The pound won’t be round for much longer

[Manky Monkey]

Well I've learnt something new today!

[BikerGran]

Funny innit - we learned stuff like that at school!  It was called 'General Knowledge' and it was quite important - before school became all about passing exams.

[Manky Monkey]

  I'm not clever by any standard, but I'm constantly stunned by how little my workmates know about ...well, anything really. They don't know & don't care, which I find very sad.

[morrag]

A university lecturer I know, said to me many years ago, that he was now producing , and I quote! "Well educated morons!" and whilst this would appear to be a contradictions in terms, I think you can get his drift!...ho, hum, the world now "specialises" in everything, with little room for common sense, or general knowledge, so that it has become a generation that knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing, and I really don't wish that to be too sweeping a generalisation, but from my observations it is far too often the case, sadly.....so this old fa...t will now disappear into a corner and mutter for a while

[BikerGran]

Just to lighten the mood a little - re currency.......

Many a true word ..............

Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs"

Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start?"

Baldrick: "Yes Sir"

Blackadder:  "Well, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France, Belgium,Holland and Germany, and on the other, the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises".

Baldrick: "But this is sort of a crisis, isn't it Sir?".

Blackadder: "That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan".

Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir?"
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Blackadder: "It was bo****ks".

[minimutly]

Please stop, before we're all in tears...
Education changed from "generall knowledge" to passing exams the instant someone decided we have league tables (maggie, from memory, feel free to correct me).
Now all teachers, schools and colleges are judged by their pass ratios, which they're all getting better at.....

[JayJay]

Lots of people seem to work for charities these days. I thought that was called volunteering. Apparently not and that must be why charities keep asking for more money to pay for all these people raising money for charities.  

Lots of these said people turn up on quiz shows and on the whole they are as thick as two short planks. Why am I not surprised?