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  1. 1st June 2013, 09:18 PM #61
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    In 1967 at the age of 27 I was selected to go back to TAFE to do the electronics certificate course.First lesson was maths and I was rather apprehensive since I left school at 15 in 1963 with my intermediate certificate. The lecturer arrived and said to the class to have a go at some maths questions on the board. Q1 was..draw a time line and mark certain features on it. My mate, the same age as me looked at me and shrugged. We sat there with blank looks on our faces,along with a few others. The teacher looked up and saw us sitting and looking puzzled. He asked what was the problem. We indicated we did not know what a time line was. He just sat and stared at us slowly scratching his head. Then he asked the class what qualifications each one had. Most had the HSC and so down the line. Intermediate certificate was popular. And then the penny dropped. Since we had left school most of the terminology had changed. They now spoke a different language to what we knew. He then took the class back to basics and taught us older guys the new maths terminology. He thought it was funny teaching adults what they teach kids in infants school. Jim
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    Quote Originally Posted by jx2mad View Post
    In 1967 at the age of 27 I was selected to go back to TAFE to do the electronics certificate course.First lesson was maths and I was rather apprehensive since I left school at 15 in 1963...
    Wow, you aged 12 years between 1963 and 1967? Bad at maths or a looong trip in a space ship...
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    Any advance on 1973? Jim
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    1975

    1963 @ 15 + 12 years = 1975


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    Talking ARE YOU GETTING OLD!!!!

    I remember hearing my uncle saying things like "we milked the whole herd by hand"--"it was so cold we stood in the cow s--t to keep our feet warm" and "you young fellas don't know how good you've got it" I'm now a young fella of 58 and hearing the same said of those coming behind us
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    Quote Originally Posted by bee utey View Post
    Wow, you aged 12 years between 1963 and 1967? Bad at maths or a looong trip in a space ship...
    There are three kinds of people in this world.
    Those who can count, and those that can't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jx2mad View Post
    Miss Casey the Latin teacher. What about Miss Norris the girl's pe teacher who always wore a mini skirt. Then there was Mr Bonnell who ran the Cadets. Jim
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    Somehow I am worried this thread is heading towards something that we all need not know about.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by bee utey View Post
    Wow, you aged 12 years between 1963 and 1967? Bad at maths or a looong trip in a space ship...
    Give him a brake. it was @ 10.18 pm!
    For sure he have 1 or 2 glasses of wine plus "the must have after dinner" glass of brandy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinelli View Post
    Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many old timers here complaining about laptops and calculators at school these days happen to have a set of ratcheting ring spanners, air tools and cordless drills in their shed.

    In my day, I had a pair of pliers, a set of screwdrivers and a sidchrome spanner set, and anything else was luxury
    I'm pretty much still there. I only got a tiny air compressor last year! No wonder I need to be in better shape. I've never used air tools on a car and it would probably take me half a decade to get used to the idea.
    At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.
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    I thought I was losing the plot 1946 + 15 years = 1961 So 12 years later would be 1973. So that date was right
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