573

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? (kyu.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aard@kyu.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

499 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few methods that come to mind

put the side of the cap on the edge of a table and hit the top with your palm
get a fork (or anything else), grab the bottle's neck a bit under the cap, put the end of the fork just under it, the middle part on your fingers, push the other part down to open
find a door, put the bottle cap inside the metal rimmed hole in the door frame that the latch sinks into (sorry, don't know the word in English) and use it as a normal opener. Be quick as your beer might spill.
get a screwdriver and a hammer, put the screwdriver to the middle of the cap and gently hit it with the hammer. The cap will slightly sink into the bottle and the sides will release their grip

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

(sorry, don’t know the word in English)

You got me thinking for a moment there but that thing's called a mortise.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Aren't they talking about the strike? I thought the mortise was where the lock goes.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I've never heard "strike" so I assume you know more about doors than I do.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know which one of us is right but rather than looking it up I'm hoping someone that actually knows swings by.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

As an Aussie I usually find a spoon works better than a fork.

this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023

573 points (98.3% liked)

Asklemmy

43984 readers

760 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS