Comments on: Outcome of teaching my grandfather how to use his computer

By: ladycaptain

ladycaptain — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:48:21 +0000

I immediately think of someone clicking a mouse, going
“Hearh, let me doit. NYEH! NYEH! NYEH!”

By: Casio Men

Casio Men — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:28:19 +0000

Oh!!!

By: mchunton

mchunton — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:50:52 +0000

We can’t forget the “he makes a facebook and adds me as a friend” option.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:45:44 +0000

Not only do I have to teach my g-pa how to use a computer I also have to teach my mom.

By: Jay Tee

Jay Tee — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:03:58 +0000

Applies quite well to my granddad too, if you replace “just let me do it” with “it’s better if you do it”…

By: ffnovice7

ffnovice7 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:11:42 +0000

Self-projection win?

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:35:56 +0000

Please. I tried to teach my grandmother. She can’t figure the mouse out. Hell, she can’t even figure the keyboard out! And she doesn’t seem to understand what “DON’T GIVE YOUR PASSWORD OUT TO *ANYONE*!!” means.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:07:27 +0000

My father turns 80 this year. I would put his computing skills up to most. It is amazing what he can do with a computer. He is teaching himself Ruby on Rails currently.

By: Kamikaze

Kamikaze — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:56 +0000

No. There’s no way you could explain what THAT is to your grandfather either!

By: Je6ka

Je6ka — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:38:05 +0000

This graph is SO true Happend same thing while teaching

By: Plimpie

Plimpie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:13:33 +0000

this is much closer to me trying to teach my grandfather to set his digital watch…in the early 90’s….the Seiko/Casio/Timex cheapies with time, date, and maybe a stopwatch…lol

By: Plimpie

Plimpie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:12:55 +0000

this is much closer to me trying to teach my grandfather to set his digital watch…in the early 90′s….the Seiko/Casio/Timex cheapies with time, date, and maybe a stopwatch…lol

By: SickleYield

SickleYield — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:46:26 +0000

Sounds like both of my parents. Neither of whom is elderly, and both of whom have had some exposure to computers for my entire life.

Though I do rue the day my aunt learned how to forward “inspirational” messages about starfish who leave footprints in the sand but, just before they die of cancer, pray for the serenity to accept the things they cannot change.

By: chrisp

chrisp — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:55:33 +0000

, i gave my grandfather my old laptop and he does the same, he also plays normal solitaire. i once had to drive to his house to sort it out as he had accidentally zoomed in on the screen so he could only see one card at a time.

By: Wade From TN

Wade From TN — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:52:06 +0000

More like my dad. Printer froze! Lets delete the printer!

By: lolo

lolo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:18:55 +0000

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. “

By: I LOLed.

I LOLed. — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:31:35 +0000

^ THIS

My grandmother’s friends also send around inspirational heartwarming stories with smiley-face .gifs in them and encourage each other to send them around to brighten people’s day.

By: jl5691426

jl5691426 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:47:21 +0000

Looks like “co” to me also, but it’s still silly to nitpick about a typo. The guy probably was in a hurry to finish the graph before his boss caught him doing it at work.

By: maestro

maestro — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:05:06 +0000

Nah, with a little effort and a lot of practice even the grandparents could learn basic computer skills. But it’s just not that important to them and so they don’t want to waste a lot of time practicing. My granddad is quite capable of writing emails and loves to communicating with his grandchildren via email.

By: Paz

Paz — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:01:29 +0000

LOL it said “Just let me do it” Get a better monitor you idiot and even if it said what you quoted, it would have still made sence in a way and still would have kicked ass.

I’d like to see you do any better, make a graph about your terrible monitor maybe?

By: Auror

Auror — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:11:39 +0000

“Just let me do it.” Your grandpa needs a competent teacher.

By: Onikun

Onikun — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:22:11 +0000

This somehow became FML now?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:13:38 +0000

I taught my my grand mother who is 67 and now she is glued to it. I have to prepare the meals and give them with a spoon so that she can eat and use the computer at the same time. She enjoys it thoroughly.

By: ViewProfile

ViewProfile — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:08:28 +0000

Yep, yep, yep…this puts me in mind of, well, trying to teach my bratty teenage son just about anything worth knowing. Except I actually had to buy his food and support him during his ‘tude days. He’s all grown up now.

By: AnneOhNighMous

AnneOhNighMous — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:55:35 +0000

Taught the grandfather how to use the computer. All he does is play Spider Solitaire…all day.

By: I LOLed.

I LOLed. — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:42:56 +0000

My grandfather is actually an ace at all that — worked for NASA, built me my first computer when I was six, tends to be more in the know re: technology and communications than anyone else I know (including myself).

Thus in my world, graph is titled ‘Outcome of my grandfather teaching my grandmother how to use her computer.’ And it’s even funnier because I get to observe from a distance.

By: I LOLed.

I LOLed. — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:36:20 +0000

They DO say the sense of humour is the first thing to go …

By: Kinseth

Kinseth — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:59:16 +0000

This has never happened to me, but I’m the designated human spell-check in my house. And my dad is practically deaf, so I suffer the same frustration, having to tell him at least five times how to spell a word.

By: Bugg

Bugg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:58:08 +0000

Ferserious!
Ohmahgawd! -stress fit-

By: Leak

Leak — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:30:47 +0000

That ain’t your grandfather – that’s my mum!

Wait – did I say that out loud?

Crap.

np: Pinch – 136Trak (Black Round Ghosts)

By: Panthera

Panthera — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:03:28 +0000

Hah. So true.
I’m the delegated “tech support” in our house.
It gets annoying, but at least I’m allowed to give them superior smirks.

By: chris5858

chris5858 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:02:19 +0000

How did you know

By: mooka

mooka — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:06:51 +0000

Get a better monitor.

By: Kevin T.

Kevin T. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:05:39 +0000

This is what happened when I tried showing the computer to my Grandma years ago.

Though if you think about it, by the time we’re old, I’m sure there’ll be some newfangled technology that we don’t understand, and quite frankly, don’t want to understand.

By: cat

cat — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:04:18 +0000

It says “Just let me do it?”

Work on your eyesight before you graduate to read dude.

By: lolo

lolo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:57:20 +0000

*Agist
Is it agist when its true…?

By: lolo

lolo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:55:59 +0000

Ah! Igad! tell me about it!
My mother does this…then gets pissed off when I get pisssed off.
I think I’ll skip everything next time and just go straight to ” Just let me co it”

By: toobey

toobey — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:47:37 +0000

‘Just let me co it?’

Work on spelling before you graduate to graphs dude.

By: Metz

Metz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:42:49 +0000

You think teaching your grandparents how to do something on the computer in person is hard, try walking them through a computer process over the phone. GHAAHHH! (hair ripping / teeth gnashing)
My heart goes out to all the tech guys and gals who get the calls of the ones who have no grandchildren to help them!

By: alftuba

alftuba — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:32:15 +0000

Ageist jerk!

By: Acerlux

Acerlux — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:31:33 +0000

Brings back memories. Just lost my grandpa in January. I remember trying to teach him. He’d always throw a fit and ask how to close the desktop.
I guess the orange and red were a little bit more even for me, but it’s a great graph right there, IMO.

By: ass

ass — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:23:19 +0000

Why were you tryin to teach your gradfather to use the computer in the first place? you deserved it.
also…
Second

By: CoreyCaffeine

CoreyCaffeine — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:06:52 +0000

Mudkipz!

By: CoreyCaffeine

CoreyCaffeine — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:06:24 +0000

Grandpa like Mudkipz!?! I wuz Mudkipz! FIRST