Brace Yourself!

Domestic appliances are becoming less reliable. Washing machines last on average 7 years when they used to last 10.

Other things are also moving backwards – like human health, as people become fatter.

We are coming up against the limits of progress.

One of my students walked into a physics class with a very good calculator – a casio 991 es plus – and walked out with two.

When he asked whose calculator he walked out with at the next lesson, noone claimed it.

Must be a magic room. I told him, ‘next time, walk in with an ipad. If you walk out with two, give me one’.

to aqa I sent an email

ie please use the formula Area=1/2ab sin C to mean you can label the triangle in the same way as for the cosine rule a^2 =b^2 +c^2 -2bc con A.

I’m sorry I don’t have your name but to respond to your query we have a common formula sheet at the moment between all of the exam boards which we won’t be changing until after 2016.

From 2017 there will be no formula sheet given to students as the new Reformed GCSE in Maths requires most of the current formulae to be learned.

Best wishes,

Shaun Procter-Green (Qualifications Manager)
——————- Original Message ——————-
From: [email protected]
Received: 25/04/2014 09:13
To: Exams Office Support; Exams Office Support
Subject: Please amke formulae consistent on gcse/igcse maths exam paper

Just got a cheque for £280 from cpp limited.

That’s how they were avertised anyway. The postage is £2.80 per book – 280 times the value of the book. Not cheap paperbacks either but a level statistics textbooks.

There you go again talking about how Muslims are going to kill us all. Don’t you realise you sound like a nutter? Someone should tell you.

While the Korean ferry was capsizing and sinking, it seems the crew wailed and talked amongst themselves about what to do next.
The passengers hardly figured in their conversation at all, until eventually the crew escaped and left the passengers to die.
This says something about the dynamics of power, that the men in power isolate themselves from those they are meant to serve because those they are meant to serve are passive and obedient.

This time at virgin. I transferred phone and broadband to virgin in February. Things went badly from the start. They processed a payment of mine to someone else’s account, and added the amount of that payment to someone else’s account, then added it to my bill resulting in an attempt to take £214 from my bank account. When the direct debit bounced they disconnected my broadband without notice.
I got angry at this point. The refunded me for one month and paid my bank charge for the direct debit that bounced.
On Monday of this week my phone developed a fault and I didn’t have a phone line for 24 hours.
I sent for a technician and with the phone repaired, I CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICES! and demanded £20. After only about an hours resistance, they agreed. After 7 weeks of being a virgin customer, they have refunded me a total of £70. God only knows how they make a profit. Maybe most of the victims oc their incompetence havent got the patience to persist with them.

So the government is to send a counter terrorism expert from Scotland yard to root them out. I can imagine the interrogations that will take place in the classrooms – along with the usual interrogation tools of bright lights and loud music.
Any child that refuses to cooperate will be sent to Guantanamo, where there will be enhanced interrogation techniques and use of the cane. No doubt the teachers will be charged with organising acts of terrorism and never heard from again yadyadya…

The goblins in Brussels have decreed that drugs and prostitution make a positive contribution to a country’s economy. In a move that will make the Albanians very very angry, all centres of vice and crack houses are to be vaulted into the top tax bracket and visited by men from the tax authorities, who will besides taking large bribes, be conducting quality control checks by sampling the goods to make sure the trade descriptions act is also not being broken.