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Spud Raver
07.07.2009, 01:48 PM
Teaching maths in 1970
1. 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 t o 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 the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving 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 الانت=D 8ج من
الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟

Steve748
07.07.2009, 02:42 PM
When I went in to hopital to get a leg removed they put a wrist band on my left wrist to identify me and stop me going down to theatre for a kidney removed which was fine etc. They put one on my other wrist in case the other one dropped off.
The night before the op a doctor came up to the ward to put a cannula in my wrist. He took a pair of disposable scissors out of a sterile bag and cut one wrist band off. He was about to put the scissors in a sharps waste bin when I asked if I could keep it as they are quite good useful scissors.
He replied that he could not give them to me and he had to throw them away. When I questioned this he said, (no word of a lie) I cannot give them to you in case you injure yourself :rolleyes:
I told him I had managed multiple decades of scissor use and never once injured myself so why would I start now?

I was so mad I told him for a doctor he was showing signs of being remarkably stupid

Fergie
07.07.2009, 03:59 PM
When I went in to hopital to get a leg removed they put a wrist band on my left wrist to identify me and stop me going down to theatre for a kidney removed which was fine etc. They put one on my other wrist in case the other one dropped off.
The night before the op a doctor came up to the ward to put a cannula in my wrist. He took a pair of disposable scissors out of a sterile bag and cut one wrist band off. He was about to put the scissors in a sharps waste bin when I asked if I could keep it as they are quite good useful scissors.
He replied that he could not give them to me and he had to throw them away. When I questioned this he said, (no word of a lie) I cannot give them to you in case you injure yourself :rolleyes:
I told him I had managed multiple decades of scissor use and never once injured myself so why would I start now?

I was so mad I told him for a doctor he was showing signs of being remarkably stupid

Its a clue in the name you know!!

Steve748
07.07.2009, 05:04 PM
Its a clue in the name you know!!

True they are hospital single use but I have a few pairs at home which are still working well after a couple of years, they are too good to throw out :)

Mach 1
07.07.2009, 07:29 PM
There speaks a true Yorkshireman! Us Scots have got a lot to learn. :D

Steve748
07.07.2009, 08:15 PM
There speaks a true Yorkshireman! Us Scots have got a lot to learn. :D

yeah, we don't forget either.......................breakfast ;)

molenz
12.08.2009, 12:25 PM
sounds like something out of the new bnp manifesto :confused
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