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the Good Housekeeping Institute's recent publication of a dishwashing guide for all those young people (2 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the UK) who have never learned the ancient art of washing up. In a nutshell, use hot water and rubber gloves, pre-scrape and soak dirty pans, change your water halfway through, and wash in the following order: glasses, mugs, cups, saucers, side plates, dinner plates, cutlery, serving dishes, pans, roasting tins.
While not knowing how to wash dishes is kind of a big deal, it's the whole idea of not being to handle oneself as a versatile, independent adult that is most concerning. Young people lack a wide range of practical skills these days, as revealed in a recent study by YouGov. More than half of young people (18-24) do not know how to set up utility bills upon moving to a new place; 54 percent cannot replace a fuse in a plug; 34 percent can't reset the fuse box after a switch has tripped; 37 percent do not know how to defrost a freezer; and 11 percent is clueless when it comes to changing lightbulbs. (You can see the entire sad list here.)
So what? There's an app for that.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:01PM (12 children)
Ahh more old people whining about young people not knowing how to do things.
When I moved out of the house I had no clue how to setup util in my new place. I knew I needed electricity though so I call them and said I want to set up service. They took care of it. Rinse and repeat for each util.
Washing dishes is like washing anything else. Hot soapy water, scrub, rinse, dry. Hard to screw that up. Why you are doing it in a certain order makes no sense though. Unless you are just straight washing it in the sink, and then change the water when its dirty.
Replace a fuse in a plug. You mean an electrical cord that has a plug built in? Only things I know of like that are xmas lights. DO you mean an actual fuse in the fuse box? Well I don't blame them for not knowing how, I haven't seen a fuse box that takes actual fuses in a while, mostly its a breaker box with resetable breakers.
And no everyone knows how to change a standard light bulb, even the long florescent ones should be simple enough to figure out.
This is nothing more then baby boomers trying to feel superior to the younger generation just like the older generations have done back to before recorded history.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:23PM (3 children)
After getting us to fix their computers / phones, and explain "modern" science questions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:41PM (2 children)
You mean the computers and phones boomers fucking INVENTED?
Go polish your java apps.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @04:34AM
Hate to tell ya this, but you're in the insanely small minority of boomers who know how to use a computer! For us "young whipersnappers" there is no end to the amount of tech support I could be giving. I learned a while back to limit my offers and to sometimes just say no.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @02:06PM
(Score: 2, Informative) by WillR on Friday October 06 2017, @06:48PM (1 child)
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:14PM
It's not to protect the appliance, but rather to protect the power cable (specifically, to protect the things near the cable that will otherwise catch on fire, such as your house) in the event of a short that could vastly exceed the rating of the cable but not necessarily trip the mains breaker/fuse.
Fuses in plugs are not unheard of in other countries either, particularly in lamp cords.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)
"Why you are doing it in a certain order makes no sense though."
Commercial enterprises and health departments. You do things in a certain order partly to conserve water and detergent, partly to satisfy the health officials. The specific manner depends on the equipment you're using. When I was in the Navy, the scullery crew ran everything through a rinsing sink in no specific order, stuck everything in specially designed racks, and put the racks on a conveyor belt. The belt carried dishes through a high pressure washer, maintained at 180 degrees. You NEVER put anything in there that had eggs on them - they cooked on before they could be washed away.
Of course, in the Navy, we didn't have any crystal, or even glass to worry about. No bone china. Everything was metal or melnac plastic. Blaahhhhh. Well, shipboard, anyway. Things were marginally better for sailors ashore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @09:24PM
s/melnac/Melmac
(Brand name for molded melamine resin dinnerware.)
...also the planet where Alf (Alien Life Form) started out.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:24PM (1 child)
Yes, washing dishes in a certain order makes sense. You should just shut up now. You are really showing your ignorance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:46PM
No not really, cause I wash dishes in a dishwasher.
You rinse in the sink and then place in the dishwasher. No order needed slugger.
(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Friday October 06 2017, @11:25PM (1 child)
A friend of mine in college did not know how to light a match. I sat him down with a matchbox and insisted that he keep trying until he was able to consistently light a few in a row. Now he knows how; none of these things are hard to pick up.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday October 07 2017, @08:18PM
Regarding matches - try to hand a young person non-safety matches (especially in europe*) and see them fumble if the matchbook is smooth.
Usually the ones that gets it right away are those that watch westerns, old movies, are into camping/outdoor-living or just are aware of why safety matches are a big deal. (Funnily enough same people also tend to know how to use a fire steel/striker - which is another thing that dumfounds many today)
* = yup, strike-anywhere matches are a speciality item in many european countries.