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how to think for myself
Use a rotary phone, write in cursive, fix my own bicycle, switch hexadecimal to binary to base 10, basic math, play a record without scratching it, use walkie talkies
How to use a slide rule.
I own three slide rules from high school and college. Antiques from over 50 years ago.
Also:
How to use a modem and dial-up to connect to BBS boards and online services.
How to type on a typewriter, especially a manual one. I still have my first one from 1971, and ribbons are still available online for it. I also have a ribbon reinker gadget and a quart of ink in my supplies.
How to cut a mimeograph stencil and how to create the master for a spirit duplicator.
As a retired teacher of 40 years and a tutor for the last 3, who was trained before calculators, my students are amazed when I do calculations in my head faster than they can do it on a calculator.
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I can read a Thomas Guide.
I could use a Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature at the library, then get the librarian go to the periodical room and fetch me the magazine I wanted. It was in the same area as Thomas in my hometown library.
Cooking with Lard and Cane sugar
Correctly set a dual-point distributor.
Or gap spark plugs, or change a tire, or replace spark plug wires correctly, or start a car with a dead battery that has manual transmission and no jumper cables.
That what the insides of Twinkies and Oreos used to be. They aren't as good now or as good for you.
Common sense
Sigh Before I scrolled down to see the answer, my answer was- Critical thinking skills. We've descended below Captain Obvious Levels.
The distinct adventures of Captain Obvious!
On having previewed the question - This was supposed to be a trivial skill. Cursive writing and using a rotary phone would be my trivial ones, but Critical Thinking Skills are a real lost, essential art.
Read and use a paper map.
My wife does that even now on trips. Perhaps our next car will come with GPS and maps installed. But that's still a few years out, as I don't trade cars often.
I have a large map collection and have drawn a few myself.
Double spacing after each period🐸
I took two years of typing in high school back in the 60s, so I automatically type that way. Also, it was required at one job, back when Courier type was used on documents.
Oh totally, I did too in the 90's & that's what they taught us as well😁
From a long and interesting life, I have skills that I cannot put on a resume. Was a Marksman-level shooter in the USMC back in the day, know how to set up ambushes, can disassemble-clean-reassemble numerous small arms, can cook many different things with the "cookbook" in my head, play several stringed instruments, clean and sober for over 3 decades, no one in my family will play Trivial Pursuit or watch "Jeopardy" with me anymore as I trounce them every time.... the list goes on.
I can sort of play a lot. I own my father's instruments, which he could play well: guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, button accordion, and harmonica (with the neck lyre for playing with the guitar). I played a wind instrument in the band and Flutophone in 4th grade. I play a tiny bit on the piano.
I also can cook numerous recipes out of my head, as I helped my mother cooking when I was a child. I can also do the same with canning vegetables for the same reason.
From early training and working on various jobs, I can do some finish carpentry, Fiberglas work as in hulls and other parts of million dollar yachts, operate mechanical electric cash registers, and work on vending machine coin acceptors.
Being older means I've been through a lot, and I actually remember a lot of it. :)
Then you have what is known as "marketable skills"...or at least skills that can be bartered. People who know how to do things won't starve.
People think I'm totally a book-learning type of guy, but I've always watched other people do things and learned everything I can. Back in the old days, I would watch mechanics work on my car to see what they did. I watched a guy work on my heat pump and fix it simply. The next time it had the same problem, I fixed it myself.
I built my greenhouse almost 20 years ago, and it still stands. A guy next door kept saying the lumber was crooked, and the greenhouse wouldn't look right. I told him I was allowing for the crooked lumber by the way I arranged it. When I was done, it looked straight and square. I impressed myself. :)
I helped in the garden when I was a child and can garden today. I already have seeds for this spring and the coming fall. I also have a yard full of edible wild plants. It's a yard, not a lawn. So I'm pretty sure I won't starve.
Sounds like a plan.
Same here on the playing several stringed instruments...I'm my own orchestra.
Use coupons, cook from scratch, Gregg Shorthand, 10 key with both hands, darn socks, crotchet, the list goes on and on, like others here.
Nice 🥰 I can only 10 key with my right hand - left hand is useless for that or writing lol
If I try writing with my left hand, it turns out to be a mirror image. That's how DaVinci wrote his notes to make them hard for others to read.
My dad, God bless his soul, thought all his daughters should be secretaries!
My dad thought I could get a PhD but I like accounting - I don't have to do a lot of peopling 🙈
Numbers do not lie.................unless you do that new math! LOL
I am VERY THANKFUL I learned real math lol not that new math crap
The first "new math" came out when I was in 8th grade in 1966. It was introduced in 7th and 8th grades, so my class had to go through both books. The teacher was brand new and nice looking, so even the dumbest guys in the class got Bs. :)
Being male, I never considered taking shorthand, but I did take two years of typing. My father said I would never use anything else from high school. That was back in the 60s. I can also tear up a 10-key adding machine. I can cook a lot of meals from scratch without a cookbook, as I helped my mother when I was a child. I also helped her prepping vegetables for canning and helped with the actual canning. I only got as far as doing a chain stitch with my fingers in crochet. Mechanics and carpenters do something similar with long electric cords.
You are awesome! Lots of skills. When I was in the 4th grade, my dad taught me how to change a tire! This is funny because my husband fills up my gas tank when it gets low, so I know I won't be changing a tire.
Now, where did I put my abacus?
I have an abacus and a slide rule with 8 lines.
I have a thin slide rule from high school as well as a pocket-sized one. I also have a full-width slide rule with all the rules from college. Pocket calculators had just come out when I was in college and cost a lot, some models costing over $800.
I have a working slide rule as a tie clasp. No one under 60 knows what it is when I wear it.
That's tiny. Will it even do 2 times 2? :)
I'd still wear one, if I had one.
Yes, you can multiply and do square roots with it. Today, I need a magnifying glass to see it even when I'm wearing my glasses.
I amaze the kids with my slide rule.
How to not use a knife to cut myself willingly,
Use a slide rule.
I have one with 8 lines.
Scales?
Navigating N/S/E/W based solely on time of day, position of sun and shadow, and other observations such as locations of moss growth on rocks and treestumps.
Masturbating using my fantasy alone.
The younger generation definitely can’t do that, including the women. My daughter tells me that at the restaurant she works at, her female coworkers share their favorite porn sites that gets them into the proper mood.
There was a time, many decades ago, when I could finish by thought alone. The image in my head was a young actress, I think it was Peggy Lipton.
I possess the valuable skill of applying hindsight to current events of the day.
The difference between The Before Times and Today is something that younger people will never know.
Before a computer tether in their back pocket, is just one example.
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