Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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My Mum, 75, Online 2 years, bless.Everything is called "the Thing" as in "I pushed the thing and the thing popped up and said" or "the thing won't go in the thing"
Her OS GUI is unique as far as Gold RTM versions go, her's is missing buttons, drop down menus, entire applications, email
clients etc. and she gets unique pages of the Internet.
Doesn't matter if we're on the same web page or in the same application, whatever I tell her to look at or click it isn't there "I swear on my life,
I'm not lying, why would I ... oh there it is" (average 1 min of that, PER step, of a ten step instructional)
All email adresses are still email numbers. after two years.
She calls MSN "S n M" ... I haven't corrected her.
She learned that severe anal injuries like that in the barrymore case can be caused by "something called fisting" :-(
Just remembered this most recent one: One of Mums friends got sent an unwelcome and highly pornographic image by some woman
she'd recently met and it popped up on screen when Mum and her friend were at the friends computer. They were both horrified.
Apparently it was a picture of a man "helping himself into a ladies mouth"
That's how a polite person like my mum would best describe it, I suppose. I laughed almost as much as when I heard her say fisting.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 14:40, Reply)
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