Using Both Hands And A Roadmap
you yanks allways get lost
but since its such a great country everyone wants to come to you, ask my mate gomaz 
http://www.national-anthems.net/web/find.webpage?from=real&what=v_uk&id=UK come on you yanks
SING its in English to! should have just stayed with the old flag to the right A
Brazil is still the best anthem, that was pele in the world cup, oh sorry you yanks dont play football, A senna the best racing driver ever, no yanks in England at that time to,im not having a dig at you guys BUT i do think you see the world like the map skipper put up, and i dont mean NASA you found your way into space i know (no maps needed full blast stright up) and still got lost 1970 something with the english coward guy smith,(TV)show, make sure you chose your friends right the next time because i dont think the UK will be with you next time, im sad to say, we can just get on with our theme park stuff, and i can say good bye to the BRITISH soliders that lost there lives in some shithole next november, crack on USA your going nowhere fast, ps heres the map and mcDs aint on it.
Yipee!!! I scored 10 points… Assuming that that is indeed my own ass that I found…
I’m not surprised, they don’t teach kids in school anything practical, like how to read a map. balance a check book. repair a small engine,add and subtract blah blah blah...but they do teach them how to put a condom on a banana, diversity, it’s ok to be gay,H2 say gimme, the world owes me attitude and lets not forget global warming!
Wow, just 2 pints and Bulldog is trashed. Got to be envious of that UK beer!
I knew where every country was but the last one, and the name itself put me in the right part of the world. But I didn’t know they were their own country! OTOH, they may be the only place on earth that will never, ever be invaded ... nobody wants to live there, and they have just about nothing. I looked it up, and their biggest city has a lower population than my former office building. But of the ones on your list, it is the only one bigger than a global pinpoint.
Smouldering duck squat! I looked up Benin and quickly added it to my list of places you couldn’t use horses to drag me to. I’d visit Andorra, you bet. Bhutan maybe. Suriname no way - I’d rather head west and drink JJ’s Kool Aid. Maybe Nunavut, for an extended hunting and fishing safari. Benin seems to be one of those places you can only be a refugee from.
OK, OK. Number #5 was a trick question. It isn’t actually a country but it is closer to us than the other four and is larger than the other four put together.
Bulldog only knows where Guinness is.
Stan, get yer hands off my a**.
I’ve found from going to parent-teacher conferences for my own kids that the grand ole’ subjects of yesteryear are still taught (at least here in the rural areas), but the kids don’t learn any of it because their teachers refuse to push them. All of us here (even me) are old enough to remember those sonofabitch or bitch-from-hell teachers that we truly hated at the time, but ended up remembering everything they taught us well into our adulthood (typing and geography for me). Sadly, these teachers don’t exist anymore. Teachers now are so P.C. and afraid of lawsuits that they’re nothing but “nice” to lazy-ass kids.
Sadly this doesn’t surprise me having on more than one occasion been asked by Americans “What language do they speak over there in England?” Not that we have anything to boast about here. Universities have to run remedial classes in English and maths to bring the dolts up to speed. Though according to Mr Bliar the standards are improving year on year.
I think in some way it is a little unfair to criticise American High Scool students in this way. The US is a massive place and the media don’t help much when, in my experience, a lot of their output is very parochial in its presentation.
Drew I coudn’t agree with you more re Benin. At the local airport near where I live the deposed President’s 707 landed. It was like a New Orleans knocking shop inside, all gold fittings etc. a real “pimp my ride” aeroplane. Yet this is one of the poorest countries on the planet. Seems to me the biggest export of Africa is their scumbags. All the poor people are too poor to get away.
The good news is that Americans have been so poorly educated by the public schools that they can’t even read reports by the National Geographic on how poorly educated they really are. That’s a relief!
COMMRADES! They can put on condoms (least wise on a bananna), they know that evil companies are given money by Karl Rove to make toxic chemicals, they know that Albert Gore invented the internet and that John F Kerry served in Vietnam. Soon they will learn of the Bush Dynasty and its earthquake machine....buwhahahahaha…
Posted by yatalli
05/03/2006 at 08:06 AM
I teach my ass off and the only question I get is, “How much longer to the bell?”
You can lead a student to knowledge, but you can’t make him think. I see little or no desire to learn in my students. They want entertainment, not education. My administrators want a baby sitter, not a scholar, and we are required to worship at the alter of state-standardized exams.
Thank God only 17 days until the end of the academic year.
Posted by MAJ Mike
05/03/2006 at 08:08 AM
Is it any wonder, then, why the United States Armed Forces do not WANT to take high-school dropouts?
Maker- I am not sure that having a piece of paper from a government education institution makes one more qualified to serve BUT they have checked the box, {sarcasm on} which is the key element in any successful government program {sarcasm off}. If you have graduated from high school in a non-conventional way (i.e. homeschool, correspondence, GED) you don’t fit the “model” and hence don’t fit the mold. Can the governmental school system be fixed? Probably not. Maj Mike nailed it! They want a babysitter! In some cases what they are really getting is a warden. His point about standarized testing is probably understated. It is all about funding. Fail to check the box for a certain percentage of students taking the tests and you are penalized! Fail to show improvement and you incur yet another penalty. If it were up to me, I would first abolish the Department of Education at the federal level. Then work on the state levels until only local school boards exsisted with complete control of the educational establishment at that level. It would be bad for the first few years as the educational apparatchik scrambled to find work...second, I would allow students to fail, bith by grade and by subject. No longer would there be a 5th grade class but only a fifth level in a particular subject. This would force mastery before promotion.
Posted by yatalli
05/03/2006 at 10:18 AM
DREW, its Danish
Denmark is in europe Drew, get the map out,its next to sweden, oh forget it
I couldn’t find Suriname. I was looking in tropical Asia. It’s in tropical S. America (I was looking on the other side of the world, for those who don’t know where those continents are). The rest I could find (although my map didn’t have Nunaavut, as it doesn’t have states and provinces, I knew where it was).
Yeah, yeah, I know where Denmark is - right next to that little ocean, what’s it called, the Balsamic See or something, right?
And I even know how to get there, thanks to Danny Kaye. And even the Danish beer sold here isn’t bad.
Hmmm, a worldwide beer tour cruise. Sweeeeeet!
05/02/2006 at 01:36 PM
