.... a subject I can safely say I never once used after leaving full time education, even logarithms came in briefly, but algebra... ...any other subjects on reflection that were a utter waste of yours and the education systems time ...?

I've always thought Algebra was quite important, gets the brain working on how to solve things and that.

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. (Horace Broon)

... Go on then, give me an everyday example.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. (Horace)

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. (Horace)

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.

.... a subject I can safely say I never once used after leaving full time education, even logarithms came in briefly, but algebra... ...any other subjects on reflection that were a utter waste of yours and the education systems time ...?

Spoken like a man who has never seen the true horrors of war. (him not you Kent) I know no one who has been there who would agree.

There are two kinds of men; those who dream of war, and those who have nightmares about war.

Bet you Have Snowy
ever been to the bar and ordered two lagers, one cider and lemonade or gone to the chippie and asked for 2 fish 1 chips and a carton of curry, if the lass/bloke behind the counter charged you too much you would know because you would know how much it was going to cost right.?

Replace the fish, chips and curry with letters ie

2f x c x cu = ? thats algebra !!!