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What's Your Vintage Skill Set?
Something I have not tried since school, would love to try again but I don't think it's possible locally. edit:- Apparently it is. I may investigate.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #116
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Hmm.. That's 50/50 a maths thing and a service thing. I know most of you live in the States, how many have visited Ireland North or South? :) I have a notion that a spell spent here would have you longing for the service levels you experience at home while shopping.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,480
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Ahh.. We may have been talking at cross purposes then. My Apologies.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,464
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I don't think anyone suggested that a correct answer was irrelevant. However I can absolutely understand how it may appear that educators place greater emphasis on method than result. If the method is correct, then the student can solve any related problem. The fact that they haven't is an...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,462
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Or to use another example then A maths paper has ten problems requiring a solution for Y. Present a set of solutions which has ten correct values for Y and nothing else and you will fail. In fact you won't be graded. Present a set of solutions where you have some, perhaps many, incorrect but...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,459
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
It simply isn't. To use the most extreme example, what of a case where no "answer" exists?- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,456
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I take it you're not an educator? :) I'm not saying that the method is more important here, simply that it's of academic value, or can be.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,451
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
But the fact remains that in education one can receive kudos for arriving at an incorrect answer while showing an understanding of how the problem should be solved, while one may not for arriving at a correct answer without demonstrating the same understanding. So while I wouldn't necessarily...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,448
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Muuuh. I don't know. Were I a savant, who when presented with a problem could visualise the correct solution immediately... I'll never pass a maths exam. Although I might be fast tracked straight to a "special" educational establishment. But I'll score zero on a paper. By the same token...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,444
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
Pretty much the case in the UK now also, third level qualification is simply expected. I don't see that as something that's likely to become obsolete though.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #309
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Stain Fighters!
For removal of very stubborn rust stains, soak the spot(s) in white vinegar and then suspend above a pan of boiling water, carefully obviously, and "scour" the rust spot with salt. I took rust stains out of a WWII 'housewife' that had had pins in it since the war...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #24
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Indulge me.
While I pay tribute to a great man. Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure...- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Everyday's a schoolday! I had to cross check that to make sure it wasn't an "alternate history" tale. Never heard of it before.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #821
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII era Civilian tents
UK civi tents went green or brown for the duration, manufacturers sold fly sheets and stain in the appropriate shades. It was also recommended that civilian campers, Scouts, Guides etc. not pitch in rows. Strangely enough I read this all recently on another forum. I'd love a period civilian...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #6
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
Well... There is a degree of veracity in it, I suppose. :D- Dragon Soldier
- Post #48
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
Define "we".- Dragon Soldier
- Post #46
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
I'm after a set of campaign furniture, I'm getting a bit old for the runny-around elements of living history, so I've a notion about setting up an Officer's Billet display... Tent, safari bed, trunk, campaign furniture set, mess silver, pink gins in the sunshine kind of thing. I've two of...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,781
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Is it wrong to say I like the table? Picked this up this evening locally, after a seeing a small ad totally by chance. It needs a lot of work, so consider this a "before" shot. It does however play.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,779
- Forum: The Display Case
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If you could solve just one mystery....
Might be just a tad late, but I'd love to know exactly what went on here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident- Dragon Soldier
- Post #174
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Look on the bright side, what are the chances you'd have lived to be a Lounger if you'd bought it then?- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,337
- Forum: The Observation Bar
