Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Wokeness gone mad

I saw this today and just lost a moment of my life in disappointment.

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/private-...and-does-not-speak-during-the-day-355062

Bring back the days when you could call a spade a spade.

Oscar Wilde had a view on that: When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Well he would say that he was reputedly a shirt lifter, not a gardener..

A free one for the wokists..

And for the record you are allowed to call a spade a spade in a garden centre or similar, well we do all the time in the garden when needed.

Ah I did wonder why you were so anti-police, some bad experiences. Please don't tar us all with the same brush.

Subject: Maths - the way forward
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>
> Teaching maths in 1970
> 1. A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
> His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
> What is his profit?
>
> 2. Teaching Maths In 1980
> A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
> His cost of production is 80% of the price.
> What is his profit?
>
> 3. Teaching Maths In 1990
> A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
> His cost of production is £80.
> How much was his profit?
>
> 4. Teaching Maths In 2000
> A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
> His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.
> Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
>
> 5. Teaching Maths In 2005
> A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish
> and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of
> animals or the preservation of our woodlands. Your
> assignment: Discuss how the birds and squirrels might feel
> as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit
> of £20.
>
> 6. Teaching Maths In 2012
> A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case
> it may be offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not
> consulted in the felling licence. He is also fined a £100
> as his chainsaw is in breach of Health and Safety
> legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut
> something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years
> without incident however he does not have the correct
> certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be
> a recidivist and habitual criminal. His DNA is sampled and
> his details circulated throughout all government agencies.
> He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100
> because he is such an easy target. When he is released he
> returns t o find Gypsies have cut down half his wood to
> build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but
> is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority,
> imprisoned and fined a further £100. While he is in jail
> the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell
> it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a
> leaving BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving
> behind several tonnes of rubbish and asbestos sheeting. The
> forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly
> tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He
> complains and is arrested for environmental pollution,
> breach of the peace and invoiced £12,000 plus VAT for safe
> disposal costs by a regulated government contractor.
>
> Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to
> have to be arrested and fined before he realises that he is
> never going to make £20 profit by hard work, give up, sign
> onto the dole and live off the state for the rest of his
> life?
>
> 7. Teaching Maths In 2015
> A logger doesn’t sell a lorry load of timber because he
> can’t get a loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has
> spent all his and their money on a derivative of securitised
> debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the
> lot with only some government money left to pay a few
> million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the
> traders who made the biggest losses.
> The logger struggles to pay the £1,200 road tax on his old
> lorry however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer
> meets the emissions regulations and he is forced to scrap
> it.
> Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap
> merchant and put it back on the road. They undercut everyone
> on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while
> claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If
> questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport
> them at the governments expense. Following their holiday
> back home they return to the UK with different names and
> fresh girls and start again. The logger protests, is accused
> of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of
> his old lorry he is forced to pay £1,500 registration fees
> as a gang master.
>
> The Government borrows more money to pay more to the
> bankers as bonus's are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel
> they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses
> and allowances.
> You do the maths.
>
> 8. Teaching Maths 2020
> أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من
> الخشب من اجل 100 دولار. صاحب تكلفة
> الانت=D 8ج من
> الثمن. ما هو الربح له؟

That isn't funny, at all. It is real and very sad.

Well, one wouldn't drink in the Crown and Sceptre if one didn't want to be exposed to the more characterful side of life, would one?

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Neither funny nor remotely real. Pretty insulting to teachers and young people and rather horribly racist too. Here are some actual Maths questions used in recent GCSE papers:

Three of the following points lie on the same straight line. Which point does not lie on this line?

(-2, 14)
(-1, 8)
(1, -1)
(2, -6)

Here is a sequence: 90 82 74 66 58. What is the expression for the nth term of the sequence?

Find the factors of x3−7x−6

Billy wants to buy these tickets for a show: 4 adult tickets at £15 each and 2 child tickets at £10 each. A 10% booking fee is added to the ticket price. 3% is then added for paying by credit card. Work out the total charge for these tickets when paying by credit card.

And some A level questions:

(a) Find the first four terms, in ascending powers of x, of the binomial expansion of (1+8x) giving each term in simplest form.

(b) Explain how you could use x = 1/32 in the expansion to find an approximation for the square root of 5

Relative to a fixed origin O
● point A has position vector 2i + 5j − 6k
● point B has position vector 3i − 3j − 4k
● point C has position vector 2i − 16j + 4k
Find AB
→

Show that quadrilateral OABC is a trapezium, giving reasons for your answer.

</grumpy>

Unfortunately, it wasn't just the one officer involved, there was a conscious effort to cover it up/frustrate the complaints investigation. Pocket books going missing, statements going missing, 6 weeks for a sergent to return a phone call. A few unwarranted stops at the side of road on suspicion of me drink driving with causal hints about the complaint dropped in for good measure! Yep, tell me again there are few good ones.....