War Of The Words

@very-rusty said
My Brother-In-Law has never used a computer, doesn't even like a cell phone just lan line. One of the few left!

-VR

One of the very few - how does he manage, one wonders?

@very-rusty said
My Brother-In-Law has never used a computer, doesn't even like a cell phone just lan line. One of the few left!

-VR

We still have a land line.

@great-big-stees said
We still have a land line.

I had mine until a few months ago but it was hardly ever in use except to open the front door to the house.

@torunn said
I had mine until a few months ago but it was hardly ever in use except to open the front door to the house.

Wow a magical land line. I use a key to open our door.

@great-big-stees said
Wow a magical land line. I use a key to open our door.

Our front door to the house is kept locked, and we open with a key or a code. Guests without the code call my apartment and my phone rings, and I open with a button on the phone. 🙂

@torunn said
Our front door to the house is kept locked, and we open with a key or a code. Guests without the code call my apartment and my phone rings, and I open with a button on the phone. 🙂

I knew that. I was just being me. 🙂

@great-big-stees said
I knew that. I was just being me. 🙂

Oh dear, so silly of me. 🙂

@torunn said
Oh dear, so silly of me. 🙂

Silly? I think not. Just very informative.

@torunn said
One of the very few - how does he manage, one wonders?

He just never had any interest in computers or cell phones is all.

-VR

@leur said
"Another wise ass know it all" here (see Honor Roll thread, page 18, post 13...

Let us elevate the furshlugginer GF, huh?

From Time Magazine:

Americans and Brits have argued over the English language for centuries, and not just about an extra u here and there. But according to Peter Martin, author of the Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language, "they have always been able to understand their insults of one another."

Very interesting the way the thread took from a discussion of British and American English to the use of computers, land lines and cell phones.

A propos cell phone. we use the neologism "Handy" in Germany LOL

@ponderable said
Very interesting the way the thread took from a discussion of British and American English to the use of computers, land lines and cell phones.

A propos cell phone. we use the neologism "Handy" in Germany LOL

I know it’s like ‘Chinese Whispers’

Same in most forums though, if you just read the thread post and then jump straight to the last post it’s quite surreal. Hang on I might have the bare bones of a new guessing game.

We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are laptops, 4 tablets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?

@kewpie said
We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are ...[text shortened]... ets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?

OK, now that I will put in my BBT file. BBT meaning, "Bizarre But True".

@kewpie said
We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are ...[text shortened]... ets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?

Sounds to me like you are up to speed. You aren't missing out on anything of any value. 🙂