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Originally posted by Just Wondering
As for the ordinary americans, there were some I met, like your deployed husband, who were true handimen, in the pioneer sense of the word.
As a generalisation however, I think the percentage of do-it-yourselfers in this country is higher than in America. For a start we have to. There is simply not the range of consumer items or services that Americans have at their fingertips, though it has growing markedly in the last five years. |
So, take a look at your next generation and see if their handiperson skills have deteriorated, as ours have. It's not an innate superiority of NZers or Ozzies, I would guess. We all share DNA. My dh is also handy. He worked on his grandfather's farm as a boy/teen. He is 49, and people still had small farms here back when he was a kid. He was also an Eagle Scout.
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| I just wish that Jeff would chose some more of them for Survivor instead of the drawcard being exemplified by psycho-social dynamics. |
Not impt, but Jeff Probst doesn't pick the Survivors. The producers do. Jeff is only the host.
If you want to see another interesting Survivor type show, look for the new BBC production, Surviving the Iron Age. Less glitz, more real surviving. Kind of like Frontier House, only more primitive.
