Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Ed Anger]

What is a VCR? 

[Norgy]

I get tech support calls from my dad. So I have to drive 20 minutes one way every time something fucks up to fix it.

Facebook not working? House call.
Ask.com toolbar showing up? House call.
Internet acting weird? House call.
Blue screen of death? House call.

The record is 4 trips in one day.

Java was a constant with the older online banking systems here. So my almost blind stepdad downloaded new versions like he should. And installed Ask.com toolbars too.
If it hadn't been such a nuisance in the past, I'd almost miss Ask toolbars now.
With his free Win 10 upgrade, my stepdad was lost. "WHERE'S MY EMAIL??". Try pressing the icon for email. NO IT IS NOT EMAIL MY EMAIL IS ON THE INTERNET.
I really, really had sympathy and love for those poor people who work helpdesks.

[Jacob]

I get tech support calls from my dad. So I have to drive 20 minutes one way every time something fucks up to fix it.

Facebook not working? House call.
Ask.com toolbar showing up? House call.
Internet acting weird? House call.
Blue screen of death? House call.

The record is 4 trips in one day.

It's nice that you're spending so much quality time together

[katmai]

I get tech support calls from my dad. So I have to drive 20 minutes one way every time something fucks up to fix it.

Facebook not working? House call.
Ask.com toolbar showing up? House call.
Internet acting weird? House call.
Blue screen of death? House call.

The record is 4 trips in one day.

I get to do that over phone, spent 5 hours once trying to go through steps explaining how to operate a laptop.

[Norgy]

Just for the shits and giggles, I am considering giving mum EU IV for Christmas.

[mongers]

Just for the shits and giggles, I am considering giving mum EU IV for Christmas.

Some fringe US pro-lifers will be happy.

[Norgy]

The what now, mongers?

[mongers]

The what now, mongers?

I read it as socialist European fertility treatment. 


edit:
Maybe a largely British thing, but over here it's invariable referred to as IV (Eye-V), so that's what I first 'thought', despite it paradoxically being Languish.   

[Barrister]

I don't get phone calls, but often when my dad comes by he'll have his MacBook in tow and will want me to help him fix something on it.  It's his "business" MacBook - he does some freelance newspaper design and layout work on it.

1: My dad has been using Macs for publishing ever since the damn things came out.  How can, after 30 years, he not know how to do some of this stuff?

2: He doesn't ask me "how do I get my email" instead it's "I'm having some licensing issues with my copy of Adobe Illustrator".  What the fuck do I know about Adobe Illustrator?

So sometimes I get him helped out, sometimes I don't.  But I'm always why he even asks me...

[Liep]

Obviously he just wants to spent some time with his son, haven't TV taught you this?

[Ed Anger]

I get tech support calls from my dad. So I have to drive 20 minutes one way every time something fucks up to fix it.

Facebook not working? House call.
Ask.com toolbar showing up? House call.
Internet acting weird? House call.
Blue screen of death? House call.

The record is 4 trips in one day.

It's nice that you're spending so much quality time together

By quality time, you mean profanity laced tirades aimed at Microshit for their shitty operating system.

[Jaron]

My mother used to do that with me, but in a really odd way. I minored in psychology during my university years. Every time someone in the family did something she couldn't figure out, she'd call me for a psychoanalysis, despite how many times I told her it was a minor, I mostly studied just the history of psychology and I wasn't a therapist.

[11B4V]

[Ed Anger]

Oh god. My dad is on the phone right now reading facebook posts to me.

[11B4V]

Oh god. My dad is on the phone right now reading facebook posts to me.

Do your duty.