can they get worse?

[AdamW]

As you copy it, you read it, and it sinks in. Most kids copy a load of stuff off the net and don't actually learn anything.

I was in secondary school when the first CD-ROM drives within the reach of home users came out, in fact I owned a Commodore CDTV (yay, caddy-loaded single speed drive!). One boy out of the two or three of us in the year with the privilege to have a CD-ROM encyclopedia just printed out reams and reams off Encarta. He got away with it for a whole year until the teachers got wise and too many people handed in the same essay!

Copying your notes does work better than just reading it, I found this through trial... an evening just reading a text book or an evening making notes. The notes sunk in better than the reading.

Personally I learn best through doing rather than just trying to memorise things so I find it better if I can condense the notes into another book rather than copy them word for word.

 

[pipme]

.....when they get to Secondary age will not be let loose on a copier or the internet....only under close paternal scrutiny.....

Start as you mean to go on .... Set good example ... Not so easy. I would not wait for secondary school, that may be too late !!
Didn't someone say, "Give me the child and I'll give you the adult (man?) !"
For me the essence of learning from transcript was to rewrite in own words, really trying to substitute the non-tech words .. such that the whole still made sense (if it ever did !)
Try to find 3 different sources, in agreement, when researching if possible.
I'll not mention the authors, but when at college (Mech Eng) we found several crap text books ... incorrect formulae .. incorrect answers to examples and problems set, nightmare really ...
A little unrelated, but, Mobile phones ... they (children) will have them eventually, hopefully not before at least sec shool .. get them paying for their use from pocket money or allowance ASAP .. Do not bend on this, they will soon learn to limit the use.
Peer pressure .... Denial, guilt ... Electrical work requires skill ? Try parenting and there's no training for it !!
Can they get worse ? I suppose our answer is yes, we just try to slow the rate at which we perceive this happening !!

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[glocko]

Kendor DNA = Deoxynucleic Acid

Don't want to nitpicky but isn't it deoxyRIBOnucleic acid?

Anyway back to the thread....
A MAN takes a lady out to dinner for the first time.

Later they go on to a show. The evening is a huge success and as he drops her at her door he says "I have had a lovely time. You looked so beautiful, you remind me of a beautiful rambling rose. May I call on you tomorrow?"

She agrees and a date is made.

The next night he knocks on her door and when she opens it she slaps
him hard across the face. He is stunned.

"What was that for?" he asked.

She said "I looked up rambling rose in the encyclopaedia last night and it said 'Not well suited to bedding but is excellent for rooting up against a garden wall.'"

 

[glocko]

Don't want to nitpicky but isn't it deoxyRIBOnucleic acid?

I hadn't seen page two....honest!!!

Here's one for Adam...

A 64-YEAR-OLD accountant left a letter for his wife one Friday evening that read: "Dear wife, I am 64, and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the Grand Hotel with my beautiful and sexy 18-year-old secretary."

When he arrived at the hotel, there was a letter waiting for him
that read, "Dear husband, I too am 64, and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the Breakwater Hotel with my handsome and virile 18-year-old toy boy.

"Being an accountant, you will appreciate that 18 goes into 64 many more times than 64 goes into 18."

 

[securespark]

Personally I learn best through doing

Difficult when it's heart function you're revising!!

 

[securespark]

No, I know exactly what you're saying, Adam!

 

[AdamW]

Difficult when it's heart function you're revising!!

Get yerself down the butchers, get a pig's heart. It's so similar to a human heart in design and capacity that you could pretty much plumb one into a man and it would work (until organ rejection set's in anyway!)

Help the young'un dissect it on the dining room table, and just wait for your praises to roll in from the wife

 

[securespark]

She can't complain, as I do all the cooking anyway...making mess in the kitchen is my forte!

 

[mildmanneredjanitor]

Get yerself down the butchers, get a pig's heart. It's so similar to a human heart in design and capacity that you could pretty much plumb one into a man and it would work (until organ rejection set's in anyway!)

Yes, but there is a shortage of good policeman as it is!!!

 

[AdamW]

Oooooh, mildmannered you don't want to say that, MASONa will be after you

 

[mildmanneredjanitor]

Oooooh, mildmannered you don't want to say that, MASONa will be after you

Why? Will he lodge a complaint!?!

Be a real swine if he did!

 

[pipme]

Back on 'fred' now ... worse still :-

COSTELLO WANTS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den, and I'm
thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write
proposals, track expenses and run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office and it has windows! OK, lets just
say, I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What
do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W."
COSTELLO: I'm going to click you're blue "W" if you don't start with
some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the
Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of
your business. Just tell me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If its a long movie I also want to see reel 2,3 & 4. Can I
watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great, with what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO; OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do
I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue "1."
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue "1."
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue "W"?
ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows"!
ABBOTT: No, just one. but it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It
pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even part
of Office.
COSTELLO: Stop! Don't start that again. What about financial
bookkeeping, you have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO: What's bundled to my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off??
ABBOTT: Click on "START".........

Ta dah !

 

[masona]

If you are unhappy

Once upon a time,there was a non conforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for winter.However, soon the weather turned so cold that relunctantly started to fly south. In a short time ice began to form on his wings and he fell to earth in a barnyard almost frozen.A cow passed by and crapped on the little sparrow.The sparrow thought it was the end,but the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings, warm and happy and happy to breath he started to sing.Just then a large cat came by and on hearing the chirping investigated the sounds.The cat cleared away the pile of manure, found the chirping bird and promptly ate him.

The moral of the story is:

1. Everyone who sh*ts on you is not necessarily your enemy.
2. Everyone who gets you out of the sh*t is not necessarily your friend.
3. And if you're warm and happy in a pile sh*t keep your mouth shut.

 

[pipme]

Subject: A little paper bag

A little paper bag was feeling unwell, so he took himself off to the doctors
"Doctor, I don't feel too good," said the little paper bag.
"Hmm, you look OK to me," said the Doctor, "but I'll do a blood test
and see what that shows, come back and see me in a couple of days."
The little paper bag felt no better when he got back for the results.
"What's wrong with me?" asked the little paper bag.
"I'm afraid you are HIV positive!" said the doctor.
"No, I can't be - I'm just a little paper bag!" said the little paper bag.
"Have you been having unprotected sex?" asked the doctor.
"NO, I can't do things like that - I'm just a little paper bag!"
"Well have you been sharing needles with other intravenous drug
users?"asked the doctor.
"NO, I can't do things like that - I'm just a little paper bag!"
"Perhaps you've been abroad recently and required a jab or a blood
transfusion?" queried the doctor.
"NO, I don't have a passport - I'm just a little paper bag!"
"Well", said the doctor, "are you in a homosexual relationship?"
"NO! I told you I can't do things like that, I'm just a little paper bag!"
"Then there can be only one explanation." said the doctor
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"Your mother must have been a carrier".

 

[securespark]

I presume that joke was written by a Mr. G Roan....