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[Jim Chimmerney]

That's a bit advanced. I've had students come to me in the cash office who can't add five figures together on a calculator correctly. Embarrassingly, they're usually in the Maths society. It never fails to amuse.

Ask them to work out a percentage on a calculator without a % button and they're stumped.

I'll never forget ordering 2 chip butties at the Lane a few years ago, they cost £2 at the time and the poor girl reached for the calculator.

 

[Linz]

I'll never forget ordering 2 chip butties at the Lane a few years ago, they cost £2 at the time and the poor girl reached for the calculator.

I always thought I was shit at maths until I started working with students. Crikey, they're ripe for a bit of financial exploitation.

Perhaps finance ought to replace maths in schools? More people need to know how to balance the books, know how to use a bank, work out percentages and understand cash flow than know how to work out the area of a hypotenuse triangle or what the bloody hell X^3 equals if Y is called Jeff... or summat.

What I took for being shit at maths was actually just a lack of interest. But put it in monetary terms and it's useful. Everyone likes money.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

I always thought I was shit at maths until I started working with students. Crikey, they're ripe for a bit of financial exploitation.

Perhaps finance ought to replace maths in schools? More people need to know how to balance the books, know how to use a bank, work out percentages and understand cash flow than know how to work out the area of a hypotenuse triangle or what the bloody hell X^3 equals if Y is called Jeff... or summat.

What I took for being shit at maths was actually just a lack of interest. But put it in monetary terms and it's useful. Everyone likes money.

Yep, if it wasn't for quiz machines, I don't think I would have used half the stuff I learnt at school

Blame schools, blame parents, blame society or all of the above. Whichever way you look at it, you have to worry for future generations.

On that happy note

 

[Linz]

On that happy note

Indeed... and let's hope the Club can lift their skirts and attract some other sort of company to sponsor us for the same ballpark figure and that we're all getting our knickers in a twist (but having an interesting conversation, nevertheless) for nought.

 

[Rodders]

Yep, if it wasn't for quiz machines, I don't think I would have used half the stuff I learnt at school

Blame schools, blame parents, blame society or all of the above. Whichever way you look at it, you have to worry for future generations.

On that happy note

All my Geographic knowledge is from international football. In my lessons I learned how to colour in well.

 

[vorpal blade]

Hold it, at the top of this page until I logged-in was an advert for 'amigo-loans' FFS. I thought the people who organised this website ought to know.

 

[Selly]

Hold it, at the top of this page until I logged-in was an advert for 'amigo-loans' FFS. I thought the people who organised this website ought to know.

Now interestingly (or not) I think you might find that the ads are based on your* browsing history...

*or rather the history of the device you are using to view the forum

 

[Foxy]

Hold it, at the top of this page until I logged-in was an advert for 'amigo-loans' FFS. I thought the people who organised this website ought to know.

That's interesting, as I've actually blocked ad's of certain themes from our account which should have stopped that one.

SellyOakBlade is right though, it's mainly based on behavioral targeting

 

[judge]

so are they sponsoring us then or what ?

 

[Latters]

so are they sponsoring us then or what ?

Nah.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

There are choices you can make as a football club. Family club? Would a family club suggest you go and get a pay day loan? Is that a positive message to send out when debt is crippling people on a daily basis? Sorry but i take this seriously and think that being a family club and being sponsored by legalised loan sharks is a real mixed message.

Further proof if any were needed that we have no soul.

The club got rid of its soul with Jones and Birchenhall and it knocked on the door a couple of times since to come back in but the board said no, that would cost us.

Thank fully the fans have still got theirs but it is stretched to bursting as far as I can ever remember at this moment in time.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I always thought I was shit at maths until I started working with students. Crikey, they're ripe for a bit of financial exploitation.

Perhaps finance ought to replace maths in schools? More people need to know how to balance the books, know how to use a bank, work out percentages and understand cash flow than know how to work out the area of a hypotenuse triangle or what the bloody hell X^3 equals if Y is called Jeff... or summat.

What I took for being shit at maths was actually just a lack of interest. But put it in monetary terms and it's useful. Everyone likes money.

Who is gainfully employed and uses logarithms every day?
If so what do you do?

 

[Darren]

All my Geographic knowledge is from international football. In my lessons I learned how to colour in well.

All Albert Camus ever knew about morality he learned from football

 

[Darren]

Indeed... and let's hope the Club can lift their skirts and attract some other sort of company to sponsor us for the same ballpark figure and that we're all getting our knickers in a twist (but having an interesting conversation, nevertheless) for nought.

Lifting skirts?
Knickers in a twist?

Freud would have a field day with you

 

[Linz]

Lifting skirts?
Knickers in a twist?

Freud would have a field day with you

Like a moth to a flame

 

[Ted Danson]

That's interesting, as I've actually blocked ad's of certain themes from our account which should have stopped that one.

SellyOakBlade is right though, it's mainly based on behavioral targeting

Its both isnt it? context and interest. context being the content of the site and interest being the views habbits. I thought you could set which percentage of each the site showed.

You can defo block certain sites by URLs as I had to block a caravan insurance add as it was only worth a penny a click and kept popping up everywhere.

Back on subject: If The Blades take the money from this sponsor and everyones up in arms about it they could always give free advertising either at the ground or on the back of the shirt for Sheffield Credit Union or similar

 

[blade too long]

I'll never forget ordering 2 chip butties at the Lane .

is that the atkins diet ?

 

[KeyffSmyff]

Who is gainfully employed and uses logarithms every day?
If so what do you do?

Teach logarithms?

I am teaching some Maths at the moment and we have not done them this year. Loads of Algebra use though in spreadsheets and gardening, (9 bedding plants per meter, have got 3 meters of bedding so need... etc.). By gods they (Year 7) don't know their timetables though.

Back on topic, we all have some companies we love or love to hate from non-finance. Apple and Primark are two from me that would stop me from buying a shirt.

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

doyle is sponsored by reggae reggae sauce and a spliff

are we still on about this crap?

 

[StarBlade]

Who is gainfully employed and uses logarithms every day?
If so what do you do?

I work in a laboratory and use logarithms everyday. If you wish me to bore you to death, just ask.

 

[super_pig]

interesting thread this.
here's the scenario
you have a third interview for a contract position in Austria paying a six figure salary
you will have to pay your own expenses.. approximately 400 quid
you have no spare cash and the c*nts at the bank won't give you the time of day because you were recently made redundant.

wonga? or not to wonga??

 

[kingston RAWW]

I just dont get what people have against payday loan companies. I have had difficult financial times and been grateful to find funding where others wouldn't lend. They dont hide their rates. YOU DONT HAVE TO USE THEM. Simples.

 

[Darren]

I just dont get what people have against payday loan companies. I have had difficult financial times and been grateful to find funding where others wouldn't lend. They dont hide their rates. YOU DONT HAVE TO USE THEM. Simples.

It's because people are getting rich through the desperation/stupidity/poverty of other people. It's all about whether, when people are desperate and/or stupid, it's right to take advantage of that to squeeze tyhe maximum amount of money out of them.

 

[Oreyt]

interesting thread this.
here's the scenario
you have a third interview for a contract position in Austria paying a six figure salary
you will have to pay your own expenses.. approximately 400 quid
you have no spare cash and the c*nts at the bank won't give you the time of day because you were recently made redundant.

wonga? or not to wonga??

I've got to admit, that happens to me all the time *tch*.

 

[Bladesway]

interesting thread this.
here's the scenario
you have a third interview for a contract position in Austria paying a six figure salary
you will have to pay your own expenses.. approximately 400 quid
you have no spare cash and the c*nts at the bank won't give you the time of day because you were recently made redundant.

wonga? or not to wonga??

Meanwhile in the other 99.99% of cases?

 

[StarBlade]

interesting thread this.
here's the scenario
you have a third interview for a contract position in Austria paying a six figure salary
you will have to pay your own expenses.. approximately 400 quid
you have no spare cash and the c*nts at the bank won't give you the time of day because you were recently made redundant.

wonga? or not to wonga??

Or, a mate says he's hacked in the Euromillions machine and has the numbers for tonight's draw, but you're so skint that you're feeding your 500 relatives on the final pot noodle in the cupboard, £2 is nowhere to be seen. You can't go to the bank because you're committing a criminal act, you can't ask your mum because Friday is bingo and she's got a feeling she'll get a full house and a bottle of cherryade, your dad will lend you £2 but he wants that scarf back he lent you last winter, and you've lost it.

Wonga or not? At 3000%, I don't think so!

 

[vorpal blade]

I 'flagged-up' that my S24SU page was 'sponsored' by a loan company a couple of days ago. It really cannot be related to my 'browsing' patterns on t'internet. I guess its actually because of this thread, glad to say that seconds ago, my page was advertising M&S with the tagline "A rich girl can't have too much underwear". I'm not rich (though I haven't had to borrow money from anyone mentioned in this thread or their ilk) and I'm not a girl but I do have some experience in the field.

I would say a rich girl can't have too little underwear.

 

[metalblade]

I 'flagged-up' that my S24SU page was 'sponsored' by a loan company a couple of days ago. It really cannot be related to my 'browsing' patterns on t'internet. I guess its actually because of this thread, glad to say that seconds ago, my page was advertising M&S with the tagline "A rich girl can't have too much underwear". I'm not rich (though I haven't had to borrow money from anyone mentioned in this thread or their ilk) and I'm not a girl but I do have some experience in the field.

I would say a rich girl can't have too little underwear.

Maybe you just like wearing ladies underwear

 

[kingston RAWW]

It's because people are getting rich through the desperation/stupidity/poverty of other people. It's all about whether, when people are desperate and/or stupid, it's right to take advantage of that to squeeze tyhe maximum amount of money out of them.

Nobody has to use them.

 

[Robbie]

Nobody has to use them.

Absolutely true, but their target audience is people who aren't very good at looking after their money.
They see a quick fix and all of a sudden they become reliant on them....

Just a word of warning for people who use these, it will show on your credit fie and if a bank thinks you're reliant on them at times, they will refuse you credit for loans/mortgages.