NFR -- Elderly Luddite Thread

[Burt]

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)

Have you seen "The Bucket List" Mr Mor?

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Superb film, all about the things they will do before they...erm...well...kick the bucket.

Highly recommended.

Your #9 would be high on my list too.

[SG]

At last some common sense prevails. I hate Twitter and Facebook - what makes people think that i am interested in what they had for breakfast etc.

I will admit to having an iphone but quite revolutionary this, I use a mobile phone to make calls on !!! One of my biggest moans is why text people, pick up the phone and talk to them if you want to communicate. Do not use phone to access emails although I could as business life can get far too intrusive if you let it. (Wish I could go the whole hog like Mr TG). Do use it to access the Sky Sports and the ECB applications so that I can get the football and cricket scores but that is it.

If i want to take a picture I use a camera - novel thought that.

I do have an ipod. This is a wonderful invention and I can listen to my music when running, driving etc.

Don't do video games - never have, can't see the attraction. Don't use the computer or the phone to watch television - I have a television for that. At my age you need a large screen to see what's happening !!

So I guess I am a half luddite - and my lads still think I am living in the dark ages

[richie17]

If you commute in London you need an ipod.  If you don't then you'll be listening to someone else's music through their too loud headphones, which is torture.

So I get a Dead show in every day.

Can't be bad and I don't go mad.

[ScalleysDad]

My phone is referred to as the house brick.

I put comma's and full stops in the few text messages I send.

When offspring No.1 was younger I did join in a couple of putor games. For a while my life was taken over by Civ 2 so I stopped all that. Simply don't have the patience these days.

Apparently I almost daily repeat the sketch from Mary Poppins whereby Mr Banks insists if he sits down to the piano it ought to be in tune . . . . despite not being able to play it. That applies to the kitchen gadgets, the solitary tele, this putor and the hoover which deliberatly gives me a hard time.

I agree with the need to start issueing belts to some of our youth. Apparently its all about relating to the 'condemned'.

I open doors for others or at least hold them open for the person behind me and was surprised by the suprised reaction from the lady I gave my seat up for on the train from Putney the other day.

I'll watch something like Grand Designs over any of the soap type stuff. Life on Mars made my week back in the day.

I will go for a pee before heading off anywhere ....................... damn.

[Peabody]

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?


Wow, 76, here's me thinking I was the oldest at 72. But I did go to Fulham before you I went in 1946.

[sipwell]

I will be extremely friendly towards you, old man, and show you that age has nothing to do with it!


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]
=> ditto
2. I have never sent a text in my life.
=> I do send text messages but I have sent only 300 of them in the last 4 years combined!
3. I do not access the web via my phone.
=> why bother?
4. I do not take photographs or make movies with my phone.
=> If I buy a new phone (once every decade), I ask the shopkeeper: does it have an alarm clock, can I send text messages, can I phone with it? Then I settle for the cheapest option available, in most cases a hideously looking Nokia.
5. For me, "twitter" is someone who observes and makes notations [in a spiral notebook] about twits.
=> Still need to see the added value of twitter.
6. I have a three-bedroom house with ONE television.
=> I don't have a house (here is where age makes a difference) but we only have one TV.
7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
=> me neither
8. I have never played games on-line.
=> I have to confess this is not the case. But hey, it is where my love for Fulham blossomed.
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."
=> I have played some video games but never owned a console :)
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
=> Age thing again :)
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
=> I have to confess I have.
12. Although I play electric guitar, I am content with having only TWO pedals.
=> Electric guitar is soooooooooooooooooo 20th century!
13. And I don't listen to music or watch television on anything like an iPad.
=> Waste of money. Or as they say: "Congratulations, you have just re-invented the laptop!"

14. I don't have an iAnything.
=> Me neither. As the saying goes: "The worst thing about buying an Apple product is telling your parents you are gay."

[Peabody]

I do have a mobile phone but refuse to let anyone have my number, other than the few people I phone. I mainly use it to contact my wife to come and pick me up from the tramstop after a match. Fact is, I do not know its number. One modern thing I do use and feel it is a marvellous bit of technology, is the Freedom Pass, which allows me travel anywhere in London on buses, train and the tube, for nothing. Have to thank TFL for that innovation.

[Logicalman]

Uh-huh, for my (modern) sins

1. I have a iPhone, replaced my smart phone last year..
2. I text the better half every morning and when grocery shopping alone, and some mates during the day (if not on gtalk)
3. I access the web daily for updates and finding places.
4. I take photos with my phone, and use it in place of a regular camera on most occasions (perhaps it's because my regular camera is 6 years old)
5. I have a twitter account, though I rarely use it.
6. I have a three-bedroom house with four televisions, 2 PCs and three laptops, and at least one PC and laptop is used with the TVs  when watching streaming events.
7. I have ordered pay-per-view when 'on the road' at hotels but never at home.
8. I play  games on-line when I get bored with all the other stuff.
9. I currently play video games on a PSP, PS2 ans PS3 (incl. online).
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line (does checking my 401k count in that?)
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling - or any gambling whatsoever since I was 18.
12. No musical instruments at all. I used to play drums, but never owned my own set.
13. My music is on iTunes/iPhone and computer. I play it every day whilst working.
14. iPhone is my latest 'gadget', only because my company pays for it for me, though I have always had smart 'world' phones, for travel.

So, I'm an old geezer with a penchant for the modern day gadgetry I guess. Then again, in my profession, I have to keep up with this stuff, as I am expected to write code for it all !!!!!!

So, like Burt, I also may be getting on, but def not a complete luddite  :dft003:

[MJG]

1.Have HTC Desire for the last 18 months, due an upgrade not sure what new one to get
2. I don't get anywhere near my allowence of 3000 texts a months but do use it
3. Use my phone all the time for the internet and use taptalk on here
4. Phot's if I don't have my camera with me
5. Used Twitter a lot in 2009 but now just follow and don't tweet
6. I have a three-bedroom house with two TV's, 3 DVD players, 2 Virgin boxes, 3 lap tops and 1 tablet
7. Have done so for the boxing a couple of times until the internet provided another option
8. Quilty as charged, played a lot of games online, but crap at all of them
9. The games I play the most are Golf and championship/football manager.
10. Tried did not make a million in a week so gave up
11. Poker and casino plus football bets.
12. More of a singer
13. Music is on itunes and ipod, watch a lot of football online via my Motorola Tablet
14. Itunes/Ipod but would never use an ipad, its just a blown up version of the ipod.

[Blingo]

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]
Blingo had an iphone but gave it to his son. Now has a Blackberry.
2. I have never sent a text in my life.
I've sent loads.
3. I do not access the web via my phone.
I can but I don't.
4. I do not take photographs or make movies with my phone.
I take pictures with mine.
5. For me, "twitter" is someone who observes and makes notations [in a spiral notebook] about twits.
Totally agree.
6. I have a three-bedroom house with ONE television.
I have various tv's in my place's.
7. I have never ordered pay-per-view.
Have Sky in Gib but now going to get Dubai Sports for both Gib and Spain. £100 pa and all the prem matches live every week.
8. I have never played games on-line.
I leave that to my sons.
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."
played lots of games but not online.
10. I have never bought or sold stocks on line.
Its the only way to trade.
11. I have never taken part in any other form of on-line gambling.
Couldn't live without my bet365 account lol.
12. Although I play electric guitar, I am content with having only TWO pedals.
Bought a yamaha bass 5 years ago and am only now starting to pick it up.
13. And I don't listen to music or watch television on anything like an iPad.
Watched the Kings Speech on comp through the tv last night.
14. I don't have an iAnything.
Had an I pad but gave it to my boy.

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?

[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)

Have you seen "The Bucket List" Mr Mor?

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Superb film, all about the things they will do before they...erm...well...kick the bucket.

Highly recommended.

Your #9 would be high on my list too.

Not seen the film but have heard of it Burt...