Basic knowledge

Now I don’t claim to be any sort of genius on the topic of maths, but surely this takes the piss. Last week I was talking to a lass at work who reckoned her boyfriend thinks she’s thick because she couldn’t work out how long it would take to travel 60 miles at 60mph. Naturally, I agreed with her boyfriend that she is indeed thick as the answer is clearly 1 hour (60/60=1), simple yes? Wrong, this was an impossible thing to explain to her and she couldn’t get it out of her head that it took her about 45 minutes to get from Peterlee to Barnard Castle which is 30 odd miles so how can it only take an hour to do 60 miles :rolleyes:
After spending far longer than intended trying to explain the basic rules of arithmetic, I ring my mate who is also on shift to confirm I’m right as I’m starting to doubt myself. I put the same question to him and he replies ‘well it takes me about an hour and a half to get from here to Newcastle’. :eek: I put the phone down.

Neither of them knew the dates of the First World War either. Surely this is basic stuff or is this just how it is now?
60 mph eh was this a laden of unladen swallow? ;)
 


Booked a hotel in Wales and our lass asked if she needed her passport. Why would you need your passport to go to Wales? Well its another country and you need your passport to go to another country. Explained that Wales was connected to England like France is connected to Spain....

If that’s how you explained it, then she now thinks you can travel from Mexico to USA or from South Korea to North Korea without a passport!
 

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