Oldies forum

[KingBilly]

Mods, not sure if I can post this on here so please remove if not acceptable.

Have had a bit of time on my hands this past week or so, so ventured over to a couple of other online forums to have a gander and maybe learn something.  I know a few members on here as also members of a particular forum where you can post a reply or a follow up.  Seems all a bit odd to me as it is almost impossible to keep track of the latest posts.  Anyway, those members of that other forum will know which forum I am referring to.

Now for my question?  Are all the contributors on that other forum over the age of 70 or something? Gees, reading some of the posts and the subsequest responses makes me laugh.  It beggers belief what some of their recommendations are.  Clearly still in the dark ages most of them.  Apologies to any of that forum's members, I don't mean to offend.  But is that what it is always like or has the last week just been senior's week or something over there?

[DannyG]

Im not sure which forum your talking about KB but its one about exploring then I find it very difficult to use!

[KingBilly]

Yeah mate.  Very hard to keep up.  Don't think I will be rushing out to pay to become a member.

But I got a good laugh out of some of the posts.

[GUEY]

Well, back in my day sonny, we didn't have internets flying around, and because I'm older I know better.



Does it go something like that?

[DannyG]

Yeh they have a great resource but for the life of me I dont know why they don't use main stream software thats easy to follow. Im sure they would get a lot more people pay up

[KingBilly]

Well, back in my day sonny, we didn't have internets flying around, and because I'm older I know better.

Does it go something like that?

Correct 

[MDS69]

I know the one you mean and visit it about once a fortnight. Very difficult to follow. I don't know if it is different if you are a member or not.
And also your observation about the attitudes/age thing is spot on.

[KingBilly]

I know the one you mean and visit it about once a fortnight. Very difficult to follow. I don't know if it is different if you are a member or not.
And also your observation about the attitudes/age thing is spot on.

Glad it is not just me then 

[Bird]

Exploroz or caravanners...?

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

I joined a group on facebook for Caravan and Camping tips. My god the amount of uneducated people who drop wads of cash on new vans and then have no bloody idea about brake controllers, solar panels, towing weights, tow vehicles, shackles etc ( I could keep going) is bloody astounding. I'm still learning but before we spent our hard earned on our trailer we read and read and read until we felt we had enough info or felt confident with to make our purchase.   

Now I don't mind the people asking the questions but someone will answer the questions and then 50 other people will post the same answer while another 50 will argue that answer is wrong till they are blue in the face.

I want to leave the group but it is quite amusing to read plus I do enjoy looking at the caravan set ups. 

[oldmate]

Exploroz or caravanners...?

Lol

Both probably. You've only got venture into the caravan section on here to get the same lmao

[Bird]

Both probably. You've only got venture into the caravan section on here to get the same lmao

Theres a caravan section here???

[Symon]

Being chronologically enhanced does not mean that you are automatically correct.  I have seen some older people do some unbelievably stupid things.

You can't beat experience, however it has to be the right type of experience to be of value.  To many the only notable experience they achieve is to be a passenger on this big hunk of rock as it orbits the sun.

If you spend any time on the caravanners forum, you'll see plenty of examples.  Lots of old people puffing out chests arguing over the classification of a spade or a shovel.

[GUEY]

If you spend any time on the caravanners forum, you'll see plenty of examples.  Lots of old people puffing out chests arguing over the classification of a spade or a shovel.

It's a scoop dammit!!!

[Bird]

It's a scoop dammit!!!

[KingBilly]

Here's the latest mind numbing question

Hi fellow travellers, a question about diesel shelf life. I want to fill a few jerry cans for trip next year while the price is down. Thanks

Times are tight, but ??  Can't wait to hear the pearls of wisdom.

KB

[austastar]

Hi, 
    Yep, spent a lot of time Exploring till I found Myswag. Immediatly felt 'at home'.
Perhaps the commercial nature detracts from the friendliness.
They do have an excellent 1:200k set of maps for sale though.

Cheers

[Bird]

http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/ ? LOL

[olddigger]

Yes, there was an almighty blue on there recently about what you can and cannot have in your avatar. Entertaining, I must say.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Hey Kill-Billy,

Forget the forum, just join me for a week mowing...nearly all my customers are oldies.
Makes for some great conversations about..... stuff.

[xcvator]

Hey Kill-Billy,

Forget the forum, just join me for a week mowing...nearly all my customers are oldies.
Makes for some great conversations about..... stuff.

Hah, you only work for oldies coz it makes you feel younger 

[MDS69]

Hah, you only work for oldies coz it makes you feel younger 

[rossm]

I look at the place Billy is referring to  occasionally as they have some very good bloggers who do interesting trips.

The endless arguments about mundane stuff get tiresome but it used to be much worse.

Cheers

[rossm]

And if you want to see a few really mixed up people there is a site I look at every now and then for some political insight (yes doctor, I know I should stop it) with a forum attached.

There are half a dozen or so main protagonists who are at each other all day for days on end.

I am sure they really have no idea some times what started it. And if they stop a troll will drop in and fire them up again.

Was that like the electrical section on here used to be before I joined?

[Ratbag]

Yeah, the Internet was basically invented when UNIX included a protocol for communication called TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Note that these two articles are somewhat at odds with each other, but basically Unix and TCP/IP formed the basis for the inter-networking of computers. These were up and running in the mid-1960s, when I was nearly 20 y.o. ...
So obviously not invented by any of the people poking fun at the SOFA members on another forum, who are of the generation that developed this ...

It is quite wonderful to watch the progression of the career of Dr Carolyn Porco, who first noticed some of the anomalies in the rings of Saturn (among other discoveries) in the 1970s and 1980s. She is now head of imaging at NASA. Seems to be a lovely person, but hardly going to high school in the 1980s, either.

And the people going to high school in the 1980s must have been responsible for the development of the technology that gave us integrated circuits in the 1960s, then LSI, then VLSI that lead directly to the development of modern computers. Probably also developed the technology that put the first humans on the Moon, and sent the Pioneer and Voyager space craft on their long lonely journeys starting in the 1970s and soon after.

So perhaps it is not very appropriate for people who do not remember a time when there was no colour television to take the p!ss out of those whose generation(s) invented it ...

Just a thought, from yet another one of those silly old farts ...       .