Niggers can't swim either, and most of the youth these days are those it seems...
Carson Torres
>Young people lack survival skills
>London
Benjamin Wood
Looks like you forgot the basic skill of posting a source in the OP, OP.
Sadly OP is a faggot.
Aiden Brown
Maybe because they don't live in medieval hamlets and have no need to tie knots or start fire with sticks.
Ayden Myers
Source is provided in the second post.
Seems like your the faggot like always.
Jaxson Clark
It might be because what we consider as basics is changing with society.
These basic skills might helped you survive a 100 years ago, but today knowing all that is pointless, since most likely the majority of it is illegal anyway (fishing, lighting fires, going off track hiking).
That is why the younger generations have other skills to make up for the lack of those. Mainly being proficient with technology.
Camden Long
>forbid fishing >wonder why people don't fish Do boomers lack basic thinking skills compared to any other generation?
Dominic Kelly
where do I learn map reading (without joining the army)?
William Murphy
In whose life is starting a fire from scratch or being able to fish is a basic life skill? Basic, as in needed for the overwhelming majority of the population.
It's just old, insecure, but probably well-off dudes (after all it was done at a boat show...) consoling themselves that it's okay that they can barely open Facebook and the word 'programming' terrifies them to the core.
James Barnes
unfit traits die out, unused skills fade once they become obsolete, although its worrying people are only fucked when shit hits the fan and it probably never will on the scale of a world war. its all just natural selection human brains are extremely limited and choose the path of least resistance.
Hunter White
>d-don't catch fish it's cruel and they'll run out >d-don't make fires outside it's dangerous >d-don't swim in the sea there are waves >lol dumb millennials can't do anything useful they'll all starve if the power goes out Wankers
Cooper Cooper
Funny thing is, video games taught me most of that.
Are video games really that bad?
Samuel Butler
>boat show concerned the younger generations dont give a shit about any the merit badge activities related to their hobby
Tough break gramps. I guess "buying a fucking boat" is pretty low on the priorities when you're still trying to tackle the moving out and buying a car life goals
Elijah Sanchez
>trips what the hell video games were you playing that taught you real skills?
Adam James
Video-games taught you to swim?
Cooper Gomez
Old adventure video games mostly, like Ultima Underworld, Gabriel Knight, Little Big Adventure, Broken Sword, Gothic and shit.
Good old compasses and maps are the main orienteering mechanic, and then there's plenty activities which have you explore and understand each of them in depth, whether fishing, starting a fire (oh so many puzzles where you need to start a fire with unusual items), hunting animals, setting traps, locking doors, using planks as torches...
It teaches you a ton of things on top of stimulating your imagination and creativity. More recent games are obviously fucking garbage, but games of old actually taught you worthwhile things.
Colton Young
>London There's your problem.
Nathan Walker
In this case no, but user you have no fucking idea the shit I learned from video games: using a bow, a gun, piloting a plane, a boat... obviously it's all superficial knowledge, with zero actual practice, but that's a lot more than most people know, and that's a solid enough basis to sort out the rest on your own by experimenting.
Jackson Kelly
Oh I also learned English and Russian thanks to vidya.
Ethan Gutierrez
you will need help with bows since you probably lack the basic knowledge that bows need to be tailored to your body
Ian Fisher
But with zero actual practice, it's worthless. When I was a kid, I thought Call of Duty made me into a 10/10 marksman, then I went to a Paintball match with some friends and got destroyed.
speaking of survival skills anyone on here a fan of Dave Canterbury? he's like the cool grandpa i wish I had. >you will never sit by the campfire with this guy while he teaches you about making fishing lines out of grass and shit.
Henry Perry
it helps to bring a survival book
you guys do OWN real paperback survival books right?
Joseph Turner
I know that, video games taught me there are different types of bows of different sizes with different pulls, logic tells me obviously they depend on your own size, strength, the kind of targets you want to shoot at, the ranges at which those targets usually are, the kind of situations/locations you want to use it in...
I don't know precisely any of this, but I know where to look and I can figure it out on my own.
>When I was a kid, I thought Call of Duty made me into a 10/10 marksman, then I went to a Paintball match with some friends and got destroyed. Same as above, that is precisely where you reach the limits of it: certainly you could know how to use a rifle, how to hold it, how to operate it... that doesn't mean you're a good shot. I can use a bow, though I would make a terrible bowman.
But you have the basic knowledge that allows you to improve and discover the rest by practice. You have to realize a lot of people would barely know how to hold a gun or a bow properly to begin with: that is little knowledge you have there, but that's a lot already.
Parker Cook
>tfw you dad bought you the SAS survival handbook for your 8th birthday and it was the coolest thing ever. > remember going out in the woods and making the little squirrel traps from it and shit.
James Cooper
Wish we had those around here. There are some pike but you need a boat and they are rare af even then.
Sebastian Garcia
of course they live in pozz cities
Nolan Stewart
Go camping.
Jayden Long
You sound like your 12
Eli Brown
Boomers didn't share their knowledge handed down to them for generations. hell I've met people who NEVER picked mushrooms, roots, berries etc and forests are all around us.
Parker Brown
only thing valuable you could realistically learn from a game is land navigation from the arma series but even then most of those games cheat by giving you GPS.
Christian Gomez
is that a trap?
Jeremiah Hughes
...
Ryan Cook
You still need knots occasionally, that said even the best trained survival guys have a bitch of a time getting fire going from fresh wood and no tools. I can't bully you for not being able to run two sticks hard enough to combust.
Jayden Perez
>go to my IT job all day >come home and play video games until sleeping >hate going outside >only watch videos of people teaching about working outside, woodworking, welding, machining, crafting and generally doing blue collar stuff on youtube the entire time
guess ill be kind of prepared if theres some massive disaster
her name is Soe Penski
Nicholas Robinson
How do you get through life not knowing how to tie a knot or start a fire?
I dont believe it, next thing you will be telling me they dont know how to change a tire.
Kayden Bennett
>life is getting easier with the advancement of technology >oh no, people have different skills now to cope with the current lifestyle
Joshua Lewis
Walleyes are better eating
Zachary Moore
All the jocks preps and popular s call me gay for being in boyscouts. Atleast I know how to build fires, build shelter, cook my food over the fire, treat water, tie knots, ect.
Adam Bennett
>compared to their grandparents
Yeah but can those grandparents evolve a Pokemon, raise a thriving farm on Farmville, or tweet to 100k followers? I think not.
Camden Flores
we have less skills overall because we replaced skills with technology. In fact human brains have been shrinking ever since the dawn of civilization.
Ryder Wright
But he is right
Dominic Hughes
Hey I tried, but the club I was forced to go to was shit. The others didn't want to do anything but play football and lazy officers did nothing but talk at the edge of the pitch.
Grayson Phillips
Thank the modern education system.
And thank your parents for not paying any attention to what you're "learning" and for fully trusting the God Emperor Education Establishment.
Hudson Powell
I'm 30 but maybe you should play video games. Old ones though, Call of Duty won't teach you shit, but anything before 2000 roughly certainly does.
Old video games literally had you draw your own maps.
Nathaniel Hernandez
>illegal anyway (fishing, lighting fires, going off track hiking).
Is it that bad there?
Nolan Murphy
>you are part of the generation that fell for the velcrojew jdisma
Jaxson Collins
Maybe he should stop relying on simulated "knowledge" from a videogame and replace it with real experience.
Just because I watch COPS doesn't make me a cop.
Owen Perez
That's not really surprising. I think it has more to do with the massive urbanization of the second half of the last century and the advancement of technology.
However it's something that needs addressing. We should have more outdoors things like boyscouts and all. If we can make campaign for first aid courses then surely we can for practical skills
Grayson Stewart
>Just because I watch COPS doesn't make me a cop.
The fuck it doesn't. I AM THE LAW!
Brandon Hughes
why are millenials dropping out of society?
Landon Bailey
I'm 28 and I've gamed all my life.
Anthony Perry
>>you will never sit by the campfire with this guy while he teaches you about making fishing lines out of grass and shit while tenderly touching your leg
Jordan Rivera
No hope of house or family, might as well numb the pain with anime until the sweet embrace of death finds us.
Jayden Harris
why do so many millennials not own a drivers license?
Jackson Watson
>Millennials lack basic survival skills, like reading a map and tying a knot!! These are still totally relevant skills!!
This isn't the 50s anymore, we need different survival skills today, like knowing how to avoid getting raped, robbed and murdered by Mohammed and his 20 cousins.
Although I still think people should teach themselves about basic survival in case of a shtf situation. But make no mistake, these skills are pretty much useless in a non-collapsed society.
William Campbell
>millenials lack basic survival skills
meanwhile, my parents can't use a fucking ATM or any piece of technology in the 21st century
Lincoln Howard
why do millennials think its okay to eat fast food more than twice a month?
Jayden Lee
Because they know they'll never be able to buy a car.
Luis Hill
>american millennials
ftfy
Parker Powell
>map reading OH for fucks sake If you played a single fucking survival video game or maybe a military simulator like ARMA you can "learn" this super hard near impossible "skill"
they have been shrinking because our lives are easier
harsh life > more work to do more work to do > more muscles more muscles > more brain to control them
if intelligence was dictated by how big your brain is then elephants would teach in schools
Nicholas Robinson
>rebooting the system >choose one of the available options
Colton Nelson
why millennials do should sex jews interracial baby love DNA for themselves final stage arrest none hebrew
Connor Scott
why do millennials think its okay to take all the cookies from the cookie jar. Dont they know this makes everyone else sad?
Kayden Torres
she has a punchable face
Carter Robinson
I noticed you looking at me in your 91 KB JPG Why Do millennials like What you see my Hand to my Mouth like this?
Asher Ross
Man do you even live in the south?
Going hunting, fishing, hiking, camping all that fun shit. And then coming and shitposting while squeezing out a massive shit.
Dylan Hernandez
Is a threat? Ive been found out?>ERROR!ERROR! >ERROR!
Now shutting down data mine system.
Henry Lee
>London Maybe because relevant survival skills in London are a bit different. Keep your money in your socks and only spare change in your pockets, that way you don't lose it all if you get robbed. Stay clear of minorities, don't walk into certain neighborhoods, don't go home for tea at a pakis house if you're a 14 year old girl. Things like that.
Hudson Watson
They do rub sticks together for fun, just not for fire.
Jordan Ross
Literally squeezing out a massive shit while shitposting here in Blessed Dixie right now.
Tyler Watson
Do that and you end up with a massive cut in your hands once you hit that chin.
I have the pic of a dude with a more feminine jawline than this girl t.b.h.
Ryder Collins
>I hope they serve beer in hell
Great choice
Jeremiah Edwards
The older generation has to teach them, I was taught and can do all that shit and more
Aiden Sanchez
These are cuck tier skills.
I want to learn how to handle electricity, fix pipes or leaking sink/tap or able to change a tire, fix an engine problem of a car.
Any links?
Michael Rogers
There must be balance in everything. If you dont push your kid outside, to play in the wild with other kids, if you dont sign him for scouting or other kind of camping, if you dont make him learn basic stuff you are raising a handicaped retard. Present time kids are surrounded by touchscreen technology with interface for morons and they watch gamplays and youtubers.
Robert Roberts
>what the hell video games were you playing that taught you real skills? arma 2, arma 3 and dayz will teach you how to use a compass, navigate using a map or even reading the time using the sun or navigating using the sun/stars.
It got some theoretical knowledge about building bows, fires, fishing, gardening etc to but its just that, theoretical. It won't teach any one to build an actual bow but when SHTF the nerds that played dayz instead of starcraft might think ''hey, i can build a bow'' instead of ''i wish Jim Raynor was here to save me''
There are also TONS of other crafting/survival games that teach you similar things. That genre has really blown up the last few years. They won't teach you how its done practically but they will teach you that it can be done theoretically.
I'm 33 and do all that shit. Got caught taking too many abalone before Christmas and got fined fuck all
Charles Cox
All of these can be acomplished with silvertape.
I wonder how to make the string of a bow without nylon or some other manufactured shit.
Nathan Nguyen
Go out and find people who do those things and ask don't get it off the internet.
Anthony Bennett
Considering it was conducted in London these are both true
Camden Nguyen
work is harder than sitting on your entitled ass through school when it isn't, only women get to have those jobs. human resources and finance and library departments, social work, and other soft work that you can flash your vagina for and spend the rest of your days lording your bachelor's over everyone else and backstabbing your vaginal competition
Benjamin Stewart
nice catch.
Charles Wilson
>he actually thinks actions in a game are similar to those in real life
you can play dayz however much you want kid, but if you get thrown out in the wild you wouldn't know how to craft shit, because its not just add stone + wood and an axe is magically created
Oliver Hill
>speaking of survival skills anyone on here a fan of Dave Canterbury? he's like the cool grandpa i wish I had. He (they?) got a pretty good youtube channel
Joseph Ortiz
It has been like that for much longer than just the millennials.
Asher Martinez
porn addiction
Parker Martin
>Sup Forums cant fish go fuck yourself.
Ayden Ross
Nope, it's just the truth. This kid has a better jawline than her.
Kevin Powell
it's admittedly hard to make cordage strong enough for a bow from natural materials but apparently you can do it with cattails. pic related can be done with most plant fibers.
Colton King
also, supposedly the earth is warming and glaciers are melting. is this proof of god?
Jonathan Ross
Maybe this has to do with the way you were raised?
I met a guy the other day, grew up in the jungle since his father was the owner of a rubber plantation. Since he was 7 he had to carry a shotgun to fend off jaguars, and as a teenager he would fend off raids of cannibal natives with his father. Basically you can throw this guy from a helicopter in the middle of the amazon jungle without a single fucking thing on him and he will manage to survive.
My own father taught me how to shoot, hunt, basic camping skills, basic home repairs, etc, because that's what he learned from his father and so on.
The issue is not the survival skills per se, its the fucking lazy parenting that doesn't take time to train their children properly. Most people should not have children.
