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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 06 2017, @07:05PM (4 children)
Solved that issue with The Roomie's boy two weeks ago. I made him not only change the oil on my car but figure out and explain to me how and why he was doing each bit. I did of course break the plug and filter loose for him and make sure they were properly tightened when he was done. He didn't particularly enjoy it but he'll never have to lose more than a half an hour on an oil change for the rest of his life now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
Or he'll buy an EV and it won't need an oil change. OR it'll be 20 years before he's in a position to do it and he'll completely have forgotten.
Hell, I spent an hour last year trying to remember how to lower the jack after swapping my winter tires off. I'd bought the jack to put them on six months previously, and couldn't for the life of me remember how to release it so it would lower again; because that's how little exposure I've had to hydraulic jacks in my life. My previous jack was one of those compact expanding screws where you screwed it up and then unscrewed it back down.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:44PM
So you're saying you don't know jack?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @02:11PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 09 2017, @02:27PM
I'm not. You can pick up an oil filter, or multiple filters, ahead of time at your leisure and once the new one is on the vehicle and it's full of oil, you aren't without a vehicle anymore when you go to dispose of the used oil and filter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.