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 mhajicek on Friday October 06 2017, @08:26PM (1 child)
Firstly, there should be no such thing as a "decorative chair" that is not meant to support a human sitting in it.
I've never met a lightbulb or fuse or anything like that which took more than a moment to figure out, but then I grew up with a machine shop in the basement. If a part on the lawnmower broke, my dad and I would make a replacement, or if we needed a special tool we'd just make it. I was always puzzled as a kid when we'd go over to acquaintances houses and their basements had cream carpet and couches; how did they make replacement parts??
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Saturday October 07 2017, @02:05AM
"but then I grew up with a machine shop in the basement"
Ok, you clearly speak for the majority then. :p