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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 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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