My friends, it's the beginning of the end. 4 of 5 OKC kids can't read clocks.
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My friends, it's the beginning of the end. 4 of 5 OKC kids can't read clocks.
http://kfor.com/2017/03/12/study-4-i...t-read-clocks/
How many also know how to tie their own shoes, write their name, or have memorized their home address? These, in addition to knowing how to tell the time, were all skills we were expected to know before we were in kindergarten. This is a parenting fail. Don't even try to blame it on the schools.
Why do they need clocks?
Siri will tell them everything they need to know.
Embarrassing, but true. I didn't learn how to instinctively tell analog time until I was 30. My father bought me a digital watch when I was five, and I never looked back. When I turned 30, I bought my first analog watch, and it took me about a month to be able to accurately determine the time at a glance without counting by fives.
My son knows his own address, and has been typing emails since he was 3. His shoes are Velcro. His penmanship is atrocious, but he can recite to you the order of all the keys on each row of the keyboard. I consider that a parenting win.
As sad as it is, this is just another victim of living in a digital world now. It'll be up to old timers like all of us to ensure we teach the soon-to-be lost arts, like reading an analog clock, to the youth. One day such information could save their life.
I think this is more of an issue of us older folks making it about 'us' rather than about 'them'.
Our minds have a funny habit of ignoring things we don't use.
Is anyone around here bummed out that next to nobody can still write in shorthand?
The keyboard made shorthand irrelevant. The digital clock made the analog clock irrelevant.
If the power ever goes out for an extended amount of time, the majority of analog clocks will go with it. And learning an analog clock at that point will probably come pretty quick to these ignorant little bastards that grew up in a time different than our own.
Especially when almost everything they have ever known will be gone and they'll have a heck of a lot of time on their hands to learn something a child masters in a couple of days.
We date and debilitate ourselves when we start viewing the world under the mind-set of 'remember when'.
In the sixth grade, I stared at the clock more than anything.
I'm not surprised. I bet only 1-100 of those kids can shoe a horse. Pathetic.
^^THIS IS WRITTEN IN A FACETIOUS TONE^^
When I was in college, 13-ish years ago, the professor had to stop and explain an analog clock to a class room of 1400 students, because some decent portion didn't know what he meant when he talked about 12, 3, 6, and 9 in the room.
The sad thing?
This was Calculus based Physics for Engineers 1. First Semester class, but damn...
Tell Time? Hardly if anyone can do math.
That will be $11.47 sir
Here's $15.52 And they freeze for a moment then say, sir it's only $11.47, you gave me to much.
What kind of goober wants four 1's and a Nickleback?
The one who has a ten & fivein them, that's who. Throw a few pennies into something that comes out to $0.07 and they go catatonic .Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I've told this one before but bears repeating . The bank teller ask me how i'd like my money. Doesn't matter to me as long as they're in federal reserve notes.
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Excuse me sir, i'm going to have to get my manager for that. I don't think we carry those.
True story when I did field installs in banks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
We put in a new teller system (along with a new provider) that had some timing issues with the remit slip printers. Normally, they would do a transaction, drop the slip, it would detect insertion, and the computer/terminal/app would print. The new terminals were too fast for the old printers, which created a timing issue making the results inconsistent. Consequently, there was an option to enable a keypress to get them to print properly and reliably.
Now, the screen literally displayed, PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE.
You guessed it. "Does it matter which key we press?"
To avoid any confusion, I told her to always press the space bar. Figured they couldn't miss that with their meat paws, and if they double tapped anything, it wouldn't cause a mess. She proudly and sternly told all the other tellers to, "Make sure you press the SPACEBAR only when this comes up." Not a one questioned the requirement.
Why tell them to press the spacebar when they're supposed to press the ANY key?
Because it's in the empty spaces we find fulfillment, by the egalitarian openness of potential. Not bound by the constraints of "$", "k", or another key, the space key enables uniqueness and creativity. It is, in this sense, the "any" other key.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
(go with it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
This thread just keeps getting better.
How dare you assume I identify with single byte characters!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
Sounds like the bias key needs some attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skip
In the interest of compressing the required output, one can only assume that for the greater good of all you simply set your own variables as needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skip
$k?
Unfortunately driving a stick shift can get you killed.
http://abc13.com/news/carjacker-kill...ssion/1796915/
I don't know about the rest of you but I pretty much stopped memorizing phone numbers when I got my first cell phone in 1998. I have no idea what my brother or sister's phone number is but I call them all the time.
I remember my mother's phone number but that's because it hasn't changed since 1983.
It takes me a long time to read a dial clock even though I practiced hard. I had chicken pox for the first time when we were learning clocks in school and something about that fever screwed up the thought process.
The second time I had chicken pox we were learning long division, which I still can't do the way they want you to.
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Originally Posted by Wulf202
....wait....
In other news.....
NY dropping teacher literacy test amid claims of racism
My sixth grade class had girls in it....Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
I was not adversly effected by the presence of girls in 6th grade.
However, by 9th grade, the body suit was all the rage and on a good day, I could see Becky Goodman's bra through her sleeve hole when she raised her hand.
I repeated high school algebra 3 times.
During my H.S senior year, the only math i was concerned with was 1+1 didn't end up equaling 3. Or she said to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
I don't normally do this on the first date.
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Originally Posted by Skip
Personally, I self identify as EBCDIC.
Sooo the Muslim kid clock maker REALLY WAS A GENIUS?
Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi
And a rich one too.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOLON LABE
So binary.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
No, he used a digital clock. Probably couldn't figure out the whole big hand, little hand thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOLON LABE
Well how else are the poor dears who sexually ID as Rambo going to go into transition if not for the brave work of this "gang"? The Spanish government certainly isn't going to recognize their right to Rambo.
Isn't that a Michael Jackson joke?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
So confused. I posted this in the Spanish gun gang thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
This sounds strangely familiar.Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
I was wondering....Quote:
Originally Posted by CavSct1983
Not only can I read a clock but I can write in cursive too.
Isn't cursive a foul language?