Waltesefalcon
·This thread is kind of depressing. Many of the things have simply become obsolete, like rewinding a cassette with a pencil, but many others, like changing a tire, are still useful skills.
I showed my wife how to change her tire on her last car- the new one has run-flats so she’ll have to show me how to use a can of fix-o-flat.![]()
Looks like the Franklin's Tale, by Chaucer. I had to learn medieval paleography in grad school.
As a high school teacher, I am surrounded every day by adolescents whose ignorance of numerous mundane tasks astounds me. But perhaps it shouldn't. The world many of us here on the forum grew up in is changing. Probably one reason why we have an affinity for watches with tiny wheels, gears, and springs, that only tell the time and don't give us a weather report.
We have had tenants in their 20s who didn't know how to change a lightbulb. But I think that's due to being sheltered for their entire lives, not because people don't know how to change lightbulbs anymore. You don't need to change lightbulbs as often now, but you still need to change them.
Just being a gentleman in general. I see so many young ones not opening doors for ladies, pulling out a chair for a lady, standing up when she leaves or just being polite. Mind you girls these days don’t expect nor like that kind of treatment so I guess we have become obsolete.
Hey you rubbishers of the young - it is all relative to the passage of time and social change.
There would have been times long ago when older generations complained that younger people could not
. write a letter in copperplate
. saddle a horse
. use a bow and arrow
. load a flintlock gun
. drive a horse drawn carriage or cart