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Young People Suffer from a Lack of Practical Skills

posted by Fnord666 on Friday October 06 2017, @05:37PM   
from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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Original Submission

• Thinly veiled attack on the young and poor Thinly veiled attack on the young and poor (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:28PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:28PM (#578206)

  You can't acquire practical housekeeping and maintenance skills if you can't afford the damned things to begin with. You can't maintain what you don't own.

  Really, this study only serves to highlight how far the younger generation's purchasing power has deteriorated.

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• Re:Thinly veiled attack on the young and poor (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @03:25AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @03:25AM (#578467)

  Honestly, this very much. As someone growing up, I can't imagine buying a house. The housing "market" has crashed numerous times in my lifetime and I'm not even 30. American houses blow away in the wind, they burn down when someone falls asleep with a cigarette. If you manage to get and keep one, it's expensive to hold and maintain. Even if you endure that burden, your job may vanish from under your feet.

  House ownership is little more than a noose in the modern economy.

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