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- Jaline0
Actually, my mom works with computers everyday so she's A LOT better now than I am giving her credit for. At least she figured out how to attach things to emails and can use a browser and Word by herself (for the most part). I just get her the illegal software...
- oooo, thats so o.g.!philipdrumman
- you know it...
(not all my software is illegal, in case you're wondering)Jaline
- TheBlueOne0
Well, my mom doesn't feel apprehension with computers per se, it's just that she works in an insurance office and they run all this proprietary software for 90% of what she does, occasionally using word/excel or IE. But because she runs all this custom insurance software she thinks she "knows computers", where what she knows doesn't translate to anything else..it's even funnier if whe calls me with a question about hteir custom software and I say "I don't know mom." and she always says "But you know computers!"
- philipdrumman0
i bet your mom knows ALLLL the bomb recipe sites....
- Jaline0
"But you know computers!"
My mom says the EXACT same thing. Combined with how she thinks I should know every single word and its definition, just because of what I took in university. In fact, she gets pretty irritated with me when I tell her to look it up at Dictionary.com. The good thing is that I basically forced her to look it up on her own, and she's been doing that lately. Sadly, she still doesn't believe in the magic of Thesaurus.com. She does ask me how I do everything after I fix her issues (like getting rid of the automatic corrections in Word and when it doesn't allow you to hit "backspace" without selecting the entire word first and hitting "delete"), so I know she wants to learn. But she's impatient and, while I'm patient, I suck at explaining things.
- Corvo0
"It's just colors...that's all I see..."
hippies :)
- hahahahahaha!OSFA
- Hmm...good point. I wonder if she power from the sun too?Jaline
- *she gets powerJaline
- Nah..my mom was already comfortably in her 30's when the hippies reigned. She called the hippies "dirty"..TheBlueOne
- well you can question her tech skills but you can't blame her sense of smell.
-- was jk btw tboCorvo - yeh..i know...TheBlueOne
- Fanco0
for mother's day i gave her a full day of free tech support
- hehJaline
- how's Montreal?Jaline
- fan-fucking-tastic.
finished school (for the most part). working full time for a TV station. but still actively looking for print/advertising jobs in a studio.
how's O-town?Fanco - ..TV station. but still actively looking for a print/advertising studio.Fanco
- how's O-town? I'll be there visiting friends and family for the long weekend.Fanco
- nice. sounds like an awesome job. I'm finished school. Just waiting to graduate. Trying to get into interactive multimedia development :)Jaline
- development for college. Just for 2 years and then I can combine my degree with a diploma for a job :)Jaline
- trooper0
im always round my moms... fixing her pc, installing updates because "this thing keeps popping up" she even once tried read the blue screen of death to me over the phone lol.
9 x out of 10 its the printer wont print (because its out of ink again) and "no the light isnt showing) (because shes looking at the PC not the printer)
- philipdrumman0
yo mama so skinny she could float on a dorito
- Jnr_Madison0
Your Mum is clearly on meth.
- JerseyRaindog0
"the google" - I heard the exact same phrase last week from my mother in law. She was explaining how the google on my brother in law's computer (mac) in Grand Cayman was different from the google on their laptop (PC) at home.
Bless.
- Jaline0
That reminds me. I think I have to put a new virus program on all the computers at home. My mom hates the updates pop-up that always shows up (which I can't turn it off for some reason (it's a legit program)), and thinks a virus is actually downloading.
- mg330
I knew things were bad when my mom told me once that she and my stepdad called a "computer geek" to have them fix their home computer.
Like, they actually called the Computer Geek service. Is that at Best Buy or something?
As I mentioned once before, my mom called me once to ask me how to log into her work Intranet's benefits site. Asked me what username and password she should enter. Are you kidding me?
I told her three times I could not possibly help her, and I know she was going to say "Well you're so good with computers!"
MegaLOL
- CALLES0
it a funny way.. if she would not be your mom.. it would have been funny to send her to a crazy site to show it off to her coworkers... not nasty necessarily but a crazy one
- bliznutty0
hilarious dude!!
- The_CCG0
You guys are all going to rot in hell for talking about your mothers this way.
- Meeklo0
Bill: Hello this is Gates?
Mrs Gates: Hi Billy! This is mom, how are you doing hun?
Bill: Mooooom! I told you not to call me at work!
Mrs Gates: Yes I know hun, but this is an emergency!
Bill: What is going on? Are you Ok?
Mrs Gates: Yes Billy, I'm fine I didn't meant to scare you..
I'm just having trouble with this new remote..Bill: what is it now? I came last week and reprogrammed everything so you and Dad don't need to have the Xbox on when watching TV.
Mrs Gates: Yes I know dear, but your father was up last night playing that shooting game with Donald..
Billy: really? Dad? what game, Halo2?
Mrs Gates: I don't know, I just want to watch Oprah right now, and every time I push the channel up button this monsted is shooting lasers and its really loud..
Billy: Mom.. make sure you save the game before you turn the exbox of and switch to Media Center..
Mrs Gates: what?
Bill: Listen mom.. just go to the xbox dashboard and it will ask you if you want to save the game before quitting..
Mrs Gates: how do I do that?
Bill: Listen mom, I gotta go I will text you later
- boobs0
We had to take my Dad's computer away because he kept signing up for new ISPs. At one time, he was signed up for about 11 different ones.
He had CRS. "Couldn't Remember Shit."
- mattiaBK0
Sweet lady! At least your mom "knows" how to use it, mine is completely clueless! :-(