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from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept.
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: 5, Insightful) by Snospar on Friday October 06 2017, @06:04PM
I remember getting some advice from a plumber about "... getting the system up to pressure" and "... make sure it's nice and hot" before bleeding the system, starting at the topmost radiator in the house. Unfortunately for me, on one of the radiators when I opened the bleeding valve it disintegrated, firing the sealing pin across the room (turned out it had been mis-threaded by a previous plumber). I now had boiling hot water blasting out into the room and without really thinking I jammed the hole with my finger, desperately reaching for the radiator OFF valve at the other side. Of course, that's when the plastic top of the OFF valve tore straight off the metal valve, possibly due to the heat in the system (and by now my finger).
I tried yelling for my teenage daughter to turn off the heating but she didn't know how and anyway, the pump keeps going for ages. I then sent her off to the toolkit to get a spanner... sigh, I should have trained her better. "Is this a spanner?". We did get an adjustable spanner eventually.
The real moral of the story is: Don't be down on the teenagers of today, if we don't teach them they can't learn this stuff and we can cock it up on our own at any age!
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