h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

.... watching England "play" football last night...

Yes, but I doubt that you were proud ogf it Kat (I maintain that chemistry is THE most difficult subject to learn in the school curriculum, for a variety of reasons. So, I'm not concerned that there are people who don't understand it. What I'm concerned about are people who are proud of the fact that they don't understand it and say that it doesn't matter anyway i.e. they think that chemistry is irrelevant to their lives .

Falling full length in front of a bus stop full of people because a HUGE horse chestnut leaf had blown over my face just as I went to step onto the kerb, on a wet, windy, December day in Liverpool, and then nearly crying because my knee hurt so much.

"which is the lightest chemical element"

Tungsten, surely?

B

(I nearly cracked a rib, MB) Incidentally, I was trying to remember why it is called 'wolfram' with my GXSE class this afternnon

Today has been a pretty embarassing day.

Started out all smiles and laughs, then went horribly wrong.

I've mentioned that I fancy one of the IT men, but a couple of mates both think he looks like a baboon (he doesn't! Just has a slightly larger head then he should... But a baboon would find my monkey feet quite attractive anyway). The IT man came to sort out a peecee, rummaging under the desk and the like. Mate went over to him, crawled under desk and asked if he was single because I liked him

Then, someone else walked over to me and told me that she'd been speaking to the new bloke (Data Boy - sing Data Boy to that Avril Lavigne song, brilliant!). She said she'd found out he wasn't single, but she said something along the lines of: "Oh, you should dump her for FB!"

There's more! Another person went over to another bloke and asked him if he had any nice mates!

And this was all in front of the bloke I really like, who now probably thinks I've got loads of people asking around for me

I'm glad you read that, BigAl - I think the quotient of h2g2 researchers who would otherwise have got it is quite small.

B

I got it! (closest relevant smiley I could think of) Even though I'm a dumb humanities person.

I didn't. But that's not surprising, with an education consisting of Theatre, Film and Literature studies...

Picture innocent 11 year old boy. Secondary school sex-education lesson.

We'd been shown little pencil line drawings of anatomy, but I'd never seen the relevant female "geography" to have any idea of what things were. Nor had I had any... "experiences" of my own to know what happened.

Came out of the lesson confused...

Went home...

Asked mother:

"Mum, if I put my w***y up a girls bottom and wee, will she have a baby?"

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I have since come to the conclusion that the pile of Men Only magazines I found under my brother's bed was far better at sex-education than any school lessons!

I shouldn't laugh, but I can't help it!

Ref 'Men Only magazines vs Sex Educatin:

These last two quotes resonate with a column I read in
I wish I could remember the background to it, but the following quote must have been something to do with teaching swearing in schools. It was from the Mail on Sunday (UK) on 8th July, 2001 and said:

I thought they already taught swearing in schools. Children these days all seem so good at it. But, of course, when you think about it that cannot be right. If they actually taught bad language then few of their pupils would be able to use it, just as hardly any of them can spell or add up, let alone multiply. In the same way, after 30 years of sex education, the young seem mystified by the connection between intercourse and babies. So perhaps we should all rejoice that rude words are now being put on the National Curriculum. After a few years of this, everyone will be as hopeless at spelling expletives as French Connection, and possibly unable to pronounce them as well.



(As Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education")

Elly -- Tungsten is/was (?) used in light blubs after it was discovered that it gave off a bright and long-lasting energy.

Ah here we go! A762662

that I didn't get that!

Tungsten is/was (?) used in light blubs [sic]

Ordinary domestic electric light bulbs still contain tungsten filaments.

Refd Post 1033...

The following was a superfluous/redundant phrase 'coz I copied and pasted a section from my PS and forgot to delete that bit:

'These last two quotes resonate with a column I read in'

Hope you are suitably embarassed

Don't tell anybody, because I've promised not to tell anyone, but...

I have a friend (not for much longer if she finds out), who had a favourite pair of shoes. However, she was very upset when the sole started to separate from the rest of the show. Being a resourceful girl, she busied herself with a tube of Superglue. She squeezed the sole and shoe tightly for a minute, to ensure a good join - only to discover that she was then unable to let go of the shoe - her hand was firmly stuck! She was alone in the house, and had to wait almost two hours with a shoe glued to her hand until her father got home.

Her embarrassment continue...

She was learning to drive in her fathers car. He was standing on the driveway, watching her reverse towards their garage. He heard a heavy from the car, followed by swearing. It turns out that she went to put her head out of the window, to see how she was progressing - but omitted to open the window first!

just like my poor little baby who's headbutted a window the other day.
What's so embarassing about superglueing yourself to a shoe that you mustn't tell about it? Tell her to try and have her middle finger stuck in a gun barrel for a while, then we'll talk embarrassment (I was supposed to be cleaning the damn thing, and was also supposed to know what I was doing).