New Research in UCD shows students can't boil eggs

New Research Results from UCD

Fallen Seraph

Hmmmm

ONE in 10 students at the largest university in Ireland do not know how to boil an egg or cook for themselves

And then

It is a startling fact that only one in 10 students knows how to cook and I don't know why that is.

A bit of silly scaremongering perhaps....

cast_iron

Interesting, but meaningless to associate it with UCD alone. I'd guess it's pretty similar across young people in general.

PHB

Em, I'd say 1 in 10 Irish people don't know how to Cook an Egg. I've no idea, and it's nothing to do with my education. Considering the fact that some people dont and never have liked Eggs, and probably have no idea how to cook them, this research seems like a complete waste of time.

DrIndy

Ah sure, what you mammy for anyway? There is no need to cook, wash clothes or bathe so long as she is around!

Stargal

My favourite bit of the article is this quote from the SU President:

"It's atrocious, " said UCD's student union president, Dan Hayden. "Perhaps there should be tutorials in tyre changing. It's amazing that they're able to get dressed and shower in the morning."

Pet

this only confirms what I already knew. it may be a ucd study, but you'd find the same thing in tcd. most of my peers are fucking retards. living in halls, you see it all the time. people don't know how to use washing machines; and it's not just guys - girls are just as guilty, if not worse (disproving the irish mammyism theory).

seriously, though, how do people not know how to change electrical plugs or lightbulbs? it's hardly fucking statistical thermodynamics.

changing tyres, fixing leaking pipes, plastering..i'm SO glad i learned all this **** growing up. sets me apart from these dingbats.

Time Magazine

Pet wrote:

seriously, though, how do people not know how to change electrical plugs or lightbulbs? it's hardly fucking statistical thermodynamics.

changing tyres, fixing leaking pipes, plastering..i'm SO glad i learned all this **** growing up. sets me apart from these dingbats.

I can, but never have, boiled an egg. I can, but only once have, changed a light bulb. Is changing a plug re-fitting a fuse? I've never done that.

I don't have a car so I've never changed a tyre.

stargal wrote:

My favourite bit of the article is this quote from the SU President:

It's atrocious, " said UCD's student union president, Dan Hayden. "Perhaps there should be tutorials in tyre changing. It's amazing that they're able to get dressed and shower in the morning.

Should have read "It's amazing that they're able to get up, shower, lather, rinse, repeat, condition, add highlights, apply St Tropez, gel up for the messy-hair look, apply the Nivea for Men range, choose an outfit, get changed, choose a different outfit, get changed, improvise and use the O'Neill trackies and Dubes with the pink polo-shirt after a savage night out."

Nietzschean

Ibid wrote:

Is changing a plug re-fitting a fuse? I've never done that.

Nah not really, more stripping the wires and putting them into a new plug...

Tricity Bendix

Pet wrote:

this only confirms what I already knew. it may be a ucd study, but you'd find the same thing in tcd. most of my peers are fucking retards. living in halls, you see it all the time. people don't know how to use washing machines; and it's not just guys - girls are just as guilty, if not worse (disproving the irish mammyism theory).

seriously, though, how do people not know how to change electrical plugs or lightbulbs? it's hardly fucking statistical thermodynamics.

changing tyres, fixing leaking pipes, plastering..i'm SO glad i learned all this **** growing up. sets me apart from these dingbats.

I have no idea how to change a plug. I'm certain everyone can change a lightbulb. Wouldn't know what to do with a leak. Plastering is pretty easy.

I did change a tyre once. Perhaps the most manly thing I've ever done in my life. I felt great after it. Made we want to play sports and have sex with things.

I don't like boiled eggs. I can fry and poach them, though.

Pet

i can cook really well, if i'm arsed and there's a dishwasher handy. i don't do washing up, see. most pointless chore ever. hate it, hate it, hate it.
i can also clean, iron (i CAN iron, doesn't mean i do, who invented such a pointless job!?), sew, and do garden-y stuff as well as the aforementioned manly jobs.

speaking of which, using a jackhammer (kangol hammer/pneumatic drill, whatever you wanna call it) is the manliest DIY-type-thing i've ever done.

changing plugs = handy ability if you're in a band. plastering = of really underestimated importance. half the house parties i've been to, i've ended up doing bits and pieces where people have kicked in the drywall, or slammed doorknobs into walls.

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****ing hell; household chores, drywall, plastering--this is like one of those boring conversations your dad has in the pub with your neighbours while the football is at half-time. i'm off to waste some time in a completely unproductive fashion and try valiantly to sober up. work those alcohol dehydrogenases and cytochrome P450s, liver.

i suggest we return to slagging off ucd and dingbat students in general.

DrIndy

I do all my home repairs myself as well as a good few things with my car. Always could cook and look after myself in general.

My flatmate can barely change a lightbulb, but I rewire stuff all the time for him.

We're differently minded, but someone who cannot even cook for themselves is really dubious!

But hey! who needs to cook when you can simply get those precious calories from beer?

Agent Smith

thats Medical advice i can take!

shay_562

Not sure that boiling an egg means "cooking" as such; I don't think I've ever boiled an egg (I much prefer them scrambled), but I'm more than capable of cooking (albeit not to a standard that anyone who wasn't starving would eat)

europerson

I can and do boil eggs now and again.

I have changed a wheel. I agree with b.ie curious about the whole manliness thing. Definite aphrodisiac. I've never taken a tyre off a wheel though.

I learned how to wire plugs for Junior Cert Science: it's simple, really. Changing a light-bulb is ridiculously simple. I've never tried plastering.

John

I can do any of the above and more. Granted I can't do all of them very well (my ironing and sewing "skills" are laughable) but despite not being able to drive very well I can change a tyre and jump start a car. I can rewire plugs with abandon. I can dissect the brain out of a rat in minutes. I can cook to an acceptable standard (I intend to improve) and want to learn how to solder. I've never plastered but I can get plastered. I can waterproof a flat roof. I can construct furniture from pine (I made a great CD/vinyl rack once) and can catch and tag small birds using only a net and a pair of small pliers.

BrenC

wow, thats a bit crazy.. I mean even if you'd have to guess how to boil an egg you'd prob get it on the first guess....