Posted on 05/29/2019 6:16:52 PM PDT by simpson96
With kids these days able to simply glance at their phones to see what time it is, Jimmy Kimmel was curious whether today’s young people even know how to read a good old-fashioned analog clock.
So for Tuesday’s edition of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! segment “Can You Do It?”, the late-night host sent his team out to the Los Angeles streets to ask young people walking by to perform one simple task: tell them what time it is.
“Times have changed a lot over the last 30 years. Even the way we tell time has changed,” Kimmel explained. “And it made me wonder if young people even know how to read an old-time clock anymore. You know, the round things with the hands. Anyway, we went out on the street and we asked people to tell us what time it is using an analog clock.”
The results, as you may have expected, were not great. While one participant completely confused the big hand and little hand, another refused to even give the task a go.
Watch the full clip below.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
How long its been since I heard, Quarter after. Half Past. Quarter till, or Quarter to..
I want to see them gap a set of plugs and set the dwell on a set of points.
I stopped wearing a watch and realized
I had all the time in the world.
It is VITAL to realize that the people “pretending” to be stupid on national TV to get 15 seconds of fame, are from NYC and LA.
In 10 years, the USA will have to import all our engineers from Guatemala
I saw a Youtube video the other of some teenagers trying to figure out how to work a rotary dial phone, it was pathetic.
If someone asked me to hand crank start a Model T I’d be clueless.
As I was walking down the street one day,
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch,
And I said . . .
“I don’t really know what time that is. I don’t really care.”
Welcome to 2019
Let’s bring in a bunch of Hollywood ‘swells’ and have them ‘read’ roman numerals... That should be good for a few laughs.
“The time is now.“
Eckhardt Tolle?
I had a test like that. I was asked to remember three spoken words: apple, window, and pie. I passed the test. Then I asked if it was “pie” (the bakery product) or “pi” (the letter of the Greek alphabet). The doctor was impressed by my answer.
And they still won’t know which bathroom to use.
Well, you have to figure out the direction of crank rotation first (or maybe they have a clutch and disengage in the opposite direction, I don’t know. I was able to hand prop a small plane but I see few kids needing that knowledge today). But seriously, I don’t see the present day purpose of that knowledge (unless you own or work on a Model T), same with points and dwell (I do need that knowledge for a motorcycle and outboard), same with rotary dial phone, same with analogue clock (unless by slim chance you have to rely on one exclusively or collect them), and the other archaic stuff. My late wife used to teach the grandkids how to read the clock but gave it up with the younger ones as there seemed to be no point. All those examples are just specialty or hobby knowledge now.
We homeschool two. I have a BACKWARDS clock in the living room. Kids can tell time on that or a regular analog clock.
Good mind-bender.
Loading film on sprockets in a camera would be another one. What’s film?
Or, “Daddy, why do they say they “tape” a show? No one
is using any tape, are they? Oh, and is it true Paul
McCartney was in a group before Wings?”
You can challenge a high school kid to recite the alphabet and get the exact same deer in headlight response
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