Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.
(I'm 40).
Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.
(I'm 40).
U know what you've done
Why the 7s and 8s? Right? Like that's the two that people struggle with.
It's Strange.
0118999881999119725... 3
I've taken a bit of a tumble.
If you're involved in any kind of protest, the phone number of a lawyer. Hell, generalize this. Make sure you memorize numbers of at least the first few of your emergency contacts. You never know when you will be separated from your phone.
You know, you are allowed to cheat in this test. Just write those numbers on your arm with a permanent marker or whatever. Get a fake tattoo, if you want.
White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.
Is... Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?
Specifically, T568... B.
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First aid procedures.
Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.
That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.
Which one is the positive nipple?
The one that's red.
Wait... they're both... hmm
Basically any song on guitar that I like. I can sing the entire song back to front, but I can't for the life of me remember the chord sequences. And I've been playing for many years.
How to convert various units of measurement. (Including between imperial and metric.)
2.54 centimeters in an inch. Degrees Fahrenheit is nine fifths of degrees Celsius plus 32. Stuff like that.
The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet
...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.
Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.
This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.
As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.
So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy'?" ever again! Your IT department might thank you.
...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)
Converting between hexadecimal and binary. It's not that hard and it would've been useful many times, but I still haven't memorised it
If you're a software engineer, memorizing an ASCII table (particularly the hex numbers of each character code) is definitely helpful. If for no other reason than so that you can read things that are randomly written in binary without having to consult a table.
Something not really otherwise terribly useful that nonetheless helped me keep my sanity: learn how to convert to base64 in your head. At work, we had really boring 8-hours-a-day training for a couple of weeks. To pass the time, I came up with random strings to base64 encode in my head. "Hat is 48 61 7a. The first six bits are 010010 which in base64 is an S. The next six bits would be 000110 which in base64 is G." Etc. I'd write down the base64 strings character by character as I derived them and then check my results for errors when I got back to my desk.
The dimensions of the doorways in my house.
No excuse
The general knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and sentence structure of the language families/subgroups, in order to better grasp a basic understanding of a common language when I encounter it, and be more respective - for example knowing when to use -kun, Fraulein, señora, and courteous actions native to the locale
knowing when to use [...] Fräulein
That's an easy one: never.
It's outdated and no longer used as a title. And mildly derogatory as a standalone word.
At least in Germany. Not sure about Austria or Switzerland, tbh, they might well be more traditional about it.
Your wife's birthday?
Articles of German Nouns
Do Germans care a ton if you get the wrong article? That must be a common thjng for even native speakers to get the article wrong on millions of individual words
They learn the article with the word. So they never really have a problem. The biggest problem is that the article is necessary to know how other words need to be written.
Also, in English you can have one word that is written the same but can be the name of two entirely different things. We use the context of the sentence to determine which word is actually intended. Germans know through different articles, which word is intended.
Also no German really gets upset by it if you get it wrong. They know that German is complicated in that regard. They are usually just happy that you are trying.
The only person that has ever said anything at all about it, is a colleague that I asked to correct me. It helps with the learning process.
I find that it's mainly frustrating to those learning German at an advanced level, since using a wrong article immediately exposes you as a non-native speaker. Because yeah, as the others said, it hardly ever happens that native speakers use a wrong article...
how to navigate whatever town or city you live in without GPS
How long d'ya reckon 'twould take?
how to division in your head. i always have to go the long way round.
Your state's mental hygiene/commitment laws and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty that U.S.A. is the only country not to ratify.
Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
(F....C....G....D...A...E...B)
this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let's say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major
It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.
The first 100 digits of pi lol. On a more serious note, it is very useful to remember how you should react to certain comments you know others will make in the future.
Keeping it practical, I'd like to know the basics about every regionally important city in the world. Capitals should be easy, I probably have most of them down already, and I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.
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