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posted by Fnord666 on Friday October 06 2017, @05:37PM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @07:26PM (#578258)

    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

    by pbnjoe (313) on Friday October 06 2017, @08:11PM (#578304) Journal

    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.