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

Phil_aka_Pip · December 2017

History, the way it was taught in the 3rd year.
General studies, pointless or what?
At least "Humanities" had some use as it told us what drugs were available and what you might expect to experience if you took them.

"Games" and PE were a total waste of everybody's time

TheBigDipper · December 2017

Forced to do Latin for the first two years. Dreadful experience. Dropped it when I could.

My biggest surprise was when I started on O level music in my third year at secondary school. Loved playing classical guitar (by then in my 4th year) and had no interest or love whatsoever for the classical music repertoire outside that somewhat narrow field. I didn't care when Bach was born or what the difference was between a concerto and a symphony. Bored to the point of no excrement.

I don't feel like that now, mind....

chillidoggy · December 2017

This is a tough one.

I'm going for Latin, though. My school report read - "Effort 1/10 - He has given up the struggle."

WezV · December 2017

PE because I’m dyspraxic, and the teachers didn’t understand what that meant in those days.

geography. I actually remember the teacher spending a whole hour dictating direct from the text book as a regular lesson plan.

woodwork, its the only subject I failed.

Kilgore · December 2017

I had a terrible school experience. The uniform was scratchy, the Eton Mess was awful and the fagging was intolerable.
I only made it to the Cabinet through bloody hard work.

VimFuego · December 2017

you had me till you mentioned hard work, no one ever got anywhere in politics through hard work.

sev112 · December 2017

Religious Studies
passed all my O levels except that, which was unclassified (which I thought was harsh)

having said that, maybe there is something in all that mumbojumbo (we only did Christianity in those days) because my RS teacher pretty much predicted the outcome viz. “Steven, I don’t think writing God doesn’t exist because ... is a good idea when you sit your exam whether you believe it or not” . He was probably right

Dopesick · December 2017

Maths A-Level

I gave up half way through the second year, just sat in each class drawing pictures and trying to work out the bloody calculator and promptly failed the exam with flying colours. Utter waste of time and I have no idea why I opted to do it.

Funkfingers · December 2017

Fretwired said:

Geography

A-Level double Geography between morning break and lunch. You could hear the stomachs rumbling all around the room. This never happened on any other day of the week.

The pupils played a prototype of Boycott Bingo. Points were awarded every time that the teacher said certain words. Points were deducted if the teacher addressed a question to you by name. It helped to pass the time. Time Itself seemed to have slowed to a crawl.

Sporky · December 2017

English Literature. Our teacher was obsessed with sex, so every work of literature was apparently entirely about sex.

bingefeller · December 2017

History.

Telejester · December 2017

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.

Hear hear, I was practically standing on my own toes beneath the desk to stay awake.

Bridgehouse · December 2017

Music. It was the most dire turgid theoretical classical drivel.

It got good on two occasions only:

1. The day someone in my class submitted an essay on the composer "Rackmeoff"
2. The day someone in my class was caught tossing one off on the back row - "So the quaver is blah blah STOP WANKING AT THE BACK THERE! about half the time of a blah blah"

Phil_aka_Pip · December 2017

more pointless blx:

geography
english (although I got on all right with the Shakespeare, discovering the Elizabethan mindset was interesting enough)

bbill335 · December 2017

Funkfingers said:

Fretwired said:

Geography

A-Level double Geography between morning break and lunch. You could hear the stomachs rumbling all around the room. This never happened on any other day of the week.

The pupils played a prototype of Boycott Bingo. Points were awarded every time that the teacher said certain words. Points were deducted if the teacher addressed a question to you by name. It helped to pass the time. Time Itself seemed to have slowed to a crawl.

Oh my god, I had forgotten about the boredom torture of my A-level Economics but you've described a very familiar feeling.

Emp_Fab · December 2017

Welsh. I hated it and the miserable fat cow that taught it. It was compulsory too in 197umm.....

Flink_Poyd · December 2017

English literature, utterly boring turgid rubbish like Shakespeare and other stuff I still can't stand.
The only good things about it were the teacher had big tits and liked to wear a short skirt and that it was last lesson on a Friday so I used to skive it and walk home sometimes. The only lesson that bored me so much I couldn't be arsed to go to

tampaxboo · December 2017

maths. and didn't need to learn all those numbers anyway, because it's all binary now.

Neill · December 2017

For older listeners... did anyone else while away the time in boring lessons with surreptitious games of owzthat?

Sassafras · December 2017

Maths wasn't much help to me because I have dyscalculia. I still can't do long division despite being taught it several times. Thank God for calculators.

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