Thread 82229843

Why are boomers so good at fixing shit? And why did they pass none of those skills down to their children?

>>82229843 (OP)
for the first part, they are white and got decent education. as for second part, jews.

Their parents taught them, and they learned the fundamental basics of machinery, architecture and general construction. You will find that once you have a fundamental understanding of how a house is constructed, and gain experience in the practical application of those fundamentals, they can be carried with you throughout life. It really is not as complicated as you think. Same goes with machinery, every machine and/or electronic has the same fundamental parts. Boomers were taught what these parts are and what they do.

The problem is boomers did not teach their children this. They instead opted to let the TV raise their children while the moms drank wine and smoked and the dads drank beer and smoked.

I was fortunate enough that my father taught me all these skills. Like I said, they really are not as complicated as you may think. The experience will make you a master, and you will live through enough problems and solutions relating to these things that too will become just as skilled as the boomers. You just have to go out there and find the information.

>>82229843 (OP)
>Why are boomers so good at fixing shit?
they aren't
>And why did they pass none of those skills down to their children?
because they don't have them

My boomer dad taught me nothing, yelled at me for every little thing I did and went overboard using the belt for any toe 'out of line' and half of that was just him being narcissistic bully.

My grandfather on the other hand taught me whatever he could until he died when I was 15. Never spanked/beat me unless I really needed it and wasn't afraid to admit he was wrong. He was a Korean War vet who saw heavy combat as well.

Boomers are just selfish nasty people.

>>82229843 (OP)
it used to be much easier to repair appliances/cars/whatever so back in the boomer days knowing those skills would save you a bunch of money.

now if you try to repair an appliance the parts are so expensive taht half the time it's cheaper to buy a whole new appliance

>>82229843 (OP)
My dad's owned computers for way longer than I've been alive and he still asks me daily how to open his browser. We're just built different.

>>82229843 (OP)
they lived in an era before unsustainable immigration so they did everything themselves

>>82229843 (OP)
Life was simpler back then because they didn't have a bunch of distractions and had to do practical things to not die of boredom.

>>82229843 (OP)
My boomer parents didn't teach me shit, I learned how to do things because I was poor.

>>82229843 (OP)
>Why are boomers so good at fixing shit?
They aren't. You are lumping in boomers with the mythologized American independent rural bumpkin.

In fact I think boomers have been psyoping themselves and everyone else into thinking they fall into that camp. Boomers love to pretend that they had to carve out a slice of the country for themselves through nothing else except grit.

This is the classic protestant work ethic which is nothing more than the remnants of american national pedigree made manifest through VAIN dramaturgy. Boomers are the main characters of their own movie.

They aren't fixing shit. They ruined the classic car market with resto mod bullshit and roush wheels. They are the only demographic besides black people who ride those three wheel motorcycle "slingshots". They have no taste and have no skills. They lucked out with an emerging economy and nothin else. Though like italians they love to stand around and give advice to blue collar workers taring their roofs or repaving their driveways.

Fuck boomers.

>>82230277
>I learned how to do things because I was poor.
this desu

>>82229843 (OP)
Just build shit out of wires and gears idiot

>>82229843 (OP)
Their ability to fix things / be useful is akin to us being tech savvy. It was the only thing available at that time to have fun with. Boomers using their index finger to type is akin to us looking at machinery and going " 0~0 wat do"

>>82230361
OK but what if you just stopped being stupid?

>>82230406
I dont give a care enough to try. Dont even give a hoot.

>>82230406
That's a nice radio, but those wax capacitors have to be changed before you turn it on.

>>82230473
It's been in regular use for years. I just did a power cable swap, fixed a tear in the speaker cone, and made note of one lightbulb that needs to be replaced to even out the front panel.
What's on the airwaves? Conservative trash, religious insanity, and one rock station. Rock on.

Out with the old and whatnot

>>82230596
At night I get old radio shows like fiber McGee and molly and the shadow. But reception is pretty poor, i just got an internet radio to listen too.

Your radio is much better designed than my Halicrafters with the ac cord soldered to the chassis.

>>82230406
this wiring is so shit i can believe a boomer did it
here's a tip about fixibg shit, if you find you need to keep fixing it often then it's because you never really fixed it properly in the first place

>>82230304
total boomer subjugation

>>82229843 (OP)
They got taught how to do it by their elders who thought handing down knowledge to your offspring is a good thing to do, and then when they were older and had their own children they wonder why their children dont already know the things they know and scold them for it

>>82229843 (OP)
It's not that they are good. It's that younger generations didn't learn fixing shit and spent time doing other things.
First of all, most fixes aren't that hard. Just think about it, what kind of people end up doing physical labor, operating heavy machinery etc? No idea how it's in US, but here in Europe it's usually guys who didn't do shit in school, their education path was random or of least resistance. People who had trouble with math, writing etc. And yet they can do these jobs. That's because they actually aren't that hard. I've made excavator licence just because there was occassion to do it for nearly free and turns out it drives just like a car, and operating spoon is like playing with joystick so you quickly catch up. Course was supposed to have like 40 hours of practical lessons with operating machinery, all of us in the group got like 1 hour each and most of us passed. Another example is removing rust from car. I actually tried because it just so happened I bought new car and had old one to spare so I could use it as learning prop. Obviously first time ended up shitty, but I learned a lot and it turns out you don't need to pay couple grand for someone else to fix this kind of shit.
Younger generations didn't learn it because we were busy playing games while older generations didn't have this potent time and attention sinks. Also our tech is often miniature electronics while theirs was much more simple and thus easier to fix yourself with just screwdriver and hammer instead of microscope. Also meme belief in education and pushing us to often waste time in universities on meme courses so we would avoid working physical labor, basically rat race with no one realizing that not everyone can be manager and white collar because you need actual dirty labor done as well. And they didn't pass these skills because natural intergenerational relations got fucked and barely anyone gets decent upbringing for decades already.
New gens are better at using tech

They didn't teach me shit but I can also look up a video on youtube to fix literally anything. So it's okay.