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Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

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Wisko McBadgerton said:
KIDNEY STONES!!! :mad:

About 6 weeks ago I had one and then another about two days later. No clue what was happening at first. No history, no family history, just out of the blue. All is well until this last Thursday and then blammo. Then again Friday night.

You know how you hear from random people about how painful they can be? Well, it turns out they aren't exaggerating.

Also buy bottled water stocks. I'm driving up demand dramatically.
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Had one. They do feel awful.
 
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So FlagDUDETTE went to the laundromat yesterday, and came across some 25-year-old that evidently didn't know how to use a washer and dryer. Is this seriously not taught anymore, whether by parents or schools?! Supposedly the kid had affluenza and was thrown out of his parents' place, but at least a school could teach basic lifestyle activities, like laundry, cooking, and what not.

Regardless of your beliefs in people becoming subservient, this whole idea is a fairly sad state of affairs...
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
So FlagDUDETTE went to the laundromat yesterday, and came across some 25-year-old that evidently didn't know how to use a washer and dryer. Is this seriously not taught anymore, whether by parents or schools?! Supposedly the kid had affluenza and was thrown out of his parents' place, but at least a school could teach basic lifestyle activities, like laundry, cooking, and what not.

Regardless of your beliefs in people becoming subservient, this whole idea is a fairly sad state of affairs...
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That was one of the things I didn't like about high school... we didn't have a Home Ec or a cooking class.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
at least a school could teach basic lifestyle activities, like laundry, cooking, and what not.
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I think schools should teach nutrition, but teaching a kid how to use a ****ing washing machine? come on! It isn't rocket science. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I did my own laundry when I lived at home and I don't think I was "taught" how to do it, but it wasn't too hard to figure out when I needed to do it myself.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
So FlagDUDETTE went to the laundromat yesterday, and came across some 25-year-old that evidently didn't know how to use a washer and dryer. Is this seriously not taught anymore, whether by parents or schools?! Supposedly the kid had affluenza and was thrown out of his parents' place, but at least a school could teach basic lifestyle activities, like laundry, cooking, and what not.

Regardless of your beliefs in people becoming subservient, this whole idea is a fairly sad state of affairs...
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The school likely doesn't force Home Economics as a class anymore. If it's offered at all, it's offered as an elective. When I had home ec. in middle school, it focused on sewing and cooking, no clothes were washed. Also, every washer/dryer is different, so teaching kids on Model X doesn't necessarily translate over toe Model Y.
 
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I remember figuring how how to use a very old fashion (like, 50s) washer / dryer for the first time at a sh-tty little laundromat in Albany, NY near where I lived on Quail Street. I was so proud of myself and when I came back the next week it has been shuttered because someone had been stabbed to death there.
 
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St. Clown said:
The school likely doesn't force Home Economics as a class anymore. If it's offered at all, it's offered as an elective. When I had home ec. in middle school, it focused on sewing and cooking, no clothes were washed. Also, every washer/dryer is different, so teaching kids on Model X doesn't necessarily translate over toe Model Y.
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No clothes washing was taught in my home ec class. However, I've operated washers and dryers in my own home, apartments and laundromats around the world, and with one exception it's never taken me more than about a minute to figure out precisely how they work.

The one exception was the first time I tried to use the washing machines in the dormitories just off the Kringsja tram station in Oslo, Norway. Inserting the tokens, then getting them to drop correctly was like playing a game of Ker Plunk. If not for this smoking hot girl from Poland who was also living in the dormitories, I would have been washing my clothes in the lake. I wish I had remained in contact with that girl.
 
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SJHovey said:
No clothes washing was taught in my home ec class. However, I've operated washers and dryers in my own home, apartments and laundromats around the world, and with one exception it's never taken me more than about a minute to figure out precisely how they work.

The one exception was the first time I tried to use the washing machines in the dormitories just off the Kringsja tram station in Oslo, Norway. Inserting the tokens, then getting them to drop correctly was like playing a game of Ker Plunk. If not for this smoking hot girl from Poland who was also living in the dormitories, I would have been washing my clothes in the lake. I wish I had remained in contact with that girl.
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I never had an issue learning to use machines either, but some people just can't seem to figure out what's what when it comes to the things that make modern life not smell funny, regardless of "affluenza" or not.
 
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St. Clown said:
I never had an issue learning to use machines either, but some people just can't seem to figure out what's what when it comes to the things that make modern life not smell funny, regardless of "affluenza" or not.
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Your affluenza comment makes me laugh because of an old event.

Maybe 25 years ago I was invited to participate in a Ryder Cup style golf outing hosted by the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in Minnesota and a friend of his. These two guys each picked seven other golfers to make up the eight person teams, and we stayed at the lake "cabin" of our respective host. I was on the CEO's team, and his "cabin" was this spectacular four million dollar home on a beautiful lake property. On Sunday morning of that weekend, the CEO asked all of us to bring our bedding down to the laundry room, because his wife had instructed him to put it in the washing machine and get a load or two washed.

As I brought mine down, the CEO and the general counsel for the company were staring at the washer, dumbfounded, trying to figure out how to turn it on and put the soap in. I guess $7 million annually in salary and stock options also means you don't end up doing much of your own laundry.
 
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St. Clown said:
The school likely doesn't force Home Economics as a class anymore. If it's offered at all, it's offered as an elective. When I had home ec. in middle school, it focused on sewing and cooking, no clothes were washed. Also, every washer/dryer is different, so teaching kids on Model X doesn't necessarily translate over toe Model Y.
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Home Ec is out of a lot of school systems now and sadly it is more needed than ever. When I was a kid it was Home Economics and the purpose was how to run a home- we learned all the housewifey things- cooking, nutritious meals, how to shop, look for produce/quality foods, sales. How to sew, mend, darn, repair damaged clothes, do laundry, deal with stains etc. How to make a budget. Not in depth but rudimentary logic. Girls took that and boys took IA- Industrial Arts- basically the boy version of how to be a hubby- mostly how to do woodworking, handle tools.

These are things that used to be passed down between generations but are now lost. For those of us who learned them we think nothing of it. At work a few yrs ago someone started talking about how the heating bills were up and we started talking about things like plastic on windows, blankets on doors and the 'younger generation' had never heard of it or seen it. Made us realize that with everything automated, gadgets, gizmos and things being sold for very specific purposes/being told you need to hire someone to do plumbing, electrics, fix cars that basic stuff was not basic to them. Same thing when I dealt with pts who were young and out on their own- basic things like shopping generic, finding things that were marked down, hanging laundry after dewrinkling- all news to them. It wasn't like they were too lazy. They were willing. They just had never seen anyone do stuff like that.
 
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In middle school we took both Home Ec (we called it Living Skills) and Industrial Arts.
 
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Handyman said:
In middle school we took both Home Ec (we called it Living Skills) and Industrial Arts.
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We did too. I always thought it was funny that our IA teacher was one of those guys with four of his fingers cut off at one of the lower knuckles. :p
 
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Ask around some of the younger generation. It is amazing what they haven't been exposed to- with everything being marketed- no one is supposed to be self sufficient. In our blue collar town to say you have 'made it' you etc you aren't supposed to do anything for yourself- everything is farmed out. When I was a kid my dad did all his own plumbing, electric, woodworking, laid the cement driveways, etc. I thought that was how everyone lived. mr les family hired people to do everything. He has no interest in any of that. My bro learned some from my Dad but I was a girl so the only thing I learned was how to take care of a car. lil les is knows none of it. My Dad doesn't do kids so he never showed him and mr les has no idea. I know the basics but not enough to be safe
 
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My ex-gf was actually surprised I knew to take the lint filter out of the dryer to clean it after every dryer cycle. I'm a *mumble* year old man! I know how to wash my own clothes, thank you. (Actually I thought it was funny that she was surprised)
 
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BassAle said:
I think schools should teach nutrition, but teaching a kid how to use a ****ing washing machine? come on! It isn't rocket science. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I did my own laundry when I lived at home and I don't think I was "taught" how to do it, but it wasn't too hard to figure out when I needed to do it myself.
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Well evidently it's difficult for some. Heck, maybe even something you learn around 5th grade? Or are there laws about machines with moving parts?
 
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St. Clown said:
The school likely doesn't force Home Economics as a class anymore. If it's offered at all, it's offered as an elective. When I had home ec. in middle school, it focused on sewing and cooking, no clothes were washed. Also, every washer/dryer is different, so teaching kids on Model X doesn't necessarily translate over toe Model Y.
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Obviously you're not going to base a test on what specific buttons to push, but you could at least focus on some of the basics, such as where the detergent goes relative to clothes when there's no "compartment", what happens when you mix whites and colors, what do fabric softener and bleach do, what happens when the dryer is set too high and/or too long...

In the public school where I grew up, it was required for middle school. One big issue with a lot of schools is budgeting though, and between keeping a football team and teaching kids how to do things around the house, they depend on that football revenue, so guess what goes.
 
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Handyman said:
In middle school we took both Home Ec (we called it Living Skills) and Industrial Arts.
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For us, it was "Home and Careers". Gotta love PC...

Oh, and "shop" was gone by then. Again, budget cuts, but it's a Title I school.
 
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