"harry" wrote in message
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On Jan 8, 1:45 am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"geoff" wrote in message

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In message , Tim Watts
writes
On Monday 07 January 2013 21:30 geoff wrote in uk.d-i-y:

In message , Brian Gaff
writes
Well if he can raise the bar, but at the moment I feel that the bar
has
not left the ground yet. Mind you I'm flabbergasted by the lack of
knowledge in average people of under 30 years. IE not knowing that
planets
and stars are different or which planets are gaseous and which rocky
and
which have no atmosphere etc.
Also not understanding the rudiments of how electricity works and
how
transformers work. There are very simple books on these concepts and
we
were taught them as a matter of course.

I see little desire to "find out", no sense of discovery, a lack of
wonderment how and why

we're becoming a nation of hairdressers

Yep...

I wonder if in part, everything is now too complicated?

In 1970, you could open your car bonnet and identify everything - and
the
choices when something went wrong were limited.

OK - TV's have always been specialist - but most other machinery was
pretty
simple.

Most people don't even make any attempt to grasp the rudiments of
anything
vaguely technical or ... anything at all really

Other than me and the missus, I can't think of anyone else in our
immediate
family, who would have the vaguest notion how to put the spare wheel onto
their car. I would be surprised if they actually knew where to find it,
or
the jack and tools even ...

Arfa



You are getting old.
The reason is that many cars now don't have one.

At one time you had to carry many tires and tyre levers.
I expect these people thought the end of the world was nigh when spare
wheels were invented.



My Focus has one, and so does the missus's Landy ( You can't miss that one -
it's fixed to the back door, although finding all the bits to the jack is a
bit of a puzzle if you don't know ... )

Arfa