05 Nov 2013, 4:45 pm
Nickysubanda wrote:
I think Cody was being funny, whilst apparently entirely forgetting that AS is on the autism spectrum, and classically populated by people who take statements overly literally. (@wrongforum.com)
<--emoticons: useful when deploying sarcasm amidst individuals on the spectrum
For the record, Cody, I thought you were very funny.
<--emoticons: useful when deploying sarcasm amidst individuals on the spectrumFor the record, Cody, I thought you were very funny.
I may be wrong of course (only the OP knows) but I think he meant it literally. I get the same reaction in the chatroom. Go in there and announce you're above a certain age, and people say: "oh my goodness, that's so old! What are you doing in here?" as though chatrooms were a thing only teenagers were supposed to use!
For the record, Cody, I thought you were not funny at all - but people's responses on this thread have been very funny indeed.
05 Nov 2013, 5:17 pm
LogicalMolly wrote:
I may be wrong of course (only the OP knows) but I think he meant it literally. I get the same reaction in the chatroom. Go in there and announce you're above a certain age, and people say: "oh my goodness, that's so old! What are you doing in here?" as though chatrooms were a thing only teenagers were supposed to use!
Yeah you tell them you're around 35 or whatever, and they act like you said 65. I guess the OPs just another example of that.
05 Nov 2013, 5:21 pm
Asperger96 wrote:
doofy wrote:
Codyrules37 wrote:
Why is Wrong Planet full of old people? Like people who are 30+. I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer.
Pah - my first puter had a 133 processor, 1.5gb HD and 16mb RAM when you were still in nappies
...I don't even know what any of those things are...
05 Nov 2013, 5:23 pm
Kaede wrote:
Since when is 30 considered old? I'm 20 and I don't consider 30 year olds to be old. I didn't two years ago either. 50+ is old to me.
cheeky whippersnapper I'm 50 and I don't feel old.
05 Nov 2013, 5:27 pm
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05 Nov 2013, 5:27 pm
Venger wrote:
LogicalMolly wrote:
I may be wrong of course (only the OP knows) but I think he meant it literally. I get the same reaction in the chatroom. Go in there and announce you're above a certain age, and people say: "oh my goodness, that's so old! What are you doing in here?" as though chatrooms were a thing only teenagers were supposed to use!
Yeah you tell them you're around 35 or whatever, and they act like you said 65. I guess the OPs just another example of that.
I think it is worth noting that the battle cry of the Baby Boomers back in flower child days was "never trust anyone over thirty". Now this same cohort is singing "nappie" days are here again as they approach their second childhoods.
We will all be old one day--if we're lucky.
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Codyrules37 wrote:
Why is Wrong Planet full of old people? Like people who are 30+. I thought you people didn't even know how to use the internet, let alone turn on a computer. I thought only kids were diagnosed.
Weres all the youngins?
Weres all the youngins?
haha! Oh man you just pissed a lot of 30 somethings off big time.
But perhaps you don't quite know all the history of computers. Like when I was your age I was playing Pong on PC's and Space Invaders in the Arcade. So in a way we have seen it from the beginning as far as general public systems are concerned. Our parents generation was the last of the computer dinosaurs, but they are generally in their 70s and above.
Plus it was people in our generation(s) that built or worked on the systems you inherited. I for instance had to troubleshoot and repair computers in military systems, and had to go down to the individual data bits at times. So some of us actually know how that stuff inside works.
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