Another ABBA thread for your torture.

[Mystical]

It took me so long to figure out that you needed a colon... so long. Longer that it usually does, I must be really tired.

Bah HA HAA hAAAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAA haaaaaaaaaa
that was funny.
Sadly at first I thought you meant he needed a real colon like in a surgery, so I must be tired

[Violet]

I don't have a "music library" on my computer, I don't download anything. I am not that techy. I liked that station because it was one button and done. No copying CDS no downloading MP3s, that station had every song and one button got me to what was already the shuffle of music I would have had to build myself. Oh and don't ask me to program phone numbers in a cell phone either.

So... you're useless?

Never understood how anyone could have any difficulty with something so basic, but if people are paying tech support because they haven't plugged their device in...

[Brian37]

I don't have a "music library" on my computer, I don't download anything. I am not that techy. I liked that station because it was one button and done. No copying CDS no downloading MP3s, that station had every song and one button got me to what was already the shuffle of music I would have had to build myself. Oh and don't ask me to program phone numbers in a cell phone either.

So... you're useless?

Never understood how anyone could have any difficulty with something so basic, but if people are paying tech support because they haven't plugged their device in...

No not useless just old. I am sure when technology passes you by in the future you will understand. It isn't so much that there is a script to life as much as it is a generational thing.

I played a simple Atari game console back in the late 70s. It had a simple up down joystick and 1 fire button. Most controllers for game consoles have more buttons than an elevator in the Empire state building. And kids younger than I was back then can kick my ass on modern video games.

The more life changes it stays the same. I rejected the music of my parents just as my younger co workers look at my taste in music and say " what is with you?"

Nothing is with me. I am simply used to different things in a different time.

[Jackalope]

Sadly at first I thought you meant he needed a real colon

Of course he needs a real colon! How the fuck can you go poo without a colon?!?!?!?!

[Violet]

No not useless just old. I am sure when technology passes you by in the future you will understand. It isn't so much that there is a script to life as much as it is a generational thing.

Old, my left ankle. Technology cannot pass me by while my brain still allows for learning. There is little appreciable difference between generations. You're still capable of learning the basic interfaces of computers, otherwise you couldn't be posting on this forum.

I played a simple Atari game console back in the late 70s. It had a simple up down joystick and 1 fire button. Most controllers for game consoles have more buttons than an elevator in the Empire state building. And kids younger than I was back then can kick my ass on modern video games.

Including directional pads... 15-20.

And here I thought the Empire state building had 100-some floors? Right.

Defending your absence of practice at video games with 'oh, I'm old' is a copout. Your reflexes may have slowed, but if you're not willing to put the time in to learn your interface: you cannot expect yourself to be any good at it.

Hell, different games map buttons differently for their default settings. If I attempt to play Radiata Stories, I trip over controls (the ridiculous use of O as the 'affirmative' button while X is not only the 'action' button, but the 'negative' button, which leads to you starting a conversation with someone and then immediately exiting out of it (and some more annoying things))... and I'm a storied gamer.

The more life changes it stays the same. I rejected the music of my parents just as my younger co workers look at my taste in music and say " what is with you?"

Nothing is with me. I am simply used to different things in a different time.

I didn't reject the music of my parents, which includes ABBA, and I still think that ABBA is worth only a casual listen. Listening to ABBA constantly... one really does have to question just what's with you.

Didn't get introduced to much more than 'oldies, good-time rock and roll!' until I sought it out on my own. You are simply a different person, what you are used to is a worthless argument made by a man too worthless to own up to his own refusals... such to consider them inabilities.

I think you should stop being used to such a defeatist attitude. Might make you a skosh less bitter, and just that one shader brighter.

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Of course he needs a real colon! How the fuck can you go poo without a colon?!?!?!?!

With a semi colon!



"Let's get a little mud on the tires"...

[NoraBrimstone]

I have an Abba playlist on Spotify. One click = hours of ABBA.

[festive1]

So... you're useless?

Never understood how anyone could have any difficulty with something so basic, but if people are paying tech support because they haven't plugged their device in...

No not useless just old. I am sure when technology passes you by in the future you will understand. It isn't so much that there is a script to life as much as it is a generational thing.

I played a simple Atari game console back in the late 70s. It had a simple up down joystick and 1 fire button. Most controllers for game consoles have more buttons than an elevator in the Empire state building. And kids younger than I was back then can kick my ass on modern video games.

The more life changes it stays the same. I rejected the music of my parents just as my younger co workers look at my taste in music and say " what is with you?"

Nothing is with me. I am simply used to different things in a different time.

You sound like my husband, Brian. He can't use a cell phone, computer, or even make the TV work I keep asking him if he wants me to type up his Rolodexes as contacts for his Outlook (he has 5 work rolodexes) and he refuses. He got a laptop recently, screwed up the install of Windows (due to not having an e-mail account), and lamented the lack of a floppy disk drive... You are not alone, and probably more tech-savvy than him

[Brian37]

No not useless just old. I am sure when technology passes you by in the future you will understand. It isn't so much that there is a script to life as much as it is a generational thing.

I played a simple Atari game console back in the late 70s. It had a simple up down joystick and 1 fire button. Most controllers for game consoles have more buttons than an elevator in the Empire state building. And kids younger than I was back then can kick my ass on modern video games.

The more life changes it stays the same. I rejected the music of my parents just as my younger co workers look at my taste in music and say " what is with you?"

Nothing is with me. I am simply used to different things in a different time.

You sound like my husband, Brian. He can't use a cell phone, computer, or even make the TV work I keep asking him if he wants me to type up his Rolodexes as contacts for his Outlook (he has 5 work rolodexes) and he refuses. He got a laptop recently, screwed up the install of Windows (due to not having an e-mail account), and lamented the lack of a floppy disk drive... You are not alone, and probably more tech-savvy than him

LOL, HA I hated towers without the really floppy floppies and then also when they got rid of the hard floppies.

There is not one youth who wont say on some subject in the future "What is with kids today". And there is not one kid today on some issue who doesn't say to themselves or in the open " That is so old hat, or dorky". They will have the same thing said to them by their kids.

A week or so ago, I was watching the only worthy cable or TV channel that doesn't beat the shit out of you with adds or corner bugs, Turner Classic Movies. ANYWHO I was flipping through channels and couldn't sleep and ended up on this late 1930s movie, a comedy, didn't watch all of it, but....

One line in it reminded me the teasing by friends I got in school and even today at work, one lady said to another, "It's a good thing your mother didn't have any kids". It is one of those moments you realize we are NOT a separate species.

[fr0d0]

You don't forget to play because you're too old. You grow old because you forget to play.

[The Magic Pudding]

You grow old because you forget to play.

Ah right, I thought it was determined by the passing of years.
Some complain of fools playing at being young.
Others forget where they are in the years, don't recognise their adult children.
I try to avoid being gamed by fashion.

No one seemed to pick up my reference to Muriel's Wedding earlier.