Teaching maths in Britain.

[charleyboy]

Teaching Maths in Britain

1. Teaching Maths In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100..
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80.
How much was his profit?

4. Teaching Maths In 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Maths In 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20.

6. Teaching Maths In 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the
felling licence.

He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health and Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut something..

He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be a recidivist and habitual criminal.

His DNA is sampled and his details circulated throughout all government agencies.

He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100 because he is such an easy target.

When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his wood to build a camp on his land.

He tries to throw them off but is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further £100.

While he is in jail again the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell it on the black market for £100 cash.

They also have a departure BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and leave behind several tonnes of rubbish and asbestos sheeting.

The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence.

He complains and is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced £12,000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government contractor.

Your assignment:

How many times is the logger going to have to be arrested and fined before he realises that he is never going to make £20
profit by hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for the rest of his life?

7. Teaching Maths In 2010
A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he can’t get a loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money on a derivative of securitised debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay a few million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the biggest losses.

The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old lorry however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions
regulations and he is forced to scrap it.

Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it back on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives.

If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport them at the governments expense.

Following their holiday back home they return to the UK with different names and fresh girls and start again.

The logger protests, is accused of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of his old lorry he is forced to pay £1,500 registration fees as a gang master.

The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonus's are not cheap.

The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses and allowances.
You do the maths.

8. Teaching Maths 2017
أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة
الانتاج 80 من الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟= 20

[xanax]

Best post for a long time, funny but with a grain of truth in it.

[Neverna]

Yep. The old jokes are the best.

[cyrille]

Perhaps it's time for an islamophobe forum section?

It seems to come in so many guises.

[xanax]

Fear of Islam is very sensible, as was fear of Nazism and communism, strange how some are so willing to appease totalitarian threats to civilisation.

[kmart]

Fear of Islam is very sensible, as was fear of Nazism and communism, strange how some are so willing to appease totalitarian threats to civilisation.

Islam has been selected as a threat. After the last real threat of communism collapsed.

[xanax]

If you look at the carnage committed by Muslims in the name of Islam around the world day by day then it's 'selection' is totally justified, the religion of death.

[Neverna]

Yes, blame the Muslims for everything. Look what they did to Jesus.

Oops!

[xanax]

Yes, blame the Muslims for everything. Look what they did to Jesus.

Oops!

No not for everythng just the thousands of murders they have committed since 9/11, or are you blaming the Jews for that as well?

[Thormaturge]

If you look at the carnage committed by Muslims in the name of Islam around the world day by day then it's 'selection' is totally justified, the religion of death.

If you look at the carnage committed in the name of Chirist in the past two thousand years, and especially in the 20th Century, then it is clearly on a par with Islam. Ban both religions from the planet.

God is probably an Atheist anyway.

[xanax]

WW1 and 2 had nothing to do with Christianity, Christianity is nowhere near on a par with Islam when it comes to killing in the name of religion. Islam has killed over 2 million since the filthy fake prophet gave birth to it.

[leemo]

2 million, in 1400 years?

Blimey, turned apologist for Islam have you? Just the Hindu Genocide tolled 40-120 million, and even diehard Lefties would agree that Islam might possibly be responsible for one or two other other murders since the 7th century.

[OhOh]

If you look at the carnage committed by Muslims in the name of Islam around the world day by day

Got any facts on this assumption you would care to share? Maybe the number of genocide vitims per religious unit as a start. From whatever time frame you wish to start.

[xanax]

Loads of sources but they would only be trashed so whats the point of posting them? I think leemo is right it's a lot more than 2 mill, the murdering bastards.

[Neverna]

Yes, blame the Muslims for everything. Look what they did to Jesus.

Oops!

No not for everythng just the thousands of murders they have committed since 9/11, or are you blaming the Jews for that as well?

As well as what? What am I blaming them for?

[pseudolus]

murdering bastards.

INdeed. Sort of pales into insignificance when compared to deaths attributed to US foreign policy since WW2. If you take into account wars and battles that without US inteference there would not have been a war and add this to death through sanctions (most kids and women dying there), we get the following rough estimates..


Afghanistan - Approximately 1m deaths on either side of the Afghan / Russian conflict. The US dragged Russia into that conflict.

“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski

12,000 Afghan (conservative) and 3400 coalition forces dead in Operation Suppress Freedom.

[pseudolus]

Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions By James A. Lucas

Angola

Angola

An indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in 1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N., although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.

U.S. intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA – financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)

300,000 +

[pseudolus]

Cambodia

Cambodia

U.S. bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the Vietnam War.

There is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the human suffering involved.

Immense damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.

So the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the Khmer Rouge - a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting the Khmer Rouge.

CHAD\

Chad

An estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000 tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained in power for eight years. (1,2)

Human Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in Belgium, because some of Habre’s torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for atrocities committed abroad was repealed. However, two months later a new law was passed which made special provision for the continuation of the case against Habre.

[pseudolus]

Chile

Chile

The CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.
What followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror. ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” (1)

During 17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others were tortured or “disappeared.”

Colombia

Colombia

One estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)

According to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.- supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002 another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S. funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)

In 1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in Colombia” which revealed that CIA agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)

In recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary group.

[pseudolus]

East Timor

In December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. (1,2)

Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea.

Guatemala

In 1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains. (3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed thousands of people.

In 1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)

According to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government – destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide. (4)
One of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected allies.

Where are we, about 3m dead that without the influence of US foreign policy might be alive, or not dead prematurely?

Very long list, can't be bothered to post it all, but well over 30 countries and 10 Million dead, and up to 15m when you include the more tenuous places. Notice how many times Kissinger gets a mention? Nobel peace prize my arse.

[Breny]

Teaching maths in Britain 2014

Gary grows 10 cannabis plants, each plant has 8oz of buds
Each oz costs Gary £2 to grow
Gary sells an oz of bud for £120
How much profit does Gary make?

[thaimeme]

Fear of Islam is very sensible, as was fear of Nazism and communism, strange how some are so willing to appease totalitarian threats to civilisation.

Islam has been selected as a threat. After the last real threat of communism collapsed.

Of course....another invented and cycled boogieman [historically]

Keeps us distracted from the real issues and enemies.

[Gravesend Dave]

Fear of Islam is very sensible, as was fear of Nazism and communism, strange how some are so willing to appease totalitarian threats to civilisation.

Islam has been selected as a threat. After the last real threat of communism collapsed.

Of course....another invented and cycled boogieman [historically]

Keeps us distracted from the real issues and enemies.

Who are the real enemies and what's their objective oh wise one ?

[cyrille]

[OhOh]

what's their objective

If they are like the Tories for generations before them, access to young boys is high on their agenda.