BlueSmoke said:
I need to get better and memorizing names. It's always been a problem with me to the point that I've tried to get into mnemonic tricks to help with names and association.
I don't envy others all that much, but those with exceptional memories.....I do covet.....
Charismatic Megafauna said:
I just never call people by their name. When I make the mistake of asking someone their name, by the time they tell me I remember that I don't actually care. I'm not a politician or in sales
91AggieLawyer said:BrazosDog02 said:
I think the stick shift thing is fun and all but it's weird to me how people get hung up on that.
It's not rocket science, but We can pretty much much put it in the category with pouring musket balls, changing fuses in the electric panel, and driving a mule team.
Yeah, as much as I think everyone should learn to drive on a manual, these things largely just don't exist anymore outside of sports/performance cars. In the '80s and even '90s, you'd find many standard trans cars out there and not knowing how to drive one could be a detriment. Now, just knowing the absolute basics -- essentially how to move it with people pushing -- is all but sufficient.
I'll tell my standard trans story: I'd been driving less than 6 months when I agreed to help some friends from church open a small retail store. The man had this older panel truck -- think Suburban with panels instead of windows -- that had the three speed column shift. I knew, basically, how to drive a standard, but hadn't had a lot of practice. Anyway, he says to follow him (me in the truck) to the store, about 2.5 miles away and we'd take the highway service road. No problem.
Well, we get to the first major street red light and I'm the lead vehicle. The light turns green and I take off. Vehicle dies. I start it again, it dies. Now, I'm halfway into the intersection. This goes on for just this side of forever (actually, maybe 30 seconds at most but it was excruciating) when I realize it is in third gear and not first! I put it in first with everyone around honking and giving me the finger! I get going and clear everything but my shorts. I make the mistake of telling my dad that night and he couldn't stop laughing.
zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
O.G. said:
Know how to operate & maintain at least 5 different kinds of firearms.
schmellba99 said:zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
Ehhh, I consider this at times as working smarter and not harder. And more than once I stopped part way through doing something because it just didn't seem right and watched a youtube to double check. On at least one occasion I can think of it was a very smart move because the bolt I thought I needed to remove was not the bolt and had I removed it there would have been a hellacious mess to clean up and it would have added probably 2-3 hours to my job.
I'm a visual and hands on learner, so watching something being done is a good way for me to learn. Because 99% of the time the written instructions are written by somebody that has never actually used the design and they maze zero sense.
oh no said:
I cannot play any song on any instrument.
zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
BrazosDog02 said:zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
When I was a kid, we didn't have "YouTube". We had "Service Manual"…..here's a 4" thick book that tells you how to fix the thing…and here's a 4" book with all the pictures and part numbers so you can call your part guy and go get it after he figures out the number from 7 superseded iterations.
SGrem said:
Bait a hook.
Squeeeeeeeze a trigger without flinching/jerking.
Reeeeeeeelax to loose a bow string without flinching/jerking.
Sharpen a knife.
Sharpen a drill bit.
Sharpen and chainsaw chain.
Hang a gate straight.
Build a straight level fence.
Change a carburetor.
Redeck a trailer.
Change a hub.
Rewire a trailer.
Hang a ceiling fan.
Simple flux core mig welding with easy peazy cheap cracker jack buzz box.
Change the core in a leaking shrader valve.
Remove a hook from humans.
How to clean a fish, bird, small game, big game.
Simple 12v wiring.
Basic 12v circuit testing.
How to bleed brake system.
How to tie down a load.
Change a lawn mower blade.
Load weedeater string.
How to siphon.
Shelton98 said:
While I have the original list covered.... I've never in my life had to sew a button on. Did learn it in Home Ec in high school, though.
Charismatic Megafauna said:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein
zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
Sea Speed said:zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
I love YouTube videos because they will discuss the order to do the work which is great if you're faced with a complex job that you've never done before. When I rebuilt my front end I had never done it before and that was definitely a job that I needed to follow specific steps on.
That said, I have no theory of mind for someone that needs a YouTube video for simple tasks like fixing a tire or replacing an electrical fixture.
Sea Speed said:zooguy96 said:
Learn how to do something without watching a YouTube video.
Too many young people are almost totally visual learners - because that's how their brains have been trained. They have no common sense, and can't figure simple things out.
I love YouTube videos because they will discuss the order to do the work which is great if you're faced with a complex job that you've never done before. When I rebuilt my front end I had never done it before and that was definitely a job that I needed to follow specific steps on.
That said, I have no theory of mind for someone that needs a YouTube video for simple tasks like fixing a tire or replacing an electrical fixture.
agenjake said:
42 things?
Bid 30 to keep the low bidders out.
No sevens unless at least 2 people at the table are from east of I-45.
El Gato Charro said:agenjake said:
42 things?
Bid 30 to keep the low bidders out.
No sevens unless at least 2 people at the table are from east of I-45.
Sevens drives me insane. No strategy, like playing a game with little kids. I grew up where nillo was extremely uncommon to bid and I never played a single hand of sevens.
Every other hand is either sevens or low in Booger county.
Is sevens an East Texas thing?
