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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: 5, Informative) by vux984 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:35PM (3 children)
And the further you go from the city the more people you find that are helpless in the city. Can't figure out the bus and subway system. Don't know how to order a starbucks. Don't know how to drive in gridlock. Don't know what to do when their dog shits. Can't figure out how paid parking works. Or how to catch a cab. Or how to operate a self-checkout. They don't know to avoid the tripping junkie heading their way. They can't tell a decorative chair from a sitting chair in an upscale shop... or the ettiquette to deal with a restroom attendant or doorman.
Just as people who never fly are always lost in airports and screwing up the security lines by not being ready. And people who have never been to a library don't know how to find books, or how library networks work, etc, etc.
People don't know how to do things they're never exposed to and never have to do. News at a 11.
Country people aren't more prepared... they're just more prepared to be in the country... where they live. Go figure.
Me, I've never defrosted a freezer in my life. And I still fight with changing light bulbs in fixture types i've never seen. I still remember the first time with this:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fi%2F390327267181-0-1%2Fs-l1000.jpg&f=1 [duckduckgo.com]
and this:
http://s.sears.com/is/image/Sears/PD_0022_464_74009925?wid=400&hei=400 [sears.com]
and this... just has a regular bulb inside, but how do you get the cover off?
http://www.discounthomefurnishings.com/images/104852.jpg [discounthomefurnishings.com]
10 minutes of unscrewing got nowhere. Turns out you just pull straight down and then tilt; its just held in place with spring loaded clips.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @08:09PM
What do you mean folks from the country? You just described how most people in the city behave!
(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