Make a flint tipped spear and use it to kill a woolly mammoth! 😜
I don`t mind what people = youth don`t know how to do anymore, firstly technology moves on and I don`t need to know how to shoe a horse. Secondly What they don`t master it was our job to teach them.
What I really don`t like is people who forgot their upbringing in the 60 and 70. We where taught to be respectful and polite to everyone, and some people have forgotten that. They harass and yell at especially young waiters and cashiers.
- Buy and read a news paper
- Search for information (rather than having it pushed to you) to foster critical thinking
- take time (slow down your life)
- write on a real paper (ideally with a fountain pen)
Finding a newspaper worth the price and worth the effort of reading it is a sufficient challenge, nothing from that miserable old bastard Rupert Murdoch qualifies
Couldn't agree more, 'manners maketh the man' was what my father instilled in me. I had this conversation with my son recently and times are different, his female friends neither expect, or want this, they are equal they say, while i agree, I do think there is something just nice about old fashioned manners.
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
Finding a newspaper worth the price and worth the effort of reading it is a sufficient challenge, nothing from that miserable old bastard Rupert Murdoch qualifies
Use a phone call to find accurate information.
When we instruct trainees in the office to make a phone call for a specific purpose, they invariably disregard the instruction and insist on going on the internet- where we know in many instance they may come across inaccurate or obsolete information.
Walk to school.
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.
I don't drive much at all, but one day my father, who will be 80 next month, said I should move the car if someone came back to the carpark. (He double parked). I got in the driving seat and did not know how to start the car, never mind move it. He has a lexus SUV thingy with lots of screens and buttons but I didn't see any ignition. Fortunately his errand did not take long.
Agreed, modern women neither want nor need male manners…..
