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If the Garmin sat nav in my car is anything to go by the use of paper maps is a skill Garmin seem determined to preserve (I would have more faith in my 5 year old son to chose a sensible route)
This is my issue with satnav, I often know part of a route across country, but I don't want to fanny around with maps and sheets of paper with route directions on when I'm driving on my own, which is most often, but the likes of CoPilot will frequently show routes only on main A-roads, often going miles out of the way, but NavFree will actually give proper cross-country routes, you just have to use your head and zoom into the route to make sure it doesn't take you somewhere stupid, trying alternative parameters works here.
On the subject of starting cars using a choke, how many could start a car with a starting handle? My old '54 split-screen Morris Minor had a 1300 A-Series engine rather than the 950 side-valve, but it still had the facility to start it with a starting handle, which came in very handy on quite a few occasions in really cold weather.
Needed to be treated with respect, though; broken thumbs were a possibility otherwise.
Having a go at stuff. Most people I know just won't try an fix stuff or do a diy job, they seem to think because they haven't done it they can't do it. I am the opposite, if I need something done and someone else can do it, i assume that I can too and give it a whirl. Mostly I am right, I must be more awesome than my mates 😆
My job as a 'made to measure' curtain maker is a dying skill. I have to be able to cut patterns and pattern match.
a bloke on Pop Master (R2) the other day was a professional curtain hanger.
Flaperon - Of course why shouldn't they?
I think he was actually agreeing with you.
That was the biggest shock when I entered teaching several years ago; I was appalled by the state of kids handwriting, spelling and grammar - literacy in general.
I take pride in being able to string a sentence together, but my handwriting has always been appalling. Part of it is being left-handed - I'd probably have a support group at school these days - but discovering keyboards in the early 80s probably prevented me from refining it in adulthood. It's so shockingly bad that I started printing rather than writing so that others can read it, and now my printing has degenerated to a point where it's again a conscious effort to write readably for anyone who isn't me.
I don't expect "writing" to become a lost art for a while, but "handwriting" is almost certainly on borrowed time.
I don't expect "writing" to become a lost art for a while, but "handwriting" is almost certainly on borrowed time.
It wasn't until this subject came up in a few recent threads that I realised that I don't do 'handwriting' , in the joined up cursive sense, any more. Looking through a few of my old sketchbooks and notebooks looks like I haven't for at least 20 years. I don't think I ever decide to stop, obviously just fell out of the habit
Yesterday I realised I can't really read it anymore either. My gf found an old book of her dad photography notes - developing and darkroom stuff. Beautifully, neatly written.... but I couldn't really read it.
On the subject of starting cars using a choke, how many could start a car with a starting handle?
My first car was a Renault 6 (the 850cc engine version) and its starting handle was invaluable!
The yoof of today wouldn't even know what one was.
BUT there is absolutely no way I am going back to slide rules and log tables either.
I used a slipstick right up to going to college when I got my first calculator. A Sinclair Scientific - cost a fortune and the trig functions were crap.
Used 7 figure log tables for surveying as the calculators available weren't up to the job.
Cougar and mikewsmith win the thread imo!
I can write neatly, but it's frustratingly slow so I try to speed it up. This might come from the fact that I can type quickly so I am used to getting the words down fast.
On the subject of handwriting...during a recent period of unemployment I applied for a bursers job at a private school. No online applications, no cvs, they wanted a hand written letter. Took 10 attempts and untold hand cramps. You just dont do it any more. Didn't get the job by the way. Probably says a lot about the private education system and old time values.