... to ask if MN has a grumpy 'old' women topic?

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I know there is pedants corner but I was wondering if there was anywhere where like minded people who want to complain about words like amazeballs, and other grumpy things can go and be grumpy without being told to get a life?

I hear you book. My husband says I'm a luddite. I used to author web content when it was all HTML coded, for fucks sake! I'm no fool. I just can't be arsed learning new gadgets all the time. We have a division of labour on reading the manuals for new household appliances, but he blazes a trail on all the tech stuff.

I read all the manuals DH just says its logic systems and presses all the buttons for hours

Dust, you're my kind of woman. My DD likes to tell me how pathetic I am about technology (no idea even how to set the video on the tv or how to find the right channel let alone work out how to use iPlayer on the Xbox). I always say: yes, but can you format a floppy disk in DOS? Can you edit an autoexec.bat file? She just sighs and gives me a look of utter contempt.

Living with the world's biggest technology fan has left me impotent as far as anything beyond a Sony Walkman is concerned.

I can't even watch the flippin' tv any more as dh has set it up to be controlled through his phone.

It means I'm exiled in the kitchen listening to the radio, which he keeps insisting I should listen to via some sort of steaming nonsense and I DON"T WANT TO !!!

[Dissolves into quivering wreck dreaming of return to pre-Spinny Jenny times]

Dust. I'm the opposite. I've been a Mac user for about 15 years and get very frustrated with windows machines.

hackmum so true - I loaded a modem in our 1st computer tower and altered the BIOS settings so it would work, and much more since - but my DH has loads of black boxes attached you our TV . Press 'A' then go to the other remote -press 'B' then go tp the 3rd remote press 'abcd ' arghhh just to watch the telly.....

My DH got us an amazing all in one remote that has buttons marked 'watch tv' and the like. Press that button and all the 400 boxes that do God know what all do what they are meant to.

If DH shuffles off this mortal coil before me, I will become one of those tedious old women who insists her adult children come round to do the 21st century equivalent of setting the video recorder.

I adore Sky plus, and my iPhone, why isn't all technology that simple?

yes I agree - I love my iPhone and Mac - putting stuff on the calendar and it pops up on the computer . What is the remote control called Pipbin I need one - but I bet it wouldn't link to all his satellite stuff grrr

It links everything! It's a Logitech Harmony 700.
If I'm watching tv there is a little screen that has colour pictures of the different channels and I just press the button next to the one I want. He even has got MIL one and can adapt it remotely from our house if something changes.
Not only does it mean I can work everything but it gave him many happy hours setting the thing up.

We have to leave the babysitter complicated instructions for the TV, cable box, Apple TV box and the DVD. The TV only has one HDMI port, so there is also a switching box. Last time we came home from a night out, our regular sitter was reading a book on her mobile phone because she'd given up on our complicated TV arrangement. If only it foxed the kids! They've found a short-cut to YouTube through one of the cable menus which circumvents the parental controls.

Here's a picture of the latest cause of my grumpiness (I think it was also mentioned earlier in the thread). Stop with the cheerfulness. I'm not "good to go", I still have to proofread the whole lot to find the things the spellcheck missed.

Dear God, Wanda. That makes my palms itch. How you manage to get through the day without taking a sledgehammer to your PC, I don't know.

that has brought on my twitch - little wiggly green lines arghhhhhh

Euw! 'Good to go!' Bad enough in speech, worse with an exclamation mark and just bloody awful as a cutsey and inaccurate instruction from a sodding computer.

At least all the Elf-on-a-Shelf haterz are safe here.

MehsMum eating sconns is more important than arguing over pronunciation so while I continue to be generally grumpy (yes I know the thread's moved on, I've only just got to MN now while I wait for my chocolate to cool) I will let the debate die.

ilkley completely agree re squirty cream which isn't cream at all but a collection of flavourings and E numbers. Ghastly stuff.

Top of my grump list today - my right hip, which has decided to be irritable and hurt like stink even though I took my painkillers this morning. I'm too young for arthritis, damnit.

I just started reading the Elf on a Shelf thread. But I had to stop. I just couldn't take it anymore.

I have only just heard of the elf on the shelf but I can state that I am most certainly a 'hater'.

I don't get this elf on a shelf thing

I thought it was just that the elf was supposed to fly off and report to santa overnight on whether the children had been good or bad, and then had a new hiding place every morning (placed by mom obviously hoho how hilarious)

Where does all the naughty elf stuff ideas come into it?

Fuck it I'm going to post the above on the elf thread

You should, MrJolly.

I know I'm drifting into forbidden TAAT territory here, but I fail to see how simulating a doll urinating on a toilet lid or defecating on a cookie brightens up the festive season, but then again my Christmas nickname is going to be SconeRhymesWithScrooge.

I love the festive name, Scone.

I haven't read the Elf on the Shelf thread. Should I?

I have now read it (as far as the lovely MrJolly's post anyway.

There are no words. Except, perhaps, to be thankful that I'm already past my second glass of wine.

(which is obviously why I'm missing my close bracket)