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29 November 2016
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I think school should be compulsory until the age of 15/16 (or whatever age you do your GCSEs/Junior Cert whatever at). It’s best to leave school with some qualification even at a basic level.

Name me one thing that a 7 year old can’t do that’s taught in school and important in real life, I sure can’t think of one. Happy 3,000th post on this page.
  

Well I know in business when I was 13 & 14, you learned the major terms for employment- P45, P60, how to run a meeting, how to write a cheque (yep they’re still used here) and how to do out an invoice/do basic bookkeeping. All very important if you wanted to become a SME owner or become self-employed.

In secondary school I learned German and French which I use on a regular basis, talking to friends/writing to penpals, reading books and I’ll hopefully become employed because of my language skills after college

In English, I learned how to do a proper report, how to do a CV/Cover Letter etc. 

 

I didn’t do practical subjects but my brothers learned how to weld, solder, file, and craft metal and wood properly in woodwork and metalwork. Useful if you want to become a carpenter, electrician, mechanic.

 

You learn the basics about life in your first few years of secondary school but the things you learn in the 2nd half are definitely things you would only need if you wanted to pursue that subject in further education.

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Didn’t learn any of that stuff in school, although considering that I dropped out of 8th grade, I never actually went to high school. My father taught me a lot of business and woodworking things, such as investing in stocks, filing my taxes, how to get a job, how to fix a chair, how to whittle, how to fix a broken window, gun safety, etc.. Also, knowing a language other than English wouldn’t help you here in the US.

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Didn’t learn any of that stuff in school, although considering that I dropped out of 8th grade, I never actually went to high school. My father taught me a lot of business and woodworking things, such as investing in stocks, filing my taxes, how to get a job, how to fix a chair, how to whittle, how to fix a broken window, gun safety, etc.. Also, knowing a language other than English wouldn’t help you here in the US.  

Spanish- a lot of people from Central and South America live in the US, some of whom have very limited English skills.

German- If you want to visit Pennsylvania

French- If you want to visit certain parts of Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England, Maine

You also have variants of Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Italian, Dutch- all widely spoken in the US, (fun fact, Irish is the 76th most spoken language in America ooohhh) 

 

Having languages in general is just an excellent employment advantage, with 3 international languages (at the minute, I am practicing Italian, Japanese and Cantonese- but wouldn’t consider any of them higher than my French, German and Irish) I will always be chosen over a person with just a bog standard business degree because I can communicate with foreign nations and could help a company expand their business.

Eight grade would be first year in Irish schools, which means you wouldn’t have learned much of what I mentioned above. If you’d done another year or two you definitely would have covered things that I mentioned.

 

Good on your dad though, job well done!

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AppleScruffJunior said 

Spanish- a lot of people from Central and South America live in the US, some of whom have very limited English skills.

Though I will admit there are a few Spanish speakers near where I live in Florida, it’s only because we’re close to Cuba and even then, the English to Spanish ratio in even the biggest Spanish communities in the US is maybe 5,000:1 at the most.

German- If you want to visit Pennsylvania.

I’ve been to Pennsylvania and there are no German speaking people.

French- If you want to visit certain parts of Canada, Louisiana, Missouri, New England, Maine.

The only answer you got right is Quebec, and even then when I hopped the US Canada border for a friend’s birthday party so we could drink legally, a lot of the Quebec people knew English.

You also have variants of Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Italian, Dutch- all widely spoken in the US, (fun fact, Irish is the 76th most spoken language in America ooohhh)

A ratio of English to all of those languages combined in the US would be 22,111,968:1.

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For German, your talking about Pennsylvanian Dutch, the Amish speak that and they learn English and High German along with that.

Canada is the US apparently.

Should of mentioned Hawaiian. Got a situation not unlike Ireland.

With advancing technology, software like Google translate can be perfected.

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It’s just about time for more Facebook peeves.

People who are always posting these chain statuses that demand that you do something. You know, all that “If you’re really my friend, tell me ten things I like, my blood type, and my social security number” nonsense. If I have to prove that I’m your friend every other day, I don’t want you as a friend. 

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Queen’s music being whored out in commercials. I don’t care if their meaningless but catchy pop songs are used but I just saw a Christmas food ad with ‘These Are The Days of Our Lives’- pretty much Freddie’s goodbye song to his fans…and Brian, Rodger and John approved the use of it?!? F**king hell no respect.  

It was just on the telly, it isn’t for food as I thought but clothes- yuck.

 

 

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Queen’s music being whored out in commercials. I don’t care if their meaningless but catchy pop songs are used but I just saw a Christmas food ad with ‘These Are The Days of Our Lives’- pretty much Freddie’s goodbye song to his fans…and Brian, Rodger and John approved the use of it?!? F**king hell no respect.  

John gave his approval for Brian and Roger to be the decision makers years ago. I don’t think he takes much notice. 

What’s happening to Queen’s catalogue is horrific with tracks being used to sell all kinds of shit, but then they’ve been shitting on Queen’s brand for years with singers taking the place of Freddie and missing the mark by light years, shite collaborations and even worse remixes.

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Peppermint flavoured candy canes. a-hard-days-night-paul-3 They taste just like mint toothpaste, and that’s not a good thing.

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You’ll probably hate your mint records then.

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Myself and my 4 BFFs (girl power etc.) were going having a Harry Potter marathon over the Christmas with each person screening 2 films at their house, we had a group chat set up on Facebook and one of my friends added 2 girls who I rarely talk to the group chat and now I’m meant to have them over at my house to watch HP….why?

Also we’re running a stocking system where we each buy a small gift for each other and put them in a stocking so everyone ends up with a load of things- so now I have to buy 2 more presents grrrr.

Eff off, my house :/ 

That and I don’t even know what the other 2 even like, I have perfect gifts picked out for the other 4 but now I have to get 2 more and I don’t want people to be getting similar gifts because they will end up getting jealous over what someone else got etc.

 

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I have a friend on Facebook who CONSTANTLY posts to people’s Timelines when she ought to just send them a PM there instead. Drives me nuts. Facebook has messaging! There’s a use for it!

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This one has probably been said a million times, but a lack of actual Beatles music on YouTube and if you want a more original complaint, the fact that beatlesebooks says that George used a Gibson SG on I Want To Tell You . I want to say that beatlesebooks is the ultimate Beatles source when it comes to finding out what guitars The Beatles used on each song, but until he edits that page, I can’t stand by that statement.

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People who don’t say that they are covers in the title of videos.

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People who don’t say that they are covers in the title of videos.  

OMG yes, this drives me insane. I think they do it on purpose so you’ll click through.

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@HMBeatlesfan said
This one has probably been said a million times, but a lack of actual Beatles music on YouTube

The most annoying thing with this is the fact that it makes it harder to share Beatles music with friends.

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@William Shears Campbell said

The most annoying thing with this is the fact that it makes it harder to share Beatles music with friends.  

Exactly. For instance, if I want my band to play, say, ‘Something ‘, I can’t send them a YouTube of the song, because it won’t be there. All that’s up are George’s and Paul’s live versions and covers. 

Also if you’re posting on, say, the Fab Forum, and you want to pinpoint a particular song fragment, you can’t post ‘@1:14 in this video’. 

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Dailymotion has most of them up.

A minor pet peeve is thanks dissonance.

Like when someone says that a post is great yet doesn’t thank the post.

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People who refuse to eat meat on Fridays during lent, so therefore eat fish instead. That’s so contradicting, it’s like me saying “I can’t play video games during December, so therefore I’ll go to the arcade and play Ms. Pac Man instead” or “I can’t watch TV this week, so I’ll just watch the news on TV instead”, it makes no sense.

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