On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:32:58 -0000, "Philip Eden"
philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:


"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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It's worse than you know, Jack. Sports broadcasters (and I include
editorial and production staff) are the most unreconstructed
misometeorologists of them all, beating even the proudly innumerate
arts graduates who run the so-called science strands on TV.


"proudly innumerate" - what a good expression for those people, and we
have all met them, who seem to consider being "educationally
sub-normal" in maths and the sciences a badge of honour.

I severely take to task those who proudly say to me "I was useless at
maths at school", as this attitude is part of the reason we have a
right-wing, god-bothering dimwit as leader of the most powerful nation
on earth.

Martin