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bigpaul

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i have just been watching a link on prepper website about washing clothes after an EMP= so no electric for washing machines.
it was actually TEACHING people how to wash clothes by hand and hang them on a washing line, I mean do people REALLY have to be taught this in words of one syllable??
for me, and millions like me, when we were single this was normal life and nothing out of the ordinary.
if this is what people have to be taught to even hope to survive TSHTF then the general population really has "lost it".
 
yes, I have seen phone and technology "addiction" for myself, step grandchildren are the worst-never without the damn things.
but I just thought, washing clothes by hand is so basic, so easily understood, that it really dosent need teaching does it?
I spent many years, first in a "bedsit"-rented room in a shared house, then in a "flat" or apartment, where I did all my washing by hand, and all my friends did the same, its just so basic a knowledge that I thought everyone knew how to do it.
 
pick any 50 teenagers,between ages 13 to 19...chances are,they dont know the 1st thing about washing clothes by hand,simply because they wernt taught how..and same goes for cooking as well.and id bet they always had someone do their laundry for them,to having someone either cook for them,or their eating out..if not eating some sort of junk food snack..cooking for some,if not most,is a opened canned of store bought food,that gets put into the microwave for heating..and i cant hep but wonder,how many can repair their own bicycle..i was rebuilding my own by the time i was 10,including making them into a chopper by adding other front forks to them..i believe over 50% of the people,of today will be lost without cell phones,computers,internet and tv..
 
pick any 50 teenagers,between ages 13 to 19...chances are,they dont know the 1st thing about washing clothes by hand,simply because they wernt taught how..and same goes for cooking as well.and id bet they always had someone do their laundry for them,to having someone either cook for them,or their eating out..if not eating some sort of junk food snack..cooking for some,if not most,is a opened canned of store bought food,that gets put into the microwave for heating..and i cant hep but wonder,how many can repair their own bicycle..i was rebuilding my own by the time i was 10,including making them into a chopper by adding other front forks to them..i believe over 50% of the people,of today will be lost without cell phones,computers,internet and tv..
50%!!! I think that's an underestimate! more like 75-80%.
 
You talk to the young males today and one of the first thing 'guys don't do that' Really now I say, My dad taught me to sew, prep foods, cook and his dad taught him and so on and so they come back with 'will there not men then because men don't do that' That's the mentality of young macho guys today, ask the young women and they will say 'mom doesn't cook' Ask any kids what a washboard is what's a ladles, whisk or ask them to pick up some lamp oil and they come back with paraffin oil, I would say that's candle oil not lamp oil and they would say 'it says lamp oil' or they would say 'the salesman says it's lamp oil' NOBODY of this young generation has what once was common knowledge. The common teachings of yesterday has been erased by this modern age! Sadly the young is doomed today.
 
You talk to the young males today and one of the first thing 'guys don't do that' Really now I say, My dad taught me to sew, prep foods, cook and his dad taught him and so on and so they come back with 'will there not men then because men don't do that' That's the mentality of young macho guys today, ask the young women and they will say 'mom doesn't cook' Ask any kids what a washboard is what's a ladles, whisk or ask them to pick up some lamp oil and they come back with paraffin oil, I would say that's candle oil not lamp oil and they would say 'it says lamp oil' or they would say 'the salesman says it's lamp oil' NOBODY of this young generation has what once was common knowledge. The common teachings of yesterday has been erased by this modern age! Sadly the young is doomed today.
quite right, anyone under 40-unless they were in the Boy Scouts or some such similar- have no idea how to lay and light an open fire, skin and gut a rabbit or a fish, or dig a latrine. post SHTF they will either starve or come down with a disease. well, that should cut down the numbers, anyway.
 
You think that's bad, wait till everyone looses their phones. One quarter of the country will go nuts in the first 48 hrs.

That's a scary thought.

Without phones, this new generation can't even do math, and since they rely on it for all their info, they rarely bother to RETAIN any other information. I don't blame them, I get it...but if it is taken away, they are even more screwed than other generations. Even just basic communication skills are lost on many of them.
 

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