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Heard something profoundly disturbing today (Vanity)
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Posted on 05/03/2016 4:23:41 PM PDT by DuncanWaring

Was talking to a recently-retired computer-science professor today; he said in the last few years he's been seeing students showing up in college who have literally

Never.

Used.

A.

Screwdriver.

He has been teaching a higher-level class in automating control of a train setup.

Part of the project is to assemble a train car from a kit.

These kids have no idea how to do it.


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To: DuncanWaring

I finally bought a soldering iron. I’m trying some small electrical projects.

I used one in a class decades ago.


21 posted on 05/03/2016 4:33:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: DuncanWaring

Screwdriver? Naw, they that to do upgrades on electronics.

But I’ll bet quite a few have never wielded a wrench.


22 posted on 05/03/2016 4:34:39 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: mountn man
I bet they can put a condom on a banana.

70% of the girls and 38% of the boiz can deep throat it, too.

23 posted on 05/03/2016 4:34:51 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: faithhopecharity

Idiocracy. You’re soaking in it.


24 posted on 05/03/2016 4:35:09 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: DuncanWaring

My son in college didn’t know how to address and mail a letter.


25 posted on 05/03/2016 4:35:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: CGASMIA68

Righty tighty might have got in trouble changing a flat tire on some old Chrysler models. The lug nuts on the right side of the car turned the opposite direction from the ones on the left side. It had to do with resisting vibration-loosening.


26 posted on 05/03/2016 4:39:40 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Kickass Conservative

+1


27 posted on 05/03/2016 4:41:00 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DuncanWaring

I just showed my 14 YO girl how to do a brake job.


28 posted on 05/03/2016 4:42:35 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: DuncanWaring

Saw this in my former job. The kids were great at software development but had no idea of the hardware that it would run on (aircraft, ship, etc.) I think it has gotten better but there were a few proposals and efforts that were real doozies years ago..


29 posted on 05/03/2016 4:43:11 PM PDT by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: centurion316

My eighth grade shop project was a gear puller. The metal working was great. The metal used was so soft, though, that the first time I ever tried to pull a gear, the grapplers just bent off.


30 posted on 05/03/2016 4:43:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: kaehurowing

I had to work with a woman last year who at 28 years old and holding an MBA could not fill out a check properly. I’ve never seen someone screw up a single check in four different ways but she managed it - signature on the memo line, amount written in the payable to line, different amount written in the numerical amount box, and payee’s name not on the check at all.

Yes, this was an MBA holder and a check was too complicated for her to figure out.


31 posted on 05/03/2016 4:44:29 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: CGASMIA68

I’m a righty tight left loosy guy. If you’re lying on your back working on a car in weird positions, its handy.


32 posted on 05/03/2016 4:45:09 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: steve86
Both my girls know how to replace brake pads.....

My oldest once called me when she lived in SoCal...to make sure she was doing it right...Of course she was doing it right.

The car was one of the easiest cars to do a brake job on...I'd ever seen. A 2000 Altima....

They both wanted to know how to do stuff...on their cars.

33 posted on 05/03/2016 4:48:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

***But, he had never used a soldering iron***

Bet he didn’t know the difference between acid and rosin core solder, or lead free solder.


34 posted on 05/03/2016 4:49:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: lacrew
In tech school at chanute, we heard this alla time

I share it with my wife and kids alla time too

35 posted on 05/03/2016 4:49:45 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: Chickensoup; Lazamataz
Laz?

I little help here please....

36 posted on 05/03/2016 4:51:20 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: thoughtomator

I think I’ve written 1 check in the 21st century. They’re a post dated idea, the only people still using them are deliberately not joining the modern world.


37 posted on 05/03/2016 4:51:41 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: CGASMIA68

***“Righty Tighty Lefty Lucy”.***

Wonder if it would mess with his mind if he had to put an oxy-accelyne hose set on a cutting torch.


38 posted on 05/03/2016 4:53:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’ve been an engineer for 25 years, and we’re not allowed to solder any longer. Techs do it. Besides, they do it daily and are far better at it.

That and there are stricter lead safety rules in place that have come in the past 10 years or so. Engineers don’t want to keep up the safety training.


39 posted on 05/03/2016 4:53:54 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: sparklite2

Shoulda subsequently taken the Metallurgy Lab and spent time in the heat treat room.


40 posted on 05/03/2016 4:54:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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