A school-subject you thought was useless but is actually benificial in real-life?

jetsonx

Name a subject you did in school, which you thought was absolutely pointless at the time but actually comes in quite handy in "real life"?

Saibh

English

Overblood

Maths

Mimikyu

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Twilightning

Music, of course.

stovelid

Anal*


*80s Christian Brothers pupil

easyeason3

Mitching classes.
It wasn't on the curriculum but it has served me well in getting to know how the world works & how to think fast.

Eric Cartman

StoveLid wins.

Religion was useful, gave me an insight into how retarded 90% of teachers are.

Borneo Fnctn

CSPE was absolutely vital.

phasers

Irish



LOL just kidding

da_shivsta

Home Economonmonomics has actually taught me a few things even though I thought it was a pile of sh1te at the time...I did the more useful Social & Scientific one for the Leaving so it wasn't all just cooking or anything :rolleyes:

tony1kenobi

Lunch.

Wibbs

Latin

Camarague

history

Gillo

Typing

Did it in 5th year, only because there were thirty places, it was nearly full and all girls.

Abi

Wibbs wrote: »

Latin

Because gardening is an essential life-skill

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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So, like adding and subtraction then? Couldn't gimme a lend of €500 could ya? I'll pay ya back in four **big** instalments of €20

Religion

magconn

maths-pythagros theorem, would ya believe!

DonkeyStyle \o/

I think I was pretty much dead-on with the uselessness assessment... Irish, History, PE, memorizing long gibberish names of different bacteria in biology (pff, big mistake not taking physics I think).

DonkeyStyle \o/

magconn wrote: »

maths-pythagros theorem, would ya believe!

I'd well believe it... B.O.M.D.A.S too, who'd a thunk it?

yurmothrintites

magconn wrote: »

maths-pythagros theorem, would ya believe!

Pythagora's theorem is definately the most useful. I've used it countless times in measuring slopes of things.

a2+b2=x2

Pinky Pixie

Geography It's helpful to know where you are!

IsMiseConor

Hebrew Studies.
So useful when I moved to Saudi Arabai.

stovelid

yurmothrintites wrote: »

Pythagora's theorem is definately the most useful. I've used it countless times in measuring slopes of things.

a2+b2=x2

It's a great hit at parties, I'd imagine.

af_thefragile

English and Economics.

dsmythy

Maths and English. Where would i be without the skills i learned?

docdolittle

Any class where I scribbled and I was drawing and ignoring whatever was going on :P

entropi

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Religion was useful, gave me an insight into how retarded 90% of teachers are.

Same here, except it showed me how a priest has a mental breakdown and leaves the school because your class was full of evil little sh*ts:pac:

Super-Rush

Pullin the flute off myself in the jacks PE

stepbar

Ag Science. The only thing I remember from it was that cows have 4 stomachs......... What a waste of 2 years.

Abi

stovelid wrote: »

It's a great hit at parties, I'd imagine.

That depends on the kind of party stove. The contours of the body is made up many slopes, turns and curves..

I win I think.

Daroxtar

Computhers. On Macintosh s and commodores. Mind you that GW basic wasnt much good to me

af_thefragile

stepbar wrote: »

Ag Science. The only thing I remember from it was that cows have 4 stomachs......... What a waste of 2 years.

I don't think it complies with the "beneficial in real life" bit...

Did it for a day. One lecture was enough to put me off the whole subject even though everyone was bragging on about it being "an easy A!"...

Abigayle wrote: »

That depends on the kind of party stove. The contours of the body is made up many slopes, turns and curves..

I win I think.

"I wish you were derived cuz when we integrate, i can lay tangent to your curves"...?

CrazyRabbit

Physics.

It's nice having SOME understanding of the world around us.

Abi

af_thefragile wrote: »

"I wish you were derived cuz when we integrate, i can lay tangent to your curves"...?

Oh. Very good

Adyx

stepbar wrote: »

Ag Science. The only thing I remember from it was that cows have 4 stomachs......... What a waste of 2 years.

Pshh 2 years was a waste. Even this little guy could have told you that. :pac:

orestes

English and maths for sure but I always knew they were important so that probably doesn't count, although the only subject I can say I don't use aspects of regularly is business studies. Only thing I got out of that subject that is any use is when I spent two weeks of classes teaching myself to learn the alphabet backwards just to do something to alleviate the boredom. Spent another two weeks learning "how much is that doggy in the window" backwards. Christ that class was boring.

Anima

Irish definitely

"I don't want to teach, he doesn't want to learn. We get along fine."

artanevilla

Physics and chemistry. Helped me immensely in building my bombs.

Winnerd

jetsonx wrote: »

Name a subject you did in school, which you thought was absolutely pointless at the time but actually comes in quite handy in "real life"?

Sorry, nothing is really coming to mind. : (

phasers

History helped me too, because my teacher was gorgeous and had some great movie recommendations

magconn

Pinky Pixie wrote: »

Geography It's helpful to know where you are!

Isn't that what SAT NAV is for ???:o

4zn76tysfajdxp

Overblood wrote: »

Maths

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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magconn wrote: »

maths

dsmythy wrote: »

Maths...

orestes wrote: »

maths

How come nobody calls it "Sums" anymore...?

magconn

Daroxtar wrote: »

Computhers. On Macintosh s and commodores. Mind you that GW basic wasnt much good to me

or COBOL and those huge "floppy" disks!!

hobochris

Maths - Algebra and BODMAS are a big part of programming when you think about it most programing is algebra and BODMAS helps keep calculation code tidy.

nice1franko

Hated sums with a vengeance. I mean FUKCING HATED HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATED HATE HATED sums.

All you need is to be able to: add, subtract, divide, multiply; the rest is absolutely useless shyte (unless your going to be a maths teacher).

Now I develop mapping software and sums and trigonometry is my bread n butter.

And play poker so probability is my friend.

Heisenberg.

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3qsmavrod5twfe

magconn wrote: »

or COBOL and those huge "floppy" disks!!

Isn't that a planet in Battlestar Gallactica? If they ever land on Fortran I'll let you know

Most usful thing I learned is how to avoid beatings from angry T-Square weilding Tech Drawing teachers.

That and Tech Drawing - it was beaten into us!

Joey the lips

Biology - Feeding, movement , respiration, sensitivity, excreation, repoduction and growth!


I am getting a lot of practice at the repo one lately!

Or maybe I am talking excreation!

fasty

Maths and Physics for me. I've even ended up using a ****load of trig and algebra! When students say "what is this used for anyway" I dunno why teachers don't say "For designing bridges, and videogames and stuff like that".

Jet Black

I asked my teacher why anything other than basic math's is needed. He could not answer me.
But load's of thing's need algebra. Accounting, finance, construction, engineering, design, programmeing, most science.
Thick cnut.