Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

Post by hughrr » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:01 AM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #24

technothrasher wrote: post #9

I wrote a message in a bottle when I was young. I still have very dim memories of being excited at the possibility that somebody in another country years later would find it. According to my folks, however, there were some issues. First, I was four years old and couldn't write, and second, I threw the bottle into a small pond. But my parents didn't want to dampen my enthusiasm at the time.

heh, beside the joke, I remember being utterly excited just seeing people talk over long distance ham radio by using atmospheric reflections.. someone in california randomly bumping into a russia far of Siberia after minutes of white noise.. super eerie.

Post by alar44 » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #35

tempestn wrote: post #17

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If we're honest, most of the actual content of the first 5-7 years or so of schooling is unimportant and ultimately forgotten, save for reading, writing, and basic arithmetic. Ideally some basic computer use too. But it's not like every moment spent on cursive writing in primary school would be a moment taken away from some critical, core subject. Aside from those few key building blocks, most of what you're doing in…

Maybe forgotten in an active sense, but those years are critical for instilling the passive behaviors and expectations which help make us into productive human resources to serve the economy as adults. Things like learning not to talk until called upon, learning to ask before being allowed to use the restroom or for other bodily functions, learning to be identified by an ID number, learning to answer a daily roll-cal…

Post by iso1631 » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:48 AM UTC

oneoff786 wrote: post #20

iso1631 wrote: post #2

Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)

Some people, including some commenters down thread seem to think cursive is about being fancy. It’s not, it’s an efficiency play for writing faster. That’s of course useless in modern day with so little actual hand writing. So it’s less common in schools

Post by iso1631 » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 8:53 AM UTC

DocTomoe wrote: post #22

happytoexplain wrote: post #11

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Yes, skilled penmanship and calligraphy is wonderful. But in my personal life, the majority of times I encounter cursive, I can not even read the handwriting, which is, to put it lightly, bad.

I find it interesting that I only ever hear that kind of complaint from Americans. Here in Europe, cursive/script is the basic way you learn writing, you automatically transition to something other later in life ... and we have zero hate for either variant. As for lack of legibility: I would guess US teachers not enforcing good style in preschool and elementary school contribute to that.

Post by chronogram » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:00 AM UTC

timonoko wrote: post #70

Amazing. This message is 12 years old, but I intercepted it just before it was crossing the Russian border. https://photos.app.goo.gl/8HyVefn7oHJTw3xy9 Also I had a message from Japan in a Suntory Whisky bottle, but I cannot find it. Written in Nipponese it was. Achually I have found at least 6 bottled messages. Most of them uninteresting and from nearby.