Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

[zuben el genub]

And the ATM only dispenses £10/£20..maybe £50 notes so they had to go get a paracetamol fto cure that headache.
The thing that worries me is when say going to pub. Pint is say £3.10, get a round of say 4, and you give them £20.40 and they stand there scratching their heads, what would they do without that magical till looking after our money even more confusing / slightly annoying is when they then give you the £8 but a pound of it is still in 10/20ps etc

When I worked in the local ice rink years ago, the banks were too damned lazy to count out different bills for the amount cashed.
On a Friday night, you would get at least four or five kids with $50 bills. That's what the bank gave the parents.
The ATM here only does $20s. I write a check if I want cash.

 

[olbriar]

I don't do ATMs. I refuse to pay to get my own money. Holding back a bit each deposit works for me.

 

[Dngrsone]

You have to pay for the privilege to get money from the ATM?

 

[olbriar]

It might not be so today... don't know. Back in the day there was a charge to the account to withdraw money. Seemed extremely unfair to me.

 

[Gmash]

I don't think there's a charge if you use the ATM from your own bank. You get screwed using other bank's ATMs when your bank and the bank that owns the ATM both charge a fee.

 

[SavageRobot]

I don't know this word; is it something like vitameatavegamin?

I wasn't sure if you were joking, I thought paracetamol was the name used worldwide. But a quick Google seems the actual name is acetaminophen used in US. Never heard of it.

I don't do ATMs. I refuse to pay to get my own money. Holding back a bit each deposit works for me.

I don't know if it's different over the water, but over here using the normal "hole in the walls" etc you don't get charged, even if it's with different banks. Sometimes the portable ATM's they have in shops and at gig's / festivals they tend to charge £2-5 per transaction! I always avoid these as, like you, I don't agree getting charged to access my own money.

 

[Deleted User]

'Free' banking is a fallacy though isn't it? I'm paying for these services. I am after all handing over my entire salary to the bank, to do with as they please, and reap the investment returns.

 

[Revenant Ghost]

You know what grinds my gears? When spammers don't know when to quit.

 

[mikedt]

China United Airlines, next time I take the bus.

 

[Unforgiven]

Consoling a sobbing 8 year old through common core math homework.

 

[olbriar]

I had to take a look at what you might be up against. It looks like they are attempting to complicate simple math as much as possible. Sorry

 

[Unforgiven]

I had to take a look at what you might be up against. It looks like they are attempting to complicate simple math as much as possible. Sorry

I've been through new math with the 21 year old and 17 year old, and that was a PITA, but the desired result was still the right answer to a math problem.. This just makes no sense. "Dad, 40 X 2 is 80" is what he says, and he's right. But the mathematically correct answer isn't what they want, they want an explanation of how they should solve the problem, where "should" is someone else's methodology.

 

[olbriar]

My sympathies.. My wife teaches at the middle school level and she said they scoff at the common core stuff. Move to Kansas

I well remember my older sister struggling with her math. She was very often in tears while my father was frustrated trying to help her. I can still hear him say "math isn't about.. it is or it is not"

What difference does it make as to the path taken to solve a problem? I don't think the easiest path is the same for everyone. The solution is what's important.

 

[Dngrsone]

I couldn't help my daughter... I'd teach her how to solve the problem, but then she says, "but dad, the teacher says..." something completely off-the-wall.

 

[olbriar]

I was lucky in that I didn't have to help mine. They were all very math strong. Now I did have one that couldn't spell shirt.

 

[kct1975]

Consoling a sobbing 8 year old through common core math homework.

My sympathies! [emoji17]

Personally I wasn't very go at math when I was young, but at least it was the Standard Math, and I finally learned it.

I had to take a look at what you might be up against. It looks like they are attempting to complicate simple math as much as possible. Sorry

Your not kidding, I just Googled it, and it looks like a complete mess and a bunch of BS.

Look at the 'new' Common Core Math method, I was COMPLETELY confused! [emoji33]

 

[Clementine_3]

My sister adopted 3 kids, all with various forms of learning disabilities. You have no idea how horrible common core is for them. It's just terrible.

 

[olbriar]

My hat is off to her for adopting and I am sorry she has to deal with that mess called common core. I did just as @kct1975 did and googled up some question examples. It is like someone sinister spent some serious time to devise ways to mess with kids heads.

 

[mikedt]

Tianjin Airlines, next time I take the train.


Will have to have a look at this common core thing. I've only just heard of it, and I'm a teacher.

 

[olbriar]

I'm sure they are trying to set up some common relationships as building blocks. From the outside looking in, it looks to be muddying the waters. It has to have some merit.

 

[bjacks12]

Common core was a way to standardize curriculum and teaching methods across states. Expressing my feelings would put us into PCA, so I'll just say that my time shuttling in education with common core was awful

 

[mikedt]

Common core was a way to standardize curriculum and teaching methods across states. Expressing my feelings would put us into PCA, so I'll just say that my time shuttling in education with common core was awful

That sounds like how school education, curriculum, methods, etc. is done in China. Yeh, I think any further discussion might be better done in P&CA.

Basically the curriculum, teaching methods, what the students should know, etc, are standardized in Beijing, and every school must comply.

 

[mikedt]

Common core:

"The financial cost of implementing Common Core has barely been mentioned in the national debates. All Common Core testing will be done online. This is a bonanza for the tech industry and other vendors. Every school district must buy new computers, new teaching materials, and new bandwidth for the testing. At a time when school budgets have been cut in most states and many thousands of teachers have been laid off, school districts across the nation will spend billions to pay for Common Core testing. Los Angeles alone committed to spend $1 billion on iPads for the tests; the money is being taken from a bond issue approved by voters for construction and repair of school facilities. Meanwhile, the district has cut teachers of the arts, class size has increased, and necessary repairs are deferred because the money will be spent on iPads. The iPads will be obsolete in a year or two, and the Pearson content loaded onto the iPads has only a three-year license."

From Wikipedia

Well that doesn't happen here, no school students in China are using iPads. They're not even allowed mobile phones. And central government (Communist Party of China) along with Walt Disney Company are paying for it.

 

[Deleted User]

Never heard of this Common Core, but it sounds like a colossal mistake. Let's hope this is one US trend that doesn't make it over to the UK.

 

[mikedt]

Never heard of this Common Core, but it sounds like a colossal mistake. Let's hope this is one US trend that doesn't make it over to the UK.

Think it's something the US got from state education in China.