things you cant explain to your nan...

[darrenw89]

after realizing just how much `fun` you could have trying to explain things to our Nan's, i thought it best to start this thread so as we all get some explanation-worthy material! :lol:

i'll start with; the internet

(actually my nan said tme the other day "i dont want you to go to the internet, people die there" how do you answer that one??? :lol: )

darren :cool:

[lasher511]

the simple solution is star trek TOS it will teach your nan all she needs to know about the future/modern day and entertain her with the young still fit and not balding william shatner and those amazing sets and special effects.

[darrenw89]

the simple solution is star trek TOS it will teach your nan all she needs to know about the future/modern day and entertain her with the young still fit and not balding william shatner and those amazing sets and special effects.

:lol: thats always an option, just where to get them, i should think tesco will be stocking them soon, after toasters, tvs, and firewall software lol

darren :cool:

[goldeagle2005]

Try explaining the lipstick stains on your shirt and neck!!!!

[Ancient Dragon]

you mean people old enough to post on the internet still have a nanny? Isnt' a nanny just another word for a baby sitter?

[darrenw89]

not sure what you mean mate?

[lasher511]

Try explaining the lipstick stains on your shirt and neck!!!!

Thats easy

"Well grandma you know your long time friend Shirly, well i bumped into her at the movies last week and we really hit it off and we have been going at it ever since"

:P

[darrenw89]

you mean people old enough to post on the internet still have a nanny? Isnt' a nanny just another word for a baby sitter?

Try explaining the lipstick stains on your shirt and neck!!!!

Thats easy "Well grandma you know your long time friend Shirly, well i bumped into her at the movies last week and we really hit it off and we have been going at it ever since" :P

:cheesy: LMAO !!!!

we laugh but when a friend of mine came back from uni, the first person he got with was his mums hairdresser! :lol:

darren :cool:

[lasher511]

that isnt quite so bad where i come from most of the hair dressers are quite fine looking girls/ladies.

[darrenw89]

that isnt quite so bad where i come from most of the hair dressers are quite fine looking girls/ladies.

:cheesy: think i need a hair cut :lol:

darren :cool:

[goldeagle2005]

Wait for me, mate. Lemme put on my wig. About time it got a haircut too...

[happygeek]

I don't have any grandparents that are still alive, am much too old for that. However, my mother is in her late seventies and not very technically minded. She takes an interest though, mainly because she is proud of her son for writing books about it. Shame she didn't read any of them though, then she may not have had to ask 'do I need to turn the computer on to receive email?'

[darrenw89]

I don't have any grandparents that are still alive, am much too old for that. However, my mother is in her late seventies and not very technically minded. She takes an interest though, mainly because she is proud of her son for writing books about it. Shame she didn'r read any of them though, then she may not have had to ask 'do I need to turn the computer on to receive email?'

LMAO!!!! :lol: i think the matrix could and should be added to this list as well.

darren :cool:

[happygeek]

My father-in-law, bless, had a problem whcih I thought might be down to malware. However, he insisted that he had a security suite installed and scanned his computer every week.

I went round to take a look, and the first thing I wanted to do was a full security scan. At which point I discovered that the last set of definition/signature updates was a couple of years old. Apparently he didn't bother to re-subscribe after year one, thinking that he had the application and that was good enough.

Not funny, at all, but oh so common a mistake it seems...

[darrenw89]

My father-in-law, bless, had a problem whcih I thought might be down to malware. However, he insisted that he had a security suite installed and scanned his computer every week. I went round to take a look, and the first thing I wanted to do was a full security scan. At which point I discovered that the last set of definition/signature updates was a couple of years old. Apparently he didn't bother to re-subscribe after year one, thinking that he had the application and that was good enough. Not funny, at all, but oh so common a mistake it seems...

im sure thats no just the older generation, i have step-parents and cousins who think on the same level, the same people who would pull out the power cables to their pc at night in fear of getting a `virus`

darren :cool:

[Scottg1989]

Ah yes at my college all you have to do is unplug the network cable and just watch the amount of people that pull out the computer, and spend ages looking at the back thinking that they are IT experts. Its really funny when their sitting at the desk next to the computer, waiting for another spare computer, after about half an hour of trying to 'fix theres'. Then you can just walk up plug the network cable in, and within a minute get on with your work :)

[lasher511]

If u think tahts bad try a support job at a company/charity like mine. I got a phone call today for example which took me 30 minutes to get it through to this woman that the printer will not print double sided and the only way she can do it is to print odd pages first flip them over and back into the tray and print even ones.

Or the other day for example when we replaced a CRT monitor with a new LCD one and a matching keyboard and kept the acctual box there we were asked if there was anything we could do with the old computer. Because they see new keyboard and monitor as new computer.

It also feels really weird being 16 and your telling people sometimes 50 years older then you how to do things that you have just known as second nature all your life. Maybe its just weird because i have been raised to believe that adults know more then you no arguments.

[jbennet]

i tried to explain the concept of opensource to my grandad and he caled me a communisst lol :)

[happygeek]

I guess I should 'fess up to those times when I have been a tech-twit as well:

like when it took me far too long to realise that the reason my mobile phone wasn't charging was becuase I hadn't plugged the charger in to the mains - certainly not before I had gone and bought a new battery thinking that it had expired...

[Scottg1989]

wow i never would have thought that of you! :) (meant in the nicest way possible of course :D)