Millenials lack basic life skills

[Jayburner]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/749...ow-Bear-Grylls

but yet I think they'll survive regardless. Some might drown or freeze to death in a forest though.

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Sort of on topic... I'm technically a millennial.. and a popular meme my friends spread around is the 'Thing I didn't learn in school: How to change a tire, how to balance a checkbook, etc..." and it sorta pisses me off. There are so many ways a person can learn those sorts of things, including basic survival skills. Like dozens or ways to learn those things that are either cheap or just plain free. Its such a dumb complaint.

[MatthewOU2015]

Sorry we don't have time to learn. We work 2 jobs 80 hours a week and barely make ends meet. We have so much debt to pay. Plus the older generations raised us.

[Tommy T]

Map reading? I could count the times I've ever read a map in my lifetime, and I'm 26.

Yesterday's 'practical' skills are no longer as relevant.
a 5 year old can pick up an iPad and get to grips with it faster than most elderly people for example.

So yeah. Load of rubbish.

[Mad_Murdock]

I never walked up hill in the snow both ways, barefoot, for 10 miles either. And yet I survived contrary to what the Silent Gen had to say about me.

Map reading? I could count the times I've ever read a map in my lifetime, and I'm 26.

So yeah. Load of rubbish.

26! You're still a baby! You never had a need to read a map, because you've pretty much had Navigation your whole life.

[Bathory]

Of course they do, they live in a completely different world than the older generations. It's easy to "hurrdurr millenials" but they legitimately have different set of life skills because their world demands different things from them.

[unfilteredJW]

Sort of on topic... I'm technically a millennial.. and a popular meme my friends spread around is the 'Thing I didn't learn in school: How to change a tire, how to balance a checkbook, etc..." and it sorta pisses me off. There are so many ways a person can learn those sorts of things, including basic survival skills. Like dozens or ways to learn those things that are either cheap or just plain free. Its such a dumb complaint.

I feel the same.

You have a modern oracle of Delphi in your damn pocket. You can learn how to do anything you bloody want.

On topic: Pretty sure what are considered basic life skills will change over a period of time no matter how much you pine for the 50s.

[Vizardlorde]

I was gona say bs but the number of times i become the map guy when we go to theme parks is astonishing. No one my age can read a fkin simple map.

[Wyrt]

Oh look, old people bitching about millennials again.


And my mom is in her 60s and she can't swim or read a map.

[Jayburner]

I was gona say bs but the number of times i become the map guy when we go to theme parks is astonishing. No one my age can read a fkin simple map.

paper maps are always hilarious in the hands of younger people. Always cracks me up.

[Dug]

Yeah well old geezers can't even navigate in 3D video game worlds so who's the real winner?

[Tommy T]

I was gona say bs but the number of times i become the map guy when we go to theme parks is astonishing. No one my age can read a fkin simple map.

Oooooohhhhhh shit.

Good point.
Damn. Loved those maps.

[Azadina]

paper maps are always hilarious in the hands of younger people. Always cracks me up.

Bring me a paper map, and I'll explain what it has printed on it Won't you feel embarrassed after this line!

[Kalis]

More than half of young adults were unable to tie a single knot and 40 per cent had never swum in open water, despite Britain being an island nation.

To be fair, the water is bloody cold around Britain.

[Crissi]

Holy crap guys, Reading a map made for public consumption (aka not specialized stuff like topographic or soil maps) isn't hard. There are legends and north arrows for a reason included on there.

Seriously, if you cant read a map you don't deserve to have any input on anything involving geography (which is basically 80% of everything).

[Guy4123]

Sort of on topic... I'm technically a millennial.. and a popular meme my friends spread around is the 'Thing I didn't learn in school: How to change a tire, how to balance a checkbook, etc..." and it sorta pisses me off. There are so many ways a person can learn those sorts of things, including basic survival skills. Like dozens or ways to learn those things that are either cheap or just plain free. Its such a dumb complaint.

I always love that "they never taught me how to balance a cheque book" one. I'm pretty sure everyone learns basic math skills.

[The Stormbringer]

Oooooohhhhhh shit.

Good point.
Damn. Loved those maps.

Theme park maps are about 10x easier than real maps, though.

[Aggrophobic]

Oh, that source though...
Why do people read that crap?

[WintersLegion]

Sort of on topic... I'm technically a millennial.. and a popular meme my friends spread around is the 'Thing I didn't learn in school: How to change a tire, how to balance a checkbook, etc..." and it sorta pisses me off. There are so many ways a person can learn those sorts of things, including basic survival skills. Like dozens or ways to learn those things that are either cheap or just plain free. Its such a dumb complaint.

Yeah I see that as well. Most of the stuff isn't hard and some is obsolete. I myself have never had to change a tire but just from watching regular tv I know enough to do it. And there is not a big point to knowing how to balance a checkbook considering how common debit cards are now. But I've also seen this with current things as well to an extent.

[Azadina]

Theme park maps are about 10x easier than real maps, though.

Never seen theme park map, but real maps are very simple. ^^