The world accelerates into the distance....

[BearInTheWoods]

Is this just me or is it a general thing? Emails in the middle of nowhere. Video games without instructions on which button to press, that youngsters can use without thinking about it but which utterly defeat me when asked to be the Nice Uncle and join in. The other day I read about a bloke who used to be a woman, marrying a woman who used to be a bloke. Nothing against them, but, what?

Am I the only one who has to keep stopping himself saying 'what the *....?' on a regular basis. Cars you can't change the bulbs on without the computer code. Stuff like that.

Sometimes I just want to wander off into the wild and never come back. I think that's the way to go, at some point just give up and let them all go off and do what they want to.

 

[sandbender]

Is this just me or is it a general thing? Emails in the middle of nowhere. Video games without instructions on which button to press, that youngsters can use without thinking about it but which utterly defeat me when asked to be the Nice Uncle and join in. The other day I read about a bloke who used to be a woman, marrying a woman who used to be a bloke. Nothing against them, but, what?

Am I the only one who has to keep stopping himself saying 'what the *....?' on a regular basis. Cars you can't change the bulbs on without the computer code. Stuff like that.

Sometimes I just want to wander off into the wild and never come back. I think that's the way to go, at some point just give up and let them all go off and do what they want to.

TEOTWAWKI - Happening every second of the day.

For me apart from those things listed above its seeing grown men who clearly spend too much time on their hair, beard and eyebrow grooming (that means anytime at all other than scraping a bic across your face when needed). and who dress in those ridiculous baggy sports shorts and wear reversed base ball caps, they look like giant toddlers, which is in sense what they are.

 

[Damascus]

I am with you on going off into the woods and I'm no techno phobe either. Things are getting run by machines more and more every day, scarery!

 

[Barn Owl]

I'll meet you in the middle of nowhere, first one there gets a brew on.

 

[British Red]

Is this just me or is it a general thing? Emails in the middle of nowhere. Video games without instructions on which button to press, that youngsters can use without thinking about it but which utterly defeat me when asked to be the Nice Uncle and join in..

Bread and circuses

 

[Macaroon]

Bread and circuses is precisely what it all is...........if I shake my head much more at some of this stuff it'll come undone; Trouble is, there's no middle of nowhere accessible to many people. Small planet huge population.

Best you can do is sort out your own little corner and run your ship in the best way you can, and hope it'll all mean something in the scheme of things.....................atb mac

 

[crosslandkelly]

TEOTWAWKI - Happening every second of the day.

For me apart from those things listed above its seeing grown men who clearly spend too much time on their hair, beard and eyebrow grooming (that means anytime at all other than scraping a bic across your face when needed). and who dress in those ridiculous baggy sports shorts and wear reversed base ball caps, they look like giant toddlers, which is in sense what they are.

Stop the world, I want to get off.

 

[BearInTheWoods]

Onesies. What the......

 

[sandbender]

Onesies. What the......

You see, I didn't even know about onesies for adults. This is why Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club' should be required reading for all school age children.

 

[mousey]

The world accelerates into the distance.... only if you stand still

 

[BearInTheWoods]

The world accelerates into the distance.... only if you stand still

But I like it here.

 

[Marco1981]

Ah mousey, but not everybody is happy to become so wrapped up in, or dependent on, technology. If it was to all vanish tomorrow, the only thing that I would miss is the internet. All that free information about anything you could possible wish to know, readily available in your front room... Magic! Everything else is pretty pointless IMHO and I could happily live without it.

 

[Clouston98]

I like this thread and I'm with you all. I'm fifteen and I don't have my own mobile phone I borrow my dads old one for trips etc. I agree about the Internet as I use my ipad to find inspiration for bushcraftuk type projects ( latest one was birch tar - went well ) and to read on bushcraft to improve my knowledge on the subject, hence why I joined the forum.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Onesies. What the......

read, 'Union suit'.

 

[rik_uk3]

Its just change, nowt wrong with it really, I love the changes in technology for instance. Last week camping my phone tethered to my Android tablet and I was surfing the net by the light of a Coleman lamp, listening to music from a little MP3 player, had food cooked on a 60 year old paraffin stove and I was heated by a woodburner...all good stuff.

 

[BearInTheWoods]

I don't mind any of this stuff, I just look at it and feel lost.

 

[Chainsaw]

Don't think much of it is compulsory. Go with the flow or watch it go by, doesn't really matter tbh. There have been ridiculous things in every decade, some people think they are 'cool' (is that a word these days?) some don't. I enjoy the change but only participate in stuff I fancy.

Relax, enjoy the ride!

 

[ReamviThantos]

With you all the way. I thought it was just me becoming a grumpy old man.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Ah mousey, but not everybody is happy to become so wrapped up in, or dependent on, technology. If it was to all vanish tomorrow, the only thing that I would miss is the internet. All that free information about anything you could possible wish to know, readily available in your front room... Magic! Everything else is pretty pointless IMHO and I could happily live without it.

I remember that before the internet, free information came from libraries, research and encyclopedias. And they wonder why kids don't read.

 

[Swallow]

You see, I didn't even know about onesies for adults. This is why Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club' should be required reading for all school age children.

Is there an app for that?

One of our comrades on here was handed an iphone from work when he arrived in London. 2 years on his battery went dead and he suddenly realised he did not know where anything is in London. He had been totally sucked in by google maps navigation. On realising this he stopped outsourcing his navigation his phone.

I remember that before the internet, free information came from libraries, research and encyclopedias. And they wonder why kids don't read.

Kids read plenty, it's just that it is social netowrk/new gossip, that out comrade's story shows is that kids would be knackered for research skills as these are getting fully outsourced to search engines. A fine addition, but not replacement.