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No, you don't need to know Maths to be a footballer

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Ronbo · 03/02/2023 10:26

"NSPCC Number Day" at school again. 🙄

The letter says "children are invited to dress up as someone who uses maths/numbers in thier everyday jobs". Lots of girls dressed as engineers, builders, astronauts, chefs. Well done to them.

Of course, just like every single previous dress up for school day, all the boys turn up in full football kits.

"Coz there is a number on my shirt, and err, u need maffs to count the score."

It was depressing when the same thing happened at "dress up as your favourite character from a book day" but for me this is a new low.

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watcherintherye · 05/02/2023 23:35

Having read through your posts, op, I’m wondering how good your maths skills are. Here’s a question for you. If a parent of a girl sends her to school in an engineer’s outfit and the parent of a boy sends him to school in a football kit, in percentage terms, how much higher will the feeling of superiority be in the parent of the girl?

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