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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @06:33PM
In the late 90s, when I lived in England, both houses used a central heating system that was NOT forced air. One was a steam radiator system and the other was a hot water radiator system. Only the hot water radiators would need to be bled, because the way steam heat works is steam fills the pipes and flows to the raidators where it condenses on the radiators and gives up its heat. This heat convects(radiates, moves, whatever you want to call it) into the room and there is some water in the radiator from the condensation. This condensation flows backwards through the pipe that delivered the steam to return to the boiler. The hot water system has 2 pipes, a hot(source) and a cool(return). Water is forcibly circulated. The issue is that most radiators have both connnections near the floor level. In this system, if it had been turned off it was possible that the radiator in the room would end up containing little but air, and since air is lighter than water it becomes "trapped" above the level of the source and return pipes. In this situation the radiator would need to be "bled", and a small screw near the top of the radiator would need to be opened, to allow air out, which allowed the radiator to fill with water. Once water was coming out of the screw hole the screw would be closed again to seal it and the radiator would remain full of water. Individual room temperatures can be achieved by throttling the "hot" side, preventing hot water from being pumped in.