I Don't Hold With These New-Fangled Devices!

[+ Gar1eth]

 

Gman

[rvwnsd]

I like how "Gramps" checks to see if anyone is watching before pulling up the chair in front of the phone.

[+ Gar1eth]

I worked at a place that still had a few dial phones as late as 2000. When I used it, I had forgotten how sore the dial can make your finger.

 

Gman

[LADoug1]

Guess technophobia is timeless. Interesting also that the phone had no letters on it. And there was no mention of the use of 0 to contact an operator directly. Great post!

 

Also it would be funny to post this under Tech Talk.

[+ quoththeraven]

There were Luddites before there were Luddites. Change can not only be scary but time-consuming and hard to master, and the new is not always an improvement on the old. Why else does everyone bitch when there's a major operating system update?

[TruHart1]

Talk about newfangled. Does any of this technical gobbledygook mean anything to anyone here? o_Oo_O:rolleyes:

 

 

TruHart1

[Moondance]

If you're feeling sad and lonely

There's a service I can render

Tell the one who loves you only

I can be so warm and tender

 

Call me, don't be afraid, you can call me

Maybe it's late, but just call me

Call me, and I'll be around

http://www.manhuntdaily.com/files/The-Right-Connection-Playguy-June-1987-4-400x609.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhknahYBsE1qgjmowo1_500.jpg

[+ deej]

Interesting also that the phone had no letters on it. And there was no mention of the use of 0 to contact an operator directly. Great post!

 

I recently acquired two rotary phones from the house I grew up in. (They still have our phone number typewritten on the dial.) Someone thought it curious that one of them had a sticker on it listing the phone numbers of the fire department, police department, and ambulance. I had to remind her that there was no 911 in those days. Local businesses often provided the stickers as advertising.

[AdamSmith]

There were Luddites before there were Luddites. Change can not only be scary but time-consuming and hard to master, and the new is not always an improvement on the old.

Scene in the film 'Topsy Turvy' about Gilbert & Sullivan where one of them's aged father stands on his son's doorstep for hours waiting for someone to come out, unwilling to push the newfangled doorbell button for fear of being electrocuted.

[AdamSmith]

There is a thread about Tesla just waiting.

 

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/37144/3169532-albert.jpg

[+ Gar1eth]

Scene in the film 'Topsy Turvy' about Gilbert & Sullivan where one of them's aged father stands on his son's doorstep for hours waiting for someone to come out, unwilling to push the newfangled doorbell button for fear of being electrocuted.

 

Love that movie!!

 

If you're feeling sad and lonely

There's a service I can render

Tell the one who loves you only

I can be so warm and tender

 

Call me, don't be afraid, you can call me

Maybe it's late, but just call me

Call me, and I'll be around

http://www.manhuntdaily.com/files/The-Right-Connection-Playguy-June-1987-4-400x609.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhknahYBsE1qgjmowo1_500.jpg

 

Not much manscaping going on!!

 

 

Gman

[Moondance]

Not much manscaping going on!!

Less upkeep required for phone sex.

[+ sync]

Talk about newfangled. Does any of this technical gobbledygook mean anything to anyone here? o_Oo_O:rolleyes:

 

 

TruHart1

 

What I got from it is that Google is entering the TV/Internet delivery game. If more players mean the possibility for more competitive pricing, I'm all for it.

Following is a little text from the Wikipedia bio about the cutie narrating the video:

 

Marques K. Brownlee (born December 3, 1993), also known by his stage name MKBHD, is an American video producer, host, technology reviewer, Internet personality, and professional ultimate frisbee player, best known for his technology-based YouTube channel, MKBHD.[2][3] The channel, a concatenation of MKB (Brownlee's initials) and HD (for High Definition),[2] has over 3 million subscribers taking the place as the 3rd most subscribed technology channel on YouTube[4] and over 359 million total video views.[5][6] In August 2013, Vic Gundotra, the former Senior Vice President, Social for Google,[7][8] called Brownlee "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now."[2][3] During one of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary debates that was cosponsored by YouTube, Brownlee asked the candidates a question by video about whether tech companies and the government can find a middle ground over encryption while considering rights to privacy and national security.[

[+ quoththeraven]

Not much manscaping going on!!

 

 

Gman

 

Fine by me, except for getting stray hair stuck on my tongue.

[+ Charlie]

I have a wired home alarm system. On Saturday it started beeping at me, so I pushed the "status" button and the plummy English accent informed me that there was a low battery signal in a motion detector (a detector which I never arm, by the way, because it is too easy to trigger accidentally). My manual told me that if this was the status message, the control panel wouldn't remind me by beeping until four hours later. So I took down the motion detector--which I have never handled before--and discovered that I couldn't even figure out how to remove the battery. So I called the monitoring service, which told me they couldn't schedule a technician to change the battery till Monday. They said I could defeat the beeper by disabling the motion detector, but it was already disabled. I tried to shut down the whole system by unplugging the control panel altogether....but it still beeped every four hours, all night Saturday, all day Sunday, all night Sunday, and each time I had to get up, go to the panel and hit the "status" button. When I called the monitoring service first thing this morning, they said they couldn't get a technician to come till tomorrow.

 

Give me an ax, and sign me up with the Luddite Party.

[+ ArVaGuy]

There is a classic Twilight Zone episode where a man has an adversarial relationship with the appliances in his home. He's convinced they are trying to kill him. Of course everyone thinks the guy is bonkers. In the end, the guy winds up dead and it's clear to the audience that his appliances killed him. Or did they?

[+ quoththeraven]

I have a wired home alarm system. On Saturday it started beeping at me, so I pushed the "status" button and the plummy English accent informed me that there was a low battery signal in a motion detector (a detector which I never arm, by the way, because it is too easy to trigger accidentally). My manual told me that if this was the status message, the control panel wouldn't remind me by beeping until four hours later. So I took down the motion detector--which I have never handled before--and discovered that I couldn't even figure out how to remove the battery. So I called the monitoring service, which told me they couldn't schedule a technician to change the battery till Monday. They said I could defeat the beeper by disabling the motion detector, but it was already disabled. I tried to shut down the whole system by unplugging the control panel altogether....but it still beeped every four hours, all night Saturday, all day Sunday, all night Sunday, and each time I had to get up, go to the panel and hit the "status" button. When I called the monitoring service first thing this morning, they said they couldn't get a technician to come till tomorrow.

 

Give me an ax, and sign me up with the Luddite Party.

 

I thought my carbon monoxide detector or smoke detector (I have one alarm for both) had gone haywire and was thinking about calling my landlord. It's a good thing I didn't as the sound turned out to be beeping on a YouTube video I was watching. The host/commentator was the one with the malfunctioning alarm.

 

I hope your situation is resolved soon and peaceably.

[+ Gar1eth]

I have a wired home alarm system. On Saturday it started beeping at me, so I pushed the "status" button and the plummy English accent informed me that there was a low battery signal in a motion detector (a detector which I never arm, by the way, because it is too easy to trigger accidentally). My manual told me that if this was the status message, the control panel wouldn't remind me by beeping until four hours later. So I took down the motion detector--which I have never handled before--and discovered that I couldn't even figure out how to remove the battery. So I called the monitoring service, which told me they couldn't schedule a technician to change the battery till Monday. They said I could defeat the beeper by disabling the motion detector, but it was already disabled. I tried to shut down the whole system by unplugging the control panel altogether....but it still beeped every four hours, all night Saturday, all day Sunday, all night Sunday, and each time I had to get up, go to the panel and hit the "status" button. When I called the monitoring service first thing this morning, they said they couldn't get a technician to come till tomorrow.

 

Give me an ax, and sign me up with the Luddite Party.

Charlie-just an idea-can you web search or YouTube that model type and find the directions for battery replacement?

 

Gman

[+ Charlie]

I thought of that, Gman, but the battery itself looked so specialized that I wouldn't know where to get one on short notice, so I will have to wait until the technician comes tomorrow morning.

[TruHart1]

There is a classic Twilight Zone episode where a man has an adversarial relationship with the appliances in his home. He's convinced they are trying to kill him. Of course everyone thinks the guy is bonkers. In the end, the guy winds up dead and it's clear to the audience that his appliances killed him. Or did they?

...or Stephen King's lesser 2006 novel, "Cell" in which everyone who uses their cell phone hears a certain pulse on it when they use it, after which they become mindless zombie-like killers. Our hero and a few other survivors not affected by the pulse (their own cell phone broken or lost) must find a way to survive.

 

TruHart1

[+ Gar1eth]

...or Stephen King's lesser 2006 novel, "Cell" in which everyone who uses their cell phone hears a certain pulse on it when they use it, after which they become mindless zombie-like killers. Our hero and a few other survivors not affected by the pulse (their own cell phone broken or lost) must find a way to survive.

 

TruHart1

 

There's an episode or two of Dr. Who with the 10th Dr. where the world has been given free, fast internet connection. And everyone who has the Internet and the implants becomes enslaved.

 

Gman

[+ FreshFluff]

1940: "You will have an electric operator at your disposal 24 hours a day."

 

2016: https://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/this-four-letter-word-will-get-you-better-customer-service-on-the-phone-194426834.html

[gallahadesquire]

I have an alarm system hooked up to nothing, but if I flip the switch in the closet, a 90 dB sirens goes off somewhere in the attic. Fun on Halloween, if nothing else!

[body2body]

I still keep a hard wired landline in my house. In the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, my electricity was out, cell service (such as it was) was out, none of my more modern portable phones worked, but the old touch tone desk phone in my upstairs office worked like a charm. It carries its own power, and was my only link to the world for two and a half days.

[+ Gar1eth]

I still keep a hard wired landline in my house. In the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, my electricity was out, cell service (such as it was) was out, none of my more modern portable phones worked, but the old touch tone desk phone in my upstairs office worked like a charm. It carries its own power, and was my only link to the world for two and a half days.

 

While I've said this before, and y'all know how I hate to repeat myself:p, but to me it seems as if there is a tiny delay in cell phone transmissions-less than in early day long distance calls or early VOIP systems. This makes me disinclined for long involved conversations on cell phone. I think this might be one reason (along with its more surreptitious nature) of the popularity of texting among the young. I mean I remember my older sister as a teenager. We actually got a second phone line mainly due to her-not that I didn't occasionally have some long phone calls. I can't imagine she would have found texting with its lack of emotional content as satisfying. Nowadays I sometimes prefer texting. But only because of the delay/difficulty I find in during long involved cell phone calls.

 

Gman