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- 1. BULL-
2. Did you know?
3. Sometimes size does matter!
4. Did you know?
If you are one in a million people in China...
5. Did you know
You are probably not a member of the English Aristocracy!
6. Did you know
During the last 12 minutes.
5000 people have lost their jobs
900people have had their motorcycles stolen
25,000 people have used the word spigot
3 people have spontaneously combusted
27 cats have developed hearing problems
At least a dozen elastic bands will have snapped.
7. Did you know
The 5% of the population in China
With the highest IQs
8. Have higher IQs
Than the other 95% of the population of
CHINA!
9. This means....
5 Chinese people
In every 100 Chinese people
Are more clever
Than the other 95 people....
Although one of them is bound to be the stupidest ...
10. Multiply this by 500 million!
China has at least 5,000,000 not very bright losers. That is more
than the entire population of Manchester!
Eh, that's people, not 5 million not very bright losers in
Manchester.... ?
11. Did you know
China will soon become the number one English speaking countryin
the world!
However, very few Chinese people can speak Welsh.
On the other hand quite a lot of Welsh people speak English and
some are learning Chinese.
What does that tell you about the Welsh.....?
12. Experts predict...
Todays learners will have between10 and 14 jobs by age 38.
The top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs thatdont yet
exist.
Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that
exceeds the computation capability of the human brain..
13. Experts also predicted
The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at
most.IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier
had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in
principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will
never become a practical proposition.Dennis Gabor, British
physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962
The war will last six days, six weeks I doubt six months.Donald
Rumsfeld on the Iraq War
civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action
is taken against problems facing mankind,biologist George Wald,
Harvard University, April 19, 1970
With over fifteen types of foreign cars already on sale here, the
Japanese auto industry isnt likely to carve out a big share of the
market for itself.Business Week, August 2, 1968
But what is it good for?IBM executive Robert Lloyd, speaking in
1968 about the microprocessor, the heart of todays computers.
14. .....and this......
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever
be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be
shattered at will. Albert Einstein, 1932
15. ....and this....
...There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses
weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those
weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have
produced them and who guard them. General Tommy Franks, March 22nd,
2003.
16. Anti- Social Networks
Facebook has over 300 million members
That is the equivalent of the population of the USA.
Not many of these people are Chinese
China has banned Facebook, Twitter and most other social networking
tools.....
Even for the 5,000,000 not very bright losers..
(who arguably could network with people with similar
interests?)
17. Did you know...
If you took every single job in the UK today and shipped them to
China....
18. No one in the UK would have a job.
Which is bad!
19. ...and anyway....
How would people in Zhengzhou province for example, get to work on
the checkouts in Sainsburys Croydon?
Is that Sutton down there?
Hooray
No, Carshalton we shall soon be in Croydon!
20. Did you know...
In March 2009 Google searches reached 293 million per day!
In January 2010 the number of text sent in the UK were 11 million
per hour.
177.7 million laptops were sold during 2009
There are now an estimated 10 million eBooks available
What does this mean?
21. Whoa.. far out man, these are like huge numbers, they like,
give me a headache just looking at them...
bummer man.... not cool, dig?
22. Some more meaningless information
23. ..Heavy