RL Anger

[WTFE]

@surreality said in RL Anger:

@WTFE ...while ranting about double standards and hypocrisy. Let's not forget that part!

Please, let me forget that part. The drinking game is already killing me!

I guess being old and stupid about computers means I have more space in the brain to dedicate to things like "self-awareness", which is, in case this is a life lesson that some folks still need to learn, different from "self-importance".

The funniest part is I'd wager I'm twice this twit's age and can still probably pound the everloving shit out of him, technologically speaking. He may know the ins and outs of every hipster reinvention of '70s-era technology. I know where they stole it from.

I work with shit daily that would make young toughs like him shit their pants in terror at the consequences if they used their "modern" bullshit on it.

Dude. This is where our generation fucked up by handing out all of those awards for just showing up.

Not my generation. That's more of an American Gen-X thing that leaked outside of US borders slowly. By the time it became mainstream in Canada it was way beyond my generation's influence.

Whoever came up with that idea needs to be taken for a GoT-style walk of shame.

Someone who was there when it happened explained to me WHY it happened. In the context it made sense. Good Intentions Paving Company and all that. (PM me if you want details on the story.)

[surreality]

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

@surreality said in RL Anger:

@WTFE ...while ranting about double standards and hypocrisy. Let's not forget that part!

Please, let me forget that part. The drinking game is already killing me!

For real. I guess I need to say again, "Please have pity on the starving artist, because y'all are fucking bankrupting me with this shit."

[mietze]

I'm wiping away a tear of pride that this time at least 1 or 2 ethnic and homophobic slurs were left out. There is hope for the future after all!

[Tinuviel]

@mietze Well I can't stand those homo sapiens.

[Nietzsche]

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

[Tyche]

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

Apparently millennials think phones are for sending text messages and desktop computers are for talking to people. Clearly this is ass backwards.

[Catsmeow]

If it looks like a troll, it posts like a troll, it needs attention like a troll - it must be a troll

Please don't feed the trolls

[Nietzsche]

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

Apparently millennials think phones are for sending text messages and desktop computers are for talking to people. Clearly this is ass backwards.

Apparently Gen X/Boomers don't realize that unless they're still using that rotary phone they inherited from their parents, their phone probably is a computer. It's a common misconception among people age 35 and older that if the operating system was released after Windows 98, or there is no CRT monitor, that it doesn't qualify as a "computer."

[WTFE]

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Nietzsche said in RL Anger:

The amount of butthurt in this thread over the fact that I said 35+-year-olds typically can't use computers is hilarious, as though this is some kind of controversial opinion, as opposed to an observable fact. Sensitive, much?

Apparently millennials think phones are for sending text messages and desktop computers are for talking to people. Clearly this is ass backwards.

Apparently Gen X/Boomers don't realize that unless they're still using that rotary phone they inherited from their parents, their phone probably is a computer. It's a common misconception among people age 35 and older that if the operating system was released after Windows 98, or there is no CRT monitor, that it doesn't qualify as a "computer."

It's so cute to watch the "techie" call his phone A computer…

[surreality]

@WTFE And it's funny that there's a mention of a rotary phone...

...since we had one of these in the house that my now 74-year old father was using when I was a wee little tyke.

Seriously I have to wonder if that actually is the same old phone, it's even the same color! We went through a whole variety of acoustic couplers over the years.

So, yes, Virginia, some of those Boomers were using their rotary phones with their computers, too. Shocking, I know.

[Groth]

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Apparently Gen X/Boomers don't realize that unless they're still using that rotary phone they inherited from their parents, their phone probably is a computer. It's a common misconception among people age 35 and older that if the operating system was released after Windows 98, or there is no CRT monitor, that it doesn't qualify as a "computer."

It's so cute to watch the "techie" call his phone A computer…

Making up your own definition of a word and trying to make fun of other people for not using the word in the fashion you just made up isn't particularly funny or clever.

[WTFE]

Fair cop. Sparky was obviously not a techie.

[Ganymede]

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Not my generation. That's more of an American Gen-X thing that leaked outside of US borders slowly. By the time it became mainstream in Canada it was way beyond my generation's influence.

The fuck it was. I'm not that much younger than you, and my generation's teachers allowed it to continue.

[WTFE]

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

Not my generation. That's more of an American Gen-X thing that leaked outside of US borders slowly. By the time it became mainstream in Canada it was way beyond my generation's influence.

The fuck it was. I'm not that much younger than you, and my generation's teachers allowed it to continue.

Weird. I never saw medals for participation or "least best" prizes or the like until I was looooooooooooooooooooooong out of high school. I was positively gobsmacked when I read a report card that didn't have any marks in it.

[Ganymede]

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Weird. I never saw medals for participation or "least best" prizes or the like until I was looooooooooooooooooooooong out of high school. I was positively gobsmacked when I read a report card that didn't have any marks in it.

They were pushing this bumblefuck when I was in teacher's college, and I was encouraged to do the entire "everyone gets a prize" shit when I was a camp counselor before then.

[Sunny]

@Nietzsche

I work in IT, and everyone in my office is 35+. We roll out brand new tech all the time. Just got a 3D printer in the office, actually. What you are saying is demonstratively false in the industry, not confirmed as fact.

[Ganymede]

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

I work in IT, and everyone in my office is 35+. We roll out brand new tech all the time. Just got a 3D printer in the office, actually. What you are saying is demonstratively false in the industry, not confirmed as fact.

Yeah, she be old, son.

[Auspice]

I dunno guys. I'm on that Gen-X / Millennial cusp and I don't 'get' Snapchat or Tinder.

I must be old and stupid now!
(Yes, I know they were banned, but it's fun to snark at the troll even after the fact.)

[Misadventure]

Is "I don't care" the same as "don't get"?

[Auspice]

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

Is "I don't care" the same as "don't get"?

Might be.
Because I cannot find the fucks to give re: Snapchat. Every so often people want me to use it and I'll prod at it for a day or two before I'm like 'yeah I don't get the point.'