post examples.

the one i just received, from my mom:

"Dad offered a couple of suggestions for Christmas gifts: a DVD called something like Fantastic 4 or Fantasy 4. This installment had the word silver in it. Does that ring a bell?"

12/18/2007 9:45:21 PM

hahaha damn

12/18/2007 9:46:33 PM

At least they know about dvd's.

12/18/2007 9:47:07 PM

that's a hell of a lot closer than my mom would've got

12/18/2007 9:52:04 PM

"chris, your dad says he wants that new laserdisc for christmas"

12/18/2007 9:52:50 PM

she only got that close because she literally just asked him tonight about what he wanted, and then ran downstairs to email me.

12/18/2007 9:55:54 PM

(mom looking for gameboy ds)

her: ahh heres a gameboy right here

me: mom, that's gameboy SP

her: whats the difference?

12/18/2007 9:56:19 PM

reminds me of my mom:

mom: "what's gun it?"
me: "what?"
mom: "i see these kids wearing these sweatshirts"...and points to a kid wearing a G-UNIT hoodie

12/18/2007 10:05:48 PM

my dad knows what's up.

12/18/2007 10:06:29 PM

"evan, your dad says he wants that new laserdisc for christmas""

12/18/2007 10:06:33 PM

my mom works for the red cross in my home town and the night that tupac died she called me because she was getting phone calls about it and didn't know who "teapot" was

12/18/2007 10:07:59 PM

When I told my mom I was going to paramedic school she asked if I was going jump out of planes

12/18/2007 10:09:49 PM

^that's not out of the loop...that's just stupid

12/18/2007 10:12:42 PM

^^j00 are a medic?

12/18/2007 10:18:19 PM

a friend of mine was telling this story at a party

a guy in his frat got a vanity plate that said #1STUNNA

and when his mom saw it she asked what first tuna meant

HAHAHAHAHA

12/18/2007 11:57:44 PM

Quote :

""Dad offered a couple of suggestions for Christmas gifts: a DVD called something like Fantastic 4 or Fantasy 4. This installment had the word silver in it. Does that ring a bell?""

In all fairness to your parents, that movie wasn't too memorable.

12/19/2007 12:17:40 AM

^my dad gets weird movies... what can i say? he'll probably watch it once and never again.

12/19/2007 12:19:27 AM

Quote :

"a guy in his frat got a vanity plate that said #1STUNNA and when his mom saw it she asked what first tuna meant "

lolers

12/19/2007 9:07:04 AM

I wish I had an 'out of the loop' parent instead of a 'way too in the loop' parent.

I'm really not sure that I want my mother and I to share our sex lives with one another or any of that way too chummy crap.

12/19/2007 9:10:14 AM

Quote :

"^^j00 are a medic?"

I was. Shortly after I got my P I got a better $offer$

12/19/2007 9:46:25 AM

my mom told me last year that my dad wanted "Stealing Dan" tickets. I asked her if she meant "Steely Dan" but my mom was clueless


oh and my mom has no idea how fantasy football works. my dad and i bought psl's this year and my mom asked if it was gonna cause me to miss my fantasy football games each week.. i was like 'wat'

12/19/2007 9:54:55 AM

Hahaha my step mum was asking me about Xbox 360 bundles and I was (trying) to tell her about the differences between the premium/elite packages, etc.

Her: I saw something at the store about an Xbox 3
Me: That doesn't exist
Her: Yeah it does, I saw it
Me: There is a Wii, a PS3, and an Xbox 360. No Xbox 3.
Her: Well what about a Gamestation? I thought I saw that?
Me: That doesn't exist either. You are thinking about either the Gamecube or Playstation.
Her: Well what about the Halogen series?
Me: ???
Her: Halogen. It had something to do with Xbox.
Me: I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Halogens are elements on the periodic table next to the Noble Gases.
Her: There was a Xbox pack about halogens. It was green and had a robot on the front.
Me: Halo?
Her: I guess.

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 10:13 AM. Reason : ]

12/19/2007 10:12:43 AM

are you canadian?

12/19/2007 10:24:16 AM

uh... no

Why would you think I'm Canadian?

12/19/2007 10:46:07 AM

At least your in-laws are in the loop Kitty B. Well your father-in-law anyways.

12/19/2007 10:49:19 AM

^^you said "step mum". that's all. A couple friends I have from Canada say mum and they are the only ones.

12/19/2007 10:52:18 AM

people from england call their mother's mum

12/19/2007 10:54:47 AM

Hahaha not Canadian, I'm English.

I guess that is just another place to add to the list of "places people have thought I am from"

12/19/2007 10:55:27 AM

i thought my parents were pretty much "out of the loop" until i saw my mom walk across the house with a ipod...

I was pretty amazed that she could operate one and also download the music herself considering this is the same person that was asking how to print shit the other day..

12/19/2007 10:57:22 AM

my parents have and know how to operate way cooler shit than I have.

12/19/2007 11:02:52 AM

Quote :

"people from england call their mother's mum"

i know this, but i come into contact with more canadian people than english people so i assumed the former

12/19/2007 11:04:34 AM

not sure if he's out of the loop or just technologically retarded, but I have to set up anything computer related for my dad. Last year he called me all pissed off because he got his new ipod and somehow he set it to chinese. He seriously thought it was defective. After driving over to their house because of this "emergency" it took me all of two minutes to get it working. I did get a meal out of it though

[Edited on December 19, 2007 at 11:08 AM. Reason : .]

12/19/2007 11:07:14 AM

awhile ago my dad said to me "what's all this i keep hearing about blobs? should i get into it?" and i was like "i think you mean blogs..."

he just started to use the internet last week...

12/19/2007 11:12:35 AM

yeah i have to hook up a lot of stuff for my parents as well. wireless is always the biggest, luckily that hasn't had to happen for awhile.


and i swear, my mom is just now getting over her fear of the computer. For the longest time she wouldn't even touch it unless it was already on.

they finally upgraded and got a new one for the house, they used to have this VIAO that was so obsolete it was painful to watch my dad use it. He's that way about electronics though, he doesn't grasp obsolescence. We don't even have HD or DVR

12/19/2007 11:14:08 AM

grandkids kicked my mom into the computer world just as online poker kicked my dad into it.

12/19/2007 11:16:04 AM

my dad isn't stupid, i just don't think he is interested in anything technology-related. one time i was at his house and he was like "oh, somethings wrong with my cell phone" and that my stepmom "fixed it each time it happened"....i was like, "do you mean re-charging it???"

12/19/2007 11:18:13 AM

my dad's problem is that he doesn't read directions. He'll just open shit up and turn it on and then get mad when he fucks up or can't do something. I remember when he bought his digital camera and couldn't figure out how to get the photos on the computer. I was like "didn't it come with a usb chord?" He goes "I don't know." Sure enough, we find the box and it's right there.

12/19/2007 11:34:07 AM

Man y'all are lucky.

My parents moved into a new place and my mom wanted one of those 'new fangled haha' microwaves that mounts over the stove. For months and months I had to hear about it until she finally bought one and had it delivered. My brother and I installed it and she has only used it once.

She still uses the old one on the counter saying 'I don't know how to use the new one'. For chrissakes the new microwave has less buttons than the old one. Punch in a time and hit start. Doesn't get much simpler than that.

And don't get me started on the friggin Tracfone. I disabled voice mail because there is no way they'll every comprehend it.

12/19/2007 12:17:57 PM

Shit dude my grandfather in his 70s has a full wireless network and runs about 5-6 different computers. Now granted one is a Tandy 486, and none have any OS newer than 98SE, but he records, edits, and burns CDs of his churches services for the shutins (they used to just run a tape recorder, now he does full editing) and can tear apart a computer and replace most parts.

My grandma on the other hand is a technically inept and afraid to even touch a computer. Or at least afraid of touching my grandfathers computers.

12/19/2007 2:47:40 PM

dude

how in the hell did he get a tandy running on wifi

haha

12/19/2007 2:52:28 PM

My parents are apparently pretty normal and up to speed... well, at least my Mom is...

12/19/2007 2:56:25 PM

i was in the sports store at cary mall last week and there was a mom in there holding up a baseball jersey and asking the guy if it was a football jersey

12/19/2007 3:04:06 PM

WTF is up with buying jerseys? I never understood this.


Damn black people.

12/19/2007 3:07:27 PM

Quote :

"Shit dude my grandfather in his 70s has a full wireless network and runs about 5-6 different computers. Now granted one is a Tandy 486, and none have any OS newer than 98SE, but he records, edits, and burns CDs of his churches services for the shutins (they used to just run a tape recorder, now he does full editing) and can tear apart a computer and replace most parts."

I heard of a study that said people who were born before WWII generally have a much easier time grasping technology than the Baby Boomer generation that came after them. Something to do with the problem solving skills that were more important to all the generations before and after the baby boomers, but I can't remember the details.

12/19/2007 3:38:57 PM

i think that and the pinnacle of the psychedelic drug culture during the prime years of most baby boomers has a lot to do with it.

12/19/2007 4:54:17 PM

my mother kept reinstalling aim b/c whenever one of my little sisters would use it, it didnt have her name in the username box.

instead of you know

typing it in, or hitting the drop down box


but oddly enough, my grandparents found my myspace, and facebook

when they started asking me questions, that shit went private with a quickness

12/19/2007 5:14:59 PM

my dad will not get a cell phone for himself and acts like they are horrible, dont need them, and expensive and good for occassions but he doesnt need one

he is very busy school teacher and coach and my parents usually arent near a phone besides my moms cell phone


but what does he do when he drives more than a few hours away from home

he takes my moms cell phone

12/19/2007 5:55:43 PM

every time I let my dad watch a tv show online and it goes to an ad, he calls me in to make it play again.

12/19/2007 6:06:37 PM

I can't stand how parents mis-hear something and then automatically assume what they heard is correct.

12/19/2007 6:43:56 PM

My father is good. He can do most normal stuff. Reinstall windows, set up outlook, etc.

My mother, she got it in her head that she wanted a PDA, and didn't even know how to use half of it. Then when it broke she got a laptop and she uses it to play solitare almost exclusively. Doesn't even have it set up for email as far as I know. Won't get on AIM. It's annoying.

12/19/2007 7:19:30 PM