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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:41PM (2 children)
You mean the computers and phones boomers fucking INVENTED?
Go polish your java apps.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @04:34AM
Hate to tell ya this, but you're in the insanely small minority of boomers who know how to use a computer! For us "young whipersnappers" there is no end to the amount of tech support I could be giving. I learned a while back to limit my offers and to sometimes just say no.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @02:06PM