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Message started by MnSpring on 06/09/18 at 10:23:42

Title: Remember Beaver ?
Post by MnSpring on 06/09/18 at 10:23:42

Remember in the late 70’s, early 80’s, you started to hear that, ‘Leave It To Beaver”, Does not reflect today's values, or lifestyle, is outdated, not relevant ?
(The show, and many other of the time, taught/showed, family values, and most cases their was a, ‘lesson’ to be learned, in how to treat other people, or differences in other people, or respect in others Ideas, on, and on, and on)
And the, ’Not Relevant’ (and like), got Louder and Louder and Louder !

Who, were the people that said, ’Not Relevant’. ? Were they, (progressives/Idealists), so they could get, ’Their’, Ideas, indoctrinated, into the youth. Instead of, ’Teaching’ the youth, to Think ?

Today, Sitcoms, are showing just about everything.
Lying Cheating, Deceit, and most of all, STUPIDLY !!!!!!
Where is the Outrage ?

This came to me, while watching the Tennis tournament this morning.
(Yes I Like Tennis)

Watching the Commercials, showing absolutely completely puzzy snowflake DFI’s !

Two Notable ones: Pringles, three people, standing about, and put three, (what used to be the junk dust from the machines making potato chips) flavored Pringles together, and all Cried WOW We Just made … (the three were actors, paid to act, the Writer, was the SNOWFLAKE)
Then Car Insurance. Kid, flat tire, dark, can’t get help on his cell phone, turns to his passenger: "Do you know what a Lug wrench is”. Passenger says: “Da, Well, Yh, Ah, Well, Ah, Maybe” (in Up-Speak)

Where Is the Outrage ??????

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/09/18 at 11:55:16

Then Car Insurance. Kid, flat tire, dark, can’t get help on his cell phone, turns to his passenger: "Do you know what a Lug wrench is”. Passenger says: “Da, Well, Yh, Ah, Well, Ah, Maybe”

Notice WHO gets to look stupid.

I can't imagine being so unable to deal with the simplest problems.
I can't watch that stupid flat tire commercial. After the kid started driving we had tire change lessons.

Why don't schools teach THAT?
They think parents are supposed to do it?
Why?

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Matchless G11 on 06/10/18 at 06:51:33

Have you noticed in tv shows and ads that there is a certain amount of male bashings?
It is the woman or the kids are much smarter than the adult male father.

We have gone from father knows best, to somewhere in between Homer Simpson and Al Bundy. :-/

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by MnSpring on 06/10/18 at 07:17:28

“…Why don’t schools teach THAT?…”

It would be very hard to teach,
something you don’t know yourself.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Trippah on 06/10/18 at 07:53:24

Father knows best was a tongue in cheek title, it was mom who knew the score. :)

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Fast 650 on 06/10/18 at 08:36:25

Kids not knowing how to change a tire isn't a surprise today. We live in a throwaway society where it is cheaper to replace than to repair. Thus, the ability to do even simple repairs is rapidly becoming a lost skill.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Eegore on 06/10/18 at 09:02:31

In my county funding is the primary reason why electives such as vehicle maintenance have been removed. Music and Art also, although there's a potential increase now that the marijuana tax revenues are coming in.

With the ease of modern service calls, like pushing a button on your car, or an app on a cellphone there is less need for personal roadside knowledge. Less need means less distribution of that knowledge, tire changes are similar to canning foods or curing meats.

A kid in high school today knows there's more money, and more opportunities being the guy that builds the tire-change app than being the guy that changes the tire.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/10/18 at 09:28:29

Really? You decide to ignore learning how to change a flat, because people who do that don't make much money?
Ignernt sumbitch on a road in the middle of nowhere who never learned is Fixin to discover just how much a dumb slob who knows how
CAN make by changing a tire.
You have no idea..

If I stumbled across one of those poor kids who doesn't know squat I'd help.
I'd let him do it.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Matchless G11 on 06/10/18 at 10:51:35

I have seen guys from Mexico (though less educated) be more resourceful.
We have laziness and common sense problem, That is if you can't fix it with Control, Alt, Delete.
You are up the creek.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Trippah on 06/10/18 at 12:16:08

You all are something else. If you try to change a flat tire, in most cases you would never get the lug nuts moving;
they are torqued on so hard it would take an air gun to loosen them. (thank your local insurance carrier for the tire guys who fit your tires -one wheel departure unplanned can cause big bucks so make sure they are tight!)

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/10/18 at 12:28:19

Ohhh, look, defeated before you try.

The pioneer spirit is alive and well in the lefty world.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Matchless G11 on 06/10/18 at 15:41:44

I guess the "Lefties" are ticked off since they stopped using left hand on the lug nuts threads on their Chryslers ;D

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Trippah on 06/10/18 at 15:56:47

If you are referring to me, I tried just yesterday to loosen the lug nuts on my daughter's Chrysler Town and Country when she got a flat just around the corner from me.(convenient anyway). Wouldn't budge, the first two I tried. Forth one the lug nut wasn't the same size, hmmm. Called AAA and waited an hour. With power tools and a selection of sockets, he finally managed. Do you carry WD-40 or penetrating oil in your car?
In this case it still wouldn't have helped.. so please don't go all lefty on me. I bet you I am the only person on this site who voted for barry goldwater and my views haven't changed too much. :o

I am a small government,anti war unless you go in to win, not simply to have ongoing was for the war mongers.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Eegore on 06/10/18 at 15:59:49

This reminds me of all the people that said texting would stop communication as we know it. That computers aren't needed because they have a typewriter. Things like that.

It may be possible in your area to donate to the local education system and get a 3-day program built. I've donated to a program where kids go through a 3 day workshop showing how checking used to work (bottom line hardly anyone writes paper check s anymore) how interest works, how credit works, how to do a W-4 and show them that the IRS actually has a free tax service, but by law is not allowed to advertise it.

A maintenance program would work in a similar way. But it would be up to us to do something about it as tire-changing as far as I know has never been a standard in the US education system. I know none of the schools I attended taught it.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/10/18 at 16:07:12

Glad you tried.
If you don't Watch them, they Will jam them on.
It's important to be able to solve a problem like that. Plugs , pliers, fix a flat, and I like the little tire service kit Slime sells,
Read the compressor use part.
Knowing what you know you might consider a breaker bar, extension, socket and cheater pipe.
I don't own wd40.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Matchless G11 on 06/10/18 at 16:47:46

Trippah
It was not directed at you. Some one mentioned lug nuts, and the left.
I just made a connection of long ago when some cars had left hand threads on the left side of the car. I think Buicks, Alfas, and Chryslers shared this trait.

Just a joke, but ironically your daughter has a flat on a Chrysler!

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by Matchless G11 on 06/10/18 at 17:12:25

4C6C6E667B6C090 wrote:

Eegore
That is a good idea.
Getting kids to learn the actually things in life and how they work.
When I was in school we had votec school that taught some of these things. I took apart a large building hvac unit that was donated and built a hub puller for my 122 Volvo.
The problem at the time was votec was a "redneck" option so the preps couldn't dirty their hands to go there.
And yes we learned to change flats.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by WebsterMark on 06/11/18 at 05:14:16

637C7A7D60675666566E7C703B090 wrote:

Ohhh, look, defeated before you try.

The pioneer spirit is alive and well in the lefty world.

That's a little bit of a "TT" style out of bounds late hit Jog.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/11/18 at 07:11:27

Yeah,, I agree.

Sorry, Trip.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by WebsterMark on 06/11/18 at 08:08:52

You're a good man Charlie Brown.

Title: Re: Remember Beaver ?
Post by MnSpring on 06/11/18 at 11:24:30

I believe the point was:

As I don’t know how to harness up a horse to a carriage.
(Their are MANY, 10-16, that do,
and thinking everybody over 16, knows how)
Those are the people that Use a Horse and Carriage every day.
(Think Amish/Hutterites/etc)

The, ‘actors’, (Flat Tire Comedy) portraying DFI’s.
Are portraying, "They Don’t Have to know”
because someone else knows how.
And when they can’t, ‘find’, that someone else,
that is to do, what they don’t know, what/how to do.
It is clearly, ’someone else’s, fault.

Kinna like the other cartoon, er, commercial.
Where a Lady is complaining about having a fender bender accident.
She complained her car insurance rate went up.
So it is CLEARLY, the Insurance companies Fault.

Not HER, Fault, for, NOT, Reading/Understanding,
the contracts.
Where one said: here is a lower rate, but if you have a fender bender, the rate will go up.
Or here is one: where the rate is higher, and having a fender bender will not make the rate go up, because you have already paid the rate increase in advance.

Ya know, If I was a Dark Skinned Female, 25-35 years old.
(Which the above commercial portrayed)
I would be yelling to High Heaven, and getting everyone I knew to do the same.
In all, the, ’social medias’, telling everyone, that Dark Skin, 25-35 year old Females, are NOT That Stupid.
And to STOP, representing them as such.

(Well, unless, you were, ’taught’, to be stupid,
so, ‘what does it matter now’)