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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

When I was a kid my dad was horrified at how middle class Americans (he grew up pretty poor) didn’t how to take care of themselves. I’m not talking laundry and changing a lightbulb - I’m talking churning butter and butchering chickens. So I grew up solidly upper middle class, but I know how to butcher a chicken, and I’ve chopped off their heads and drained the blood and plucked the feathers and removed the guts and cooked them fresh. I can also certainly sew and mend and make felt wool from a sheared sheep.

How many Americans can say the same?

Anyway my point is twofold: first, just because I currently have a housekeeper and spend a lot on clothes doesn’t mean I wouldn’t survive world war Z. Second, it turns out butchering a chicken and felting wool are *not* necessary life skills in the 21st century, and I wouldn’t assume that the next generation needs to know, for example, how to change a light bulb (esp since led lightbulbs now last like ten years).

Food for thought![/quote]

OMG OP you are like, SO superior in EVERY way!!!  They should write songs about you!!![/quote]

OP is simultaneously filthy rich and salt-of-the-earth.  A true Easter miracle!

Or maybe... just a troll?  Anybody?[/quote]

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