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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.


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: fees; government; millennials; nimbys; regulators
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To: eyeamok
Millennial’s, Dumber than Dirt, but some of the Proudest Morons you will ever meet.

I don't think they are dumb from the standpoint of unable or stupid on a functional level...they can learn when pushed...if you can put up with the whining...

They simply have been told their entire lives they are entitled and see no need to learn things like "How to use a Screwdriver"

Someone else will do it for them...!!!

Read a map, use a washing machine or dryer, cook a meal, mow the yard, how to sweep or mop a floor, write a letter on actual paper, address an envelope, write a check, the list is almost endless...

61 posted on 05/03/2016 5:06:16 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: DuncanWaring

I posted yesterday about working with a millennial guy. We were building a lumber frame with joists similar to a floor. I measured and laid everything out and asked him to nail it together while I went to get more supplies.

30 minutes minutes later, I got back to find one nail driven in. This guy was over 30 years old and had never driven a nail.


62 posted on 05/03/2016 5:07:12 PM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Here’s how I learned how to use various tools :

Had a car at 16. If the car broke down, I don’t drive. No bailouts. It’s amazing how quickly you can learn how to swap out a CV joint on an ‘84 VW Rabbit if not having a car looms over your head using nothing but a manual (and a friend that had a pretty nice set of tools).

When I took it to get aligned after that, the guy told me it looked good! I felt like a million bucks!

I do almost all maintenance & repairs on my Honda Elements today. Yeah, it consumes time, but I have fun doing it.

It doesn’t take much to learn basic mechanical stuff. The big problem is that schools shun interest in things like this since they’re all too concerned about making sure an appreciable number of kids go on to college to continue their brain scrubbing regardless of the talents the kid has.


63 posted on 05/03/2016 5:07:23 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: DuncanWaring

If you’ve never been taught or had to learn, you’re not going to know it.


64 posted on 05/03/2016 5:07:54 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: DuncanWaring

My family, friends, and coworkers all think I am a wizard because I built my own PC from parts off of NewEgg. They say, “Where do you send it if there is something wrong?” I say, “I don’t send it anywhere, I open it up and fix it.” Their eyes always bug out at that. I built it in 2010 and it is still running like a top. Since I have the OS (Windows 7) on a small SSD, it physically cannot “upgrade” to Windows 10. I love it!


65 posted on 05/03/2016 5:08:21 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: Osage Orange

That’s good. I think the pads on my Suzuki Sidekick are even easier - Like 60 seconds - I also have a Nissan Hardbody pickup with front brakes similar to the Altima. Brake shoe changes are also good practice in doing things methodically and acquiring a feel for mechanical things (springs and use of measured force, etc.). My girl does some of the maintenance and repair on her two-stroke trail bike — my hobby, actually.


66 posted on 05/03/2016 5:10:52 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: kaehurowing; thoughtomator

I was talking to my wife the other day about how we were taught how to write a letter and address the envelope in fourth grade.

By the tenth grade we could balance a checkbook.

I wonder what exactly do they teach these days besides how to be gay and how to love muslims.


67 posted on 05/03/2016 5:12:00 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: discostu

Because the business process of making payments is the same regardless of the medium.

It’s a common thing I am seeing among the younger set - they know how to use a computer-based application, but give them the same exact thing in paper format and they are completely lost.

If one understands the process, one should be able to handle either format. What we’ve got are people who understand one format but not the process.


68 posted on 05/03/2016 5:13:17 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: sparklite2
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.
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I have never had such an odd ball vehicle, but if I were to give it some legitimacy I would say it likely has something to do with the rotation of the wheel. The idea is to use the wheel rotation to compliment keeping the nuts tight, rather than unwinding. I am not sure that this theory actually works. Even if it does have some legitimacy, I really do not think it is consequential. Witness all the other vehicles on the road that keep all wheel lugs standard right hand to tighten on both sides of the vehicle.
69 posted on 05/03/2016 5:14:16 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball

Yeah, that was the idea. And the fact they don’t do it anymore speaks to its effectiveness.


70 posted on 05/03/2016 5:17:02 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: VerySadAmerican

For the record, I teach 4th grade and neither “gay” nor “muslim” is taught in my school.


71 posted on 05/03/2016 5:17:06 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: gop4lyf

Are you teaching them how to address an envelope and write a proper letter?


72 posted on 05/03/2016 5:19:36 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: gop4lyf

And do they know how to tell time on a regular watch?


73 posted on 05/03/2016 5:20:01 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: DuncanWaring

So what — if that is the most disturbing thing you can point out, everything is pretty darn good.


74 posted on 05/03/2016 5:20:20 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

You don’t see a problem with college-age kids knowing how to do nothing but play video games?


75 posted on 05/03/2016 5:22:05 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

A handy man around here makes a good living on picking up “broken” lawnmowers, “fixing” them and then selling them. He picks them up on the curb and takes them home. He said that 95% of them are “fixed” in 5 minutes by: replacing the gas with fresh gas, cleaning the clogged air filter, or replacing the spark plug. Cleans them up and sells them for $50 - 100 each.

People who have heard of this great mechanic routinely pay him $50-100 to repair their broken lawnmower .... yep, you guessed it, he replaces the gas, ......


76 posted on 05/03/2016 5:23:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bible prophesy comes true ... Hillary Benghazi Clinton is the "Whore of Babylon")
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To: Chickensoup

I knew how to use a screw driver when I was a little fart. Soldering came at about 12 and was welding better than the guys by 14.


77 posted on 05/03/2016 5:24:24 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: sparklite2
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.

I had one of those once, old Chrysler (below) with these screwy lug nut thingy...

I didn't know it the first flat tire I had...

Believe me, Hilarity didn't happen...

That car was the biggest piece of junk I ever owned, literally "everything" that could leak did...with about 88,000 miles on it...


78 posted on 05/03/2016 5:25:43 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Paladin2

“Laz?
A little help here please....”

I caught that too. I’ve never seen Chickensoup and Laz in the same room...jus sayin’.


79 posted on 05/03/2016 5:28:14 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Paladin2

Connections for the gas is threaded backwards.


80 posted on 05/03/2016 5:31:40 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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