ever see what that idiot got married to???
Posted on 12/28/2014 12:12:37 PM PST by familyop
Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong...This year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are entitled ‘Sparks will fly: How to hack your home’ she is hoping it will inspire people to think what else they can do with common household objects...Ideas include using a magnifying glass and shoe box to turn a mobile phone into a rudimentary projector; how to use tin foil to make too small batteries fit correctly and how to turn a bottle of water into a lamp.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Don’t wanna go by the devil
Don’t wanna go by the demon
Don’t wanna go by satan
Don’t wann die uneasy
Just let me go
Naturally
And when I die, and when I’m dead
Dead and gone
There’ll be
One child born, in our world
To carry on, to carry on
I used to get in trouble for taking stuff apart. I did not always get it back together correctly.
I find the folks under 25 (my kids ages) to not be as curious about how stuff works. I am no DIY genius, but I love trying to figure out how stuff works, from well pumps to my own body.
But I trat they will do okay by us when they have to. I just look at our service men and women. I have faith in them. Every cycle the kids have done OK.
And today’s magazines and online versions are just sources for advertising. The old ones had advertising but for things you could use. Tools,supplies and such.
“We baby boomers”
Nah, growing up baby boomers had the chemistry sets and the crystal radio sets. Generally we have good all-around tech skills.
The generations before us had far superior repair skills, they had more that they could repair.
Today’s kids have nothing they can repair to learn how things work. They have no opportunity to learn except in school.
I’m so sorry I posted my remark, lol!
Baby Boomers know everything about fixing anything!!!!!!!!
I’m in my fifties with a Masters in Electrical Engineering and lots of practical field experience..... My hobbies are car repair, woodworking and refrigeration....
When my son decided to go to college with a football scholarship ( division 1 school) , I told him he needed a degree that was also a vocation .... He went EE...
He graduated last year and walked into a $60K job which is promising to increase to $80K next year based on his performance...
However when he was sixteen he wanted to change the oil in his car by himself... He accidently drained the transmission fluid and added 5 quarts of oil to the engine thinking it was empty... I watched with amusement... He got to the end of the driveway before the car wouldn’t shift... Lesson learned... Lol...
He’s much more me mechanically adept now and has practical engineering skills....
I'm a baby boomer and am the complete opposite. It has been my experience that age (young/old/middle) makes little difference in whether a person is mechanically inclined, so to speak.
LOL!
Well, you got people’s attention LOL!
It is an amazing stress reliever.
Many don’t know which end of a hammer to hold. Garage sales of today are goldmines for power and hand tools when boomers’ possessions are disposed of. Quite often guns, camping and fishing stuff too.
As a side hobby I buy and sell used construction equipment.
I never buy equipment if it says runs and operates, they go to high on the auction block.
However if it looks like it needs a paint job and the description say condition unknown or has been sitting idle for a few years but has low hours on it I can usually buy it cheap. Bring it home, fix it if needed, new paint, sell it and make a very nice profit.
My mother told me that one of these days I’m gonna get a dud. I told her most everything I buy is a dud at first glance but anything can be fixed.
The duds are the moneymakers.
Bkmrk
Yes!!! What a mistake!!!!!!
I would say that most of it is still there, they just don't get involved, bicycles used to be a starting point for boys, skateboards, lawnmowers, computers, building or constructing things that they wanted, fixing things that they already own, if they aren't doing those things anymore, then it is something else.
No one is asking them to fix the microwave or the computer on the car, but nobody asked boomers to do those things either, they just expected us to replace our own bicycle chain, and change a tire.
Constantly getting, "why don't you call somebody, save yourself the trouble", from friends.
We have a generation of "wusses" who are scared of getting their hands dirty once and a while or are embarrassed about doing lowly manual labor for themselves.
They don't, I guess, see the pride and sense of accomplishment a person can get from doing his own work.
Saves a few coins also :)
It has been my experience that it is rarely the computer that fails. My car is computerized, yet I have replaced motor mount, battery, wheel bearings, brakes, air filter, oil filter, oil, various lights, tensioner pulley, fuses, fixed the window cranks, etc.
Yeah, but it helps to avoid our kids hearing a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
>>You’re referring to computers? Most computers only waste the time of many human beings, although a few of the more technically inclined young people can gather technical information and store it for long term use or use a computer as a control component to get a production run out only a little quicker.<<
1) This does not support your assertion. 2) ALL things electronic are pretty much disposable — TVs, radios, even most components inside vehicles (probably not the vehicle itself). 3) Chances are am older person will have a better idea how to approach the problem as most under-40s people have never rebuilt anything.
>>With whole peripherals, like cases with power supplies, mainboards and drives?<<
Yes — although “why” as pointed out by another poster might be a good question.
>>”Change a battery” in an old Ford? <<
Actually under-40s probably can’t change the battery on any car (much less change oil or spark plugs or any other vehicle maintenance), but I meant the PDA.
>>That’s useful, but a good welder, for example, can be made at home with cheap components, if the supply of imported junk dries up due to, for example, repudiation of debt.<<
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ever see what that idiot got married to???
Haha.
For me it was not checking the radiator. There was water in the reservoir, but none in the radiator. the reservoir had gotten clogged.
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