Ten Things Most People can No Longer Do
Dec 20, 2020 09:08:35 #
raypep wrote:
Why would anyone care about these , now, useless, skills. I think the title would be better stated as “Ten Things People No Longer Have to Do “
"Useless" is subjective.
Many people practice what I might consider useless skills today with video games. Your evaluation of those skills could well be different from mine.
Dec 20, 2020 09:27:19 #
jackm1943 wrote:
I'm old enough that I could - and could still - do all of them. My cursive writing is horrible tho, even I can't read what I write sometimes. I flunked cursive writing in the 4th grade, the only course I ever flunked although I wasn't ever a great student.
How about the word “flunked”? 🤪That seems to have been replaced by “failed” which also seems to have gone by the wayside. Seems like all kids today are Honor Students😳
Dec 20, 2020 10:22:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )
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Nine. Can’t write cursive worth a damn anymore due to tremors.
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Dec 20, 2020 10:25:50 #
Dannj wrote:
How about the word “flunked”? 🤪That seems to have been replaced by “failed” which also seems to have gone by the wayside. Seems like all kids today are Honor Students😳
Ha, In my little country school, failing was an "NI", Needs Improving. I got an NI in cursive writing.
Dec 20, 2020 10:30:30 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
melismus wrote:
I found all ten, and can still do all of them
Same here and I would suspect that most of us can do these things. The fact is we no longer need to do them just like we don't know how best to fight off a saber tooth tiger...
Dec 20, 2020 11:01:26 #
jackm1943 wrote:
Ha, In my little country school, failing was an "NI", Needs Improving. I got an NI in cursive writing.
Lol. Penmanship was and is still an issue for me. Most times I can’t read it myself🥴
Dec 20, 2020 11:09:51 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
Dannj wrote:
Lol. Penmanship was and is still an issue for me. Most times I can’t read it myself🥴
Same here--I'm left handed and write with a curl so I drag my hand through the ink. Keyboards were one of the greatest inventions ever for me. (I even took typing in HS).
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Dec 20, 2020 11:17:00 #
Penmanship was an issue for me too, same for my son who dropped college Arabic after a semester because he couldn’t write it. Now my grandson, straight A HS freshman not only cannot write cursive but cannot read it. I’m still dealing with that. But I keep my slide rule in my office and most people don’t know what it is..
Dec 20, 2020 12:03:12 #
Dec 20, 2020 12:09:37 #
jaycoffman wrote:
Same here--I'm left handed and write with a curl so I drag my hand through the ink. Keyboards were one of the greatest inventions ever for me. (I even took typing in HS).
I took typing in HS around 1956. I had injured my hand so I got the 1 electric typewriter, but when it healed I was fine with a manual. Had my father's typewriter from his school days until a couple years ago when I donated it to the local historical society.
I found typing to be one of the most useful things I learned in HS. I'm a 10 finger typist and could reach 100 wpm in my youth (long ago). Had a job once where I took my manual typewriter to the office. One time the power went out. All the secretaries had electric typewriters and couldn't use a manual. I was in great demand that day but didn't get any of my work done.
Dec 20, 2020 12:17:03 #
jaycoffman wrote:
Same here--I'm left handed and write with a curl so I drag my hand through the ink. Keyboards were one of the greatest inventions ever for me. (I even took typing in HS).
Hey jaycoffman, like you, I am also a lefty. But in my case, the teacher I had way back when, tried to make me into a righty. She used to smack my left knuckles with a 12 inch steel ruler. I took it for a while, until I had it up to "here." So, I stood up and took a roundhouse swing and decked her. Literally!!! My left hand was so bloody from that ruler, I don't know how I managed to do it. What happened after is another story. I also took typing and to this day, I can still recite the alphabet backwards....LOL.
Rich...
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Dec 20, 2020 14:40:35 #
Dec 20, 2020 15:37:45 #
RightOnPhotography
Loc: Quebec,QC
10 of 10. BTW, stick shift is not obsolete. Thousands of people around the world can use it (myself included) and still do on a daily basis. I hope it will never be obsolete.
Dec 20, 2020 15:53:07 #
Dec 20, 2020 16:29:18 #
I have done and can still do all ten, as long as the various items are available.
The rotary dialing of a telephone is a lost art for most people under the age of 30. I've seen clips of young people trying to make a call on a rotary dial phone and it is hilarious. I'm sure clips of younger generations doing many of these would be as funny.
The rotary dialing of a telephone is a lost art for most people under the age of 30. I've seen clips of young people trying to make a call on a rotary dial phone and it is hilarious. I'm sure clips of younger generations doing many of these would be as funny.
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