FabSwingers.com forum: Did a teacher ever tell you something you have never forgotten?

By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

I was told that I try hard but that I wasn’t bright. This spurred me on to do really well academically . Not sure if intentional . Also being told I couldn’t lose weight by a relative led me to lose a lot . A pattern of sorts

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples

A story that finished in that exact sentence

It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage

Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse

Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse

Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent

Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples

A story that finished in that exact sentence

It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage

Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse

Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse

Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent

Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher

I like it a lot

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

She had a lovely cock.

Oh wait..

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

"Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body

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

My Home Ec teacher told me I'd never make a teacher or a nurse..Said I had no patience and the bed side manner of an elephant..

She said a life in hospitality awaits...she was right.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body "

Your teacher was wrong

We all have bellies and it is a proper word.

Tummy on the other hand....

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

Got told I would never get a job looking out the window….

Now I’m a train driver lol

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By *lamingo57Woman
over a year ago

Carrick

I was told I'd never amount to anything. He viciously told me I would be a failure. I was a bit...wild...in school but I suppose he spurred me on. I've been quite successful in my career so far. I'm "young" to be where I am. I get annoyed at myself for still being hurt by his words

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

""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body

Your teacher was wrong

We all have bellies and it is a proper word.

Tummy on the other hand...."

I didn't mean I took it verbatim. It was a word she didn't like and obviously discouraged the use of it. And, by scolding us in the way she did, it stuck with me. Is that okay?

The same HE teacher almost took the head off me for hanging a drying cloth across my shoulder. I haven't done that since either

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

"Got told I would never get a job looking out the window….

Now I’m a train driver lol "

Hahaha

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

One of my teachers in primary school told me to never copy others, to just be original and myself and that should be good enough,rather than getting praise for others ideas.

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

My building construction teacher told me I was wasting my time in the class that I'd never do anything in construction. Turned out the be a qualified plasterer and went out on my own for years and had 3 lads working for me. Funny enough he rang me for a quote to plaster an extension for him.

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

Engineering teacher told me never put your hands where you wouldn't put your cock. Bit shortsighted of him really

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By *ustlooking900Man
over a year ago

Donegal

My construction teacher at the time kinda loved his drink the night before our class he told us one morning not to put vaseline on as lub as it will ruin the condom he was always one for advise

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I went to school when I was four and my first teacher was astonished at at a practical problem I managed to solve; I met her on the street more than ten years later. I asked her if she remembered who I was?

Her reply, "Could I ever forget you!" Somehow, that remark has stuck with me.

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By *antis tMan
over a year ago

Dublin3

You dont look at the mantle piece while your poking the fire stuck with me. Was an old art teacher ??

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

What if your teacher never told you anything

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By *anandJCouple
over a year ago

Citywest

Yes!!!! My language teacher in the high school…

“Dan, you have no idea about the idea of the idea”

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

When I got 21% my Biology Teacher laughed in my face, so next exam I then studied for and got 96% (legit) The little deaf fart then asked if I'd take the exam again and when I pushed him on it, he backed down

Accountancy teacher used to kick my in my chair but when I got 86%, he said "This is the man who made me eat my words" Class act

Anyway...

Fooked if I know the moral of either of those stories

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

My history teacher said that history was written by the winners

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

My teacher told me I could do anything

I just don't

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

Once had a art teacher think he was having a tough time at home this particular day we had a 1.5 hour of art. We walked in took our seats he was sat at his desk and had wrote on the board instructions for what we had to do. For about 45 minutes he never spoke just sat at the desk and drummed his fingers he then stood up and to the entire class said “you know life’s a bitch then you marry one” he sat back down and that was all he said for the entire class.

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Make your handwriting lean slightly to the right. Handwriting leaning to the left is lazy.

To this day, anyone I work with whose handwriting leans to the left has been less enthusiastic about work!

Weird though hard to pickup in emails

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By *oodieMan
over a year ago

Mayo

"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples

A story that finished in that exact sentence

It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage

Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse

Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse

Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent

Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher

I remember hearing Tommy on a ship of his caught a herring.

Seems to be the same thing but I still don't get it.

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By *tiffler400Man
over a year ago

belfast

My mum kept every single one of my school reports and every report says the same thing. I'm a day dreamer

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By *oolpinstripeMan
over a year ago

Kildare

My teachers shouted my name back at me almost every day I was in school....

I’ve never forgotten it !

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

I remember my old p7 teacher encouraging me to write backwards because being a lefty I always smudged. I decided to embrace the smudge and glad I didnt listen to him.

I remember being taught the knuckles for 30 and 31 days of year. I still use it

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body

Your teacher was wrong

We all have bellies and it is a proper word.

Tummy on the other hand....

I didn't mean I took it verbatim. It was a word she didn't like and obviously discouraged the use of it. And, by scolding us in the way she did, it stuck with me. Is that okay?

The same HE teacher almost took the head off me for hanging a drying cloth across my shoulder. I haven't done that since either "

Your old teacher sounds very highly strung and had issues that she brought out on students.

Say belly all you want I say

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"My history teacher said that history was written by the winners"

It usually was in the past, but that has changed as information is disseminated by losers too, if they have survived the conflict;

it is called historiography and is a significant core model of any advanced history course.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

One primary teacher, who was consistently violent, irritable, sarcastic, critical and dismissive told me, a few years after I had left his class, that he detested teaching and that he regretted ever having gone into the profession.

He asked me to find out how he could become a vet.

I later heard that he came so unhinged that the school governors tried to get rid of him, but failed.

His behaviour in public and with his neighbours became increasingly bizarre.

I have never forgotten the vet conversation in that football field; he looked unhinged.

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

When given the choice between being right and being kind, chose kind.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

A secondary school teacher, who crept into my tent whilst we we were on a camping trip, whispered in my ear that he wanted to teach me how to masturbate; he was interrupted by the other occupant's return.

I later heard that he tried the same stunt with male foreign teaching assistants who can to the school for teaching experience, but got a little more than they had originally anticipated!

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

I was told I was so infuriating, she could draw blood from me was very funny, made me laugh at the time, full on the knowledge she would never lay a hand on me.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides"

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" "

I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.

A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above.

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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago

Longridge

"I was told I'd never amount to anything. He viciously told me I would be a failure. I was a bit...wild...in school but I suppose he spurred me on. I've been quite successful in my career so far. I'm "young" to be where I am. I get annoyed at myself for still being hurt by his words

Illegitimi non carborundum

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

I'll never forget my music teacher bursting out laughing when I said I wanted to be a musician

I found out later what tone deaf was and I had it

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides"

I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.

A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above."

Pythagoras theorem is one of the most useful things I've ever learned in school. I use it regularly to establish a right angle when laying paving or decking.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides"

I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.

A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above.

Pythagoras theorem is one of the most useful things I've ever learned in school. I use it regularly to establish a right angle when laying paving or decking. "

In my workshop the lads still using making staircases....chalk lines everywhere

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

A lot of employers would give you as little as a bowl of rice per day, if they could get away with it, especially foreign multinationals. (Teacher on a business course)

The balance of power, post Covid has recently shifted marginally towards workers as it also did after the Black Death. Wages rose very significantly, due to labour shortages, because of number of deaths in working population.

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

Measure twice, cut once. I use it about 40 times a day

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"A lot of employers would give you as little as a bowl of rice per day, if they could get away with it, especially foreign multinationals. (Teacher on a business course)

Jubal are you posting this is the right thread

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin"

Are you now a cop as a result?

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin

Are you now a cop as a result?

No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin

Are you now a cop as a result?

No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense "

I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin

Are you now a cop as a result?

No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense

I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell.

I appreciate your faith in me

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin

Are you now a cop as a result?

No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense

I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell.

I appreciate your faith in me

#allinthistogether

#staystrong

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By *indenMan
over a year ago

Naas which is South West of Dublin

Sit down you little fucker….

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

In reality that vast majority of what any teacher ever said in my presence was instantly forgotten; the few gems that are indelibly etched are mostly when they behaved inappropriately or unjustly.

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By *aving_great_funMan
over a year ago

London

"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples

A story that finished in that exact sentence

It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage

Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse

Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse

Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent

Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher

The conventional mnemonic is:

soacahtoa

Maths, further maths, physics.

A, A, A

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By *aving_great_funMan
over a year ago

London

I was told that I would never make 1 million pounds in a year.

That was wrong.

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By *umpkinnMan
over a year ago

Dublin

A PE teacher changing the neck warmup exercises from rolling the head around to shrugging shoulders. Telling us that the old exercise is not good because it could damage your neck.

Suddenly these authority figures where not infallible and I realised that knowledge evolves even after finishing school.

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