Thread: Am I getting old.....or what?

Hey Allen. Can you still sing the school song. I got my name in the school magazine for reading 76 library books in the first 6 months of first year... I found a library. Jim

OK Mikehzz, NOT that sort of grooming !!!



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While also lamenting the loss of some skills, I have found plenty of oldies who cannot do maths, or who cannot deal with complex logic.

Every generation has it's share of members who lack numerical, grammatical and rational-thinking skills. I am pretty sure that sentence is grammatically incorrect

My favourite was 35 years ago when I had to wait for an older gentleman to work out how much change to give me when I gave him $30 for a $25 purchase. He pulled out a calculator to check my suggestion that it was $5!

Before you flame me, check the punctuation on some of the posts in this thread!

I agree that the tech skills demonstrated by kids does not make them smarter. Teenagers are much more informed now than we were, however, wisdom comes from converting information to knowledge, and then making good decisions. Kids show the same lack of wisdom now as I did when I was young and stupid.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

This thread looks like that it is for the "white brigade"
We should start every reply like this: "When I was a boy.........."
................yes, there were good times back then .

I've always liked this, Bob



Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

It's not just old people that struggle with technology, I'm 15 and I have an engineering class at school and we built some small electric cars and I was first to build it and I had a full ladder chassis and bigger wheels and a lower gear ratio and everyone's going wow that's cool and we've now moved on to computer stuff and all of a sudden I'm the last one to finish and I still don't get it and someone just walks up and does a few clicks of the mouse and taps a few keys and the problem's solved. Then again I can rebuild an engine and gearbox or whatever mechanical problems I encounter (like to see them do that). Then again I do own a 1970 IIA and a 1976 Land Ranger 100" so electronics aren't a big issue.

I was only having this conversation with one of the guys at work the other day. His four year old daughter picked up mums iPad for the first time, and instinctively knew what to do meanwhile dad has been playing around with the iPad for months and has discovered maybe 5% of its capability

Originally Posted by Series3 GT

It's not just old people that struggle with technology, I'm 15 and I have an engineering class at school and we built some small electric cars and I was first to build it and I had a full ladder chassis and bigger wheels and a lower gear ratio and everyone's going wow that's cool and we've now moved on to computer stuff and all of a sudden I'm the last one to finish and I still don't get it and someone just walks up and does a few clicks of the mouse and taps a few keys and the problem's solved. Then again I can rebuild an engine and gearbox or whatever mechanical problems I encounter (like to see them do that). Then again I do own a 1970 IIA and a 1976 Land Ranger 100" so electronics aren't a big issue.

Well I'm in my forties and you've just described me, so don't feel too bad. And I really feel that having actual manual skills is better in the long run since electronics are only useful for so many things, but not what what you might call "foundation" needs like housing, growing food, fabrication and so on.

Perhaps all comes to which side of our brain is the dominant.
I know that mine is the right.
Have a look these pages, is a good test


Hemispheric Dominance Inventory


Left vs. Right Which Side Are You On?