An 'I don't believe it' moment....
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Am I missing something? A thread moaning about IT and using IT to do so!
However, I'm on the same wavelength and share the love/hate feelings. I sometimes wonder how I managed for the first 55years of my life. I'm so glad emails weren't around when I was stopping working. I still relish sitting up on Newmarket Heath between two difficult meetings in the knowledge that no-one knew where I was, couldn't contact me and I could have an hour of peace and solitude. I view elder son's constant worldwide work
mobile contact with horror.
As to the OP's point, I recall being telephoned by a colleague with a PhD wanting to take over my work related flat when my contract expired to enquire if it had a telephone installed.
However, I'm on the same wavelength and share the love/hate feelings. I sometimes wonder how I managed for the first 55years of my life. I'm so glad emails weren't around when I was stopping working. I still relish sitting up on Newmarket Heath between two difficult meetings in the knowledge that no-one knew where I was, couldn't contact me and I could have an hour of peace and solitude. I view elder son's constant worldwide work
mobile contact with horror.
As to the OP's point, I recall being telephoned by a colleague with a PhD wanting to take over my work related flat when my contract expired to enquire if it had a telephone installed.
Nice contradiction
No, it is not. I do not like using them, but have to. It is not the principle of computer tech, it is the fact what it is made from, where and by whom.
I'm not a technophobe. I happily use the technology, I simply refuse to let the technology use my life.
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The secret is, I always try to view some of the irritations of the modern technological world with amusement. Not gentlemanly behaviour on my part I agree, but to see a young woman holding a huge mobile 'phone, texting furiously with one thumb while she tried to drag a two wheeled shopping trolley through the automatic doors behind her ( which had closed on the trolley ) I found really funny.
On reflection the message was probably one of the life and death Face Book replies, "Yes, we're having beans on toast for tea".....
Twelve years ago thanks to the distant presence of a Tropical Revolving storm, in mountainous seas and after 30 hours without sleep I managed to stuff my yacht onto a reef in the Bahamas. Triggering an Epirb (Emergency position indicating Radio Beacon) brought the US Coast Guard Helicopter to pluck me off the pimple of sand/Coral that I managed to hang onto for 40 minutes.
Technology.......Epirb signal to Satellite, Satellite signal to Falmouth Coast Guard control Centre, They telephone US Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and with a bit of magnificent flying, well Hovering, in Hurricane force winds Sax gets a lift in a steel rescue stretcher.
Technology? Believe me I'm all in favour....I love it.......
On reflection the message was probably one of the life and death Face Book replies, "Yes, we're having beans on toast for tea".....
Twelve years ago thanks to the distant presence of a Tropical Revolving storm, in mountainous seas and after 30 hours without sleep I managed to stuff my yacht onto a reef in the Bahamas. Triggering an Epirb (Emergency position indicating Radio Beacon) brought the US Coast Guard Helicopter to pluck me off the pimple of sand/Coral that I managed to hang onto for 40 minutes.
Technology.......Epirb signal to Satellite, Satellite signal to Falmouth Coast Guard control Centre, They telephone US Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and with a bit of magnificent flying, well Hovering, in Hurricane force winds Sax gets a lift in a steel rescue stretcher.
Technology? Believe me I'm all in favour....I love it.......
I think they introduced speed restrictions for motorcars so it did not scare the horses?
We still have speed restrictions for motor cars. Very few horses though. Shows how slow the States are in adopting to new realities.....
We still have speed restrictions for motor cars. Very few horses though. Shows how slow the States are in adopting to new realities.....
I'm happy enough with technology that helps me but pretty stubborn about people harvesting my details just so they can spam me with marketing junk.
Like buying something from Halfords, Machine Mart, and Screwfix. I get the "Whats your email address?" question, to which my answer is either "You don't need it" or just plain "No".
Screwfix staff really struggle with it and I don't mind waiting while they work their system out, they say " You'll need to keep your reciept to return a defective item".
Oh really, like the reciept I need to keep to show my accountant anyway?
Like buying something from Halfords, Machine Mart, and Screwfix. I get the "Whats your email address?" question, to which my answer is either "You don't need it" or just plain "No".
Screwfix staff really struggle with it and I don't mind waiting while they work their system out, they say " You'll need to keep your reciept to return a defective item".
Oh really, like the reciept I need to keep to show my accountant anyway?
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Almost every place we visit ( shopping) in the US ask that at the till.
We just say ‘we are visiting tourists’.
Some companies must have a deal with Yahoo. It does not matter how many times I put those emails in the Spam, it does not stop them.
We just say ‘we are visiting tourists’.
Some companies must have a deal with Yahoo. It does not matter how many times I put those emails in the Spam, it does not stop them.
Actually most here ask for my phone number. Email has been obsolete for a decade or so.
I regularly forget to charge and/or leave my phone at home - pretty much everyone I know looks at me oddly and asks me how I cope?
my usual reply is 'I've left my phone not my brain'
you have to laugh alot of these people wouldn't last an hour if the lights ever went out
my usual reply is 'I've left my phone not my brain'
you have to laugh alot of these people wouldn't last an hour if the lights ever went out
So they are behind the times in the Miami area!
Last time we went was in July.
Last time we went was in July.
Oooh that one does annoy me I must admit.
Not so much that they ask it's irritating but easy to simply say no.
It's the fact they sometimes almost argue with me or can't fathom how to complete the transaction after my polite refusal.
I've come to a shop in person and paying cash. You really don't need my personal information at this point
Went on a local ghost walk tonight for a bit of fun. Three people were walking about with their phones in their hands staring into them as we walked about. The crazy thing was.... they were not teenagers! They must have been in their 30s or early 40s. Aaargh! Why????
Have you got a "bear app?" or maybe a "cougar app?"
Going walkabout in the dark here is not a wise thing to do in the autumn.
Going walkabout in the dark here is not a wise thing to do in the autumn.
I see a lot of people like this on my way to and from work. The women for the most part looking at instagram or pinterest collections of clothing, make-up or shoes or are on shopping apps; a few are playing candy crush or bejewelled or are watching a film. The blokes are all watching films or playing games.
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