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Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:41 pm

..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:44 pm

outcaststudios wrote: if you think you are smarter than the previous generation..

My parents went bankrupt at least twice; I'm retired and Mrs. Cusser and I are financially secure. Does that make me smarter????

Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:58 pm

outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

But it's so fizzy!

Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:10 pm

I lived in places with no or little TV growing up, and so read a lot. Took way to many English Lit classes in HS, and same in college, as I could rip through assigned reading with ease, it was all low hanging fruit while I was studying architecture.

I later inherited a book my grandfather had a a kid, a circa 1915 boy flyers adventure tangling with the dreaded Hun, and read it to my boys when they were about 10 and 12.

There was vocabulary in the boy flyer book I had to look up...

Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:32 pm

I don't think I'm smarter than previous generations but I'm smarter than ensuing generations. They are regressing thanks to less focus on the 3 Rs & more on other foolishness.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:27 pm

Compare these editions and tell me what the expectations are for young men now...

1959:

2016:

Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:43 pm

outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

I saw this same thing word for word as a Facebook meme.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:02 pm

KTPhil wrote: Compare these editions and tell me what the expectations are for young men now...

1959:

2016:

the edition i had was identical to the previous editions, i shudder to think what the new edition has in it. call me crazy but i had a great time in scouts , dad nad brother both made eagle i got to Life and crapped out. but man did i learn a lot of really cool stuff! had old hippies for scoutmasters...

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:12 pm

outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

That’s f**** sig stuff right there….

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:20 pm

Two weeks ago my wife called saying there's a yellow light on the dash. i asked her what it looks like, winds up being the low pressure sensor. Told her to push the "I" button on the steering wheel, she does and it says "low tire pressure". Tell her to to push either button to the left or right and it will toggle the display and it will display the tire pressure in each tire. She says the rear right says "0". I ask her how long has it been on, she says 15 minutes.

Luckily only the tire was damaged, the rim was OK.

She says "the car is smart", I tell her "at least one of you are".

Needless to say that didn't go over well.

RTFM

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:22 pm

outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

This doesn't tell me people are dumber, it tells me people who are 50 and over are too litigious.

In some cases. A lot of times it's valid. For instance, lawsuits that resulted in increased safety measures.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:26 pm

EverettB wrote: outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

This doesn't tell me people are dumber, it tells me people who are 50 and over are too litigious.

In some cases. A lot of times it's valid. For instance, lawsuits that resulted in increased safety measures.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:36 pm

EverettB wrote: outcaststudios wrote: ..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

This doesn't tell me people are dumber, it tells me people who are 50 and over are too litigious.

In some cases. A lot of times it's valid. For instance, lawsuits that resulted in increased safety measures.

i certainly do not for a second believe that people are dumber either. we have always been and probably always will be as dumb and smart as we are today. i agree it says more about how people have become increasingly unable to compromise and resolve. instead they want to sue and win.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:53 pm

outcaststudios wrote: it says more about how people have become increasingly unable to compromise and resolve. instead they want to sue and win.
Sounds like DC.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:00 pm

Glenn wrote: outcaststudios wrote: it says more about how people have become increasingly unable to compromise and resolve. instead they want to sue and win.
Sounds like DC.

yeah it does. i miss the days of compromise and progress. when everyone was unhappy but things moved along. now just everyones unhappy.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:08 pm

Absolutely not!

My Dad only had 8th grade, I have some collage behind me and his math and writing skills are head and shoulders above mine all day long everyday! Today's youth cannot add 2+2 without a calculator, cannot spell, punctuate or complete a sentence! Chances that they could read and comprehend the battery acid warning are pretty slim... it's that the generation that eats Tide pods?

Regression is the rule not progression!

Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:06 pm

There have been stupid and smart people in every generation...

Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:50 pm

Generalization is never a good thing. There are always good and bad, smart and not-so-smart, etc. It just takes on different forms in different generations.

Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:02 pm

The facts are that there is a 49% to 51% chance that the generation you are part of is more smarter than the former or the future generations coming up. Now that that is part of the conversation, feel free to quote that fact in all future discussions on this subject. :wink: No, really really much more smarter!!!!

Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:09 pm

Iowa Mark wrote: The facts are that there is a 49% to 51% chance that the generation you are part of is more smarter than the former or the future generations coming up. Now that that is part of the conversation, feel free to quote that fact in all future discussions on this subject. :wink: No, really really much more smarter!!!!

That's like the meteorologist predicting a 50% chance of rain (or snow). Thanks for nothing. :P