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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: 2) by danaris on Friday October 06 2017, @07:03PM (13 children)
I think the point was more that no one has fuse boxes or fused plugs nowadays, nor do our freezers need manual defrosting.
The submission seems to think it's still 1950.
Dan Aris
(Score: 3, Insightful) by pbnjoe on Friday October 06 2017, @07:06PM (1 child)
In North America, sure, but from what I can tell fuse boxes, fused plugs, and radiators are still common in Britain. Fair point about the freezers.
(Score: 2) by rleigh on Friday October 06 2017, @09:20PM
Fused plugs and radiators yes, fuse boxes not so much (they are largely replaced by MCBs/RCDs nowadays).
(Score: 2) by WillR on Friday October 06 2017, @07:09PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by pbnjoe on Friday October 06 2017, @07:16PM (2 children)
Ah, yeah, I meant to mention that in my original comment. That bit of it is stupid and is certainly influenced by the "Good Housekeeping Institute", which is very likely from the 50s or earlier and keeping its mindset today. Hot water, soap, brush with a scraper, go wild.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)
Sure, go ahead and wash your dirty plates and greasy pans before your glasses. Fucking idiot.
(Score: 2) by pbnjoe on Friday October 06 2017, @08:11PM
Well, duh, if I said go wild washing a car with soap and water would you think I mean you can wet the car, put soap on it and then drive around? Of course there's a way to do it without making things worse but I meant we don't need the kind of rigidity that comes with the "prim and proper" vibe that I got from the publication's name and the summary's version of the guide, which lists different objects in an absolute order with no written reasoning and reminds me of "this fork goes here because we say so". I admit it was stupid of me to not read the full guide 'til now, but I see it says to wash things from cleanest to dirtiest, which generally takes the glasses, mugs, ... order. That makes sense.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:59PM
We certainly do, dishes should generally be done from least dirty/least greasy to most greasy. And while i don't sit around organizing dishes into 9 categories I certainly would end up following a very similiar list when doing the dishes after a big family meal using the 'good dishes'... we always start with the crystal, then move to the china, then serving pans, platters, utensils, etc, and finish with the roasting pans.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:26PM (5 children)
To add to pbnjoe's response - fuses are safer than breakers anyway. You might visit Youtube, and search for videos of fuses and breakers failing. As breakers age, they can fail pretty damned dramatically. Fuses are only ever "tripped" one time, and replaced. I thought that I liked breakers better than fuses, until an engineer recently told me to do the same search. Here in the US, we always insist on convenience, even if safety is sacrificed.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:12PM (3 children)
Sorry, but one safety hazard that will NEVER occur with circuit breakers is someone jamming a piece of metal into the socket because he doesn't have a replacement fuse.
Another safety failure with fuse boxes is someone using a higher rated fuse in place of the blown one.
So in practice, I would say circuit breakers are probably safer, or at least no LESS safe.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @10:03PM
I worked on an Ampeg amplifier that had a fuse on the circuit board.
It was blown.
The fuse in the fuseholder on the user-accessible panel (in series with the inner fuse) did, in fact, have aluminum foil wrapped around it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @08:21AM (1 child)
The fuses do help protect the wiring (and maybe even the building) from burning in event of a short.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @10:32AM
Are you saying that this is yet another thing that Runaway does not know? I am once again suitably astounded. But, doesn't he have a Fluke?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday October 06 2017, @09:00PM
Fuse Replacement Guide [9gag.com]
My personal favorite is the "350 amp Audiovisual Auto-Alert" type. The 2000A slow-blow is pretty entertaining too.
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