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OMG. This explains a lot. Try giving them a VCR ahahahaha.
Try giving them 2 screwdrivers … tell them that one’s right handed and the other is left handed … and they need to screw in 3 screws …
If they manage to turn the VCR on, and properly insert a cassette, have them attempt to program it to record a show next Tuesday. Then sit back with a beer (or several) and some popcorn.
Even more basic — have them set the time/date …
Get a Boomer to stop the pop-up ads from showing on this site. Let’s see how long that takes…
Try counting change back to a customer the proper way.
Try using a slide rule to do a simple 2+3 and get a correct answer.
Rattle off you multiplication tables 1 thru 10.
check, check, check. Next?
I knew how to use a slide rule until about fifty years ago; no recollection now. Multiplication tables I can do easily in my head – way more than 1-10. Most folks don’t know 3 x 17 or 4 x 23, for example. I understand no math beyond arithmetic, though: learning disabilities (really).
Counting back change is easy enough, too. I’ve found kids today who are confused if you give them a twenty plus three pennies – not only can’t they do it in their heads, they can’t punch 20.03 into the register so it can figure it out for them.
As to the popup ads, I am a total non-geek, actually somewhat learning disabled along technical/logical thinking, or something like that; but, using search terms, I found free Adblock Plus years ago, and it was so simple and direct to add to my browser . . .
I am from the cusp of boomer/gen-x, not that I place much value on those rigid sociological pigeonholes. My deceased WWII uncles, born 1922 and 1915, understood and loved their computers, so generation has nothing to do with my frustrating inability. The 1915 one was an electrical engineer who had a computer collection, including a 1976 Timex computer – which he totally understood how to use.
Richard Feynman said that only twice could he not “approximinately” solve a complex equation in 60 seconds w/ a slide rule.
I couldn’t but still have my POST Versalog®. Only remember how to multiply using it.
Does the Timex® computer “Take a licking and keep on ticking, er, computing?”
The veteran who taught me calculus 1 had never heard of a slide rule.
Conjugate a verb.
The nuns told us that we weren’t supposed to conjugate until after we were married …
Damn. Beat me to it.
Now, someone Photoshop Archie Bunker telling Meathead not use that kinda language around here.
BTW, when did “verb” become slang for “chick”?
Amo, amas, amat.
Nobody can count change these days. I notice cashiers going from left to right rather the other way starting with pennies to quarters.
Keep all change. It’ll be legal tender when all FRNs will be suitable for tinder.
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From 6:12 to 8:19…2 hours! Not bad, Joe. Not bad at all.
I see someone is still butthurt. waa waa waa
Oh dear…no girlfriend tonight, huh? Sad.
Abby- I like the ads. I can watch toe nail fungus for hours.
please, girl. Pussy is WAY over rated. Too expensive, high maintenance, never shuts up, wrong 90% of the time…and needier than a damned puppy.
The childless, ultra-“Christian” Langleybot is now saying “pussy” is overrated.
Up your game, Langley. Your budget is sofa king high. Try harder, bitchez.
On a long enough timeline, A.I. still relies on natural stupidity. ~ Toiler Dataden
@ Dr Phil above:
Lighten up, Francis. The li’l lady’s a wiseass.
Humor, buddy, humor.
AdBlock. What do I win??
What pop-up ads? I don’t receive any pop-up ads.
Oh. Wait. That’s right. I forgot. I have boomer and Gen-X technology pop-up ad blockers installed, unlike the failed snowflake generation that just accepts whatever is thrown at it.
The oldest members of the snowflake generation are hitting 40 and they still have zero accomplishments.
U-Block Origin.
Privacy Badger.
Ghostery.
A whole bunch of others.
Any boomer and Gen-X knows about these. Can’t say that about the failed generation that can’t function without a cell phone.
Abby, I honestly did not know this site had pop ups, as for ads, the only one I see is the ONE on the right, only notice it because it’s a gif.
Linux, adblock plus, brave browser.
1960 vintage boomer.
Learn to use your tool, or be a tool, it’s up to you.
Peace, L.
I don’t have a problem with someone not knowing something but when a whole generation looks down their collective noses because some of us don’t know some of the stuff they know, well we’re just old and backwards. They do have the benefit of history to learn from but I can not learn from the future. There is nothing from the past that can help you with technology. P.S. if it were that important to me, yea, I would have learned it. I have on multiple occasions shown young people how to search and find what they were looking for.
Thinking clearly is the first and most indispensable of all skills.
Some things never ever change:
Ohms Law for electricians
2nd law of thermodynamics for refrigeration guys
Gravity for plumbers.
Civilization cannot exist without electricians, refrigeration/HVAC guys, or especially…plumbers.
There is no sanitation without plumbers.
Tradesmen that actually know what they are doing save more lives than doctors and other medical personnel to bad a true journeyman is not paid as well as many may think
When you get down to it, nothing good comes from technology passed indoor plumbing and HVAC. Those are peak civilization tech.
I grew up in a house with neither. But we did have a dial phone; one of the first on their exchange. Yes I’m old.
The only difference between the phone in my living room and the one in the video is the one in my living room is black.
There is a hysterical scene in the 1997 movie, “In & Out,” where the clueless tall, skinny model girlfriend princess is trying to use the old dial phone in the small-town bed & breakfast, to order room service. With a cartoonishly panicky face, she repeatedly stabs the holes in the dial frantically with her long bony finger, to no avail, of course. It really is a funny moment.
Our future politicians. Idiocracy is just around the corner.
Every generation is different. How many people can hitch up a horse to a plow and work the ground. Or hitch a horse to a buggy and run it efficiently. Aside from Amish folks. Who can churn butter, be a blacksmith, track and actually hunt animals for food (sitting in a tree stand is not hunting, its waiting). Cut wood (know the actual burning properties of various wood) and burn it efficiently to warm buildings. Forge for food from natural and native plants in your area.
Now, imagine they were AT&T technicians which is exactly what happened at the house here about a year ago. We had a lightning strike nearby and it fried the modem. Two techs show up the next day and install a new one. An AT&T Sales Rep. (and trainee) stopped by and were amazed with the wall unit in the hallway. I felt like Einstein while demonstrating how this antiquated device actually operated. They were in awe as they passed the corded hand unit around listening to the dial tone. Then, I really blew their mind explaining about the infamous “busy” signal. And yes, they all had fun playing with the rotary dial….
True story.
Their heads would have exploded if they had seen/used my candlestick type that has the separate mouth and earpieces. It does have a rotary dial, so it’s at least post trunk-dialing.
Got it from my grandfather who worked for Ma Bell for many years.
Always wanted one of those. Elliot Ness looked so cool leaning back, the earpiece in one hand, the stick piece in the other.
This’ll make you laugh, my Grandfather worked for AT&T in NYC and was able to retire early. He and my Grandmother built a house down south in a small country town in 1970. He was irate as they were on a “party line” for the first year they lived in the home.
Here’s my phone. Yes I’m old.
It still works, but the damned AT&T operator quit responding to me!
I think it’s because of my anti-government views…..
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Admitted Geezer
Or you ain’t cranking it like you used to be able to do. Spin’r up with a little more vigor
Pretty ironic that you had to talk with someone miles away in order to be connected to your nearest neighbor.
Too bad my grandparents are not around to see this snowflake loser clown show of mental decline. They were born when almost nobody had a phone, spent most of their lives talking to a wood box with a hand crank out the side and iron batteries to make it work. When dial telephones came out, it took them about 0.00001 seconds to figure it out. Then came pushbutton phones and despite being over age 80, they still figured that out.
Yet the worthless, zero accomplishment snowflake generation, unable to make change because they can’t do math without a cell phone, wants everyone to believe they are the smartest generation ever. More like the most worthless generation ever. Thankfully, when I do leave the house, I carry several dash cams, so when they hit me and total out their worthless electric souped-up golf carts on my steel bumpers, I have the evidence of them doing something stupid, again.