Parents are funny...

bigben

bigben

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PokerFace said:
My mother-in-law came to visit from Ukraine for the first time. She arrived in the evening (it was dark out) and she looked out to the garden and said "is that a satellite dish?" (or words to that effect) ..... she was looking at our rotary washing line!
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haha!

DeadEyeDuk said:
Too many to recount (both of them are just as bad, but at least mum knows and accepts it!)

However I did have a cracking conversation the other day with our HR manager who is the same age. If you have never tried to explain "hashtags" to an more mature person before, try it, it's a riot :)
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Not sure I even understand hashtags myself..
 
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Wozza63

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bigben said:
haha!


Not sure I even understand hashtags myself..
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The point of them is to create trends so people can find relevant tweets. So for example during a football match I could tweet "person a scored omg #ENGvITA" and then everyone looking at #ENGvITA (England v Italy btw) can see what is going on with that trend and can use it to find information

I think the use of them has kind of died down a bit now, originally tweets were like "#twitter #is #so #awesome #better #than #facebook"
 
bigben

bigben

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So just to make sure I've got the right idea:
"I just had a peanut butter and jam wrap #notasvileasitsounds #yolo #swag #peanutbutterjellytime" yeah?
 
bigben

bigben

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Lol that's why I don't really go on Facebook etc, seeing people talking about how they are buying carrots or eating cabbage or something,.
 
Androcles

Androcles

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Wozza365 said:
The point of them is to create trends so people can find relevant tweets. So for example during a football match I could tweet "person a scored omg #ENGvITA" and then everyone looking at #ENGvITA (England v Italy btw) can see what is going on with that trend and can use it to find information

I think the use of them has kind of died down a bit now, originally tweets were like "#twitter #is #so #awesome #better #than #facebook"
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Hmn, I think I might write a script that creates a twitter message with every combination of number and letter and hash tags it just to screw with the system! :p
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

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i find its not just parents that are how do you politely say rubbish with computers. I'm always that guy that everybody calls to fix their computer related issues. I don't mind tbh, it's funny when I have to tell them to turn it off and on again :)
 
mantadog

mantadog

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tom_gr7 said:
i find its not just parents that are how do you politely say rubbish with computers. I'm always that guy that everybody calls to fix their computer related issues. I don't mind tbh, it's funny when I have to tell them to turn it off and on again :)
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You need to make it sound a bit more professional tom, it is called power cycling.

My dad is normal fairly good, he sticks to what he knows and everything normally works alright. Sometimes he will say his laptop is broken, i ask if he turned it off and on again, he will invariably say no. After performing the said task and magically it works again. I now have a rule where i refuse to help family members unless they have tried a power cycle first.

On a side note, does anyone else need to physically control the KB and mouse to troubleshoot? I mean i can be standing over someone's shoulder watching, but unless im 'driving it' it takes me much longer. Then i get the "well you go to fast now i cant learn".
 
GeorgeHillier

GeorgeHillier

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mantadog said:
On a side note, does anyone else need to physically control the KB and mouse to troubleshoot? I mean i can be standing over someone's shoulder watching, but unless im 'driving it' it takes me much longer. Then i get the "well you go to fast now i cant learn".
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Yeah, when my dad does something I stand there in frustration at how long it takes. The I do it and mis-click something and he'll say "see, you were rushing it!", to which I correct the mis-click within half a second and have still saved about 1 minute over my dad doing it...
 
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