I hate maths!

It depends the level of maths that you're talking about. Everyone "should" be ableto add,subtract, multiply and divide. But doing trigonometry and pythagoras is not very useful to everyday life so it would be socially accepted to not be able to do it, as it is almost useless in most professions.

I'm going to stand up for that which cannot stand up for itself then. A hell of a lot of science heavily depends on mathematical formulae. Without maths, we wouldn't have decent compression programs (and probably no computers), so we wouldn't even be having this conversation. You may hate maths (it is a kind of love/hate subject), but it is useful (at least a whole lot more useful to me than things like art, which I neither care for nor am good at (the two are probably related), though I'm not saying that art isn't useful, as many people enjoy it). Less people enjoy maths (I still don't see why some people think it's respectable not to be able to do basic maths when not being able to read or write is considered so less socially acceptable - eg when do you ever hear anyone say, "I can't write" or "I can't read"? You hear, "I always hated maths and could never do it." I just don't quite get that (except when Billy Connolly starts talking about it).

I'm really beginning to think thats true!