How many life skills do you have?
Apr 15th 2014, 8:19 am
#46
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Apr 15th 2014, 8:21 am
#47
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
You checked off 96 out of 100 on this list!
Congratulations on knowing everything. You’re like Joan Holloway, the Dos Equis man, and the president of the United States all rolled into one.
Never cleaned my laptop/PC, I crash not Ski, Never used a Mac and how the hell do you fold a twatting fitted sheet? Home Economics taught me a lot of these things followed by 2 years serving Queen and Country.
Congratulations on knowing everything. You’re like Joan Holloway, the Dos Equis man, and the president of the United States all rolled into one.
Never cleaned my laptop/PC, I crash not Ski, Never used a Mac and how the hell do you fold a twatting fitted sheet? Home Economics taught me a lot of these things followed by 2 years serving Queen and Country.
Apr 15th 2014, 8:37 am
#48
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
90 yesterday, 93 today
I now know how to use my watch as a compass, get blood stains out and fold a fitted sheet.
I can’t bake a cake without a recipe, build a BBQ fire (I’m guessing there’s a particular way), undestand 401(k), ski, or identify all the states—all of which don’t trouble me.
However, what I do want to know is how to best manage / store my photos and data (photos in particular), and how the stock market works…
I now know how to use my watch as a compass, get blood stains out and fold a fitted sheet.
I can’t bake a cake without a recipe, build a BBQ fire (I’m guessing there’s a particular way), undestand 401(k), ski, or identify all the states—all of which don’t trouble me.
However, what I do want to know is how to best manage / store my photos and data (photos in particular), and how the stock market works…
Apr 15th 2014, 8:52 am
#49
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Haven't you heard of a sun dial? Use the same principle with a big stick. mark shadow point as W (sun rises in east and sets in west, so the first shadow point will point westwards since the sun is coming from the east). wait long enough for shadow to move a good distance. mark that point as E (since the sun has moved further westwards the shadow will fall further eastwards). Draw line perpendicular through middle, and mark out remaining N & S. Never East Shredded Wheat (good philosophy btw).
At night though, I'd be screwed as I don't know the signs of the zodiac. I think I would just go to sleep tbh.
Apr 15th 2014, 8:58 am
#50
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
I had to jab a co-worker with an adrenaline injection after he got stung by a bee. He had luckily shown me the needle in the glove box a couple of weeks prior and told me what it was for. We were doing a survey out in the Australian bush and when I got back to the Jeep he was in fairly bad shape.
Think of the scene in Pulp Fiction except I injected him in the thigh instead of the heart.
Think of the scene in Pulp Fiction except I injected him in the thigh instead of the heart.
You should also stand to the side when you jab someone (and never put your thumb on top just in case you got the jobby upside down!) as I've seen one of my colleagues punch out his firstaider, as apparently the injection *is* that painful......
Apr 15th 2014, 9:04 am
#51
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Huh? why just ladies?
Haven't you heard of a sun dial? Use the same principle with a big stick. mark shadow point as W (sun rises in east and sets in west, so the first shadow point will point westwards since the sun is coming from the east). wait long enough for shadow to move a good distance. mark that point as E (since the sun has moved further westwards the shadow will fall further eastwards). Draw line perpendicular through middle, and mark out remaining N & S. Never East Shredded Wheat (good philosophy btw).
At night though, I'd be screwed as I don't know the signs of the zodiac. I think I would just go to sleep tbh.
Haven't you heard of a sun dial? Use the same principle with a big stick. mark shadow point as W (sun rises in east and sets in west, so the first shadow point will point westwards since the sun is coming from the east). wait long enough for shadow to move a good distance. mark that point as E (since the sun has moved further westwards the shadow will fall further eastwards). Draw line perpendicular through middle, and mark out remaining N & S. Never East Shredded Wheat (good philosophy btw).
At night though, I'd be screwed as I don't know the signs of the zodiac. I think I would just go to sleep tbh.
Edit to say that, moreover, its the wrong answer to the wrong question (coz it doesn't involve your watch).
Last edited by Bahtatboy; Apr 15th 2014 at 9:13 am.
Apr 15th 2014, 9:18 am
#53
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Huh? why just ladies?
Haven't you heard of a sun dial? Use the same principle with a big stick. mark shadow point as W (sun rises in east and sets in west, so the first shadow point will point westwards since the sun is coming from the east). wait long enough for shadow to move a good distance. mark that point as E (since the sun has moved further westwards the shadow will fall further eastwards). Draw line perpendicular through middle, and mark out remaining N & S. Never East Shredded Wheat (good philosophy btw).
At night though, I'd be screwed as I don't know the signs of the zodiac. I think I would just go to sleep tbh.
Haven't you heard of a sun dial? Use the same principle with a big stick. mark shadow point as W (sun rises in east and sets in west, so the first shadow point will point westwards since the sun is coming from the east). wait long enough for shadow to move a good distance. mark that point as E (since the sun has moved further westwards the shadow will fall further eastwards). Draw line perpendicular through middle, and mark out remaining N & S. Never East Shredded Wheat (good philosophy btw).
At night though, I'd be screwed as I don't know the signs of the zodiac. I think I would just go to sleep tbh.
Apr 15th 2014, 9:22 am
#54
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
79/100
Having said that, I make the best pasta in the world, so I hereby submit that should count for atleast 3 points!!
and why was there a good looking woman adjusting her assets in front of a mirror? I feel I should know the answer to this one...does that automatically deduct from my total?? I am confused as always now!
Having said that, I make the best pasta in the world, so I hereby submit that should count for atleast 3 points!!
and why was there a good looking woman adjusting her assets in front of a mirror? I feel I should know the answer to this one...does that automatically deduct from my total?? I am confused as always now!
Apr 15th 2014, 9:23 am
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Apr 15th 2014, 9:24 am
#56
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Although before google-whacking I didn't know the correct answer, I did know that the above is incorrect. Depending on time of year and location, the sun can set more than 90 degrees away from west and rise more than 90 degrees away from east.
Edit to say that, moreover, its the wrong answer to the wrong question (coz it doesn't involve your watch).
Edit to say that, moreover, its the wrong answer to the wrong question (coz it doesn't involve your watch).
ok, so I answered the wrong question, but the watch one sounds really simple, but is almost impossible to do in practice with any kind of accuracy - try it now - the sun is too high in the sky to get the mid point angle.
Apr 15th 2014, 9:26 am
#57
womble
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Anyway - I'm on holiday today, and just avoiding the mid-day heat with the kids.
Aren't you lot all meant to be working?!
Apr 15th 2014, 9:40 am
#58
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
work? what strange word from a strange language is this?
btw I can always tell where north is day or night, my model came equipped with a built-in one. The most difficult time to tell in the day is at noon and in the night when there is no moon and the city lights make the stars dim out...or if there is a full moon
btw I can always tell where north is day or night, my model came equipped with a built-in one. The most difficult time to tell in the day is at noon and in the night when there is no moon and the city lights make the stars dim out...or if there is a full moon
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Apr 15th 2014, 9:46 am
#59
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
yeah MrOS is always trying to tell me the stars, but for the life of me this is one thing where my brain just goes "hunh" on and I can never get. Bit like the "checking your balls are still there" thing that guys do - hunh?
Anyway - I'm on holiday today, and just avoiding the mid-day heat with the kids.
Aren't you lot all meant to be working?!
Anyway - I'm on holiday today, and just avoiding the mid-day heat with the kids.
Aren't you lot all meant to be working?!
Stars have fascinated me since my Mum's feller bought a telescope. Within 20 minutes of him having it set up he got me to look through it, could see Saturn, the rings and the gaps between the rings and planet. It blew my 8(?)yr old mind.
Then he took me to meet Patrick Moore at some talk and see moon rock.
Apr 15th 2014, 9:49 am
#60
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Re: How many life skills do you have?
Stars have fascinated me since my Mum's feller bought a telescope. Within 20 minutes of him having it set up he got me to look through it, could see Saturn, the rings and the gaps between the rings and planet. It blew my 8(?)yr old mind.
Then he took me to meet Patrick Moore at some talk and see moon rock.
Then he took me to meet Patrick Moore at some talk and see moon rock.
