Turns out my nieces/nephews don't know how to read time

[Mayne]

I thought this was common knowledge. Don't they teach this in school?

 

[IronWing]

Hammer time?

 

[Mayne]

at least the clock face will still be used by me in the kitchen. Still looks good in the kitchen that I painted and tiled today.

 

[pete6032]

Do you still have your $143?

 

[Mayne]

100 now. Its all good, the work will come.

 

[Darwin333]

Hammer time?

 

[Mayne]

I'm a wee bit perplexed by this stunning news. I really fucking weep for this generation.

 

[IronWing]

From your scant clues, I'm guessing that blood of your blood can't tell time from an analog clock face?

 

[Mayne]

From your scant clues, I'm guessing that blood of your blood can't tell time from an analog clock face?

they don't know how to read a clock face.

 

[Mayne]

seriously. How fucked up is that shit?

 

[IronWing]

Get a Japanese temporal hours clock to really mess with them.

 

[Mayne]

Hour hands/minute hands ..i should teach them that first ironwing.

you'd think a bunch of 18-20 year olds would know how to read a clock.

 

[sdifox]

Siri what time is it

 

[ch33zw1z]

yea, its still taught....my kids read it just fine

 

[Darwin333]

Hour hands/minute hands ..i should teach them that first ironwing.

you'd think a bunch of 18-20 year olds would know how to read a clock.

In all fairness they are your kin...

 

[Rumpltzer]

OP should not be generalizing that children related to him are indicative of all/most/any other children.

Has natural selection really been made irrelevant in first-world humans? If so, I very much look forward to the zombie apocalypse.

 

[spacejamz]

What if the clock face had roman numerals? wonder if they still how to read those...LOL

 

[BurnItDwn]

did you say 18-20 months or years? I saw years. Was that a typo?

 

[DietDrThunder]

25 or 6 to 4

 

[Mayne]

maybe its my family thing...they still can't read an actual clock on a wall if its not digital.

 

[renz20003]

So what you're saying is the apple doesn't fall from the tree?

 

[Mayne]

not sure about that renz. I had an amazing older brother growing up.

 

[brianmanahan]

analog clocks are pointless, i can read one but why would i want to?

 

[madoka]

OP should not be generalizing that children related to him are indicative of all/most/any other children.

Has natural selection really been made irrelevant in first-world humans? If so, I very much look forward to the zombie apocalypse.

Yes, yes it has.

Some believe the Flynn effect has masked a decline in the genetic basis for intelligence, so that while more people have been reaching their full potential, that potential itself has been declining.

Some have even contentiously said this could be because educated people are deciding to have fewer children, so that subsequent generations are largely made up of less intelligent people.

Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans’ genetic potential.

He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.

Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.

Mayne and his relatives are the harbingers of Idiocracy.

 

[Greenman]

analog clocks are pointless, i can read one but why would i want to?

So you would know what time it is. (The "duh" is implied).