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.
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Oh teh noes. Imagine inserting an 's' into 'Facebook'. The horror! The cluelessness! The wangsty teenage pretentiousness!
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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.
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It wasn't that's what made it hilarious! She has no idea what the connotations of the word "threesome" are.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Either way, the parent is not phobic of technology. Phobia is irrational fear. This person is just clueless.
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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.
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Agh, caught on my own pedantics. Yes. Clearly he or she knows something. But he or she is not afraid of technology.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Which could arguably be muddled, when spoken as "having sex with your cellphone" meaning "having sex using your cellphone as a medium".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Quite so. Perhaps you should go post yourself to the site, as someone clearly ignorant about very important things.
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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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