[Closed] Lost skills

High cholesterol?

I can wire a plug- got to be a dying art - they're all sealed these days aren't they?

I can turn big lumps of metal into smaller ones and swarf

I can use a map and compass.

Mmmmm, chips. Is hungry.

I'm making my own organix parsnip crisps at the moment. A dying art.

I'm making my own dehydrated apple rings - a drying art 😀

IGMC!

porter_jamie - Member
I can turn big lumps of metal into [s]smaller ones and[/s] swarf

I can do the swarf bit in metal and sawdust in wood! I think its what is called being multi trade.

Firstborn(17) asked me this evening how people managed to deal with public transport before we had the internet, I introduced her to paper timetables and a look of befuddlement.

I can move a couple tons of pulses/oats/seeds off pallets and hulf it up a couple flights of stairs

We have a lot of one-week-school-leavers not managing manual labour very well.

A hard working attitude is completely lost on this current lot.

"Sorry , you want me to WORK? Naw".

I worked on a farm one summer, and I could reverse a trailer to mm precision.
Now, whenever I hire a trailer, I am absolutely useless if I have to go backwards.

Indicating at junctions and roundabouts.

Used to play violin & recorder, the moved onto clarinet, bass clarinet & tenor sax.
Played at a decent level in a jazz band, we won a national competition, then went to uni and gave up. Hmmmm. Kinda the opposite of your OP, really.
Got the tenor sax and clarinet out a few weeks ago to show my nephews and could just about play them, but forgotten a lot of what I knew; even fairly simple music. Rubbish, really.

Just don't have the time. Current things I don't have time for are: photography, learning woodworking, learning wheel building, riding enough to get fit, getting all the decorating done. Hmmmm.

In the 21st Century a lot of traditional skills are becoming scarce. Dry stone wallers, wheelwrights, coopers, fletchers, pattern makers, turners.

Sadly, I agree.

Since moving to my current location I have found that within a few miles of our new home are one of Scotland's last (if not the last) wheelwrights and a luthier.

3d printers and rapid prototyping just doesn't excite me in the same way that something made well by hand does.

I had to Google "luthier". That too.

Meeting women that arent sourced on the internets?

Used to play violin & recorder, the moved onto clarinet, bass clarinet & tenor sax.

I play the triangle in a local reggae band. I just stand and the back and ting.

I kind of apprenticed as a sign writer of sorts I suppose during my childhood years..

I left school just at the onset of vinyl graphics and computers 😐

I can fix TVs, change car tyres at the side of the road and syphon petrol without getting a mouthful 🙂

them chips look lovely

I can turn a mean newel post. Also hand cut dovetails....mmmm, lovely 😀
And I play the Bassoon. Grade 8, I shit you not.

+1 😀 for flasheart joke

just fixing things. More and more folks I know are just lost if something breaks and stuff just gets thrown out now rather than looking for inventive ways of keeping it going 🙁 - feels old

on the positive side though I love making pizza by hand and it is an acquired skill as it gets better each time you do it

Navigating with map and compass.

Polishing shoes.
Shaving.
Manners.

Two out of three ain't bad, Rusty! 😉

I'm pretty good at hedge laying. Then there's the framebuilding, but that's become all popular and hipster again recently.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
Two out of three ain't bad aint bad, Rusty!

I knew I was right, [b]everybody[/b] loves Meatloaf.
🙂

Respect Cougar I thought I was the only person left in the North with a real actual chip pan

Writing with fountain pens .... filled from an ink bottle

I am good at identifying bureaucratic ZMs.

However, I have lost all my skills in dealing with them here in the UK because these lot are in the advance stage of infection. Very difficult to deal with them ... they will slowly grind you down bits by bits ...

😯

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Meat products without a supermarket

Axe throwing,I am rather good.
Come the ZM Apocalypse it will be me and chewkw against the world 😉

My contribution was going to be fixing things rather than throwing them away, but I see that's already been done (so maybe it's not dying out all that fast 😉 )

So I'll add walking to school.

It's easy to get all nostalgic about stuff we don't need to do any more. But what about all the new skills we're learning instead?

Respect Cougar I thought I was the only person left in the North with a real actual chip pan

It was a swine of a thing to find when I needed a replacement too, and that was years ago.

what about all the new skills we're learning instead?

What about them? Get your own bloody thread. (-:

Pushing into queues?
Not being able to tie your shoelaces?
Looking at your phone whilst supposedly engaged in a conversation?
Persuading the shopkeeper you're not just trying it on for size before buying it online?
Ignoring the rules of grammar?
Being entirely ignorant of anything that happened before you were born?

It surely is a golden age, Moly.........
🙂

Polishing shoes
Tucking in your shirt
Making a decent brew
Being on time

Darning; a lost word for a lost skill.

leffeboy - Member

just fixing things. More and more folks I know are just lost if something breaks and stuff just gets thrown out now rather than looking for inventive ways of keeping it going

No the don't they bring it into work and pester me to fix it :/

Everything from a PS3 controller to a 23 tonne access platform

My folks used to live in Southport. Whenever i used to visit I used to buy the Blue Tide Timetables as my old man was a Shrimper and Cockler. He could braid his own nets too.

I still study the tides but i am cr*p at everything else.. 🙁

Nunchuck skills, Bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills.

I'll throw in counting and mental arithmetic, a bit rusty as everything is computerised but I'll still be able to add up in a shop and work out the change faster than the till person waiting for the machine to tell them what coins to get out the drawer.

I fix stuff. Can read a map and use a compass. Can/could run a marine diesel 'on the sticks' (entirely manually without any telegraph) and could get it to just about run without any auxy blowers* (but really upset the bridge when black smoke was belching out everywhere). Dunno if that's a lost art as such but with everything becoming electronic I'd hazard a guess it probably will be.

The missus can sew, knit, crochet, make curtains, dresses and all sorts.

*electric superchargers for when revs are too low for the turbos to run