Can you tell the time?

LeJosh said:
It's not the difficulty, I'd say it's because they haven't been exposed to it or taught how to read a clock, which most young folks aren't nowadays I guess.
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It's truly terrifying to me that there are kids out there growing up without exposure to clocks... what's next???

glen8 said:
Everything is hard, that's why you go to school and learn
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Is everything hard? Is reading two numbers from a clock that difficult? Is this something parents are relying on schools to teach instead of doing it themselves?
 
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I'm A Celeb is my guilty pleasure of reality tv.

I'm starting to think that Joey has been told by his agent to ham it up to the point of ridiculousness, it would be pretty easy to purposefully say really stupid things.
 
I can tell the time, but have the annoying habit of looking at my watch but not really paying attention to what the time is. It's really annoying if someone sees me look at my watch and asks me the time, then I have to check again :o
 
TBH It seems it's a wider problem than just Joey Essex.

The road leading to my work place was to be closed for 6 hours for resurfacing yesterday. Signs said "09:30-15:30".

So yesterday morning when I was in at 9:15, I thought "get to work for 9 and I should be ok".

Nope, I get to the road at 08:55 - Road Closed. Meaning I had to take a 25 min detour.
 
AJK said:
Is telling the time difficult? Seriously, I don't understand how it can possibly be hard... :confused:
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I have dyscalculia which held me back for many years from using an analogue clock teachers simply didn't care or have the patience to teach me. My girlfriend in the end persevered and taught me how to tell the time on an analogue clock.:)
 
^TANK^ said:
I have dyscalculia which held me back for many years from using an analogue clock teachers simply didn't care or have the patience to teach me. My girlfriend in the end persevered and taught me how to tell the time on an analogue clock.:)
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Now that's fair enough, and well done to you both for persevering and getting there in the end! I hesitate to ask why your parents didn't help you at a younger age?
 
Rusty_Noob said:
As unintelligent as Joey Essex is I still believe he's a thoroughly decent guy.
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Be that as it may, he glamourises stupidity, young people look up to him, see someone being successful for being thick, and then reckon they can apply the same to their own lives.
 
AJK said:
Now that's fair enough, and well done to you both for persevering and getting there in the end! I hesitate to ask why your parents didn't help you at a younger age?
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My parents did they bought me an analogue wrist watch and a clock for my wall I just couldn't understand them. They got me extra maths lessons privately and the tutor helped me brush up on other things like fractions but couldn't get me to grasp the understanding of an analogue clock. My girlfriend just explained it really gradual what meant what until it sunk in.
 
analogues are visually easier to read - you don't have to be able to read the time, just picture the location of the hands and work out the time later. A digital clock you have to actually read and interpret the numbers.

That's why altimeters when skydiving are generally analogue - it's easier to see a needle pointing at a green or red area than having to interpret the height.
 
I didn't watch the programme, but are you sure he wasn't just playing dumb to endear himself to the people who vote for this drivel?

I find it hard to believe that someone of that age is unable to tell the time.
 
planty said:
I didn't watch the programme, but are you sure he wasn't just playing dumb to endear himself to the people who vote for this drivel?

I find it hard to believe that someone of that age is unable to tell the time.
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This. He plays the idiot because that's what people expect of him.

My wife watches TOWIE, so I've seen it occassionally and when I saw it he was buying shoes 2 sizes too small, because he "didn't like the way they crease when you walk".

:rolleyes:
 
mpledge52 said:
I can tell the time, but have the annoying habit of looking at my watch but not really paying attention to what the time is. It's really annoying if someone sees me look at my watch and asks me the time, then I have to check again :o
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Haha, I have a habit of doing this too, I even do it with the TV where I'll ask someone to bring up the time, I'll say thanks, then I'll end up either looking at the date, or the programme listings, or even just stare at the time without taking it in and have no idea what the time is afterwards.
 
So he can tell the time but only in a digital format not from an analogue clock/watch?

Is this just not another one of mans evolutionary steps?

I mean we have gone from watching the stars to using hour glasses then we used sun dials and eventually the analogue clock to tell the time.

Now i know digital clocks have been around for donkeys years and its never hindered most normal people using a regular time piece but joeys generation has been bought up in a far more digital era.
 
Sho said:
Digital world out there. Not surprised.
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And this is the problem. People being unsurprised when it happens! We should be at least trying to do something.

I remember when we were younger, in school they taught us how to read clocks/sundials and growing up we’d play games with clocks and challenge each other about the time in the form of games.

If I had my way then every kid would be given a ~£50 Seiko 5 :D

It’s pretty sad that a grown man can’t tell the time though.
 
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