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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @06:59PM (1 child)
"The farther you get from the city the fewer helpless people you come across."
I'm afraid that statement is growing less true, as time goes on. Here, in Outback, Nowhere, I can find plenty of people who are clueless about just about everything. The ratio of clueless people keeps going up. It's probably still lower than in Suburbia, but we'll catch up some day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @09:03PM
...with a bunch of them being former city dwellers who wanted the wide open spaces and fresh air?
Didn't they do a documentary series on this?
Green Acres [wikipedia.org]
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