Racing roadkill
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I generally don't give a FF, about the 'modern world'. It's a bit of a mystery to me. I just let it go, and do what I've got to do.
Not fitting in with the modern world
- Thread starter Flick of the Elbow
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With my family being well scattered I use facebook to keep in touch.
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Flick of the Elbow
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- Pentlands Midlothian Edinburgh
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
Since about 9 years old I've had the recurrent impression that it's simply not my world. The world seems odd to me and, no doubt, I seem odd to the world. So, in my own way, I also let it go. As to what I call ''elsewhere devices,'' with which people don't seem to be able to keep their attention where they are physically, I just stay well away. I did catch myself swearing out loud at yet another idiot in a luxury German car obliviously texting away in a traffic jam yesterday. And that was just walking by. I usually only do that when I'm on a bike.
It puzzles me how the modern world and the immediate world don't seem to be in the same place.
It puzzles me how the modern world and the immediate world don't seem to be in the same place.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
Maybe I am old fashioned and don't fit in with the young generation but one thing I have is the one thing the young of today lack: knowledge and experience of older things and older technology. When I talk to youngsters about things more than 10 years old or even less, they are lost. Look at shows on TV; when a question is asked about the past, most young people don't have a clue but ask them about non important things like x factor or the latest boy band, then they are on the ball. I am proud that I can talk about a wide area of experiences .
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
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- Not 'emel 'empstead
The amusing thing to me in my last few years at work was the limits on my colleagues knowledge. Most only had a very narrow understanding of their own field within mobile telecomms. When I was an apprentice we were exposed to a wide range of areas so I could turn my skills to most of the areas, or at least understand the principles of what was being talked about.
jefmcg
Guru
Am I missing something here? If they aren't watching any live tv, they don't need a license.
Brilliant,well done youOne of my clients at work sat in front of me tapping away on their phone, totally oblivious to the fact that I had stopped talking and was waiting, and waiting.
So I got my phone out, sat back in my chair, put my feet up on the desk and started my own tapping. This got their attention, never did it again.
jonny jeez
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- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
And star wars., ET, Jaws, Italian job...
classic33
Leg End Member
Only 84 years away! Not a lot when you think about it.I heard on the radio yesterday that babies being born these days will probably be alive in the year 2100.
That made me think a bit ...
That's what was rather ... surprising. I won't be around then, though.
midlife
Legendary Member
Training tends to be more narrow these days. It took 12 years to train me to do my job but only 4 years nowadays.
Shaun
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Flick of the Elbow
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Another thing that has given me food for thought recently is that I'm already a great uncle and mathematically could well become a great great uncle. All very different from my own upbringing, all but one of my 'greats' were already dead and the one surviving one died when I was 11. The idea of any living 'great greats' is quite beyond me.
