Thought for the day

[Cap'n Grumpy]

Some days there have been no thoughts I see.

Some days I sit and think, but most days I just sit.

[UlsterNo9]

One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change...

... and file for bankruptcy.

Ah Capt...... another thought for today.

There are people so poor, the only thing that they have left in life is money.

Sadly so true.

I am most fortunate - I came into this world with nothing and still have most of it left.

hadn't heard that one before

[solidarity]

From my student days - every mark over 40 is an hours wasted work.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

From my student days - every mark over 40 is an hours wasted work.

You were lucky - one of my professional qualifications required a 60% pass, and not just on average - 4 papers and you had to get 60% in each.

Three 90%s and a 59% was still a fail.

But like your thinking - I reckon I scraped it with 60s or very low 60s in all of them.

In my school days, (with one exception, subsequently corrected), I never failed an exam that was important to me, but I don't recall passing any that I considered unimportant (ie, prior to selecting O-Level subjects, I failed all the ones that I wasn't gonna select, but passed all the ones I liked and knew I was gonna select)

I recall missing a history exam in second form due to illness and when I came back, the teacher was going through the paper with the whole class. I subsequently had to sit that paper just for the record and still contrived to fail it even having heard the answers.

The irony is that I now enjoy history, but it's history of my choosing, not what a syllabus dictates.

Latin was another - it was like a foreign language to me.

I can still decline my qui, quae quod etc, and reckon I learnt more about English language in Latin class than I ever did in an English class.

[big mervyn]

Ah. Education is wasted on the young. Hated languages at school but in middle age I've been diligently learning Spanish and brushing up on my French.

[solidarity]

I had a ball at school, good mates, plenty of sport, the only thing that got in the way were the classes.