Really that ignorant?
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Ohhh bless or is it bliss?
They walk among us.
Was collecting a carry it last night. Whilst I was waiting I was listening to two, older to know better, waiters complaining that they had to write a letter but didn't know how to do it. Maybe for a different post but have these old fashioned life skills gone ?
Was collecting a carry it last night. Whilst I was waiting I was listening to two, older to know better, waiters complaining that they had to write a letter but didn't know how to do it. Maybe for a different post but have these old fashioned life skills gone ?
alberta boy
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I can relate . One of the younger guys at work asked me " how long do Moose hibernate ? ". I said it depends on how deep they dig their Moose dens . I also had to explain how tides work to the same person who , depressingly , is a university graduate with a degree ........................ and they wonder why I spend a lot of time in remote places with a firearm in my hands .
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alberta boy
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John Gryphon
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I watched a doco one Sunday arvo,a Nat Geo doco on leopards and one scene had the leopard coming down the tree jumping onto an impala.
Next day travelling to work in the truck my deckhand said " I watched a nature doco yesterday and it showed a part where a tiger came down the tree..." I said 'it was a ****ing leopard you idiot'
He replied "i dunno what it was,it looked like a tiger to me"
Groan!
Next day travelling to work in the truck my deckhand said " I watched a nature doco yesterday and it showed a part where a tiger came down the tree..." I said 'it was a ****ing leopard you idiot'
He replied "i dunno what it was,it looked like a tiger to me"
Groan!
John Gryphon
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Answer "depends on how long I keep them in my freezer."
Cootmeurer
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Sometimes when you take advantage of their ignorance it does come back to bite you in the rear.
When my children were young I used to take many of their friends along goose hunting. Part of the hunt in a well equipped blind was a grill and a hot breakfast, usually eggs and bacon. The timing of the breakfast was usually after “duck time” (first hour of morning light) and before “goose time” (about 2 hours after light). Standing joke with my own children was that geese could smell bacon because we were usually finishing up about the time the geese started flying well.
The guest children often came from very gullible backgrounds.
A couple years later I have one of those children, now my student, in a class I’m teaching. The topic gets around to “except for vultures, birds can’t smell”. He gets up and argues vociferously that I’m wrong and I know I’m wrong because he proved to me in a blind that geese can smell bacon.
That was 15 minutes of my life that I’ll never reclaim and I only have myself to blame
When my children were young I used to take many of their friends along goose hunting. Part of the hunt in a well equipped blind was a grill and a hot breakfast, usually eggs and bacon. The timing of the breakfast was usually after “duck time” (first hour of morning light) and before “goose time” (about 2 hours after light). Standing joke with my own children was that geese could smell bacon because we were usually finishing up about the time the geese started flying well.
The guest children often came from very gullible backgrounds.
A couple years later I have one of those children, now my student, in a class I’m teaching. The topic gets around to “except for vultures, birds can’t smell”. He gets up and argues vociferously that I’m wrong and I know I’m wrong because he proved to me in a blind that geese can smell bacon.
That was 15 minutes of my life that I’ll never reclaim and I only have myself to blame
Len the dog
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I was getting my haircut and the young lad cutting it asked what my plans were for the day, I explained that I had some work to do on my allotment. He started quizzing me first on what was an allotment and then on how long it took from sowing the seeds to eating the produce, I told him it would be about 3 months, depending on what it was. He looked at me incredulously and said he thought it would be a week.
Smellydog
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Next September I'm taking a little barbecue and bacon on a goose shoot, thanks for the tip.
At work Friday one of the blokes cut some rubber conveyor to make a long strip for something.
I said come here mate and we walked to the 21year old gobby **** lol.
I said "hey wanna play a game, see who can take the most whipping. Fiver for the winner"
"Yes" he said, I go first so I whipped the back of his thigh.
When he stopped hopping around laughing and crying at the same time and then said it's your turn I said "get stuffed do you think I'm an idiot or something" and walked off....
Been want to do that for ages
It felt real good...
long_range_rob
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Try getting Google on that?
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Stalker62
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I simply will not have those new fangled devices in the house.
This is good enough for my home, and for when I RCO at Bisley later today....
Freeforester
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He will probably have fallen for the ‘global warming‘ twaddle - try to engage him about photosynthesis next time, the concept of your potato plants eating co2 and producing both oxygen and crinkle cut crisps - that’ll completely melt his melon!
My sister recently took a friend to the seaside. Once there said friend, a lady in her 60's, mentioned how fast the tide appeared to be coming in ! The tide in fact was not 'coming in', it was on the ebb. Apparently the friend was of the impression that because the waves were coming towards the shore indicated that the tide was 'coming in' ! 
Conversely, if the waves had been 'going the other way' the tide was going out ! This had been her understanding all of her life and it came as a revelation when my sister explained !! She did not venture an attempt at explaining the gravitational effects of the Sun and Moon on tidal forces ! 
Conversely, if the waves had been 'going the other way' the tide was going out ! This had been her understanding all of her life and it came as a revelation when my sister explained !! She did not venture an attempt at explaining the gravitational effects of the Sun and Moon on tidal forces ! 
Foxyboy43
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Hmmm. Many years ago we had the two grandkids for yet another weekend and it being a lovely morning we took them and the dogs to a nearby clifftop walk. As usual being 4 and 6 they were full of beans and when we got to the very top of the cliff we all stood and took in the breathtaking view across the unusually calm Irish Sea to The Mull, Ailsa Craig and the nearby Ayrshire coast - all was still, the view perfect and then the 6 year old said:-
“Wow granda - it’s just like HD!”. Mrs FB had to walk off she was so upset whilst I struggled to keep control. Then and for many years after we made a point of getting them out into the country at every opportunity.
Funny old world - not one I necessarily want to be a part of……
“Wow granda - it’s just like HD!”. Mrs FB had to walk off she was so upset whilst I struggled to keep control. Then and for many years after we made a point of getting them out into the country at every opportunity.
Funny old world - not one I necessarily want to be a part of……
lochty
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Sadly, yes they are. A few years ago, I brought a fallow home to butcher. Next door neighbour brought his then 9 year old son to have a look, and asked "is it dead?" Yes was the reply, then he said "can't you press reset like you do on my computer game?". The worrying thing is that generation will be running what's left of the country in 20 years time.
Ask youngsters under twenty to light a fire. 
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