pencil and paper method.

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 04:02 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
wrote:

There's more than one way to kill a cat.


Ahem! There's more than one way to *skin* a cat

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Rusty

Mike Lyle[_1_] 30-01-2011 05:04 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:02:09 +0000, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

wrote:

There's more than one way to kill a cat.


Ahem! There's more than one way to *skin* a cat


Ah. That looks like "O" Level Eng Lang 1955... "Explain the meaning of
/three/ of the following expressions in your own words."

All very sound stuff, until you realise that in some subjects the
language in the questions was more difficult than the language needed
to write the answers. There's a very interesting little book going the
rounds: /The O Level Book: Genuine Exam questions From Yesteryear/.
Go''a be wurf free quid a' Amazom for anywum readim freds like this
one, innit?

--
Mike.

'Mike'[_4_] 30-01-2011 05:17 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 

"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
...
Martin wrote:

The difference between our generation and the young ones, is that we can
do
mental arithmetic. Tables are part of the basic tools needed to do this.
Nick says people can use a calculator, but I have yet to see anybody
doing this
in a supermarket, for example. Our two kids did arithmetic using a
calculator
at school. I don't think they even own one nowadays.


I have a calculator - somewhere.

Last time I went to use it (to find a square root) I found that the
batteries had died, so I had to resort to the pencil and paper method.

--
Rusty


and you had the knowledge to do so :-))

When my children were at school, I wouldn't buy them a calculator. The
school eventually contacted me and pointed out that my children knew the
principles, and could they now have calculators as this was slowing down
their learning.

They all went on to do very well :-))

Mike


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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive
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'Mike'[_4_] 30-01-2011 05:23 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 


"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
...
wrote:

There's more than one way to kill a cat.


Ahem! There's more than one way to *skin* a cat

--
Rusty




:-))

And they taste like Rabbit when cooked :-))

Mike



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....................................
Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive
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Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 07:42 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
Sacha wrote:
On 2011-01-30 15:45:56 +0000, Rusty Hinge
said:

Sacha wrote:

You may call me Beatrice! ;-)


IRTA 'You may call me Beetroot!'


Wouldn't dream of it - I'm sure your complexion belies your name. ;-)


Doe snow, so to run one word into another.

My rusty facefungus has faded to a lightly peppery Father Christmas hue,
ho-ho-ho!

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge[_2_] 30-01-2011 07:46 PM

Hi im new :-) and fairly new to gardening :-S
 
Mike Lyle wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:02:09 +0000, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

wrote:

There's more than one way to kill a cat.

Ahem! There's more than one way to *skin* a cat


Ah. That looks like "O" Level Eng Lang 1955... "Explain the meaning of
/three/ of the following expressions in your own words."

All very sound stuff, until you realise that in some subjects the
language in the questions was more difficult than the language needed
to write the answers. There's a very interesting little book going the
rounds: /The O Level Book: Genuine Exam questions From Yesteryear/.
Go''a be wurf free quid a' Amazom for anywum readim freds like this
one, innit?


Or n e 1 hoo rites like vis No wot i meen yea.

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Rusty


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