I've seen videos where they hand a kid a manual can opener and watch him trying to figure out how to use it. Can you imagine giving them a can and a P-38 and telling them to open it using that?
Yeah, that is why I ask my kids to fetch tools when I do simple home repairs. Just to serve as an example of how to get stuff done. We keep old Swing-A-Ways around to keep it real. I don't think I've ever used a P38 / P51 in front of them though - good life lesson there.
Neither of my kid have ever seen a tire changed in front of them and they need to know how to do these things. Hell, many new cars don't even come with a spare time, a can of fix a flat and a card for a tow truck.
I have several p51's, but since I know how to easily use a knife to open a can, I keep the p51's in my BOB's, since I have at least 3 or 4 knives on me at all times, of various sizes, for different jobs. But I do think that young people don't know how to do the kinds of things that are necessary to survive in life. You would think that at least a half of a year in high school, maybe their junior year, should be spent teaching them about debt vs income, balancing a checkbook, planning a weekly menu and grocery list, changing a tire, etc. would be of much more value than gender studies or whatever crap they teach in schools nowadays. Because from looking at college curriculum now, a lot of the first year is spent on teaching kids what they should have learned in high school.
We only use the manual can openers in my house. But a can almost got me, the other day. It was a can of coconut milk, imported from Thailand. The opener wouldn't work on it at all - couldn't get a bite on the side or into the top. Thought I was going to have to pull out the Leatherman or Swiss Army knife. Then I saw a little line that said, "Open from bottom". Flipped the can over and it worked fine. Guess it was because the solids settle to the bottom and they want to make sure you get it all?
I get veggies with pulls fairly often. You can't use a regular can opener on them, too deep for the cutter to engage. That is where the needle nose or Leatherman comes out. All my p38 and p51 openers sprouted legs years ago.
I bet a dollar to a doughnut that if I mentioned a P-38 to some young adults that they would say it was a plane to something. I am going to try to do that. I need inwards laughs real bad.
still have my trusty lifeboat p38 on my keychain. 40 years & sharper then ever. picked up a bunch at a gun show several years ago & gave them out to the chil'en at work.
Young people need to be taught by older people how to do things. This requires adults be proactive and creative about passing on their knowledge, because young people don't have the experience and developement to do what is in their interests. They will thank you when they are older. I don't know why so many adults from boomers on seem to be baffled by this.
Also, I have noticed quality control going all to shit across multiple food companies and product types for "convenience packaging". It is like nobody at any company any longer checks their machines to make sure they are doing it right. Yet we still pay for it whether it works or not.
I have run crews since the 1970's. Most of the time the people working in my crews were younger and over time I became a fairly decent teacher. I a 35 year old wetback to weld with my MIG. And many others were taught pipefitting, rigging, all sorts of oilfield skills. But the kids today don't want to know what I know and apparently they only believe what their peers tell them. It is the blind leading the blind. They mostly feel helpless and hopeless. Many are leaving by suicide. We can thank the commie school systems for all this. And under Trump it will all change next year.
Used to have 2 can factories near by back in the '70's. Friend worked in one of them as a Quality Control guy. He worked 16 hours a day, 8 of them on overtime and all he had to do is every now and then take one of the lids and see if it opened. I couldn't imagine doing it but that was his job. We went fishing once, 3 of us, including the quality control guy, in Beltzville Reservoir up by Jim Thorpe PA. We had 3 six-packs of beer, all of them came from the can factory our guy worked in. Not one of those cans opened by the pull tab. We threw him overboard.
If you haven't at least begun the rudimentary training of using a handsaw, hammer, hatchet, and firearm safety and handling by the time he's 5 or 6, you are FailDad. I'm convinced no Dad around growing up is a big part of why there are so many millenial losers today. CC
You are correct CC but it isn't just millenials. Every generation that came after the boomers has suffered from the after effects of the sexual revolution of the 60's and the resulting rise in divorce and single parent households.
My original P-38 is 45 years old and still on my keychain is it me or do they get better with age. i bought a bunch of P-51's and P-38s at a gun show a while ago still them in my desk drawer for spares.
...and they can't boil an egg, read time on an analog clock or change a tyre and somehow they're going to solve the world's problems...
ReplyDeleteYeah, that is why I ask my kids to fetch tools when I do simple home repairs. Just to serve as an example of how to get stuff done. We keep old Swing-A-Ways around to keep it real. I don't think I've ever used a P38 / P51 in front of them though - good life lesson there.
ReplyDeleteNeither of my kid have ever seen a tire changed in front of them and they need to know how to do these things. Hell, many new cars don't even come with a spare time, a can of fix a flat and a card for a tow truck.
And the government solution to this vexing problem under a Harris administration would be to outlaw cans or tax can manufacturers into oblivion.
ReplyDelete"The price of canned tomatoes would necessarily skyrocket."
this seems like a self limiting problem. too stupid to use the can opener, starves to death, removed from the gene pool.
ReplyDeleteMethinks we shall soon find out.
DeleteProbably too afraid to carry a knife or a Leatherman.
ReplyDelete"I don't like Leathermen. Leathermen are scary!"
DeleteThey sure do look scary - in San Francisco!
DeleteWell, maybe the stupid ones will remove themselves from the gene pool by starving to death......
ReplyDeleteI have several p51's, but since I know how to easily use a knife to open a can, I keep the p51's in my BOB's, since I have at least 3 or 4 knives on me at all times, of various sizes, for different jobs. But I do think that young people don't know how to do the kinds of things that are necessary to survive in life. You would think that at least a half of a year in high school, maybe their junior year, should be spent teaching them about debt vs income, balancing a checkbook, planning a weekly menu and grocery list, changing a tire, etc. would be of much more value than gender studies or whatever crap they teach in schools nowadays. Because from looking at college curriculum now, a lot of the first year is spent on teaching kids what they should have learned in high school.
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We only use the manual can openers in my house. But a can almost got me, the other day. It was a can of coconut milk, imported from Thailand. The opener wouldn't work on it at all - couldn't get a bite on the side or into the top. Thought I was going to have to pull out the Leatherman or Swiss Army knife. Then I saw a little line that said, "Open from bottom". Flipped the can over and it worked fine. Guess it was because the solids settle to the bottom and they want to make sure you get it all?
ReplyDeleteI have been using the same “John Wayne” for about 30 years now...
ReplyDeleteI get veggies with pulls fairly often. You can't use a regular can opener on them, too deep for the cutter to engage. That is where the needle nose or Leatherman comes out.
ReplyDeleteAll my p38 and p51 openers sprouted legs years ago.
I bet a dollar to a doughnut that if I mentioned a P-38 to some young adults that they would say it was a plane to something. I am going to try to do that. I need inwards laughs real bad.
ReplyDeleteNot many people know what a P-38 is these days.
ReplyDeleteStill have one left over from 1970.
You can buy P-38s and P-51s on eBay, I buy a lot of 20 and hand them out as needed.
ReplyDeletestill have my trusty lifeboat p38 on my keychain. 40 years & sharper then ever. picked up a bunch at a gun show several years ago & gave them out to the chil'en at work.
ReplyDeleteYoung people need to be taught by older people how to do things. This requires adults be proactive and creative about passing on their knowledge, because young people don't have the experience and developement to do what is in their interests. They will thank you when they are older. I don't know why so many adults from boomers on seem to be baffled by this.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have noticed quality control going all to shit across multiple food companies and product types for "convenience packaging". It is like nobody at any company any longer checks their machines to make sure they are doing it right. Yet we still pay for it whether it works or not.
I have run crews since the 1970's. Most of the time the people working in my crews were younger and over time I became a fairly decent teacher. I a 35 year old wetback to weld with my MIG. And many others were taught pipefitting, rigging, all sorts of oilfield skills.
DeleteBut the kids today don't want to know what I know and apparently they only believe what their peers tell them. It is the blind leading the blind. They mostly feel helpless and hopeless. Many are leaving by suicide. We can thank the commie school systems for all this. And under Trump it will all change next year.
Used to have 2 can factories near by back in the '70's. Friend worked in one of them as a Quality Control guy. He worked 16 hours a day, 8 of them on overtime and all he had to do is every now and then take one of the lids and see if it opened. I couldn't imagine doing it but that was his job.
ReplyDeleteWe went fishing once, 3 of us, including the quality control guy, in Beltzville Reservoir up by Jim Thorpe PA. We had 3 six-packs of beer, all of them came from the can factory our guy worked in. Not one of those cans opened by the pull tab.
We threw him overboard.
Iron City Beer? Back in the 70's that beer was pretty decent. I had relatives who introduced me to it.
DeleteIf you haven't at least begun the rudimentary training of using a handsaw, hammer, hatchet, and firearm safety and handling by the time he's 5 or 6, you are FailDad. I'm convinced no Dad around growing up is a big part of why there are so many millenial losers today.
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You are correct CC but it isn't just millenials. Every generation that came after the boomers has suffered from the after effects of the sexual revolution of the 60's and the resulting rise in divorce and single parent households.
DeleteMy original P-38 is 45 years old and still on my keychain is it me or do they get better with age. i bought a bunch of P-51's and P-38s at a gun show a while ago still them in my desk drawer for spares.
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