Millennials, Is This You?

catefrances · July 2016

How can you not know how to sharpen a pencil??? Even my 9 year old g/d can do that.

hedonist · July 2016

InHiding80 said:
Apparently I'm "Generation Catalano" since I'm too young for X but too old for Y.

I lean more to X when it comes to pop culture. Fuck the Disneyfication of media by the millennials.

That dreamy Catalano boy?

brianlux · July 2016

catefrances said:
How can you not know how to sharpen a pencil??? Even my 9 year old g/d can do that.

Teeth that aren't sharp enough?

Annafalk · July 2016

Nice thread, Brianlux !
Number, 28, 29, 31 and 34, no idea about them, and a millennial was a tricky word I had no idea about

Hobbes · July 2016

But millennials can grow a sweet-ass beard.

brianlux · July 2016

Hobbes said:
But millennials can grow a sweet-ass beard.

Haha!

Annafalk said:
Nice thread, Brianlux !
Number, 28, 29, 31 and 34, no idea about them, and a millennial was a tricky word I had no idea about

Interesting stuff, for sure Anna. I think the author pushed the point a little but it's hard to argue against the notion that many basic skills are going bye bye. And it's not just millennials. Generally those of us who are boomers are less skilled than the average G.I. generation man or woman.

Some other examples:

Taking #15 a little further: Cooking without a recipe.

Writing in cursive.

Chasing wood or metal. Not only a lost skill, but a term that most have not heard of. I used to know a highly skilled chaser. I can't do that!

Navigating by stars, sun, landscape feature or animal movement.

Identifying wild edible plants.

Doing basic math mentally.

Counting back change without looking at a register read out.

Hobbes · July 2016

Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

Counting change/mental math. Just tonight, I handed a young checkout girl $10.25. My total was $7.25. It took the longest time to get my change back. She even got out a pad and pencil to do the math. Um, isn't the answer right there on the screen? The kicker is, after I gave her a $10 bill, she asked if I had a quarter to make the math easier.

Hobbes · July 2016

Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.

brianlux · July 2016

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

Counting change/mental math. Just tonight, I handed a young checkout girl $10.25. My total was $7.25. It took the longest time to get my change back. She even got out a pad and pencil to do the math. Um, isn't the answer right there on the screen? The kicker is, after I gave her a $10 bill, she asked if I had a quarter to make the math easier.

Annafalk · July 2016

brianlux said:

Hobbes said:
But millennials can grow a sweet-ass beard.
Haha!
Annafalk said:
Nice thread, Brianlux !
Number, 28, 29, 31 and 34, no idea about them, and a millennial was a tricky word I had no idea about
Interesting stuff, for sure Anna. I think the author pushed the point a little but it's hard to argue against the notion that many basic skills are going bye bye. And it's not just millennials. Generally those of us who are boomers are less skilled than the average G.I. generation man or woman.

Some other examples:

Taking #15 a little further: Cooking without a recipe.

Writing in cursive.

Chasing wood or metal. Not only a lost skill, but a term that most have not heard of. I used to know a highly skilled chaser. I can't do that!

Navigating by stars, sun, landscape feature or animal movement.

Identifying wild edible plants.

Doing basic math mentally.

Counting back change without looking at a register read out.

It's too bad that basic skills are disappearing, my grand mother for example was very good at making her own clothes and knitting. I can't even knit a pair of socks sadly.

Hobbes said:
Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.

This is interesting observations, Hobbes !

SVRDhand13 · July 2016

First of all I don't get the whole millennial thing because people born in 1981 and people born in 1997 (I think that's the millennial gap) grew up having very different lifestyles. I was born in '86 and think the kids of '97 are MUCH different than my age group.

Anyway, since I'm technically a millennial, I can do all but 5 things on that list.

SD48277 · July 2016

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

often is your cousin?

hedonist · July 2016

SD48277 said:

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.
often is your cousin?

:rofl:

Bentleyspop · July 2016

Hobbes said:
Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.

Who writes checks anymore??

Im a late baby boomer and I dont have a check book or write checks anymore. If I need a check I go to the bank and get one.

Im shocked if Im in a store and see someone using a check. Sooooo old school

brianlux · July 2016

Bentleyspop said:

Hobbes said:
Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.
Who writes checks anymore??

Im a late baby boomer and I dont have a check book or write checks anymore. If I need a check I go to the bank and get one.

Im shocked if Im in a store and see someone using a check. Sooooo old school

We often get one or two checks a day because we generally give a little discount for cash or check rather than pay the credit card company. We figure checks are good as cash and book people hardly ever write bad checks. We've spend more on credit card fees in a month than have lost in bad checks in total in 33 years!

HesCalledDyer · July 2016

Bentleyspop said:

Hobbes said:
Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.
Who writes checks anymore??

Im a late baby boomer and I dont have a check book or write checks anymore. If I need a check I go to the bank and get one.

Im shocked if Im in a store and see someone using a check. Sooooo old school

It drives me fucking nuts when we try to order lunch at work and someone yells out "It has to be a place that takes checks." Go get some cash from the ATM, ya fucks!

The only thing I actually need a check for is rent, and I just use my bank's online billpay and have it automatically mailed to my landlord.

That said, I still know how to write one.

PJ_Soul · July 2016

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

Counting change/mental math. Just tonight, I handed a young checkout girl $10.25. My total was $7.25. It took the longest time to get my change back. She even got out a pad and pencil to do the math. Um, isn't the answer right there on the screen? The kicker is, after I gave her a $10 bill, she asked if I had a quarter to make the math easier.

The thing about this is.... does it matter? Think of it this way: if you asked anyone from before the days of decent typewriters if they'd like to be able to write 80+ words a minute on a 1.5 pound machine that they can carry with them everywhere they go, they'd all probably think that sounded fucking fantastic. Now, I do absolutely appreciate cursive as a nice looking way to write, and I certainly grew up using it obviously .... but seriously, is it really necessary anymore, besides as kind of a novelty act or something that's nice in greeting cards? I don't really blame young people now for not being able to write cursive, or for being bad at printing. Why should they be good at something that they never have to do? We can't just keep teaching kids all these skills that technology has rendered basically useless just because we are nostalgic for the days when everything was harder and took way longer.

PJ_Soul · July 2016

Bentleyspop said:

Hobbes said:
Another one. Writing a check. I asked a millennial at work to finish writing out a check once the delivery guy came. I'd already filled most of it out, signed it, etc. Just needed the total. She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Total confusion.
Who writes checks anymore??

Im a late baby boomer and I dont have a check book or write checks anymore. If I need a check I go to the bank and get one.

Im shocked if Im in a store and see someone using a check. Sooooo old school

I still write my rent cheques every month. They do have a direct payment option, but I declined it because, frankly, I don't trust property management companies at all. I'm not about to hand over my banking info to those scumbags.

Hobbes · July 2016

PJ_Soul said:

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

Counting change/mental math. Just tonight, I handed a young checkout girl $10.25. My total was $7.25. It took the longest time to get my change back. She even got out a pad and pencil to do the math. Um, isn't the answer right there on the screen? The kicker is, after I gave her a $10 bill, she asked if I had a quarter to make the math easier.
The thing about this is.... does it matter? Think of it this way: if you asked anyone from before the days of decent typewriters if they'd like to be able to write 80+ words a minute on a 1.5 pound machine that they can carry with them everywhere they go, they'd all probably think that sounded fucking fantastic. Now, I do absolutely appreciate cursive as a nice looking way to write, and I certainly grew up using it obviously .... but seriously, is it really necessary anymore, besides as kind of a novelty act or something that's nice in greeting cards? I don't really blame young people now for not being able to write cursive, or for being bad at printing. Why should they be good at something that they never have to do? We can't just keep teaching kids all these skills that technology has rendered basically useless just because we are nostalgic for the days when everything was harder and took way longer.

Not sure why you singled out my post. Not that it matters. Your question could be applied to any of those things on the original list or the whole point of this thread. Does any of it matter?

PJ_Soul · July 2016

Hobbes said:

PJ_Soul said:

Hobbes said:
Writing in cursive? How about print? Not long ago, two of my cousins sent me a handwritten card. One is in high school, the other in college. Both have the penmanship of a toddler. Might as well have been scribbled in crayon. It was pitiful.

Counting change/mental math. Just tonight, I handed a young checkout girl $10.25. My total was $7.25. It took the longest time to get my change back. She even got out a pad and pencil to do the math. Um, isn't the answer right there on the screen? The kicker is, after I gave her a $10 bill, she asked if I had a quarter to make the math easier.
The thing about this is.... does it matter? Think of it this way: if you asked anyone from before the days of decent typewriters if they'd like to be able to write 80+ words a minute on a 1.5 pound machine that they can carry with them everywhere they go, they'd all probably think that sounded fucking fantastic. Now, I do absolutely appreciate cursive as a nice looking way to write, and I certainly grew up using it obviously .... but seriously, is it really necessary anymore, besides as kind of a novelty act or something that's nice in greeting cards? I don't really blame young people now for not being able to write cursive, or for being bad at printing. Why should they be good at something that they never have to do? We can't just keep teaching kids all these skills that technology has rendered basically useless just because we are nostalgic for the days when everything was harder and took way longer.
Not sure why you singled out my post. Not that it matters. Your question could be applied to any of those things on the original list or the whole point of this thread. Does any of it matter?

I just quoted the first post I happened to see that mentioned millennials not being able to write in cursive.
I would argue that some definitely matters a lot more than others, for various reasons. The main reason is that there is a replacement for cursive (typing). There isn't a replacement for a lot of those other things (and for some there are... I.e. Google Maps. I will never ever use a paper map again).
Does any of it matter? I don't know. Probably not. I think most of the stuff about "millennials can't do this and that" stuff is really just the latest version of the same thing that is said by every single generation since the beginning of time... and somehow, society marches on.

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