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Oldies get left behind by new technology

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    #11
    The really old sorts I know are quite handy with this stuff. Apart from the inlaws but that's due to too much inbreeding. Northamptonshire is the British Catskills, most people up there are their own grandchildren.
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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      #12
      Games. Nor me although 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 was brill.
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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        #13
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        No people who play computer games are boring. My nephew is 26 plays
        games all day and the only job he had was at a call centre.
        We hope that one day he will become interested in woman

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          #14
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Games. Nor me although 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 was brill.
          Whenever I mention that game everyone looks at me like I'm an alien (or senile)
          Gronda Gronda

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            #15
            My dad is 68 and totally blind, but completely up to date with technology. He was a programmer with the gas board in the 70s though, so has a background in computers.

            My mum (63) finds technology of any sort utterly confusing. She's been using computers for about 10 years now and I still have to write step by step lists with drawings of the space bar and such like.
            Qdos Contractor - IR35 experts

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              #16
              Originally posted by Brussels Slumdog View Post
              We hope that one day he will become interested in woman


              We hope that one day he will become a woman.
              You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.

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                #17
                As for Facebook and Twitter - they seem to be for the self-obsessed wannabe celebs to me. I have a Facebook account because a former mate of mine was super evangelistic about it and still insists it's the most marvelous thing ever. He posted recently that he was constructing a bathroom cabinet and would issue hourly updates on Twitter (and he was serious) FFS!

                More disturbingly, one of my two other friends on facebook is always posting about what she and her two young daughters are up to - including recently announcing she's off to New York. I, in common with many people who know her know where she lives - I hope she's sure she can trust all these people and anyone/everyone they know too.

                I still haven't worked out what Facebook is actually for.

                I love technology that has either beauty utility or both - Facebook has neither.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
                  As for Facebook and Twitter - they seem to be for the self-obsessed wannabe celebs to me.
                  What about CUK?

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                    #19
                    My mum got her first computer a couple of years ago and loves it. She's keen to learn so I encourage her by telling her about all the great things she can do that make her life easier. She's improving fast.

                    My dad is next. He's just bought a laptop
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                    As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by AtW View Post
                      What about CUK?
                      It's a fair cop
                      +50 Xeno Geek Points
                      Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
                      As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

                      Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

                      CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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