Yeah, how to use the standard wall mounted phones with separate mouthpiece and earphone and a crank on the side to make a call.
Coalclinker
July 27, 2018 8:49 am
Does anyone notice from the video that if a youngin doesn’t get immediate satisfaction to what they’re trying to do they don’t want to have anything to do with it? How little inquisitiveness there is in trouble shooting a problem? Can you imagine if one of these youngins had to build a fire using coal in a stove or furnace to stay warm? Use a kick starter on a motorcycle? Use a choke in an antique car? ANY KIND of home cooking? I could go on and on but first they have to get off their ass to do it, and that might be a real problem. There’s one here in the neighborhood that’s about 6’3″ and 220 lbs and not an ounce of fat who plays football and he only goes to football practice but does little else. He sure as hell doesn’t like to cut grass and I guess the parents don’t care for he only cuts the front yard about every 2 1/2 weeks and the backyard has been cut once this summer.
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If you want to have real fun, put an analog clock (Hour and Minute hands!) in front of them where that is all they have to refer to before they record the time. I will conservatively estimate that about 1/4th of them cannot read such a clock and they will mull around rather quietly while they go looking for a digital time piece. I have also found that if you offer to teach them how to read that analog clock, they show no interest and some will flatly say that they don’t care.
I’ve said for several years now that before an employer takes the time and effort to test a prospective hire, they should first give them a simple test where they have to read the time off analog clocks. If they can’t tell time, I really don’t think they’ll make very good workers.
In 1994 a young enlisted female showed up late for watch on the ship because she did not know she was late as she could not read a clock face and her digital watch had stopped.
There are still “real” clocks around, on buildings, inside grocery stores. Do kids today just ignore them?
At Christmas, I bought my son a wristwatch because that’s what he asked for. I was actually stunned because I didn’t think kids today wanted watches because their phones give them the time. Glad he wanted one.
Edit: I’m actually the one that taught my son to tell time when he was about 5 or 6, and we used a “real” clock.
The importance of an analog clock goes way beyond just telling time. The visual spatial representations of 1/4, 1/2, etc. play out in larger ways in higher reasoning later on, etc. We had a friend in college (not the brightest bulb) who said he was ONLY going to teach his kids how to tell time using a digital clock (1983). Sad how stupid people were even back then.
Reality show Survivor has been on since 2000 and some contestants have grown up watching the show. They still can’t make fire! One would think that if they were selected that is the first thing they would learn prior to flying out to location. The navy had an old training film on diesel technology and showed how ancient Vietnamese made fire by pressing a smaller bamboo piece into a larger one causing combustion and that was 2000 years ago.
Unrecordable
July 27, 2018 9:55 am
In my small town growing up, our local phone # was only 4 digits before it went to 5 when I was in late elementary school. On the farms we had party lines that were shared with the neighbors. Like today, we never knew who was listening.
I used to be an phone operator! I actually had it on my resume until the 90’s.
The first Bell job I had was as an information operator, the company gave us phone books to look up requested numbers; we worked in a small area next to the cord board long distance operators.
I grew up with seven-digit phone numbers, but my name, address and phone number were some of the first things my parents made me memorize. (I already knew my parents’ names.)
Suds
July 27, 2018 11:29 am
And yet David Hogg calls us stupid, because many in our gen are not up to snuff on the latest techno-geek gadgets and app usage protocols.
And they’re going to start a revolution?
They don’t know how to start a lawnmower.
OK, hombre, I’ll play.
Well, young fool, it is a home improvement piece of machinery, if used effectively and often.
Earlier models were entirely manual. A user pushed a set of handlebars to initiate forward movement to propel the lower mechanism forward. At ground level, there were 2 wheels, about the size of your iPad, but round, so they could roll. Separated by about 20 inches, with a
vortex shaped set of metal cutting blades that rotated with the wheels, upon forward motion to effectively trim down blades of grass to essentially give a homeowner’s lawn a haircut.
You know, clean it up a little bit, and show some pride of ownership.
But, it took physical labor, something I doubt you have to endure.
Then newer models came out, where a gasoline powered motor, when maintained and operated, caused rotational movement of just 1 fixed metal blade on the underside of a carriage that had 4 wheels, instead of 2.
Are you still with me?
Nicer models even have a rear basket to catch the grass clippings, so an operator has no need to rake up the discharged grass clippings.
But, seeing as how your generation has been pampered like little children, I don’t expect you’ll have any interest or desire to learn of such things like work ethics and mechanical tools that make life considerably easier, all designed by men who thought about making improvements to life, vs. restricting freedoms.
Hell, maybe some day we can educate your stupid ass about edgers, weed whips, and other lawn beautification implements of construction, and we can avoid destruction.
JR Wirth
July 27, 2018 7:38 pm
Old coots chiming in on why teenagers in 2018 are stupid for not knowing how to use a rotary phone…as they still use AOL accounts.
Well, if they didn’t teach them, they shouldn’t complain.
But that was the time before TV and video. Do kids not watch films or videos as far back as the 1980s with plenty of “old fashioned” telephones showing them exactly how to use them? Unless they are not curious, there’s no excuse. My own kid grew up watching the “Andy Griffith Show” and other oldies on cable.
I tell my wife she is like those apes when her laptop won’t work. She does everything but hit it with a bone. Come Halloween I will find a plastic bone and gift wrap it from Santa for her.
MadMike
July 27, 2018 9:48 pm
I had this exact experience in 1996 with my (then) 11 year old daughter.
We were a a friends business office and she asked to use the phone.
Funny as hell then, and still funny now. Proof kids don’t know as much as they think they do.
I was no different.
I wonder if there’s anything else the yung-ins could learn from their parents? Stupid question, I know.
Yeah, how to use the standard wall mounted phones with separate mouthpiece and earphone and a crank on the side to make a call.
Does anyone notice from the video that if a youngin doesn’t get immediate satisfaction to what they’re trying to do they don’t want to have anything to do with it? How little inquisitiveness there is in trouble shooting a problem? Can you imagine if one of these youngins had to build a fire using coal in a stove or furnace to stay warm? Use a kick starter on a motorcycle? Use a choke in an antique car? ANY KIND of home cooking? I could go on and on but first they have to get off their ass to do it, and that might be a real problem. There’s one here in the neighborhood that’s about 6’3″ and 220 lbs and not an ounce of fat who plays football and he only goes to football practice but does little else. He sure as hell doesn’t like to cut grass and I guess the parents don’t care for he only cuts the front yard about every 2 1/2 weeks and the backyard has been cut once this summer.
Your first point is more correct than you can imagine.
Look up the Stanford Marshmallow experiments.
If you want to have real fun, put an analog clock (Hour and Minute hands!) in front of them where that is all they have to refer to before they record the time. I will conservatively estimate that about 1/4th of them cannot read such a clock and they will mull around rather quietly while they go looking for a digital time piece. I have also found that if you offer to teach them how to read that analog clock, they show no interest and some will flatly say that they don’t care.
I’ve said for several years now that before an employer takes the time and effort to test a prospective hire, they should first give them a simple test where they have to read the time off analog clocks. If they can’t tell time, I really don’t think they’ll make very good workers.
In 1994 a young enlisted female showed up late for watch on the ship because she did not know she was late as she could not read a clock face and her digital watch had stopped.
There are still “real” clocks around, on buildings, inside grocery stores. Do kids today just ignore them?
At Christmas, I bought my son a wristwatch because that’s what he asked for. I was actually stunned because I didn’t think kids today wanted watches because their phones give them the time. Glad he wanted one.
Edit: I’m actually the one that taught my son to tell time when he was about 5 or 6, and we used a “real” clock.
The importance of an analog clock goes way beyond just telling time. The visual spatial representations of 1/4, 1/2, etc. play out in larger ways in higher reasoning later on, etc. We had a friend in college (not the brightest bulb) who said he was ONLY going to teach his kids how to tell time using a digital clock (1983). Sad how stupid people were even back then.
Reality show Survivor has been on since 2000 and some contestants have grown up watching the show. They still can’t make fire! One would think that if they were selected that is the first thing they would learn prior to flying out to location. The navy had an old training film on diesel technology and showed how ancient Vietnamese made fire by pressing a smaller bamboo piece into a larger one causing combustion and that was 2000 years ago.
In my small town growing up, our local phone # was only 4 digits before it went to 5 when I was in late elementary school. On the farms we had party lines that were shared with the neighbors. Like today, we never knew who was listening.
And no 1 + dialing. To call long distance you had to go thru an operator.
I used to be an phone operator! I actually had it on my resume until the 90’s.
The first Bell job I had was as an information operator, the company gave us phone books to look up requested numbers; we worked in a small area next to the cord board long distance operators.
Also, my father worked for Bell South. He met my step-mother through work. She started at Bell South at age 15 as an operator. Those were good jobs.
I grew up with seven-digit phone numbers, but my name, address and phone number were some of the first things my parents made me memorize. (I already knew my parents’ names.)
And yet David Hogg calls us stupid, because many in our gen are not up to snuff on the latest techno-geek gadgets and app usage protocols.
And they’re going to start a revolution?
They don’t know how to start a lawnmower.
What’s a lawnmower?
OK, hombre, I’ll play.
Well, young fool, it is a home improvement piece of machinery, if used effectively and often.
Earlier models were entirely manual. A user pushed a set of handlebars to initiate forward movement to propel the lower mechanism forward. At ground level, there were 2 wheels, about the size of your iPad, but round, so they could roll. Separated by about 20 inches, with a
vortex shaped set of metal cutting blades that rotated with the wheels, upon forward motion to effectively trim down blades of grass to essentially give a homeowner’s lawn a haircut.
You know, clean it up a little bit, and show some pride of ownership.
But, it took physical labor, something I doubt you have to endure.
Then newer models came out, where a gasoline powered motor, when maintained and operated, caused rotational movement of just 1 fixed metal blade on the underside of a carriage that had 4 wheels, instead of 2.
Are you still with me?
Nicer models even have a rear basket to catch the grass clippings, so an operator has no need to rake up the discharged grass clippings.
But, seeing as how your generation has been pampered like little children, I don’t expect you’ll have any interest or desire to learn of such things like work ethics and mechanical tools that make life considerably easier, all designed by men who thought about making improvements to life, vs. restricting freedoms.
Hell, maybe some day we can educate your stupid ass about edgers, weed whips, and other lawn beautification implements of construction, and we can avoid destruction.
Old coots chiming in on why teenagers in 2018 are stupid for not knowing how to use a rotary phone…as they still use AOL accounts.
Leave the kids alone. Old boomer fucks.
I imagine the boomer’s folks thought it was pretty funny that their stupid kids didn’t know how to ride a horse, milk a cow, etcetera.
Well, if they didn’t teach them, they shouldn’t complain.
But that was the time before TV and video. Do kids not watch films or videos as far back as the 1980s with plenty of “old fashioned” telephones showing them exactly how to use them? Unless they are not curious, there’s no excuse. My own kid grew up watching the “Andy Griffith Show” and other oldies on cable.
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I tell my wife she is like those apes when her laptop won’t work. She does everything but hit it with a bone. Come Halloween I will find a plastic bone and gift wrap it from Santa for her.
I had this exact experience in 1996 with my (then) 11 year old daughter.
We were a a friends business office and she asked to use the phone.
Funny as hell then, and still funny now. Proof kids don’t know as much as they think they do.
I was no different.