"Jack Stein" wrote in message
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Doug Miller wrote:

Why, oh why, do people with no knowledge or experience of the building
trades imagine that they are competent to do their own construction?

I've seen people in the building trades do amazingly bad things, and they
apparently knew they were doing it. Your wall builder is just an idiot.
It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to learn the correct way to build a
wall, simple house wiring, basic plumbing and so on.

What I really detest is someone, like my kid, saying "I can't do that, I
don't know how or I never did that" My answer is always one of two
things, WTF, do you think I was born knowing how, or, damn, I never did it
either, I guess we're screwed...


I have a theory that the internet is behind the pathetic trend toward
helplessness. I wonder how many youngsters consider going to the library for
a book to help them with a project they've never attempted. Does anyone even
notice that there are shelves full of books as you walk into Home Depot or
Lowe's?

Reading a book shouldn't necessarily be that much different from viewing the
same information on a web page, but for some reason, I think it is. Maybe
all the animated ads are too much of a distraction from the important
content. I don't know....