I dont do fractions

[BarnyardEngineering]

When we started to learn fractions and common denominators in grade school, I was pretty excited. I helped my uncle work on the semis used in the logging business under a shade tree in grandmothers' backyard. I would hand him tools while he stayed up in the engine bay of the 59 International. He would ask for the next size larger than a 11/16 and I would struggle to figure out what he needed. This tried his patience. I told my friends at school how learning fractions and common denominators was going to have a positive impact on my life; they assumed I had lost my mind.

Yup, and I bet he NEVER once, ever, took a moment to SHOW you what he meant by "eleven-sixteenths." Just got irritated because you were "too stupid to figure it out."

I was fortunate that my Dad did stop and show me. "See, there is an eleven and a sixteen with that line in between. That's eleven-sixteenths." He even explained the special ones like "half" and "three-quarters" to me. When we started learning fractions in school, I was like "Holy crap, just like the wrenches!"

 

[rrlund]

Yup, and I bet he NEVER once, ever, took a moment to SHOW you what he meant by "eleven-sixteenths." Just got irritated because you were "too stupid to figure it out."

I was fortunate that my Dad did stop and show me. "See, there is an eleven and a sixteen with that line in between. That's eleven-sixteenths." He even explained the special ones like "half" and "three-quarters" to me. When we started learning fractions in school, I was like "Holy crap, just like the wrenches!"

You know, I'll just bet, if I asked what the width was across the flats on the head of a bolt that takes a half inch wrench, not many could give a quick correct answer.

 

[scootergmc]

You know, I'll just bet, if I asked what the width was across the flats on the head of a bolt that takes a half inch wrench, not many could give a quick correct answer.

I can. The answer is always metrinch.

 

[miangus]

Yup, and I bet he NEVER once, ever, took a moment to SHOW you what he meant by "eleven-sixteenths." Just got irritated because you were "too stupid to figure it out."

I was fortunate that my Dad did stop and show me. "See, there is an eleven and a sixteen with that line in between. That's eleven-sixteenths." He even explained the special ones like "half" and "three-quarters" to me. When we started learning fractions in school, I was like "Holy crap, just like the wrenches!"

It was one of the many character-building experiences I had growing up. Growing up we all worked hard and never complained, it was hot and that R series International would melt the solder out of the airlines. I was just glad my uncle was a poor shot when he tossed the wrench back at me. I find it humorous now days when people can't deal with critique.

 

[GChief]

Same as it ever was. You guys need to be more original and find something else to complain about. Bashing on young people has already been done

The people you are complaing about is our generations fault

 

[NDIHC]

Same as it ever was. You guys need to be more original and find something else to complain about. Bashing on young people has already been done

The people you are complaing about is our generations fault

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While there seems to be more people in my kids' age group (21-31) with a lack of common sense compared to what I remember of my generation at their age, I suspect most of them received very little common sense from their parents!

 

[Mule Meat]

Same as it ever was. You guys need to be more original and find something else to complain about. Bashing on young people has already been done

The people you are complaing about is our generations fault

Boy I went to school with has a grown son. The guy told me, when I ask about how he's doing, that his son wouldn't have anything to do with him..

I ask him a very blunt question. Do you think being called dumb, ignorant and stupid all of his life may play a role in him not having anything to do with you? I believe the guy could have crawled under a rug and not left a hump when it hit him that he may be the reason his son wants nothing to do with him.

How you treat young people have a lasting effect. And they never forget the people that played a positive role in their lives.

 

[GChief]

I suspect most of them received very little common sense from their parents!

And its been like that since the beginning of people having kids. Its nothing new that you perceive things that way.

The "current" new generation is always the worst ever, and yet, here we still are as a species.

 

[NDIHC]

And its been like that since the beginning of pwoplwnhaving kids. Its nothing new that you perceive things that way.

The "current" new generation is always the worst ever, and yet, he went still are as a species.

A little tongue in cheek with the phrase "compared to what I remember of my generation at their age". Been like that since long before my time and will stay that way long after I'm gone!

 

[hurleyjd]

Exactly! I'm sure I was taught the ancient bushels, pecks etc. in passing during my school years in the 70s and 80s. I know what a bushel basket looks like. But I could never in a hundred guesses tell you how many bushels fit in a trailer, bin, granary etc. It's just something I've never had to know and never cared to learn because what I do has nothing to do with those measurements.

Any one know how many bushels in a hogshead. Hint 6.77

 

[will-max dairy]

You've got that exactly right. We had a neighbor who was still walking behind a team of horses in the early 60s. In the mid 50s, his son had the Allis Chalmers dealer bring out a new tractor. The old man was furious and said he was calling them and telling them to come and get it! The son told him, if that tractor goes, I'm going. He gave in and let the tractor stay, but he never drove it. I can still remember seeing him pulling things with the horses and forecart. Now a whole bunch of us have turned in to that stubborn backwards thinking old man.

I was just thinking this morning about Dad's oldest brother. He was always out in front of everything, the first one to own anything new and he made a good bit of money with that attitude. If he was around today, he wouldn't be fighting a losing battle over windmills, he'd own the excavators digging the holes for the concrete.

But... I can see the old man's point. If he knows how to use horses, why go through the learning curve for tractors? But on the other hand, if his son wanted to use modern technology for himself...more power to him.

 

[Destroked 450]

You know, I'll just bet, if I asked what the width was across the flats on the head of a bolt that takes a half inch wrench, not many could give a quick correct answer.

13mm

 

[JDNewbie]

Here's a good one . When I was hauling for a major feed company here, I was a driver trainer. We would deliver the processed feed and then sometimes backhaul the customers grain. I had a new trainee with me one day. And after unloading the feed we reloaded with the customers corn. So after loading and heading back to the mill he asked me how much the corn was worth. I told him it was about $$ per bushel. He looked at me and said "what's a bushel". Well I about fell out of the truck. And this was about 20 years ago. I really just wanted to dump him on the side of the road right then and there. How can someone be so stupid.

Saw this in the laundry room tonight…never noticed it before!

 

[Rich'sToys]

Guess I’m getting punched
I had to google it to see what it was and have no idea how to use it

I knew what it was, but have never used one.

 

[scootergmc]

Saw this in the laundry room tonight…never noticed it before!View attachment 123449

That there's a six peck bin.

 

[GMCSierra1500]

The schools are not the same anymore, if the kid shows up for work everyday and tries cut him some slack and teach him. The next young employee will be just the same.

 

[Mule Meat]

So is the bushel basket half full or half empty??

I say either way. Your basket is bigger than it needs to be.

 

[Hemmjo]

Either way your 1/2 bushel basket would be 2 pecks

 

[Wdj]

Now that I'm finally old enough to gripe about kids these days nobody's gonna tell me not to!

 

[GChief]

I am old enough also. But I am not going to be a sheep like that and just blindly follow the herd