10 Useless Things We Learned In School
The Mens Room Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you guys ever used everything that you learned in school in your adult life? |
| 0:04.1 | Everything? No. Of course not. No. Of course not. The closest I've come to geometry is when I'm playing pool. |
| 0:09.6 | Apparently I'm not good at it. There's some useless damn stuff that they taught you. |
| 0:13.1 | The Shakespeare. The men's from top ten. Ten completely useless things we were taught in school. |
| 0:23.7 | In junior high, we had electives, |
| 0:25.9 | classes that went toward your final grade but weren't required curriculum, |
| 0:31.1 | like industrial arts class. |
| 0:33.7 | You worked hands-on and built things and used table and bandsaws. |
| 0:39.4 | The most useful thing I learned was by watching Vito Pelicano act like an ass wipe while |
| 0:46.1 | ripping a two-by-eight on the table saw. |
| 0:49.2 | Board got caught in the blade because he was busy showing off his douchebaggery. |
| 0:54.9 | The board shot back at him, punched him in the chest, and broke his sternum. |
| 1:00.0 | Don't worry. He lived. |
| 1:03.6 | That's great. Awesome. |
| 1:06.0 | Good work. So these are completely useless things that we were taught in school. |
| 1:10.4 | They start with |
| 1:11.3 | dissecting an animal. How to dissect an animal? It was interesting from a biological standpoint, |
| 1:16.8 | but it is not. A plastic mold would have worked. You know what? Actually, I will say that on rare |
| 1:22.5 | occasions during my cooking career, it kind of came in handy. Okay. Actually, thinking back once, somebody, as a thank you from a group of local farmers, because |
| 1:32.6 | that was kind of becoming a thing, this is like early 90s, all right? |
| 1:35.6 | So they would bring us cheese and all that, but they became one of our purveyors. |
| 1:38.9 | So as a thank you for kind of helping out their business, we were opening for the night. |
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