Youngsters These Days......I Don't Understand!
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Spare tyre said:
Yup, exactly that, when it disconnects from the cars Bluetooth it assumes because you’ve stopped moving as a car does you’ve parked.
It’s similar to my wife’s android phone, it unlocks when it connects to her cars Bluetooth, which is simple but a cracking idea
I often drive a very slow 50 year old diesel land rover and Android insists I have been cycling not driving. It's not always perfectIt’s similar to my wife’s android phone, it unlocks when it connects to her cars Bluetooth, which is simple but a cracking idea
Evangelion said:
More and more these days, I feel like a time traveller who's stuck in the future and can't get home.
We all are. It's never occurred to me before but that's quite a thought. It's as if we are all designed to cope with the world as it was in our 20s and been pulled into this strange future where the gadgets are incomprehensible and we look like old people.Of course what doesn't help is that our future turns out to be in a bizarre parallel timeline where Boris is PM and Trump is president. Wonder what PH is discussing in the real universe?
Brigand said:
Baldchap said:
The boy is 14 and does the whole YouTube on TV thing, watching other people's videos of games. I find it odd.
I find it odd that people sit at home and watch other people playing football on the TV, I mean, why watch someone else do it when you could just go outside and play it yourself? Crazy!I hear a lot of parents / older people talk about how they see their kids watching other people play games on YouTube and can't understand it, but it is exactly the same as watching sport on TV. And before someone jumps in saying "Uhhh, it's too expensive to get into motorsport myself so I watch it on TV because I enjoy it", the same can be said of people not being able to afford a console or PC to play the game, so rather than going without they can still watch it at least via YouTube or similar.
The two main sports I watch are rugby and the Tour de France.
With both of them, I'm watching people performing at an athletic ability that 99.9% of the population could never come close to emulating even if they could be at it full time.
With the rugby, I also coach & ref kids' rugby, so find watching the adult game constantly inspirational, plus I'm also a season ticket holder, so watch them live whenever they're at home, which builds up a good camaraderie with my lads and other season ticket holders who sit around us, whereas with the Tour de France, you get some wonderful scenery, and I've actually picked holiday destinations off the back of it!
Things like Fortnite videos that my boys watch, on the other hand??? Where's the skill in that? It mostly seems to just come down to how much you pay for loot etc, and involves the people playing shouting "Oh my God!" a lot...
glazbagun said:
HTP99 said:
Lordbenny said:
It’s also amazing that on arrival at Tallinn airport last week she told me exactly which two trams to take to our apartment in the old town and how to buy a travel card before we’d left the terminal.
Actually this is pretty cool and still amazes me as we were in Poland in October, we like to take busses if possible as it's cheap and easy, all you do is tap into Google maps your destination, select the mode of transport (public transport), it flags up the bus numbers and time tables, you select the bus you want and it even tracks it's journey and stop names right to where you are and even lets you know by how many minutes it is running late.Technology is amazing.
What did people do before? Call the day before and meet outside a distinctive shop at the train station? It must have been chaos on a Friday night!
slopes said:
bristolracer said:
It would be interesting to see how some would cope if the entire internet stopped working for 48 hours. Its only just over a decade old,and yet we are all completely tied to it.
I'd just revert to reading books - to be fair i've started spending more and more time away from the 'net these daysKermit power said:
I see your point, but I'm not convinced it's the same at all.
The two main sports I watch are rugby and the Tour de France.
With both of them, I'm watching people performing at an athletic ability that 99.9% of the population could never come close to emulating even if they could be at it full time.
With the rugby, I also coach & ref kids' rugby, so find watching the adult game constantly inspirational, plus I'm also a season ticket holder, so watch them live whenever they're at home, which builds up a good camaraderie with my lads and other season ticket holders who sit around us, whereas with the Tour de France, you get some wonderful scenery, and I've actually picked holiday destinations off the back of it!
Things like Fortnite videos that my boys watch, on the other hand??? Where's the skill in that? It mostly seems to just come down to how much you pay for loot etc, and involves the people playing shouting "Oh my God!" a lot...
how would you know though? play the game and lets see you get into the top 100 worldwide players. in the same way you watch physical sports because 99.9% of the people will never be that good, the same thing goes for some of the best competitive players out there. it takes alot of skill, knowing the game, and quick judgement and reflexes. depending on the game it can be very very technical.The two main sports I watch are rugby and the Tour de France.
With both of them, I'm watching people performing at an athletic ability that 99.9% of the population could never come close to emulating even if they could be at it full time.
With the rugby, I also coach & ref kids' rugby, so find watching the adult game constantly inspirational, plus I'm also a season ticket holder, so watch them live whenever they're at home, which builds up a good camaraderie with my lads and other season ticket holders who sit around us, whereas with the Tour de France, you get some wonderful scenery, and I've actually picked holiday destinations off the back of it!
Things like Fortnite videos that my boys watch, on the other hand??? Where's the skill in that? It mostly seems to just come down to how much you pay for loot etc, and involves the people playing shouting "Oh my God!" a lot...
ambuletz said:
Kermit power said:
I see your point, but I'm not convinced it's the same at all.
The two main sports I watch are rugby and the Tour de France.
With both of them, I'm watching people performing at an athletic ability that 99.9% of the population could never come close to emulating even if they could be at it full time.
With the rugby, I also coach & ref kids' rugby, so find watching the adult game constantly inspirational, plus I'm also a season ticket holder, so watch them live whenever they're at home, which builds up a good camaraderie with my lads and other season ticket holders who sit around us, whereas with the Tour de France, you get some wonderful scenery, and I've actually picked holiday destinations off the back of it!
Things like Fortnite videos that my boys watch, on the other hand??? Where's the skill in that? It mostly seems to just come down to how much you pay for loot etc, and involves the people playing shouting "Oh my God!" a lot...
how would you know though? play the game and lets see you get into the top 100 worldwide players. in the same way you watch physical sports because 99.9% of the people will never be that good, the same thing goes for some of the best competitive players out there. it takes alot of skill, knowing the game, and quick judgement and reflexes. depending on the game it can be very very technical.The two main sports I watch are rugby and the Tour de France.
With both of them, I'm watching people performing at an athletic ability that 99.9% of the population could never come close to emulating even if they could be at it full time.
With the rugby, I also coach & ref kids' rugby, so find watching the adult game constantly inspirational, plus I'm also a season ticket holder, so watch them live whenever they're at home, which builds up a good camaraderie with my lads and other season ticket holders who sit around us, whereas with the Tour de France, you get some wonderful scenery, and I've actually picked holiday destinations off the back of it!
Things like Fortnite videos that my boys watch, on the other hand??? Where's the skill in that? It mostly seems to just come down to how much you pay for loot etc, and involves the people playing shouting "Oh my God!" a lot...
Pro players can be awesome
I watched the PUBG world championship,and the skill of the team's was orders of magnitude above the ordinary player. It was very exciting to watch as well
In some of the more keyboard intense games like DOTA, IIRC the pros were hitting 200+ keys per minute!!! That figure may be off, I have no interest in that sort of game.
I watched the PUBG world championship,and the skill of the team's was orders of magnitude above the ordinary player. It was very exciting to watch as well
In some of the more keyboard intense games like DOTA, IIRC the pros were hitting 200+ keys per minute!!! That figure may be off, I have no interest in that sort of game.
Sheets Tabuer said:
I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.
Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
I blocked him straight away. They can watch each other playing with their toys. I spend a lot of time on their iPads blocking YouTube rubbish. Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
BoRED S2upid said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
I have a five year old, I picked her up the other day, she looked at my ipad and said Daddy can I watch Youtube.
Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
I blocked him straight away. They can watch each other playing with their toys. I spend a lot of time on their iPads blocking YouTube rubbish. Apparently watching someone called Ryan (Ryans world) playing with his toys is marvellous.
I watched a young fella who looked around early 20's for just over an hour checking his phone every 3 or minutes, Twitter / Facebook / Insta / Tik tok or something and another one before closing his eyes again.
This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
Allanv said:
I watched a young fella who looked around early 20's for just over an hour checking his phone every 3 or minutes, Twitter / Facebook / Insta / Tik tok or something and another one before closing his eyes again.
This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
They probably wouldn't have been able to hear him. This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
Lemming Train said:
Allanv said:
I watched a young fella who looked around early 20's for just over an hour checking his phone every 3 or minutes, Twitter / Facebook / Insta / Tik tok or something and another one before closing his eyes again.
This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
They probably wouldn't have been able to hear him. This went on for just over an hour and he seemed very anxious about no updates on anything. I didn't have the heart to tell him that we were cruising at 28500 feet.
I am aware that not everyone is like that but he could have just talked to his mates across the isle but they were doing the same.
Jim the Sunderer said:
Young adult women these days seem to be wearing horrible NHS glasses and the lads are wearing what one would call "sex nonce spectacles".
Nowt as queer as folk, eh?
I’m due an eye test in January Jim, to avoid being confused with Rolf Harris, could you give me some pointers on what “sex nonce spectacles” look like, so I can give them a miss?Nowt as queer as folk, eh?
Frank7 said:
Jim the Sunderer said:
Young adult women these days seem to be wearing horrible NHS glasses and the lads are wearing what one would call "sex nonce spectacles".
Nowt as queer as folk, eh?
I’m due an eye test in January Jim, to avoid being confused with Rolf Harris, could you give me some pointers on what “sex nonce spectacles” look like, so I can give them a miss?Nowt as queer as folk, eh?
My wife watches me with a pitying look when I dash to turn on the smart TV when I discover a new episode of Project Binky is ready....
She has still not figured out Qobuz and the music streamer, iPlayer might as well be written in Aramaic and I showed her how to maker the text on her iPhone biggerer - she looked at me like i had just discovered fire.... .
In her 50 something head, she is still sporting a frizzy ginger perm, hanging around the grit bin with her mates or copping off in queue to the Rum Runner.
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