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    kids today!

    https://archive.ph/PIr9i (non-paywall link to torygraph)

    Clueless Gen Z paying up to £1,300 for household tasks like changing light bulbs

    Young adults who cannot tell a spanner from a screwdriver may spell the end of a country of DIY lovers, research suggests

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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    https://archive.ph/PIr9i (non-paywall link to torygraph)

    Clueless Gen Z paying up to £1,300 for household tasks like changing light bulbs

    Young adults who cannot tell a spanner from a screwdriver may spell the end of a country of DIY lovers, research suggests
    Newspaper blames children for how their parents (readers of the newspaper) brought them up.

    ...but to help those who are unsure: a spanner is a hammer with either a gap in the hitty end or a hole. A screwdriver is orange juice and vodka.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #3
      I'm buying an old motorbike so that my son has something to break/repair.

      Then when he's a bit older an old landrover.
      Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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        #4
        love the gender gap as well.
        One of my daughters shares a house with two girls, my daughter when we visited she was having trouble with a blocked basin and shower drain so I bought her a plunger and showed her how to unblock it. Her Housemates described it as a 'blue job' i.e. it needed to be done by a man my wife & I were surprised and asked what a 'pink job' was. Apparently women only select the paint...

        Sorry Emily Pankhurst!
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by WTFH View Post

          Newspaper blames children for how their parents (readers of the newspaper) brought them up.

          ...but to help those who are unsure: a spanner is a hammer with either a gap in the hitty end or a hole. A screwdriver is orange juice and vodka.
          nah a spanner is used for tightening your nuts!
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #6
            Dunno what's wrong with em, keep reading news about days off sick, mental health problems, back pain etc. Think evolution is now in reverse, in 10,000 years mankind will be swinging on trees shouting ug ug.
            bloggoth

            If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
            John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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              #7
              Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
              Dunno what's wrong with em, keep reading news about days off sick, mental health problems, back pain etc. Think evolution is now in reverse, in 10,000 years mankind will be swinging on trees shouting ug ug.
              Have you been to your local city centre on a Saturday night lately?
              Blog? What blog...?

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                #8
                Originally posted by malvolio View Post

                Have you been to your local city centre on a Saturday night lately?
                From the river to the sea? Or get yer Tits OOOT?
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #9
                  I spy a plan B.

                  I could even devise a GCSE in DIY and get the DfE to pay me to define the syllabus. Or maybe that already exists.
                  England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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                    #10
                    DIY seems to be dying out generally. My local Homebase closed recently. Wasn't surprised, never saw many people in there.
                    bloggoth

                    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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