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To: discostu
Most of my ancestors couldn’t install an operating system, I can.

Let's see, I bet you can fix a wagon wheel, shoe a horse, mill grain, build a home, build a cistern, an outhouse, and push a plow until your hands are blistered. Yeah you are a hell of guy. /s

155 posted on 07/07/2011 2:38:31 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: catfish1957

Way to complete and deliberately miss the point. Let’s look at some of those sentences you deliberately skipped:
Evaporating skills are not society getting dumb, they’re society moving on. There’s other skills we’ve had to learn in the new modern world.

So of course I don’t have those skills you listed entirely to be argumentative, because our society has moved on. But I have other skills, like installing an OS and then using it, because those are the skills needed in a modern society. Every time somebody lists skills off that we no longer have they carefully ignore the fact that we don’t need them anymore either. Necessary skills don’t fade from the societal set, the skills that fade are the useless ones. Like cursive.


156 posted on 07/07/2011 2:49:15 PM PDT by discostu (Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn)
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