I'm old, yes, but what do they teach people these days?

[ebb]

Oldav do a search even the vinyl companies recommend bleach

 

[AccelR8]

All of the safety warnings,labeling and guards have flooded the country with idiots. Take all that away and in a few years it will clean its self up.

Just a while back a guy I work with that is 60 grabbed a hot plate in the lab with his right hand, dropped it on the floor. Took the glove off of his left hand, proceeded to pick it up and burnt his left hand.
He looked at me and said “that’s hot”. I responded your pretty sharp, only took you twice to figure that out AND that’s why the call it a hot plate!

Forward two days later he was PO’d at me. He said I called him an idiot when I said it only took him twice to figure out it was hot.

I honestly wonder how some folks made it as far in life as they have.

Ha! WARNING! Hot plate is hot when in use!

I remember when I was just a boy...a wee lad...5 or 6 years old. My dad would chew me out real good for not knowing something that to him was "common knowledge" and it was even worse if I got injured because of my unknowing. No sympathy for the hurt...example drilling a thick piece of steel. Used my tender 6 year old finger to investigate the back side of the steel and got burned. "Of course it's hot, what did you expect? That's friction! Are you stupid?" I remember thinking well how would I know that?

 

[hpshooter]

"The only thing I ask God is to give me long life and health so I can help guide, counsel, teach and watch them grow."

Amen to that!

 

[Snuggie]

I think that the things we pick up through life from either our own experience or that which is taught us becomes “common sense” as we age. Just my thoughts.....

 

[olddav]

Oldav do a search even the vinyl companies recommend bleach

I was just offering years of experience. The more bleach the quicker the vinyl failed but if one is ok with replacing their siding then I’d say bleach it as much as you like.

 

[Siko12]

It’s amazing to see our youth. They seem so self confident. When I ask some young person a question, they whip out their iPhone and boom an answer pops up. Not a bad thing but sometimes the person uploading the answer ain’t got a clue.
We have a local Ace hardware and I love messing with those kids. I know they are glad when I leave.

The person providing the answers is a person like them, Person with agendas, his own ideology of the world. depending on a knowledge bank has its own deficit.

 

[Rednexx]

Port ?? Starboard??? how about Engineers side and Fireman's side

 

[Deleted outa08]

I was raised on a farm in the 50s-60s.
Chores,work, conservative Christian parents. I am the most blessed of all men.

Me too. Jeff

 

[Deleted outa08]

There is a difference between vinyl and plastic bottles. Bleach will damage vinyl fences, siding and the vinyl coating on coil trim. Applying bleach to vinyl will cause it to fail prematurely. People still spray bleach on vinyl siding because it cleans it quickly and easily. I guess they don’t care about the damage.

Sorry, but I have used commercial grade bleach on my vinyl fence and siding for years and NO adverse effects. I think it`s in the rinse and not leaving it on too long. Jeff

 

[markT]

Ive used bleach and water on all my vinyl sided houses. Been doing it for +20 years. The amount of mold and dirt depends on the strength I mix it. Usually 20-30%.
Vinyl degrades with the effects of sun. Same as trim coil.

 

[Just Say Moe]

Your average Joe is below average. If you have a county recycle drop off like we do, take a peek in the "corrugated cardboard" only or "#2 plastic only" bin. The amount of crap in there makes me just shake my head. Then the goobers get all aghast when the county announces the whole dumpster goes to the landfill because of contamination!

 

[joshb]

Port ?? Starboard??? how about Engineers side and Fireman's side

I always stumbled on the “red right returning” thing with bouys when I was coming back from a day of fishing. Were you supposed to drive on the right side of the bouy or keep the bouy on the right side of the boat?
Might have had something to do with beer.

 

[AccelR8]

Driver's side, passenger's side?

 

[cheek9075]

Our company training person told me you could teach common sense, I told him he was a prime example that it could not be thought. End of conversation. Never spoke to him agian... Maybe he realized that he didnt have common sense and thought he could not teach it.

Hard lession are learned the hard way. That's how I learned...

 

[bluealtered]

I think fyrewall has hit the "Nail" squarely on the head. The big city i went to school in needed to start changing way back in the fifty's but didn't because some of teachers and city leaders made money from producing new "better" text books to teach with that in reality left the children less prepared to move on to the next step of their education.

 

[Siko12]

There's also a modern and different way to approach this. Kids these days spend more time in from of a screen. Watching some movie, blog, social media, texting etc. How many hours do they spend with their peers studying and try to question everything in order to make improvements. What i am saying is that kids are highly distracted and they don't even know it.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Yup, they don't have enough sense pour pee out of a boot.

 

[divingin]

Honestly sometimes I hesitate for a split second with right and left. But port and starboard always works!

It took some dive buddies with a new boat about 2 years to figure out port and starboard.

 

[Rustytigwire]

Story from a Hobie book to help remember which side is which.
ready?
Red left port.
done
i should include that is from sitting in the boat looking toward the bow (front)

 

[Catfur]

My question, what is the white corrosion in old pickup brass? I have a few boxes of 30-40 Winchester new in the box ammo that has corroded through. That is from the outside to inside.

I too have wondered about that. Often times I have had old factory ammo that had corroded brass that had turned green at the mouth. Certainly nothing I would attempt to fire...

Probably corrosion of the zinc component in the brass. Zinc salts are normally white in color.

My bet would be on Bronze Disease. A "an irreversible and nearly inexorable corrosion process that occurs when chlorides come into contact with bronze or other copper-bearing alloys."