One of the things about being a fully fledged adult is that people expect you to know how to do stuff - grown up things like jump-starting a car and getting stains out of a top. But, what happens when you don’t have a breeze how to carve a turkey or do a fancy formula on an Excel spreadsheet?! Well, it seems, you look to YouTube and make it up as you go along.
On this morning’s show, Ian was chatting about Julius Yego who won Kenya’s first ever gold medal in a field event in the javelin at the World Athletics Championships and how he actually learned how to throw a javelin on YouTube! Good man Julius.
Ian put it to his listeners and it turns out Julius isn’t the only one logging on for a bit of help…
Learned the full & half Windsor tie knot. #youtube
Hi Ian, I learned how to waste hours of my time on You Tube! Jim
Ian, learned how to change a drive shaft on a jeep. Garage were charging 1200 bought it for 250 some savings.
Hi Ian. Haven't learned anything as exciting as an Olympic sport...but I regularly use YouTube to learn things like how to strip a carburetor, change the rubber seal on washing machine drum, etc etc. Bernard in Gorey
How to take a link off a watc. Aine Mc Auley Termonfeckin
Learned how to replace I phone screens on iPhone 3, 4 and 5c . My wife needed her screen on her 5c changed 5 times due to our toddler smashing it a few times. Eoin, Galway
Learned how to develop ye old type film for camera
Ian, I learnt to change the digitiser on my phone which is basically swapping a broken screen and I also learned how to repair the plastic outer drum of my new washing machine which I broke ,when it was two days old, with a screw in my work pants. Thanks YouTube. Niall in Tipp '
I learned how to change the battery in the car key fob, Lorraine
Hi Ian, I've learned to do water marbling nail art from you tube. Lorna
I learned how to house train a puppy, closely followed by learning how to get dog pee out from between floor boards and how to get rid of the smell of dog pee! Bread soda is the trick by the way- to soaking it up that is
Learned how to fix my washing machine that wouldn't drain!! Very proud of myself!! Dee
I learned how to hatch chicks in an incubator-successfully-first time. Maura Canavan, Aughrim, Co Wicklow
Hi Ian, YouTube helped me to make my 1st raspberry roulade, change the fuse for my wipers in my Yaris, and make a wasp trap (still seeing how that fairs out). I am always going to YouTube to learn how to do things. It’s brilliant. Lisa in Longford.
Changed a laptop screen watching YouTube . Jim
I learned how to replace the whole wing mirror on my Nissan Almera from YouTube. Darren, Waterford.
I've learned how to do a French braid on my 6 yr old girl Kate s hair.
Hi Ian, I learned how to replace a part in my dishwasher . Saved me a fortune. Louise . Kildare
YouTube in 'not just for cat videos' shocker!
