Not fitting in with the modern world

[Vantage]

Only 39 here but I've no idea who anyone is in the top 40 music charts and don't recognise a single actor or 'celeb' these days.
The Bruce Willis's and Nicole Kidmans of my generation are long gone.
It's all downhill from here I think.

Ps. I showed my 12yr old daughter a cassette tape this week. She started looking for where the USB cable plugged in.

 

[youngoldbloke]

I'd be happier if it all worked - we have hopeless phone signals here, hopeless fm too (why does Bl--dy Cricket have to be on Long Wave - as well as 5 and 5 sport???) . Batteries need to be almost constantly on charge. The infrastructure isn't keeping up, though we do have high speed broad band (at last), but the last bit's still copper And why can't younger people ride bikes without GPx files and Strava?? It's not all progress..........

 

[Vantage]

I'd be happier if it all worked - we have hopeless phone signals here, hopeless fm too (why does Bl--dy Cricket have to be on Long Wave - as well as 5 and 5 sport???) . Batteries need to be almost constantly on charge. The infrastructure isn't keeping up, though we do have high speed broad band (at last), but the last bit's still copper And why can't younger people ride bikes without GPx files and Strava?? It's not all progress..........

My sense of direction is non existent. I'd probably get lost going to the bathroom without a pink line on the etrex

 

[Glow worm]

I'd be happier if it all worked - we have hopeless phone signals here, hopeless fm too (why does Bl--dy Cricket have to be on Long Wave - as well as 5 and 5 sport???) . Batteries need to be almost constantly on charge. The infrastructure isn't keeping up, though we do have high speed broad band (at last), but the last bit's still copper And why can't younger people ride bikes without GPx files and Strava?? It's not all progress..........

Long wave's great. I've tried using my phone to listen to the cricket while out and about but its forever buffering and cutting out. So I just strap a small LW radio to my handlebars and it works a treat. (Apart from the bloomin' shipping forecasts of course!).

 

[swee'pea99]

I'm only 51 but I already feel alienated by the modern world. At least weekly, often daily, I encounter references to things that it seems the rest of UK society embraced several years ago but I'm only now hearing about. At work every communication channel is accompanied by photo's of office scenes (ie. of supposed colleagues) that never depict anyone over the age of 40. I was recently put down by a young colleague when I mentioned a new fangled thing such as Bluetooth. Apparently this is now ancient history. And already I'm suffering 'senior moments'. The other day I went to unlock my bike from the work cycle shed to discover I hadn't locked it in the first place. I can only imagine how much worse this is going to get in the ever increasing number of years I have left before I can retire.
Anyone else feel the same ?

If you want to keep in with the in-crowd you should listen to the wireless more. Daddyo.

 

[GM]

I can agree with most of what you say, but the tapping away on phones and not paying attention to the speaker is a big no no for me.

In the good old days the teacher would've launched the board rubber at you.

Rule 1..... Never use your phone at work......

 

[Tin Pot]

Before anyone says it, the kids of today ARE like the kids of yesterday. It's you that's changed.

 

[ColinJ]

6p. You are on PAYG like me then

Shaun

I'm on giffgaff and so are the 4 people who I contact the most; I get free calls and texts to them. Last month I only sent 8 texts to other people so it isn't worth me doing anything other than PAYG. I have built up over £30 worth of credit so I will probably stop topping up and wait until I am back down to £10 before starting again. (I have to put £10 on every 3 months to get the free calls/texts to gg users.)

 

[fossyant]

Despite being twice as old as many of my colleagues (at 46) I'm still way fitter than them, thanks to the cycling. My colleagues don't buy TV Licenses as they say they never watch live TV - all streamed these days apparently- try telling them they 'do' need one.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sad old bunch of nobbers.

 

[midlife]

I'm on giffgaff and so are the 4 people who I contact the most; I get free calls and texts to them. Last month I only sent 8 texts to other people so it isn't worth me doing anything other than PAYG. I have built up over £30 worth of credit so I will probably stop topping up and wait until I am back down to £10 before starting again. (I have to put £10 on every 3 months to get the free calls/texts to gg users.)

I just got 600 free texts when I topped up on orange this week.........that's a good 20 years worth. Unfortunately the offer only lasts a month I have texted every body I know and still have 596 texts left.

Shaun

 

[User32269]

I'm on giffgaff and so are the 4 people who I contact the most; I get free calls and texts to them. Last month I only sent 8 texts to other people so it isn't worth me doing anything other than PAYG. I have built up over £30 worth of credit so I will probably stop topping up and wait until I am back down to £10 before starting again. (I have to put £10 on every 3 months to get the free calls/texts to gg users.)

PAYG? The drug dealers best friend? Hmmmm

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Rule 1..... Never use your phone at work......

We've all wanted to do that at some point

 

[Piemaster]

I'm 50 this year too. Some things I've long given up on, I used to build my own PCs from carefully selected components, now I'll just go out and buy a laptop when the current one starts struggling, which is a lot less often once I stopped playing on-line games. It's just easier, and online games are plenty good enough on an XBox now.
At work some things have changed a lot, some haven't. Starting a water pump may be a case of using a touch screen that sends a signal via a networked PLC to start it. A button used to work quite well - and a button is quite easy to troubleshoot without needing to plug in a laptop. The pump and pipework part of the equation hasn't changed or ever will. Seems things have moved on because the design engineers can not because it actually achieves anything more useful.

 

[summerdays]

I'm 50 this year too. Some things I've long given up on, I used to build my own PCs from carefully selected components, now I'll just go out and buy a laptop when the current one starts struggling, which is a lot less often once I stopped playing on-line games. It's just easier, and online games are plenty good enough on an XBox now.
At work some things have changed a lot, some haven't. Starting a water pump may be a case of using a touch screen that sends a signal via a networked PLC to start it. A button used to work quite well - and a button is quite easy to troubleshoot without needing to plug in a laptop. The pump and pipework part of the equation hasn't changed or ever will. Seems things have moved on because the design engineers can not because it actually achieves anything more useful.

Mr Summerdays still does build his PC's. We have just had my parents down for a couple of hours because Dad bought a printer but couldn't get it to work with the laptop, so Mr Summerdays has taken the laptop apart to extract a CD, and is now looking up which parts to fix it long term (his comment, he may have bought a rubbish Laptop but at least all the bits are replaceable!). He used to fix his car but would never touch that now, it would be straight to the garage for most things.