'Designer Guy' = I.T.?
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- mg330
My Mom: "Michael, what do I put for my name and password to log into my work benefits web site?" [something i know absolutely nothing about]
Me: What do you mean?
Mom: Well, what do I put to log into the site?
Me: I have no idea, how would I know that?
Mom: Well it's not letting me log into it, I want to check my benefits. What do I put for a login name?
Me: You need to find out from your IT Department, how would I possibly know something like that?
Mom: They never answer the phone and I don't want to bug them. What do I enter?
Me: Mom, seriously, how would I possibly know what you need to enter as a username and password for something I don't even use at your company where I don't even work?
Mom: *in snide voice Well you're so good with computers I thought you would know wnat I needed to do.
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All of the above is true. I was blown away. It's one thing to ask how to use a printer, an entirely different slab of madness when a mother asks her son what her username and password is for her company's benefits site.
- eating_tv0
I love how my dad's experience with computers has grown. No more porn and pop-up invested computer (yes, for all the above reasons). He now runs a clean ship. However, he still uses strange phrases and words to explains things. Such as downloading for example. He doesn't call it downloading but anything in the range of retrieving, ordering and asking for.
Him: "I ordered drivers from the internet."
Me: "You -ordered- drivers?"
Him: "Yes."
Me: "Dad, what do you mean?"
Him: "Well I ordered them and installed them."
Me: "Err... did you pay for them?"
Him: "... I don't think so, no. Should I have?"
Me: "Dad, what exactly did you do?"
Him: "I... retrieved drivers, from the internet? For the thing with the ball."
Me: "You mean the trackball?"
Him: "Yes."
Me: "Dad, it's called downloading."
Him: "Oh whatever! You know what I mean, don't you?! You're not an idiot!"
Me: "..."
- CALLES0
them: "so... what do you for a living?"
"i always know that it goes bad"
me: "graphic designer... for tv"
Them:*blank look in their face"
me: "you know... broadcast... the little drawings that you see in promos"
them:"ohhhhh (still clueless)"
- chossy0
my dad is very impressive actually when it comes to computers. He didn't know anything much beyond emails and typing out letters, but now he has soaked up loads and loads of information, he phones me every so often to ask me if what he is doing is the right thing or if he should buy this and that and invariably he is correct in his actions which is a good thing, my mother however almost has a heart attack if she closes a window she screams "OH GOD I HAVE DELETED SOME COMPUTER STUFF CHOSSY HELP THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THING IT'S FUCKED YO!"
- cannonball0
Girlfriend: Let's watch a movie!
Me: Ok pop it into the playstation I'm making us soup.
Her: Can you do it? I'm too comfortable on the couch.
Me: Are you sure it's because you dont want to bother learning how to use the playstation because youre a girl and playstations are for boys? How about when I'm not home? What are you gonna do then?
Her: Nevermind, I'll just play on the internet.
Me: So you don't want to watch the movie now.
Her: Why cant you just make it go in the playstation? Make it do the thing with the controller and the beep beep etc.
Me: You do it. Turn the tv on. Press the power button on the Playstation. Put the dvd in. It takes 2 seconds to figure out.
Her: Why cant you do it?
(fast foreward 10 min later and we're ignoring each other after an argument)
- all this after i showed her how to do it earliercannonball
- your girlfriend sounds well cute and funny 'with the beep beep etc.' :Dchossy