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fandomsecrets2013-11-20 06:34 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2514 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2514 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 033 secrets from Secret Submission Post #359.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Re: Old skills
1. It's been called "doctor's handwriting" for generations for a reason. Many people - particularly many bright, mathematically/scientifically-inclined people - just do not give enough of a shit to learn neat cursive, and they haven't for about as long as handwriting's been around. Now that there are computers, this is completely obsolete. If you must write by hand, print.
2. Memorizing phone numbers - aside from 911 or its equivalent - is completely pointless when you carry a phonebook around with you everywhere you go.
3. Again, phones are phonebooks now. And yes, young people know how to use them. They also know how to use the world's great phonebook - the internet - much better than their parents and grandparents, on average.
4. Yeaaaaaaah my dad's a mechanic, and his friends his own age don't know how to repair their cars either. This is a specialized skill, and a young person who likes cars is more like to have it than an aging housewife of generations past.
5. Again, our parents and grandparents don't know how to do this either. Hence, the popularity of reno shows.
6. As a former Scout, I assure you this is another skill young people who've bothered to learn it know better than the average old person. Those who haven't often haven't because they have a GPS. And often old people can't read or use a GPS, either, making young people better-adapted.
7. Looooooooool. Again, as a scout, 99.999999999% of olds can't do this either.
8. That's like saying "young people these days can't write telegraphs properly". With the advent of internet banking, it's obsolete.
9. I cosplayed with a group of young women who could sew better than my mother and grandmother combined. If anything, this skill is resurging. Our grandmothers might have, but our mothers hardly sewed at all for the most part.
10. This is a criticism that would have been more apt at the turn of the last century, with the advent of modern farming machinery. If anything, with the renewed popularity of organic farms and backyard farms, we could do this better than our parents (and even city-dwelling grandparents).
11. Human society changes over time. Our parents would have similarly not known the proper manners of a party in the Victorian era. So what?
12. The explosion of "creatives" and creative professions in our generation debunks this pretty handily. The fact that we have the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips allows us to be more creative - not get bogged down in the mechanics of research of a limited scope. Moreover, plagiarim has been rampant since the advent of academia.
13. Oh no, they're touching more than hands! Scandalous! This just reminds me of how horrified the very first Japanese delegation to the US was when they saw that men and women not only danced together, but touched hands and backs when they did so. It was downright revolting and barbaric! No sign of a civilized society! Yeah yeah grandpa, our hips touch when we dance now, I'll go get the smelling salts.