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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

I learnt once about complex numbers. I have not once since used the square root of minus 1. What have you learnt which you never get to use ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Excel! No way could I remember.

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

"Excel! No way could I remember."

How dare you…excel is wonderful

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Latin

Irish

Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples..

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By *acmullyCouple
over a year ago

in the land of diet coke and club orange

Any higher level maths. I swear it's there to hurt me and also irish . Doing kids homework is a pain.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Latin

Irish

Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples..

I didn't study Latin but I find it pretty useful.

If you know the botanical name of a plant you can often tell much about it if you know Latin.

Also for working out the meaning of words you're not familiar with, it can often be useful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…"

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Theorems like wtf

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By *heFoxersCouple
over a year ago

FoxTown

Advance excel, never remember the vlookup rules.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back"

Pythagoras Theorem is probably the most commonly used of all of those that we learned in school. It's the go to method for creating or checking a right angle, and very useful if laying a patio out building something in the middle of a garden.

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By *ady ChatterleyWoman
over a year ago

Athlone

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back

Can you come lay my patio

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Advance excel, never remember the vlookup rules.

PI"

Not advance Excel!! No, I can’t take it!!

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back

Can you come lay my patio

I'm on the way as we speak!

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

"Advance excel, never remember the vlookup rules.

PI"

I fucking love vlookup!

I’m such a nerd

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By *ady ChatterleyWoman
over a year ago

Athlone

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back

Can you come lay my patio

I'm on the way as we speak!

May have to deal with extra moisture and a drainage issue but I'm sure you'll rise to the challenge. Have the protractor and set square ready for you.

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By *enguin1Man
over a year ago

The sticks

"Advance excel, never remember the vlookup rules.

I fucking love vlookup!

I’m such a nerd

Vlookup is deadly, pivot tables are up there too but the real goal is creating a good macro in Excel......then the to thrill of running it and it working. You instantly become God to the person whose life you've just simplified

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Matrices, theorems, the dumbed down version of chemistry they teach you in secondary school, reversing around a corner…

Pythagoras Theorem and Vector mins and tears of my life I'll never get back

Can you come lay my patio

I'm on the way as we speak!

May have to deal with extra moisture and a drainage issue but I'm sure you'll rise to the challenge. Have the protractor and set square ready for you."

Mmmmm, I love a bit of moisture off an evening

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By *ouple 0073Couple
over a year ago

donegal

Most things

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

city

Trigonometry, algebra, my brain wasn't designed to learn that stuff.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Peig....

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

city

"Peig...."

Dialann Deorai, in Irish. About the miserable lives of Irish navvies in England in the 50's.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I used to have Jimmy Savile's telephone number at his penthouse apartment overlooking Roundhay Park, Leeds; I used to phone him up just to hear him answering the phone.

Now then, now then, guys and gals, rattle, jangle, jewelry, jewelry.

No actually he always sounded grumpy!

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

All the top 40 single sequences in all uk top 40 charts in 1991

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By *razySexyCoolCorkWoman
over a year ago

Cork

The Periodic Table of Elements. Chemistry and Physics were beyond me. I loved Biology though.

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By *ocktailsdreamsMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"The Periodic Table of Elements. Chemistry and Physics were beyond me. I loved Biology though."

I'm quite interested in biology myself.

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"The Periodic Table of Elements. Chemistry and Physics were beyond me. I loved Biology though.

I'm quite interested in biology myself.

Confession : I like the periodic table and it always comes up in pub quizzes

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Forced to play recorder in primary school ,haven't a musical note in my body !

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By *ollypop9Woman
over a year ago

wouldn't you like to know

4 years of French in secondary school. And only thing I know now is how to French kiss.

Good enough for me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Algebra lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How to drive.

Haven't done it in nearly two years and now I'm wondering if I ever will again...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Learnt Latin in boarding school and have never or will never need it.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

I use excel every single day.

I love it

I use it to make decisions in my life and my business

Knowledge is power

Things that I learned and never used..

Nearly everything beyond basic maths

Quantum theory

Database normalisation

20 digits of pi

Html

Java

Trigonometry

Pottery

CPR

Titration

Things I should have learned instead.

Dry stone walling

Plastering

Bricklaying

Motor mechanics

A musical instrument

Another useful language

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Italian

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

I try to teach the kids economic literacy . Far more useful than some of the shite I learnt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Irish. Haven't used it since the leaving cert. Even helping the kids with their homework we don't need it as they usually know more then us.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

CPR

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By *ergalMan
over a year ago

East Cork

"Excel! No way could I remember.

How dare you…excel is wonderful"

Can't beat a good pivot table or vlookup

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"CPR

That's one that a lot of us learned but hope we'll never have to use it.

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By *ewrideMan
over a year ago

"I try to teach the kids economic literacy"

Stop

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