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notfred

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It seems to me there are some fundamental skills that people (in the US at least) should all know. Many of these are learned as children. Things like how to tie shoelaces and how to tell time. It amazes me how many people don't know how to do some of these things, though.

For example, these are some things that seem like fundamentals to me:
knowing how to read
knowing how to ride a bike
knowing how to swim
knowing which way to turn a screwdriver

I know there are a few people with diseases and things that make some of these difficult, but I just don't see how so many able-bodied people can never have learned such basic things.

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KLin

KLin

Lifer
Feb 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: notfred
It seems to me there are some fundamental skills that people (in the US at least) should all know. Many of these are learned as children. Things like how to tie shoelaces and how to tell time. It amazes me haw many people don't know how to do some of these things, though.

For example, these are some things that seem like fundamentals to me:
knowing how to read
knowing how to ride a bike
knowing how to swim
knowing which way to turn a screwdriver

I know there are a few people with diseases and things that make some of these difficult, but I just don't see how so many able-bodied people can never have learned such basic things.

Feel free to add other stuff to this list.
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How to spell how.
 
yhelothar

yhelothar

Lifer
Dec 11, 2002
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Know that if someone of the opposite sex compliments your looks and ask you out, he/she is interested in you.
Know basic history(I once met someone who didn't know who Hitler was)
 
S Freud

S Freud

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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: notfred
It seems to me there are some fundamental skills that people (in the US at least) should all know. Many of these are learned as children. Things like how to tie shoelaces and how to tell time. It amazes me haw many people don't know how to do some of these things, though.

For example, these are some things that seem like fundamentals to me:
knowing how to read
knowing how to ride a bike
knowing how to swim
knowing which way to turn a screwdriver

I know there are a few people with diseases and things that make some of these difficult, but I just don't see how so many able-bodied people can never have learned such basic things.

Feel free to add other stuff to this list.
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How to spell how.
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ROFL:laugh::beer:
 
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Atomicus

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May 20, 2004
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cover your mouth/facial orifice when you cough/sneeze

whipe the bum with 1 swipe (i.e. there are people who insist on rubbing the toilet paper.... RUBBING)

eat fish that has bones in it without having to pick out the bones then eating the meat

saving money for retirement

throwing a ball without looking like a little girl

chew with mouth closed

opening a paper carton (milk, juice, etc)

bathing/showering (leaf-heads in my school don't seem to get it)
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: S Freud
Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: notfred
It seems to me there are some fundamental skills that people (in the US at least) should all know. Many of these are learned as children. Things like how to tie shoelaces and how to tell time. It amazes me haw many people don't know how to do some of these things, though.

For example, these are some things that seem like fundamentals to me:
knowing how to read
knowing how to ride a bike
knowing how to swim
knowing which way to turn a screwdriver

I know there are a few people with diseases and things that make some of these difficult, but I just don't see how so many able-bodied people can never have learned such basic things.

Feel free to add other stuff to this list.
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How to spell how.
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ROFL:laugh::beer:
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Maybe he has a Dvorak keyboard and it was a typo?
(On Dvorak keyboards the A and O are placed right next to one another)
 
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nd

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Oct 9, 1999
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Knowing that when you're seated in the middle or rear of an airplane cabin, it's pointless to stand up and get your luggage as soon as it stops. It always amazes me to watch people get up right away and struggle to get their bags with everyone else in the aisle at the time -- and then proceed to stand there for 5 minutes holding their bags until they can acutally move forward.
 
ondarkness

ondarkness

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Nov 10, 2004
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Know the order of operation at a 4-way stop with 4 cars.
Or just at stop signs in general..
 
CPA

CPA

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Nov 19, 2001
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Originally posted by: Atomicus
cover your mouth/facial orifice when you cough/sneeze

whipe the bum with 1 swipe (i.e. there are people who insist on rubbing the toilet paper.... RUBBING)

eat fish that has bones in it without having to pick out the bones then eating the meat

saving money for retirement

throwing a ball without looking like a little girl

chew with mouth closed

opening a paper carton (milk, juice, etc)

bathing/showering (leaf-heads in my school don't seem to get it)
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I rub :eek:
 
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creedog

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Nov 15, 1999
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Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Atomicus
cover your mouth/facial orifice when you cough/sneeze

whipe the bum with 1 swipe (i.e. there are people who insist on rubbing the toilet paper.... RUBBING)

eat fish that has bones in it without having to pick out the bones then eating the meat

saving money for retirement

throwing a ball without looking like a little girl

chew with mouth closed

opening a paper carton (milk, juice, etc)

bathing/showering (leaf-heads in my school don't seem to get it)
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I rub :eek:
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How the hell do you know how anyone other than yourself wipes their ass? Is this something that you like to talk about?
 
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acemcmac

Lifer
Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: creedog
Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Atomicus
cover your mouth/facial orifice when you cough/sneeze

whipe the bum with 1 swipe (i.e. there are people who insist on rubbing the toilet paper.... RUBBING)

eat fish that has bones in it without having to pick out the bones then eating the meat

saving money for retirement

throwing a ball without looking like a little girl

chew with mouth closed

opening a paper carton (milk, juice, etc)

bathing/showering (leaf-heads in my school don't seem to get it)
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I rub :eek:
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How the hell do you know how anyone other than yourself wipes their ass? Is this something that you like to talk about?
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HAHAHAHA pwned
 
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mitaiwan82

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Nov 29, 2000
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Driving a car with a manual transmission - well, I think everyone should at least know the concept of how to do it

Courtesy flush during a big load :D

Originally posted by: Atomicus
eat fish that has bones in it without having to pick out the bones then eating the meat
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I think that's more of an asian thing...and only the ones that live by the coast and eat a lot of seafood :)
 
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ucdbiendog

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Sep 22, 2001
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know how to properly use there, their, and they're (then and than as well)
know how to parallel park
know when to GET THE FVCK OUT of the fastlane
 
IGBT

IGBT

Lifer
Jul 16, 2001
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..be able to walk out the front door or drive without defaulting to the cell phone. I've noticed the cellphone has become part of many's manerism.
 
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xSauronx

Lifer
Jul 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: ondarkness
Know the order of operation at a 4-way stop with 4 cars.
Or just at stop signs in general..
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ugh
if thats not bad enough

my city just made a 2-way stop, with turn lanes, into a 4 lane stop...and kept the turn lanes.

if you get 3 or more people there, you get alot of blank stares and people guessing at who goes first.

worst part is, that while it was utterly stupid to turn it into a 4-way, the city has one-upped themselves by cutting a 4 lane BUSY road, into a 2 lane, 6 months ago, expanding the lanes (in what appears, to me, to be an inexplicable design) and not finishing the project...its been sitting there, half-done for 3 months now.

they have succeeded, in two spots, to back traffic up considerably. asshats.
 
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