Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

Don't you just hate door slammers... people who come in, slam the door, then go round to various rooms opening/banging cupboard doors and kitchen cabinet doors ....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't you just hate door slammers... people who come in, slam the door, then go round to various rooms opening/banging cupboard doors and kitchen cabinet doors ....

It might be an attempt to say 'i'm back...don't be doiong anything you would not want to be seen doing' and so reserve their innocence and your dignity

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It might be an attempt to say 'i'm back...don't be doiong anything you would not want to be seen doing' and so reserve their innocence and your dignity

No ... it's a serial door slammer.

I looked at the clock and thought I was safe for my last cig of the night ... and I was.... by 3 minutes. WIN!

lostinrates

We do make a noise when we come back in...normally say hello to dogs loudly if the other people/person is not downstairs to say hi to. Just makes living in multi person households easier....i think its polite.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Re the education thing. I did my primary/junior schooling in two countries and it was fine apart from one element: I never learned long division. As it was, I passed my O level maths by using log tables to do long division and to this day still don't know how to do it, though of course I can use Excel or a calculator instead. If you are going to miss something big like that (which was literally down to the age at which it is taught in the two countries being a year apart), then it is definitely worth catching up on return to home.

I can do long multiplication but not long division Educated solely in the UK, and I think I only missed a handful of days throughout that. Thank goodness for calculators and Excel!

Nikkster

misskool wrote: »

yay! my online course has started more study for me.

What are you studying missk? Apologies if you've already said and I just missed it

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

I can do long multiplication but not long division Educated solely in the UK, and I think I only missed a handful of days throughout that. Thank goodness for calculators and Excel!

I can do long division if you gave me a piece of paper and a pen but it's really really slow and also probably wrong at least 1/4 of the time.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

What are you studying missk? Apologies if you've already said and I just missed it

Yes I've missed something here as well. Is it a course at your own uni? or somewhere else?

I realised I love learning things and that part of why I like teaching is learning what I have to teach.:D

Interesting thing about Napier was that he was IIIRC a religious fanatic who watned to abolish multiplication and division as they were ungodly,and replace them with addition and subtraction (hence inventing logarithms).

Spent his retirement writing anti-Catholic tracts, what a charmer!

lostinrates

Oh,i cannotdo long division either....or not by the taught method. I got the answers right more often than not. But
Ot points for not showing working out.

kabayiri

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I can do long division if you gave me a piece of paper and a pen but it's really really slow and also probably wrong at least 1/4 of the time.

1/4 of the time ?

Oh, you mean 0.25

(or maybe 0.2 on a different day....)