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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

I learnt the more code in the Royal Navy

Left R N 1984 never used it since

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

Chemistry and Biology at school

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Chemistry and Biology at school "
good one

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

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you bugger working it out

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"... --- -- . / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / ..-. .. -. -.. / .. - / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. .-.-.-you bugger working it out

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I'm up to some people

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

Pythagorus

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

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By *moothCriminal_xMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"Pythagorus "

I learned that pythagoras led a cult that believed beans and humans were related and he was chased into a field of beans and killed for being a heretic

Useless until now

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"... --- -- . / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / ..-. .. -. -.. / .. - / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. .-.-.-you bugger working it out

What did you think was going to happen? I'm just surprised I was the first.

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

"Pythagorus

I learned that pythagoras led a cult that believed beans and humans were related and he was chased into a field of beans and killed for being a heretic

Useless until now"

And now I’ve learned something else useless in all but one scenario

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I find you can make use of anything if you're creative

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

Everything in college and uni.

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By *weetandHungMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Me bleaming car bugger keeps breaking down god dam it

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

Topography , architecture & design and anything to do with my degree.

Erased from my mind as soon as I got my piece of paper

never to be revisited

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

"... --- -- . / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / ..-. .. -. -.. / .. - / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. .-.-.-"

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

Logarithms, served no purpose at all

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By *annaBeStrongMan
over a year ago

Sub 2 min rubix cube

Pointless

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Plate tectonics and ox bow lakes

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

Anything maths related that isn’t arithmetic.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Dry stone walling, can't say I've done that since I was taught how.

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

Knowledge is power!

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

Pretty much all of the scripts and theatrical theorem that I learnt.

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

To be honest I use most learnt things in my job.

Engineering uses a lot of knowledge.

And Geography for navigating

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By *ougie321Man
over a year ago

Milford Haven

Divorce

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

The area of a circle is pi r squared, the circumference is 2 pi r.

The formula to solve quadratic equations is still in my head, as is the German for 1974 and the fact that Xerxes' mother was Atossa. I can recite Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt and I can play the recorder.

I can't navigate daily life but by God I can play you a shrill version of Annie's Song.

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By *stbury DavenportMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Fencing, riding and sailing all spring to mind.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Pythagorus

I learned that pythagoras led a cult that believed beans and humans were related and he was chased into a field of beans and killed for being a heretic

Useless until now"

Cicero's name came from cicer, meaning chickpea, because an ancestor had a nose with a dent that looked like a chickpea.

Why were the ancients so obsessed with pulses?

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"Fencing, riding and sailing all spring to mind. "

...ahhh no, come on ...we all need to know how to ride surely?!

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By *he Secret Tea PartyCouple
over a year ago

London

"Topography , architecture & design and anything to do with my degree.

Erased from my mind as soon as I got my piece of paper

never to be revisited

You don't make your own Christmas cards even?

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By *he Secret Tea PartyCouple
over a year ago

London

I cannot think of anything not useful.

I do crosswords

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By *stbury DavenportMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

"Fencing, riding and sailing all spring to mind.

...ahhh no, come on ...we all need to know how to ride surely?!

Given how few places have horses anything like large enough to carry someone the size of me, it's not really a skill I get to exercise much.

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Marching..

Ironing uniform to the size of my Naval Ratings handbook.

Saluting.

Learning how to shoot someone…

Oh and school… British education is archaic nonsense that prepares no one for life…

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

Why were the ancients so obsessed with pulses?"

Beats me

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

ONE+TWELVE=TWO+ELEVEN

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

"Pythagorus "

Actually very helpful for squaring corners in the construction industry and no doubt plenty of other stuff

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

PS Cryptic crosswords. Totally Excellent

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Most of my A-levels

LvM

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

Everything

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

"Pythagorus

Actually very helpful for squaring corners in the construction industry and no doubt plenty of other stuff

3,4,5 triangle...perfect right angle.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

"Pythagorus

Actually very helpful for squaring corners in the construction industry and no doubt plenty of other stuff

3,4,5 triangle...perfect right angle."

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By *implynaughty1Couple
over a year ago

stockport

Wood work French

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By *uriouscouple83Couple
over a year ago

Worcester

Pretty much all of my media studies A-level and the fact that koala’s fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from human fingerprints.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Pretty much all of my media studies A-level and the fact that koala’s fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from human fingerprints. "

Useful if you're trying to frame a koala for murder.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Oh, and tongue prints are as individual as fingerprints

LvM

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

A town near you perhaps

I learnt to play the recorder.

When has that ever helped me in life.

And algebra, I've never used that ever in my life either.

Both pointless.

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

Archery. But I love it despite its uselessness in the ‘real world’

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

"Archery. But I love it despite its uselessness in the ‘real world’

When the zombie take over it might come in handy

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Chemistry and Biology at school "

I use both of these all the time. Literally my bread 'n' butter.

I bet you use a basic knowledge of all the sciences all the time. Anyone who makes a conscious decision to stick a condom on their penis (or asks a partner to do so) is making use of their knowledge of conception and how to prevent it (biology).

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Most of my A-levels

LvM"

What did you study? Knitting with fog?!

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

Climbing up a rope

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

4 years film history totally waist of time

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Knowledge is power!"

Money is much more powerful, and knowledge is useless if you neither have nor create the opportunities in which to use it, to your advantage.

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By *eservesherCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

We both know all the words to Ebeneezer Goode

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

"Knowledge is power!

Money is much more powerful, and knowledge is useless if you neither have nor create the opportunities in which to use it, to your advantage.

Karate kid 3

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Drama.. being told to be a seed then grow like a tree

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

Latin, I got an A and can't remember a bit of it now

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

"We both know all the words to Ebeneezer Goode"

There's a guy in the place

With a bittersweet face

And he goes by the name

Of Ebeneezer Goode....

Bloody marvellous....

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

"Pythagorus

Actually very helpful for squaring corners in the construction industry and no doubt plenty of other stuff

They don’t use that in construction. It’s trigonometry based algorithms.

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

Ox Bow Lakes

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Dissecting a frog

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

Proportionally barnacles have the longest penis on the planet

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

"Archery. But I love it despite its uselessness in the ‘real world’

When the zombie take over it might come in handy

If I had a bow and arrows and not just the knowledge, I’d agree…

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

Dissecting a frog

I always managed to avoid these lessons

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

"Archery. But I love it despite its uselessness in the ‘real world’

When the zombie take over it might come in handy

If I had a bow and arrows and not just the knowledge, I’d agree…

Sports direct

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

French.

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

Enthalpy of atomisation of bromine,

Ive never used it.

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

Most of school.

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

Quadratic equations

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

"Archery. But I love it despite its uselessness in the ‘real world’

When the zombie take over it might come in handy

If I had a bow and arrows and not just the knowledge, I’d agree…

Sports direct

I’d rather die than give my money to Ashley…

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

BBC basic

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

"Quadratic equations

Ohh i battle these daily & the Born-Haber Cycle to calculate the lattice energy of ionic solids

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

"The area of a circle is pi r squared, the circumference is 2 pi r.

I can't navigate daily life but by God I can play you a shrill version of Annie's Song."

X = -b +/- sqrt of something something something all over 2a?

The circle stuff I use regularly

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By *oeBeansMan
over a year ago

Derby

Parallel parking

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

"Quadratic equations

Ohh i battle these daily & the Born-Haber Cycle to calculate the lattice energy of ionic solids

I hardly get a floater I just make sure I give it a good flush for the vectoring effect and quick evacuation of the idontwant2c solids.

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

"Quadratic equations

Ohh i battle these daily & the Born-Haber Cycle to calculate the lattice energy of ionic solids

I hardly get a floater I just make sure I give it a good flush for the vectoring effect and quick evacuation of the idontwant2c solids.

Bahahhahaa i read that and thought whats he on about... ahhhhhhh the 'turdis theorem'

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

"Quadratic equations

Ohh i battle these daily & the Born-Haber Cycle to calculate the lattice energy of ionic solids

I hardly get a floater I just make sure I give it a good flush for the vectoring effect and quick evacuation of the idontwant2c solids.

Bahahhahaa i read that and thought whats he on about... ahhhhhhh the 'turdis theorem'

All good buddy

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

I would have said algebra and trigonometry..... But I ended up needing them in some of my courses for work

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Latin, I got an A and can't remember a bit of it now"

I bet you have good grammar and spelling though? I loved Latin!

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

A programming language at school called Cesil. We also learnt Basic which was much more useful.

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By *irminghamlady08Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Playing the recorder!!

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By *lovisMan
over a year ago

Twickenham

Logarithmic Tables

Its not like I was ever going to work for NASA

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By *he Secret Tea PartyCouple
over a year ago

London

"I learnt to play the recorder.

When has that ever helped me in life"

But surely that taught you never to listen to a recorder again?

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

All of the words to House of Pain - Jump Around

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