What was the most dismal, turgid and yawn inducing subject in secondary school ?

Dominic

Latin 
Belum,Belum ,Belum, Beli,Bello, Belo ,Belamus ,Balatis ,Belant
Present tense conjugation of the verb Belum (To wage War)
Why the fuck we had to learn that I don't know
I am quite old but have never been a Roman Consul or Emperor and have no intention of waging war on anybody 
Res Ipse Loquiter

antonyiv

Chemistry? What's the point of this subject? To create some love notion at home? 

ICBM

Religious Studies. It was supposed to be interesting and involved learning about other religions, but the teacher (a C of E minister) just made it mind-numbingly dull and oppressive. At the exam I wrote my name at the top of the paper and then walked out.

I'd already given up music earlier, since it was my most hated subject at junior school - the school music department was run by a pair of music snobs whose apparent sole purpose was to put kids off music, unless it was classical.

Nitefly

Geography was a weird one for me - I really like looking at maps, and I think you could parachute me blindfold anywhere in England and I wouldn't be lost for long.

But "describe the drainage features of map square C3" - what?

Unsurprisingly I failed at O-level.

Jalapeno

Dominic said:

Latin 
Belum,Belum ,Belum, Beli,Bello, Belo ,Belamus ,Balatis ,Belant
Present tense conjugation of the verb Belum (To wage War)
Why the fuck we had to learn that I don't know
I am quite old but have never been a Roman Consul or Emperor and have no intention of waging war on anybody 
Res Ipse Loquiter

IMHO Latin is used to teach grammar properly - I never realised what I knew informally until I had to conjugate a French verb. I do wish I'd had Latin lessons as a young 'un as I took to French like a duck to water.

bbill335

Games/PE. 

lasermonkey

History, and I say that as someone who loves history. How they managed to make such a fascinating subject so dull is beyond me.

merlin

Sassafras said:

Geography.
There are very few ways to make coal production in Belgium sound interesting.

You lucky b*****d, we had the work force, industry and economic system of the f**king Ruhr Valley. At the time I probably would have eaten a bucket-full of my own s**t to study coal production in Belgium. 

EricTheWeary

Not sure I liked any of them that much, thankfully English and Maths had okay teachers.
At sixth form college we had terrible teachers, for statistics we had the world’s dullest teacher for the world’s dullest subject. 

sticker

Maths and Geography for me ...entirely down to personality clashes with the teachers ....and I was an arsehole.

HAL9000

History, but only because we had a no-neck chinless wonder who could make anything as dull as Bridgwater. These days I'm fascinated by history and will watch everything and anything about European and Middle-Esstern history. At the moment I'm reading about the fall of Constantinople. So must have been the teacher and not me.

A good teacher can make anything (yes, even coal production in Belgium) interesting.

fandango

French. We had the most un-French teacher you could ever imagine.

Classes were an endless river of ”Qu’est-ce que c’est?”, to which the reply was usually “C’est une regle”.

Mind numbing in its pointlesslessness and lack of reality should one find oneself in France.

Our French teacher was a right old Larry Grayson* character. His “shut that door” was spot on.

For you folk under 40, look him up. Grayson (or was it our pseudo-french teacher?) did Generation Game on BBC after Brucey moved on.

strumjoughlamps

RE and French for me

Neill

fandango said:

French. We had the most un-French teacher you could ever imagine.

Classes were an endless river of ”Qu’est-ce que c’est?”, to which the reply was usually “C’est une regle”.

Ah, tres bien monsieur c'est vraiment  drole.

Quel temps fait il?  Ici c'est pisser.

quarky

I did History in NZ, so nothing was covered before 1830, and the only WW2 stuff was the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931. I still generally enjoyed it, but just not the teacher.

Accounting was pretty dry and unpleasant.

Sassafras

I liked sports & games but I could never stomach PE.
And that friggin medicine ball!!!
What's that all about and why's it called a medicine ball?
Unless it's meant in the sense of too much medicine can kill you.

Sassafras

HAL9000 said:

History, but only because we had a no-neck chinless wonder who could make anything as dull as Bridgwater. These days I'm fascinated by history and will watch everything and anything about European and Middle-Esstern history. At the moment I'm reading about the fall of Constantinople. So must have been the teacher and not me.

A good teacher can make anything (yes, even coal production in Belgium) interesting.

Funnily enough, our geography teacher was also the religious studies teacher.
I suppose being boring is one of the qualifications required to teach those 2 subjects.

scrumhalf

Classical Hebrew. Of very limited use, and in itself as interesting as listening to paint dry.

DefaultM

I would say RE, apart from the time the teacher awkwardly explained female genital mutilation, and then when she finished I said I didn't understand and kept getting her to repeat bits.

usedtobe

lasermonkey said:

History, and I say that as someone who loves history. How they managed to make such a fascinating subject so dull is beyond me.

This.