NFR -- Elderly Luddite Thread

[HatterDon]

Here is a place for all of us oldies to admit our reluctance to leave the 20th century [or the 19th in some cases]. Bless me Feckless Utes for I have sinned; these are HatterDon's sins:

1. I have a dumb phone for a cell [mobile]
2. I have never sent a text in my life.
3. I do not access the web via my phone.
4. I do not take photographs or make movies with my phone.
5. For me, "twitter" is someone who observes and makes notations [in a spiral notebook] about twits.
6. I have a three-bedroom house with ONE television.
7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
8. I have never played games on-line.
9. I have played ONE video game -- Ms. Pacman sometime in the 1980s I think. I played one game while standing in line at an IHOP, said, "OK, well I never have to do THAT again."
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
12. Although I play electric guitar, I am content with having only TWO pedals.
13. And I don't listen to music or watch television on anything like an iPad.
14. I don't have an iAnything.

I accept that this makes me out-of-tune with the Young Thundering Herd of Fulham that posts here. But my question is, am I also out-of-tune with my own cohort? Any other Fulham Luddites out there?

[TheDaddy]

1,3,5,8,10,11,14 number 12 doesn't count as i don't play an instrument well not musical anyway .

So i suppose im almost there ?

Ipads aren't they a type of bandage ?

Could i also add on a personal note "lads what on earth is showing off your underpants all about" ?
drives me mad walking down the street and their in front of you is a lad with his jeans round his kin ankles showing all and sundry your skids then you stop bend over to tie your laces up" lovely".

[Burt]

Bless you Mr HD sir, you are a strange and wonderful pers... Oh, hold on, I said that yesterday.

Its a good test!

1. I have a BlackBerry.
2. I have sent thousands of texts, and also use BBM.
3. I can access the web via my phone. But only do so when I am away and need to check the footie results.
4. I take photos with my phone. Last one was of my son in front of a Veyron at the AutoClassics show.
5. I do have a twitter account, but it has been months since I have "tweeted".
6. I have a four-bedroom house with four televisions. Five if you count the old CRT lump in the spare room.
7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
8. I have never played games on-line.
9. I have played video games, but more when the Spectrum ZX and Space Invaders were the gogs wotsits.
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
12. No guitars... I got to Grade VII piano and played the church organ as a kid, so loads of pedals to be getting on with there!
13. All of my music is iPod/iTunes/iPad. I have embraced this with wild enthusiasm, some would say obsession.
14. See 13.

So I may be getting on, but perhaps I am not a complete luddite  :dft003:

[Burt]

Point 9 should read "dogs wotsits" rather than "gogs wotsits".

Sorry!

[Burt]

Could i also add on a personal note "lads what on earth is showing off your underpants all about" ?
drives me mad walking down the street and their in front of you is a lad with his jeans round his kin ankles showing all and sundry your skids then you stop bend over to tie your laces up" lovely".

+1

[Peabody]

Yeah but I bet your a clever sod Burt.

[LBNo11]

...pah! that's nothing, I don't even own a computer...

[Senior Supporter]

Thank you Mr. HD. I can put a tick against only eight of those statements, and can now tell my grandchildren that I am not the squarest (or is that word out of fashion) person in the world.  They won't believe me of course.  092.gif

[finnster01]

Here is a place for all of us oldies to admit our reluctance to leave the 20th century [or the 19th in some cases]. Bless me Feckless Utes for I have sinned; these are HatterDon's sins:

1. I have a dumb phone for a cell [mobile]
I never read the instructions for mine which means I pay all this extra charges for stuff I do not know how to use
2. I have never sent a text in my life.
I have but it was a reply to another one. Don't ask me to create one from scratch.
3. I do not access the web via my phone.
I do, but only use it sparingly (during Fulham games)
4. I do not take photographs or make movies with my phone.
Photos? Just like I don't use my camera to make phone calls, why should I use my phone to take pictures?
5. For me, "twitter" is someone who observes and makes notations [in a spiral notebook] about twits.
I wake up listening to birds. That is is enough tweeting for me.
6. I have a three-bedroom house with ONE television.
I have a large two bedroom apartment in Manhattan (Harlem) 1 block away from the subway/tube. We have two TV's because I can only stand so much talk shite before going mental so need my own spot.  
7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
Neither have I.
8. I have never played games on-line.
I did once with my daughter, but gave up when she beat the living crap out of me
9. I have played ONE video game -- Ms. Pacman sometime in the 1980s I think. I played one game while standing in line at an IHOP, said, "OK, well I never have to do THAT again."
See above
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
I have but with very mixed results
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
Not since moving to the US, but before yes.
12. Although I play electric guitar, I am content with having only TWO pedals.
Works fine in my automatic vehicle
13. And I don't listen to music or watch television on anything like an iPad.
Not a fan either.
14. I don't have an iAnything.
Right now I have an iWishWeHadMorePoints but other than that, I am in your camp.

I accept that this makes me out-of-tune with the Young Thundering Herd of Fulham that posts here. But my question is, am I also out-of-tune with my own cohort? Any other Fulham Luddites out there?

[Burt]

Yeah but I bet your a clever sod Burt.

The scary thing is looking at my kids.

The massive advances in technology in a generation has been staggering. My son and daughter don't get how I could have lived without mobile phones, laptops, computer games, etc. etc.

It is interesting to think what they will see in their lifetime, and come to regard as the norm.

By the time my son becomes of working age, he will expect instant and constant connectivity with the outside world whilst at work. Work/life balance will be increasingly blurred. 3D video calls will probably be making an impact by then too (Cisco are already working on this). Your mobile phone will be your life, where as well as talking to people, you will use it to shop, order things, pay for goods, sell shares, transfer money, receive offers from stores you are passing by, open your car door, track where your kids are and what they are up to, vote, etc. etc.

[Senior Supporter]

When threads like this appear I often wonder who is the oldest poster on here. I will own up to being 76.
Can I remember my first visit to Craven Cottage in around 1950? Of course I can't, what do you expect from someone who can find themselves half way up the stairs and not remember whether they were going up or down?

[timmyg]

Well Don, you are most certainly my elder so let's so how I stack up:


1. Me too. Hopefully upgrading next month.
2. Would rather text than talk
3. I don't know if I can even do that
4. I don't know if I can even do that
5. Twitter is incredible
6. Just got an HD tv, still using rabbit ears.
7. Wait, people pay to watch movies still?
8. Same
9. Stopped after college
10. Would rather spend stock money on beer
11. Would rather spend gambling money on beer
12. No instrument
13. iPod Touch
14. iPod Touch

[CincyFulham1]

There must be some sort of "line of demarcation" in ages.  I'm 45 and have done all of the above but I play an accoustic guitar so no pedals.  I have a PS3 that the GF makes fun of me for playing, but in my defense I only play FIFA and Call of Duty.  My GF is quite abit younger than me and she dragged me kicking and scream into the 21st century, but once I got here I took to it like a duck to water.  She is also a techie and when I can't figure out how to do something she does it in seconds for me.  Can be a pain when she starts explaining something very simply and I have to tell her I'm old not stupid.  I should have never let her watch "the IT crowd", because when I have a computer problem she always asks "have tried turning it off and back on again".  

[Oakeshott]

1. I have a dumb phone for a cell [mobile]
Ditto

2. I have never sent a text in my life.
A few, but not more than a dozen..

3. I do not access the web via my phone.
Mine doesn't have the capability to do so.

4. I do not take photographs or make movies with my phone.
As 3.

5. For me, "twitter" is someone who observes and makes notations [in a spiral notebook] about twits.
Never tweeted.

6. I have a three-bedroom house with ONE television.
Four bedroom bungalow, five tvs.

7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
In the good old days before ESPN and before one could pay £50 or £60 a year extra for additional Premiership mathces I ordered Fulham games on a pay-per-view basis, and once a movie.

8. I have never played games on-line.
Ditto

9. I have played ONE video game -- Ms. Pacman sometime in the 1980s I think. I played one game while standing in line at an IHOP, said, "OK, well I never have to do THAT again."
We've an old Atari and dozens of games in the loft. Not used for 15+ years.

10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
On occasion.

11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
I back horses on line semi-professionally, on average two or three times a week.

12. Although I play electric guitar, I am content with having only TWO pedals.
I don't.

13. And I don't listen to music or watch television on anything like an iPad.
Nor me.

14. I don't have an iAnything.
Nor me, but I do have a Brennan, which is fantastic. It now stores all my old cassettes and CDs and one can access anything in seconds. If only there was a comparable device onto which one could load one's DVDs. Also a Creative Zen MP3 player with speaker for listening while gardening.

[Holders]

You should get one of those express stairlifts that gets you up or down before you forget what you went for.

When threads like this appear I often wonder who is the oldest poster on here. I will own up to being 76.
Can I remember my first visit to Craven Cottage in around 1950? Of course I can't, what do you expect from someone who can find themselves half way up the stairs and not remember whether they were going up or down?

[Mr_Moon]

1. I have never paid for pornography

God bless the internet

[MOR :]

I'm no spring chicken but there's still plenty I'd like to do before I'm pushing up the daisies...like

1. Learn a new language
2. Achieve my ideal weight
3. Fly in a hot-air balloon
4. Go back to New Zealand
5. Win a reasonable amount of money on the lottery
6. Fly first class
7. Live to be a Grandfather
8. Do my family tree
9. Watch Fulham win the FA Cup at Wembley
10. Make sure my two kids don't struggle in life (A bit of No5 would help)

[TheDaddy]

You should get one of those express stairlifts that gets you up or down before you forget what you went for.

When threads like this appear I often wonder who is the oldest poster on here. I will own up to being 76.
Can I remember my first visit to Craven Cottage in around 1950? Of course I can't, what do you expect from someone who can find themselves half way up the stairs and not remember whether they were going up or down?

Thing is he lives in a bungalow !  fp.gif

[YankeeJim]

Well, some of it.
I learned to text to keep in contact with my boys
I don't own an I anything as well.
I also have a dumb phone and only take pictures after a car wreck.
On line I play Sudoku & occasionally Scrabble with my elderly aunt.
I am a grandfather and have done my family tree (1150 people & still counting), but have never flown first class.
And most important, I have never, never put brown goo on a decent cut of beef.

[TonyGilroy]

I don't have a mobile phone of any description. I don't know or care what they do. I don't want one.

When I'm out of the office I'm beyond the reach of my clients much as I love them.

If I had any friends they'd find a way.