Young Men Today - I don't Get it

[MarathonMike]

A few years back, I heard about these special workshops done by Home Depot. It seems that their original workshops were too advanced because they found these "men" didn't even know how to do basics. Supposedly, they could barely handle a pair or pliers or a screwdriver. So the big box store had to offer more elementary classes.

With all the instructional youtube videos out there, all it takes is a little motivation to learn and the will to do it yourself.

 

[bambu.]

With all the instructional youtube videos out there, all it takes is a little motivation to learn and the will to do it yourself.

Indeed...and this boomer, born one year after WW2, uses plenty of them.
Youtube is my 'life' today.

'How to clean windows'. [easily and to get the best results]
'How to clean tiles and grout'. [to get the best results].
'How to fix emails stuck in Outlook'.
'What are the best used cars to buy?'

'Driving tour of Hollywood'.
'Driving tour of LA'.
'Tour of Long Is'.
'Tour of NY'.
'Greek Islands cruise'.
Tour of ...pick any city, town or island on earth and there could be a guided tour of them on Youtube.
'Van life in America'.
'Van life in Europe'.

I tour the world from the comfort of my living room.
Thank you to the genius folk who invented tv/colour tv/video/computers/streaming/HD/satellites.
My living room...like having an aircon/heated private corporate box at 'every' sporting fixture in the word... my own food and drinks, no lining up.
Youtube has replays of most of them.

Interestingly...an advert on my tv yesterday by an auto business.

"Why do it yourself...when we can do it for you".

 

[Sparker]

Car maintenance is now designed to be more professional only with proprietary software and removing many parts or the whole engine to reach some small buried part. Checking the tire pressure may be done digitally on the dashboard.

As cars and other driving expenses become more expensive, young adults drop out of the car market. They learn how to use ride calling apps or check bus schedules as they expect to never own cars. The more DIY kids might learn how to repair and upgrade their phones, laptops, E-bikes, etc.

 

[Dekster]

She's right though. Guys should know how to do basic maintenance on a car like checking tire pressure, changing the oil...etc. In fact, I believe both sexes should know stuff like this, by the time they are old enough to get a drivers license.

My truck tells me the tire pressure in each wheel and yells at me when they are off or the oil needs changed. These days rides have their own built in Honey Do Lists

 

[Unkotare]

What's odd to me is that young people today, boys and girls, don't seem to date the way so many generations till now always have. Times change, I guess.

 

[luiza]

Young Men Today - I don't Get it​

Not sure why you are posting about your sexual preferences or your inability to satisfy your perverted tastes , Floppy .

Why are you hunting here on this Chat site among old men with Erectile Dysfunction ?

 

[bambu.]

Car maintenance is now designed to be more professional only with proprietary software and removing many parts or the whole engine to reach some small buried part. Checking the tire pressure may be done digitally on the dashboard.

As cars and other driving expenses become more expensive, young adults drop out of the car market. They learn how to use ride calling apps or check bus schedules as they expect to never own cars. The more DIY kids might learn how to repair and upgrade their phones, laptops, E-bikes, etc.

Indeed.

Ride share, cabs, the bus, Metro, Light Rail [tram], 'heavy rail'...drop you off at your destination, maybe a short walk sometimes.
No expense of owning a car, finding somewhere to park etc.
Relaxing ride, no worries, pay the fares, oh happy days.
No experience of the horror of driving a car today, one mistake could see you off to prison for 10 years or more, even if you're alcohol-free, drug-free, speeding-free, have a valid driving licence, have a legally registered and fully insured car.
"Negligent driving causing death"...and you could well be sharing a cell with vicious assaulters and killers.

 

[Correll]

This young lady appears to be from some ferun place, so I guess it's a universal problem:



My future son-in-law and my daughter caught a flat on the way to our early Christmas celebration over the weekend. They were much later than I would expect for changing a flat. Sure enough it was time for changing the flat, but also time to wait for AAA to come and change it for them.

My four sons can damn well change a flat jump a car whose battery has run out, check oil, install a doorknob, restore a worn wooden table, etc. This is where I disagree witht he second young lady who says the real men are the men women don't date because they work with their hands in their jobs, or aren't good looking or whatever. Not true in my sons' cases. They are handsome, and none of them "work with their hands," they are an engineer, a software designer, a military investigator, and an online entepreneur.

I think it is the recent generation of dads, not the current generation of young men who are at fault. My boys knew how to change a tire, or a battery, or add oil, or check an air filter, because I made sure they did. I showed them how even when my tire didn't need changing just for the practice. When I worked on my car, they were there, and not just handing me tools, but doing the work.

Okay, I'm the old dude that gripes about how it used to be, but damn, Y'all!

Something I have noticed, is that garages are using their air wrenchs to tighten up bolts on tires to the point that you cannot remove them manually.


I certainly have changed many tires, and I am not so old as to not be able to remove a lug nut.

BUt, I have come to give up on it, due to the idiocy of the professionals screwing us.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Something I have noticed, is that garages are using their air wrenchs to tighten up bolts on tires to the point that you cannot remove them manually.


I certainly have changed many tires, and I am not so old as to not be able to remove a lug nut.

BUt, I have come to give up on it, due to the idiocy of the professionals screwing us.

I ran into that problem once. I complained to the tire store that installed the tire when it was new.

It's a time-saver I guess, to use the air wrench instead of hand-tightening as the manual calls for, due to that very problem.

Then we become dependent on mobile techs with their own air wrenches.

 

[Moonglow]

I ran into that problem once. I complained to the tire store that installed the tire when it was new.

It's a time-saver I guess, to use the air wrench instead of hand-tightening as the manual calls for, due to that very problem.

Then we become dependent on mobile techs with their own air wrenches.

Oh, the inhumanity!

 

[Moonglow]

I still buy old cars and trucks and fix them because I am not paying high sales taxes nor am I going to pay a car dealership any money...My kids buy new cars, I don't advocate it, but it's what humans do.

 

[Moonglow]

What's odd to me is that young people today, boys and girls, don't seem to date the way so many generations till now always have. Times change, I guess.

Mind yer own business.

 

[Unkotare]

I ran into that problem once. I complained to the tire store that installed the tire when it was new.

It's a time-saver I guess, to use the air wrench instead of hand-tightening as the manual calls for, due to that very problem.

Then we become dependent on mobile techs with their own air wrenches.

Bobo depends on air wenches.