I'm Old-Fashioned

by thunderbird

Posted: 15 years ago 17 replies

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I realize that I am attached to things that time and technology are passing by. Here are things that show that I am old-fashioned:

1. I use capital letters at the beginnings of sentences. I am grammatically incorrect in a lot of ways that I don't even know about (and many a pedant have pointed out such minutiae to me). I'm of the school of thought that clearly communicating something is paramount and grammar is secondary. However, compared to what I'm seeing today, I am a downright grammatical scholar and strict ruler-wielding disciplinarian.
2. I often write on paper with a pen.
3. I read books. Actual books printed on paper. How quaint, I know.
4. I use email more than instant messengers. Emails are a nearly obsolete form of communication going the way of fax machines.
5. I can't spell txtmsgese. u no wut I meen?
6. I think txt messaging is annoying and stupid.
7. I sometimes watch movies in movie theaters.
8. I hardly ever play video games.

HeySal 15 years ago

You're evolved! I don't (read: won't) own a cellphone or text messenger. I still like land line telephones and think all commercial communications that rely on microwave grid should be illegalized.
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Rikki_Fawkes 15 years ago

Well, I still communicate mostly thru email, hardly ever text, still use proper grammar whenever possible, still read real books if I get time (usually before midnight when I can't sleep), etc.

So I guess I'm a little old-fashioned, too.
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Dennis Gaskill

15 years ago

You sound very similar to me ... if that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

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thunderbird

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

You sound very similar to me ... if that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

That doesn't scare me...(nervous silence)...should it?

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Dennis Gaskill

15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

That doesn't scare me...(nervous silence)...should it?

Depends on what you think of me I guess ... remember, you did claim I wasn't a real person not so long ago.

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thunderbird

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Depends on what you think of me I guess ... remember, you did claim I wasn't a real person not so long ago.

Dennis, someone has to tell you. We're creations of HeySal's creative writing projects and our identity and very existence may be one rewrite away. I'm sure you've heard of cities that suddenly disappeared, mysterious individuals who seem to vanish without a trace but then reappear in places that have little or no connection to their previous incarnations, or events that don't properly connect to anything from the past -- almost like they were haphazardly pasted in. Much of it has to do with HeySal's brainstorming, rewrites, or random deletions. Beware.

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Dennis Gaskill

15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Ha ha - that sure explains a lot of heretofore unexplained things in my life. It seems she creates some "interesting" characters.

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pjCheviot Banned 15 years ago

You are most certainly not alone . . .

Although the last time I did #7 was in the early 60's (1960's that is )

and if it wasn't for my two granddaughters - #8 would be a never
(one of these days I'll beat them :p)
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Michael Oksa 15 years ago

You use the internet, you're not old-fashioned.

If you use a horse and buggy, heat your home with coal (directly), don't have indoor plumbing, sew your own clothes after shearing the sheep and spinning the wool, don't have electricity...then you may be old-fashioned.

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p.s. Hmm...now that I think about, being old-fashioned sounds pretty groovy!
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Michael Oksa 15 years ago

p.p.s. Does using words like 'groovy' make me old-fashioned?

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alcymart

15 years ago

Hey thunderbird, you're just like me!

Are we just both getting old? My Pic was taken when I was 39, and I been 39 since a decade now...LOL

I like to hang on to old stuff/relics too...You?

Bernard

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thunderbird

15 years ago

Originally Posted by alcymart

Hey thunderbird, you're just like me!

Are we just both getting old? My Pic was taken when I was 39, and I been 39 since a decade now...LOL

I like to hang on to old stuff/relics too...You?

Bernard

I like relics too, but don't have much. My wife doesn't allow it. She believes ghosts may inhabit such stuff...This is someone with a degree in computer science...

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DireStraits 15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

1. I use capital letters at the beginnings of sentences.

CHECK.

Originally Posted by thunderbird

2. I often write on paper with a pen.

CHECK. (You should see the amount of paper piled up on my desk. I write everything down - which maybe explains why my memory has become so atrocious in recent years!)

Originally Posted by thunderbird

3. I read books. Actual books printed on paper. How quaint, I know.

CHECK. (Though I'm still not reading as much as I'd like to.)

Originally Posted by thunderbird

4. I use email more than instant messengers. Emails are a nearly obsolete form of communication going the way of fax machines.

I don't send a lot of emails, really. I use Windows Live Messenger most days, albeit briefly. Mostly I'm just antisocial.

Originally Posted by thunderbird

5. I can't spell txtmsgese. u no wut I meen?
6. I think txt messaging is annoying and stupid.

CHECK. I can just about understand it (after much study) when people use it on me. I do not appreciate it, however, and usually find myself p**sed off at the person sending me the message, for having forced me to waste more of my time than was necessary, just because they're exceedingly lazy.

Originally Posted by thunderbird

7. I sometimes watch movies in movie theaters.

CHECK. (And sometimes alone. Does that make me old-fashioned and sad? Peh - so what?)

Originally Posted by thunderbird

8. I hardly ever play video games.

CHECK. Used to play them a lot as a kid, but over the last 5-6 years or so, I've more or less lost interest (especially in the new stuff: I find most new games to be pretty tired and rehashed, really - and I don't pay £40 just for 3 hours worth of nice-looking introductions and cut-scenes and barely any real gameplay, neither).
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ramonacole 15 years ago

That doesn't sound like an old fashion to me. You just can be okay without excess things. I am going that way too.
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- pickthat apple 15 years ago
  
  I am also old-fashioned and I hope I will not change for the next 50 years.
  
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Bill Farnham

15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

I'm of the school of thought that clearly communicating something is paramount and grammar is secondary. However, compared to what I'm seeing today, I am a downright grammatical scholar and strict ruler-wielding disciplinarian.

Ditto.

Or something...

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