BubbaP
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Half of £6 is £3.
Thank goodness that well known high street pharmacy & retailer could clear that up for us.
Sales - who knew?
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Half of £6 is £3.
Thank goodness that well known high street pharmacy & retailer could clear that up for us.
Tashyboy
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Ah Boots.
before Christmas they did a buy three pay for two deal. Most items were not worth original price IE Lynx bath/shower deodorant sets. Anyway 3 X £5 meant you paid a tenner.
Now its sale time 3x £5 at half price is £7.50. Don't think it I would get up early for them sales.
before Christmas they did a buy three pay for two deal. Most items were not worth original price IE Lynx bath/shower deodorant sets. Anyway 3 X £5 meant you paid a tenner.
Now its sale time 3x £5 at half price is £7.50. Don't think it I would get up early for them sales.
The worrying thing is, you know full well that's there because more than one numpty has made their way to the tills on previous occasions and not grasped it...
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Not that I'm in a kill joy kind of mood....but I know someone who is terrified by maths. To the point that they wont try and work out the simplest of equations and they get into a blind panic.
What is simple for someone isn't necessarily for everyone.
What is simple for someone isn't necessarily for everyone.
I've employed many people over the last 15 years and all have had good grades, including maths, but believe me, simple maths to them is not simple! I've witnessed them get in a panic and reach for the calculator when a price is £6.47 and the customer gives the a £10 note and £1.50 in change, it completely bamboozles them, it's frightening!
Kellfire
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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...and when, as you hand over the £11.50, you say 'so you can give me £5.03 change' they look at you with a combination of wonderment and bafflement. Not a new thing though. When a student back in the late 1970s I worked in pubs - no computerised tills back then - and most bar staff carried around their own notepad and pencil to do the sums - even the simplest ones.
North Mimms
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Don't you want to go down that list of prices going Tick, tick, tick, then write at the bottom "well done!"
Tashyboy
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One of the lads I knew through primary Skool, comp and early days of mining was lovely but thick as pig muck. In the olden days when wages were paid via a wage packet. He could not add his wages up, twenty, ten, five and pound notes, chuck coins in and he was proper pudding.
However ask him to count 501 - 36 on a dart board and he was like lightening.
me I was number blind.
But how people cannot count £6.47 plus 3p =6.50 plus 50 p = £7.00 plus £3 = a tenner is beyond me.
It's interesting that the government, (here we go) have now said all kids when leaving primary will have to say up to there 11x table. Couple of things with that.
1, don't we do dozens anymore.
2, we did that when I was a scraggy arsed kid robbing balls off Sherwood Forest golf course in the early 1970's.
What have we been doing since then with our kids, reinventing the wheel. Coz it looks like more like a flat tyre to me.
Three
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I'm pretty good with maths, I can also keep up with the checkouts in the darts, eg they need 143 and score 60 that leaves treble 17, double 16 etc etc
However, working in a shop or a bar can bring on totally blank moments, especially if you are terrified of short-changing someone. All it needs is a small genuine mistake and then paranoia and anxiety set in and it spirals.
However, working in a shop or a bar can bring on totally blank moments, especially if you are terrified of short-changing someone. All it needs is a small genuine mistake and then paranoia and anxiety set in and it spirals.
HomerJSimpson
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Basic maths I'm fine with but percentages I can't do for love nor money. And has anyone ever actually used algebra since leaving school
Tashyboy
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When I used to work in the explosives magazine ( powder mag ) the deputies would bring out unused detonators. They went underground in bags of 10-20 -50 or 100 detonators. They were numbered from 0 instantaneous bang up to 10's or whatever with a differant delay bang
when said deputy came out of the pit and he had marked his card saying he had used 1x0's,2x1's,1x2's,2x3, so on and so on. Then you find that he has used the wrong ones. And you have six thick as pig **** deputies who have all done the same and are not hanging around coz it's Thursday afters and they want a skin full.
Then the overman has gone home with twenty in his work bag that he forgot about.
you got what we called "number drunk".
when said deputy came out of the pit and he had marked his card saying he had used 1x0's,2x1's,1x2's,2x3, so on and so on. Then you find that he has used the wrong ones. And you have six thick as pig **** deputies who have all done the same and are not hanging around coz it's Thursday afters and they want a skin full.
Then the overman has gone home with twenty in his work bag that he forgot about.
you got what we called "number drunk".
Three
Tour Rookie
I guess we all have our mental blocks, East and West has been one of mine since the year dot. I literally need to just stop and almost point my eyes and finger left and right to get it correct sometimes.
Sounds stupid but it's just how it is.
Money changing (the buy and sell rates) was also a complete mental block for years until I sussed out a simple system a couple of years ago.
Sounds stupid but it's just how it is.
Money changing (the buy and sell rates) was also a complete mental block for years until I sussed out a simple system a couple of years ago.
HomerJSimpson
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Great with that and I can chalk well as well as work out my scores as I go when checking out. Just percentages (and I forgot fractions) I hate
Rooter
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I love maths, but my wife hates it and struggle with the most simple of calculations. Some people can, some can't. Its life.
Doon frae Troon
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My wife once asked a supermarket manager why he was selling the same packets of cheese at three different prices.
He did not believe her until she showed him.
'Different promotions' was his embarrassed reply.
We are both 'maths folk' and quite enjoy the supermarket challenges such as......three tins of soup special price offer when it is cheaper to buy three individually priced tins in another part of the shop.
He did not believe her until she showed him.
'Different promotions' was his embarrassed reply.
We are both 'maths folk' and quite enjoy the supermarket challenges such as......three tins of soup special price offer when it is cheaper to buy three individually priced tins in another part of the shop.
AMcC
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Tesco are terrible for this, the one we always notice is, it's cheaper to buy 2 singles packets which are on the shelf at floor level, than the special offer double pack at eye level.
Like the others I cringe when shop assistants can't handle you giving them change to ensure they give you only coins or notes back. They often say, I have already rung it through and I cannot take anything else !!
I was reasonably good at both Maths and Arithmetic at school and have actually used trigonometry, fairly regularly, since I left school. Never Algebra though
Blue in Munich
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dewsweeper
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Heads up everyone.
DFS have got a sale on!!!!!!!
Dewsweeper
DFS have got a sale on!!!!!!!
Dewsweeper
