So Where IS Antarctica? - Page 3

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

I don't want to generalize, but I have noticed a real lack of curiosity about the world. I think that's sad because I feel when you're curious that's where learning begins.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

I thought she lived with Uncle Arctica. Is this a trick question?

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

@happycat wrote:
I had someone tell me today, that the reason my bill was 500.00 instead of the 400.00 they had quoted me was because of tax. They do not add tax on to the quotes. I told her tax shouldn't be 100.00 on 400.00.
It's just gonna get worse, makes me wanna be a prepper.

apparently Math which is a pure science is now under attack. 2+2 does not equal 4 anymore . So who knows what your bill will be.

RoughDraft · ‎03-09-2010

So strange to keep attacking young people. Who do many of us call to get our computers working?

~The only difference between this place and the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.~

Alter Ego · ‎03-12-2010

@Susan Louise wrote:
Forget about Antarctica...
I wonder nowadays what % of high school graduates in the US even know the 50 stares, where they are and at minimum, the capitol of each. I knew all of them by 3rd/4th grade...

I actually never learned this in school and absolutely could not tell you the capitals of every state.

I did, however, learn the seven continents in grade school. Oddly enough, it was in Antarctica where I learned that people in other parts of the world do NOT learn that there are seven, but differing numbers depending on where they are from. They combine North and South America or call it Eurasia.

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

@Nonametoday wrote:
@KaySD wrote:
I think they keep it on Aisle 13, right next to the Polish.
@KaySD

This sounds like what I told a persnickety lady who called me one day (you know the one who never has a speck of dust in her house and her kids look like the model for a magazine and you have to know she is on drugs because she is too perfect to be real because her house looks like House Beautiful and she looks like she wrote the book on how to style oneself and do their own hair to suit the outfit, cooks 3 perfectly beautiful and tasty, nonetheless healthy meals per day) and asked me what is a scant teaspoon of salt? She said I know what a teaspoon is and what salt is.. (she laughed) and said but what is a scant? I told her to go down to the Ace Hardware and buy one. She told me she was cooking and asked if I had one, to which I told her I did not. She got in her vehicle with her children (hair all combed and wearing bows in their beautiful blond curls) and when she came back, she looked angry. She never spoke to me again. I did not care. In addition to being stuck up, she was a big gossip.

Actually, I have felt guilty about that for years and have asked forgiveness in my later years. I know that is not very Christian-like to do something like that but it was fun at the moment.

@Nonametoday - LOL! I think we've all known women like that. I had a neighbor with two children. When you walked into her home you would never know she had children at all. When you walked into mine you had to step over the toys in the entry way!

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

@Susan in California wrote:
@beach-mom
When our younger son was in h.s. he was involed with
AFS (American Field Service), and we hosted a student from Chile for a year.
He came home really upset one day:

When he told a student he was from Chile, that student laughed and said, "Where's that, in Mexico?!"

@Susan in California - *Shaking my head* I hope other students weren't that clueless!

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

@Porcelain and @RoughDraft - LOL!

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

@skatting44 wrote:
@happycat wrote:
I had someone tell me today, that the reason my bill was 500.00 instead of the 400.00 they had quoted me was because of tax. They do not add tax on to the quotes. I told her tax shouldn't be 100.00 on 400.00.
It's just gonna get worse, makes me wanna be a prepper.
apparently Math which is a pure science is now under attack. 2+2 does not equal 4 anymore . So who knows what your bill will be.

@skatting44 and @happycat - Been there. DD came home with her math homework in 1st or 2nd grade. One of the problems was something like 22 + 22. Easy. I helped her the way most of us learned. She got it and was so happy. The next day she came home with the paper all marked up. I vaguely remember something about units and a ten-step procedure to get to the answer.

Years later in high school we had arguments about what she would "need." She didn't have to do anything because the computer would take care of it.

Going into college she struggled with math. Her math background from high school was terrible.

She went into finance - go figure! But she knows where Antarctica is!