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

aard@kyu.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 570 points –

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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.