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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Sep. ~ Nov.: Free Expressions...: You know you are living the 21st Century..... users admin

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Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
You know you're living in 2005 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
13. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
14. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
15. You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.
16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :-)
17. You're reading this and nodding and laughing
18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
19. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
20. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

AND NOW YOU'RE LAUGHING at yourself. Go on, forward this to your friends-you know you want to!



P.S. And now start adding to the list?

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

My sister has 4 phone numbers (cell, work, regular home, lake house) and I had to list the 4th number under "?" in my cell phone.

And I didn't have to scroll back up to see if there was a 9 because the whole page appeared on my screen.

21. You could not function if you didn't have a mouse in your house.

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    
22. When you hear a song from "your time" covered by somebody else.

Buttercup
Member

09-10-2000

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buttercup a private message Print Post    
23. When your fitness club's member handbook says "No camera phones allowed in locker room."

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
24. When you know what it means to google something.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
25. No one giggles when you say, "I googled myself"

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
<giggles at Escapee's post>

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
26. When you pop popcorn on the stove, your 12 year old cousin calls it the "Old fashioned way".

27. You have 200 channels on your TV and you still watch the basic three from your childhood.

28. Your kids play games like: "Let me check my voicemail"

29. Your kids get upset that "hide and seek" doesn't have a joystick attached.


Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lkunkel a private message Print Post    
Regarding #5, I admit that it is one reason that I started writing my perzine, D'Clutter Bug. (A perzine--or personal magazine--is a forerunner of the modern blog.) I've sent the URL out to friends and family members to keep up with what we are doing.

DH's brother is thrilled--he now knows a lot more about how we're doing and is more prone to talk with us--he hates talking about himself or family. He's also been kind enough to print it out to give to his (and DH's) mom.

Anyway, all of this leads me to:

30. You write a blog instead of letters to friends and family.