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@Obelix-Vendée @KT53 It sounds as if the experience of attending school in the '60's was similar in many respects. I attended Primary school in a small village in Cheshire, took and passed the 11 plus and went on to a grammar school a few miles away. I don't know whether there was a numbers game involved or not - it hadn't occurred to me before KT mentioned it. I do know that some pupils at the local Secondary Modern school did then come to the Grammar ( no idea now whether they gained a place via an exam or acumen ) but they were always placed a year below their age group. We also had a certain amount of choice in our 3rd year as to which subjects we wanted to continue with altho some remained mandatory. The curriculum did tend towards male/female choices so any changes there are to be applauded.
Due to my habit of frequently moving around here and in Europe since leaving school, I've never kept up with school friends so have no idea whether or not their schooling proved useful in later life. No children either so no direct nvolvement with today's system. Just looking and listening is sufficient to make me think it needs something of a shakeup on a number of issues tho.

 

Thanks @Tidemark . I shall use it at every opportunity.

Even adding up say £2.35 and £7.59 would require pen and paper (and still no guarantee of the right answer). My husband takes one look and gets it straight away, but then he's a weirdo who enjoyed algebra .

 

@AnniD I always loved Maths and have always had the ability to make calculations of wierd numbers in my head very quickly. I won't get the exact answer but pretty close. I worked in IT for a subsidiary of a major bank (at least it was major before the financial crash!) and asked our Finance Director how the company made its money. Basically it was from making very small percentage profits from very large deals. I was sitting with him while he explained with telephone number amounts and a profit margin of, for example, 0.83%. After one set of figures I said, so that's about £x. He stopped, looked at me, and said "How the hell did you work that out?" The honest answer is that I don't know, I must just have an oddly wired brain.
I didn't enjoy algebra

 

No Toilets around again, if you can't find one then go somewhere quite and not outside of someone's house in full veiw

 

I j..u..s..t.. remember the lamplighter in our village.

 

There’s one near here that has been converted to electricity.

 

Funnily enough I read this only yesterday @shiney .
Gas lamps still burn in unique area of England

 

There’s an area in Sheffield, the top of one of its many hills, which still has the gas light structures but they have been converted to electricity. They were originally installed as street lights because they were a useful way to burn off the excess gas given off by the area’s sewers. A neat way to get rid of a problem while offering a benefit.

 

I was reading a bit about cardon capture (i think it was in Iceland) and it produce more carbon than what they captured

If it's going to be like that why are we doing it

 

I don't think we still do carbon capture here - it was tried/used in various situations and then seemed to fall out of favour due to both the initial cost of installation and ongoing maintenance. At the time I don't think there was mention of it actually having a negative affect but always possible.

 

I lost a pencil in the garden yesterday, does that count, I'm sure it will end up buried.

 

@Philippa from what I can see, at present carbon capture is in the research phase. Currently the UK produces around 38 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. Guesstimated cost of capture is over £110 per ton. Equates to £42 billion per year to capture - very conservative estimate. Presumably the equipment used to capture it will itself have some form of negative output.