This video has been making the rounds and makes me burst out laughing everytime I see it. I think we have all been there! From from the Norwegian TV show Øystein og jeg.
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May 18th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Brilliant. It’s just like me and my mother.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
It reminds me of learning powerpoint.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:10 am
This is great
May 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I’ve had to do this as phone support. (No, no. Try not to get ahead of me. Remember I can’t see what you’re doing.)
While driving. (Give me a second to plug in my hands-free. It looks like what?)
And my wife has a master’s degree. (She mastered ancient Greek, but can’t read the manual.)
So, i’ve got mixed emotions over this very, very funny clip. (It makes me squirm a little, and my skin crawls. I’ll take a Valium now.)
May 18th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
That clip reminds me of my mother. She hates everything to do with anything ‘technology’.
May 18th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
someone should show that to George Bush
May 19th, 2007 at 5:54 am
It’s funny, but it makes us look like idiots. By “us” I mean the great unwashed, the people who really don’t give a shit about computers, and care only about what you can do with them. And there’s no doubt that the way computers are designed, and manuals written, suggests either that computer designers get an ego boost out of pretending that they are designing the LHC, or that they are functionally retarded. Maybe both.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:49 am
lol, Monty Python in Norwegian
Nust have been dramatic changing from scrolls to ‘books’
even more so than changing from greek to latin to english?
May 19th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Hehe, yes this one is funny.
I wouldn’t take it so seriously, Illirikim. It could be just as well as be seen as taking a jab at typical computer problems (where poor manuals are just as much the being culprits), or perhaps most likely, just done in fun to illustrate the culture that have evolved in computer support.
May 20th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Whoa there, Illirikim. This just illustrates the fact that the devices of today that we think of as “obvious” were yesterday’s “mysterious” new technology. Being in IT Support for 13 years now, I can tell you that this dialog was far more common 5 or 6 years ago than it is today. All of “us” have had that first experience with a computer/atm/automobile/TV Remote/subway map/ etc that we can hopefully laugh about at some point down the line. Poorly written manuals (as this piece also shows) are apparently an inevitable part of the human condition (unless you are using an Apple product!)
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