Useless things you learned in school (or are currently learning)

[The Big Train]

how to spell encyclopedia

[slobber]

Wacky quote

The alfabit

[Cire]

my 7th grade social studies final was identifying every effing country in the effing world.  each continent with countries numbered and most major rivers.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

counties in KS and how to spell them

I took a geography/history of Kansas class in college and I loved learning the counties. Great for some trivia along I-70 West.

I had to memorize them and their spellings in 7th grade. good use of roughly a full years worth of georgraphy class. meanwhile, I have no idea where most of the African, Asian or South American countries are on a map.

Yeah and you don't even live in Kansas anymore so you can't drop any license plate knowledge. What a shame...

[Trogdor]

The long term effects of fossil fuel usage on earths atmosphere and environments

[steve dave]

my 7th grade social studies final was identifying every effing country in the effing world.  each continent with countries numbered and most major rivers.

that seems like good knowledge to have. I wouldn't know though.

[Trogdor]

my 7th grade social studies final was identifying every effing country in the effing world.  each continent with countries numbered and most major rivers.

that seems like good knowledge to have. I wouldn't know though.

if you want to be on jeopardy maybe

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

The long term effects of fossil fuel usage on earths atmosphere and environments

lol

[Spracne]

the difference between stalagmite and stalagtite.

One's a word and one's not?

[Asteriskhead]

the oxford comma. eff that thing.

[Spracne]

the oxford comma. eff that thing.

Are you serial? The Oxford Comma is very important.  Without it, you might end up writing something like, "I'd like to thank my parents, John Currie and oscar Weber."

[Asteriskhead]

the oxford comma. eff that thing.

Are you serial? The Oxford Comma is very important.  Without it, you might end up writing something like, "I'd like to thank my parents, John Currie and oscar Weber."

doubtful

[CNS]

The Oxford Comma is quite possibly the only thing holding society together at this point.

[420seriouscat69]

Wacky quote

The alfabit

[420seriouscat69]

I'm really rough ridin' good at geography.

[Mrs. Gooch]

The Oxford Comma is quite possibly the only thing holding society together at this point.

I don't understand why it has a special name. It should just be called proper comma use.

[Emo EMAW]

I used to draw maps of Europe of Asia or whatever on my desk so I could cruise through those exams. 

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Creationism

[Asteriskhead]

The Oxford Comma is quite possibly the only thing holding society together at this point.

I don't understand why it has a special name. It should just be called proper comma use.

pfft. 

[Spracne]

The Oxford Comma is quite possibly the only thing holding society together at this point.

I don't understand why it has a special name. It should just be called proper comma use.

It is also known as the Harvard Comma.  The official term, though, is serial comma (hence my joke, above).

[420seriouscat69]

I got really good at cheating. Like when there was 3 different colored exams, I had a really good eye and I could see answers to rows in front of me.  Probably why i'm so dumb.

[Institutional Control]

I was taught in school that there are 7 continents when there are clearly only 6.

[slucat]

The Oxford Comma is quite possibly the only thing holding society together at this point.

I don't understand why it has a special name. It should just be called proper comma use.

Having never taken a proper English or writing class, I do not know what this is.

However, the most useless thing I learned in college were matrices...I know I did them in some pud math class as a FR, but what were they, I have no memory of why or how to use them, I clearly haven't encountered them during my adult life or career...can someone give a cliff notes version? I know they are like a tick-tack-toe box with numbers, but that's it.  Side note, I didn't get it then-calc made more sense...

[420seriouscat69]

Radio. rough ridin' useless. Anyone who can talk can do it.

[Asteriskhead]

the oxford comma. eff that thing.

Are you serial? The Oxford Comma is very important.  Without it, you might end up writing something like, "I'd like to thank my parents, John Currie and oscar Weber."

Restructure the sentence like this: "I'd like to thank John Currie, oscar Weber and my parents."

GTFOOMF