Wow, I slapped my forehead so often, I actually have a bruise there. I need new mannerisms.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:“Look it up on your fancy earpod”
ugh
quote:“You know about this sexting your friends are doing now? Are you having sex with your cellphone?”
ugh
quote:“Just put water in the half-and-half. That’s how they make milk anyway.”
ugh
quote:“If I ever sound like you, I want you to kill me. But I’m not going to kill you, because I’m your father, and it’s my fault you’re like this.”
A+, dad of year award
quote:“If you put what I said on your Facesbook, I’m grounding you.”
ugh
yes my favorite is definitely the clueless technophobe "can we watch this on the youtubes?" parent.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
quote: “It’s like when you brought home your yearbook, and no one had signed it, and we found out you had no friends.” – The situation she’s talking about was nothing like that, and I had tons of friends. They were just absent the day we got yearbooks.
Uh huh. I believe you. Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Oh teh noes. Imagine inserting an 's' into 'Facebook'. The horror! The cluelessness! The wangsty teenage pretentiousness!
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
The worst thing I ever said:
"If you count to infinity one more time, we are leaving this restaurant."
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:yes my favorite is definitely the clueless technophobe "can we watch this on the youtubes?" parent.
How is he or she a technophobe if they want to watch something on YouTube?
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
"The youtubes"?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
To me, I find the teenangst and condescension toward anyone who doesn't know the latest IT lingo to be funnier than any what the parents say.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lisa: "The youtubes"?
Oh yeah, adding in a 's' and an proper article where they don't belong. What a Luddite!
Posted by AchillesHeel (Member # 11736) on :
quote:Kid: “How do you get more seedless watermelons, if they don’t have seeds?” Dad: “They adopt.”
I wanna meet that Dad, I bet he's a laugh a minute.
quote:“You know, this would be a great place to hide a body. If I ever snapped one day and killed one of you, I’d hide the body here.
Classic!
quote:“I never did cocaine. I don’t want to put anything in my nose except my finger.”
These are parents who know how.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
“Just put water in the half-and-half. That’s how they make milk anyway.”
I've done this SO many times. Toddlers don't notice, and they were skinny kids anyway.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
My mom is Israeli and even though she has lived here for 25 years, she still makes the funniest mistakes in pronunciations and in phrases.
"I'm watching you like a hog!!!"
"Stop eardropping on me!!!"
"The Christians have the holy threesome."
"It's not hatched in stone..."
"Stop being such a tushy-good shoes"
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Armoth: "The Christians have the holy threesome." [/QB]
:: laugh ::
You sure that one's not intentional? It's almost too funny not to be.
Posted by Armoth (Member # 4752) on :
It wasn't that's what made it hilarious! She has no idea what the connotations of the word "threesome" are.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I love the dad on that commercial who is sitting on the porch, tweeting aloud "I am sitting on the porch" while his son is dying of embarrassment -- Dad's expression is classic!
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uprooted: I love the dad on that commercial who is sitting on the porch, tweeting aloud "I am sitting on the porch" while his son is dying of embarrassment -- Dad's expression is classic!
I laugh every time I see his expression.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lisa: "The youtubes"?
Yes? What, you never used the phrase "teh intarwebtubes" in an attempt to be funny? I think the cluelessness may be on the other side, here. The parent has evidently got some rudiments of a sense of humour. The kid, eh.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Either way, the parent is not phobic of technology. Phobia is irrational fear. This person is just clueless.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Teshi: Either way, the parent is not phobic of technology. Phobia is irrational fear. This person is just clueless.
The parent also isn't clueless. Clueless implies " totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring." Getting the jargon wrong or confusing the minor details does not equal "clueless". The question clearly indicates the parent knows quite a bit about what's going on. The parent knows you can watch video on the internet and even gets the name of the site almost right. That isn't clueless.
On the other hand, the parent that asked "“You know about this sexting your friends are doing now? Are you having sex with your cellphone?" , that parent is really clueless.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Agh, caught on my own pedantics. Yes. Clearly he or she knows something. But he or she is not afraid of technology.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by Teshi: Agh, caught on my own pedantics. Yes. Clearly he or she knows something. But he or she is not afraid of technology.
Yup! Now the "sexting" parent is another story. Its impossible to judge from one quote, but that parent could easily be a techniphobe.
[ September 10, 2009, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: The Rabbit ]
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I kind of doubt that a techniphobe parent would buy a cellphone for their teen, though.
I mean, I think "sex with your cell phone" was just a poor choice of words.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Yeah, no doubt "through" was meant.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
"Having sex with X" can mean "X is your sexual partner", but it can also mean "Engaging in sexual activity using X as a tool"; and the meaning will usually be clear from context, as indeed it is in this case. One would not say someone was clueless who asked "Are you having sex with a dildo/whip/case of canola oil?", although 'using' would perhaps be preferred. This is just a case of some dang teenager being irritatingly pedantic over a parent's (possibly poor) choice of words. Human brains only operate at 100 Hz; there are limits to how formal and well-chosen our words can be in extemporaneous speech.
Further, we don't know the context. Maybe the parent has reason to be concerned? I don't suppose anyone here would disagree that a parent can reasonably want to monitor just what sorts of conversations their teenager is getting into. Teenagers have, after all, notoriously bad impulse control.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:This is just a case of some dang teenager being irritatingly pedantic over a parent's (possibly poor) choice of words.
No, you are ignoring the first half of the quote. "You know about this sexting your friends are doing?" (emphasis added). This comment is funny not just from a teen angst (gosh my parents are dumb) perspective). This parent has misheard/misunderstood "texting" and is now concerned this is some sort of sexual activity.
quote:I kind of doubt that a techniphobe parent would buy a cellphone for their teen, though.
I mean, I think "sex with your cell phone" was just a poor choice of words.
Techniphobes come in all kinds of stripes. Not all of them think technology is "evil". This parent obviously has no clue what "texting" is and is apparently scared its something potentially harmful.
Posted by ladyday (Member # 1069) on :
Rabbit, sexting (as I, an oldish person, understand it) is the act of exchanging explicit texts and images via cellphone. Sort of the new cybersex, I guess.
Someone please correct me if I've misunderstood, but it's a real term.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit:
quote:This is just a case of some dang teenager being irritatingly pedantic over a parent's (possibly poor) choice of words.
No, you are ignoring the first half of the quote. "You know about this sexting your friends are doing?" (emphasis added). This comment is funny not just from a teen angst (gosh my parents are dumb) perspective). This parent has misheard/misunderstood "texting" and is now concerned this is some sort of sexual activity.
No, "sexting" is a term that has been coined to describe the sending of sexually explicit pictures and texts via phone. There have been a number of news reports in the last year of teenagers being caught doing it and in some cases being brought up on child porn charges as a result of circulating pictures of either themselves or their peers.
[Edit - beaten to the punch by LadyDay]
[ September 10, 2009, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Which could arguably be muddled, when spoken as "having sex with your cellphone" meaning "having sex using your cellphone as a medium".
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
quote:No, you are ignoring the first half of the quote. "You know about this sexting your friends are doing?" (emphasis added). This comment is funny not just from a teen angst (gosh my parents are dumb) perspective). This parent has misheard/misunderstood "texting" and is now concerned this is some sort of sexual activity.
As others have pointed out, it is! I think perhaps you ought not to be throwing stones at other people's technical ignorance, here.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: "Are you having sex with a dildo/whip/case of canola oil?"
Just want to point out, the first one works in either context.
I would still refer to "sex with your cell phone" as a poor choice of words. Parents are generally very aware of ways that their words could be intentionally misinterpreted by their children for the laugh factor. As will be evidenced from the first time your three-year-old son giggles when you ask him if he wants butter on his buns.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote:Originally posted by ladyday: Rabbit, sexting (as I, an oldish person, understand it) is the act of exchanging explicit texts and images via cellphone. Sort of the new cybersex, I guess.
Someone please correct me if I've misunderstood, but it's a real term.
Sorry, that's not one I've heard.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Quite so. Perhaps you should go post yourself to the site, as someone clearly ignorant about very important things.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I just think that people who get all torqued about kids making fun of their parents' mistakes, no matter how innocent, on the internet where the parents will likely never see them, are silly. Of course the site is about making fun of parents. It's a lighthearted thing. It doesn't have to be justifiable and backed up with impeccable logic to be funny. Sheesh, you guys. I'm rescinding your posting privileges until you loosen up. (shakes finger)
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