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I think it is a shame ..

We are fifty years and older .. We live through all sorts of

things good or bad ...

Here we are wasting our last years of our lives .. on a computer ...

Isn't there something better to do .. then sit on a computer for hours ...

reading all sorts of utter nonsense ...

Do you feel this is an addiction or the devil's tool ...

I know you are talking tongue in cheek, because you are online every day and you are loving it.:p

Some of us have to use the computer to work from home.

I use the computer all day, every day, as it's the key point of my job - Internet Communications. However, when I get home & power up the PC, it's a way of unwinding because it's a totally different scenario. Also, I'm somewhat sociophobic, so going out with others would be the last activity of choice for me. Leave me alone on my comp & I'm happy.

sugarpuff;1467724 wrote: I think it is a shame ..

We are fifty years and older .. We live through all sorts of

things good or bad ...

Here we are wasting our last years of our lives .. on a computer ...

Isn't there something better to do .. then sit on a computer for hours ...

reading all sorts of utter nonsense ...

Do you feel this is an addiction or the devil's tool ...


Yes.........and no........sometimes.

sugarpuff;1467724 wrote: I think it is a shame ..

We are fifty years and older .. We live through all sorts of

things good or bad ...

Here we are wasting our last years of our lives .. on a computer ...

Isn't there something better to do .. then sit on a computer for hours ...

reading all sorts of utter nonsense ...

Do you feel this is an addiction or the devil's tool ...


I think that there's as much nonsense in "real" life as there is online, so either I'm wasting my last years with both, or, neither is a waste. I don't actually know.

:wah:

I spend time with Hubby, who doesn't use the computer.

I keep in touch with my family who live far from me.

I have a full-time job.

I go on vacation twice a year.

I ride with Hubby on a motorcycle.

I read books.

Wasting my life? No, time just seems to go by so fast.

I wonder how many who criticise computer users as 'not having a life' spend their time glued to their mobiles.

FourPart;1467745 wrote: I wonder how many who criticise computer users as 'not having a life' spend their time glued to their mobiles. And are actually on a computer complaining that those who use computers have no life.

I really hope the OP was tongue In cheek.

Oscar Namechange;1467752 wrote: And are actually on a computer complaining that those who use computers have no life.

I really hope the OP was tongue In cheek.


yep that what I doing .:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl. on the computer complaining about it ...

guilty as charged ....

sugarpuff;1467753 wrote: yep that what I doing .:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl. on the computer complaining about it ...

guilty as charged ....


Sugarpuff is the tongue/cheek, foot/mouth expert.

:wah:

Fuzzy;1467766 wrote: Sugarpuff is the tongue/cheek, foot/mouth expert.

:wah:


God you know me so well ...



me in my younger days

Fuzzy;1467766 wrote: Sugarpuff is the tongue/cheek, foot/mouth expert.

:wah:


We had an outbreak of foot and mouth In Britain some years ago and the government shot the lot of them.

Oscar Namechange;1467783 wrote: We had an outbreak of foot and mouth In Britain some years ago and the government shot the lot of them.


Do you have a problem with me .. just ignore me ...I haven't attack you at all ...

I understand you loss a dear friend recently .. and you are upset .. ..

I have loss many of cyber friends .. it hurts .. Many of us have I am sure ...

Like I said .. I am sorry for your loss ...

and I even more sorry I had answered your thread .....

can't shake this off post ..

After a little thought I have some more to say.

Funny how some people have took umbrage, but I suppose that was how the topic was posed.

If you think about how computers have affected and even dominate our lives these days, whether we use them for leisure time or not.

Mobile phones are small computers, they allow us to make payments and check balances.

And after all PC's are only tools and tools can be for good or bad depending how you use them.

Bruv;1467789 wrote: After a little thought I have some more to say.

Funny how some people have took umbrage, but I suppose that was how the topic was posed.

If you think about how computers have affected and even dominate our lives these days, whether we use them for leisure time or not.

Mobile phones are small computers, they allow us to make payments and check balances.

And after all PC's are only tools and tools can be for good or bad depending how you use them.


I couldn't do my job without my laptop. Yet, funny enough, I loathe mobile phones. I don't take them out with me, look at them or even answer them, I can't text, I have nails to consider. As for predictive text, I can't be doing with the uncertainty that typing the word ' count' Is actually going to come out as ' count'. I quash desires to punch people In the face daily, those people who shout Into their phones In the street because they believe their conversation will be riveting to passing pedestrians.

But now, they Insist I must have a separate mobile phone at all times for the Party. So Peter bought me one of these smart phones with Apps for everything. I've had It 3 months and I can't still work out how to use It.

Dinosaur

Bruv;1467793 wrote: Dinosaur


Racist

sugarpuff;1467788 wrote: Do you have a problem with me .. just ignore me ...I haven't attack you at all ...

I understand you loss a dear friend recently .. and you are upset .. ..

I have loss many of cyber friends .. it hurts .. Many of us have I am sure ...

Like I said .. I am sorry for your loss ...

and I even more sorry I had answered your thread .....

can't shake this off post ..
It's no secret that Oscar & I differ greatly on many things, but we also agree on many others. However, I think Ihave interpreted her comment here as not being intended to have a go at anyone, but to make a tongue in cheek quip. If she were to have a go at you, believe me, you'd know it.

You have to travel to know oscar, but I've found it's worth the trip.

[QUOTE=FourPart;1467796]It's no secret that Oscar & I differ greatly on many things, but we also agree on many others. However, I think Ihave interpreted her comment here as not being intended to have a go at anyone, but to make a tongue in cheek quip. If she were to have a go at you, believe me, you'd know it.[/QUOT

FourPart ..if it is meant in tongue in cheek ..

Then I am sorry for accusing her ..

Only the person who wrote it .. knows how it is meant to be portrayed ...

I teach alternative high school all day, in a small room with 35 teenagers full of angst. Then I teach the After School Program for an hour and a half with 50 teenagers desperate to regain their credits. Finally I teach Night School until 7 pm before I drag myself, body aching, ears burning, and brain spinning, back to my home.:yh_sweat

Believe me, any time I can get online, like right now in the quiet before the day starts is a welcome, calming bonus.:yh_hypno

Did I mention I teach Saturday school? =^..^=

Yeah, sure, I have a life. It's around here, somewhere. I mean, I had it just a minute ago. Let's see. Where did I just put that? Um, Oh well, Can I get back to you on that?

I have a life...but it's not what I call "living."

I want a new life. Are they sold online? There are no life shops around here.

Saint_;1467830 wrote: I have a life...but it's not what I call "living."


That is so sad .. Especially since you give so much of your time .. so other's can have a life ...

Fuzzy;1467863 wrote: I want a new life. Are they sold online? There are no life shops around here.


You can buy life savers .. at some shops .. around here ..

sugarpuff;1467867 wrote: You can buy life savers .. at some shops .. around here ..


I know. We even have lifesavers at the beach in OZ.

How about a "Bag For Life" - you're bound to find a few old bags knocking about in town.

Is this another puzzle thread?

YZGI;1467887 wrote: Is this another puzzle thread?


Is that a trick question, or part of the puzzle ?

Bruv;1467888 wrote: Is that a trick question, or part of the puzzle ?


Never answer a question with a question, and never, never answer a question with two questions..

YZGI;1467892 wrote: Never answer a question with a question, and never, never answer a question with two questions..


I wouldn't do that, would I ?

Bruv;1467893 wrote: I wouldn't do that, would I ?


Are you the sort of person who would do that, Bruv? Would it even enter your mind?

Can you tell me what is the point of a rhetorical question?

Bruv;1467893 wrote: I wouldn't do that, would I ?


FourPart;1467916 wrote: Can you tell me what is the point of a rhetorical question?


Ask Bruv, he did twice.

Would appear the the opening post had a point........wouldn't you say ?

YZGI;1467892 wrote: Never answer a question with a question, and never, never answer a question with two questions.. Why ?

because

sugarpuff;1467979 wrote: because


Good enough for me.