Not All Drunken Conversations Are Pointless
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Progress..? What next?
10-15 years ago teachers were telling mathematic students how important working out was in solving problems. With many explaining the importance of this with “you won’t always have a calculator with you to help”
Well now we actually do carry calculators around everyday on our phones, but even more worrying is that the need to use these is becoming obsolete with the addition of Siri, Alexa etc
What advances can we expect in the next ten years?
Progress..? What next?
10-15 years ago teachers were telling mathematic students how important working out was in solving problems. With many explaining the importance of this with “you won’t always have a calculator with you to help”
Well now we actually do carry calculators around everyday on our phones, but even more worrying is that the need to use these is becoming obsolete with the addition of Siri, Alexa etc
What advances can we expect in the next ten years?
......don't get me started on ''Alexa" we fell out big time this week!!!!!!
I often think about the changes in technology and how our kids will experience it. When our kids were 3 at pre-school one of the criteria objectives they were assessed on was, are they able to navigate and use an iPad!!! I remember feeling quite surprised at the time!!!!
I often think about the changes in technology and how our kids will experience it. When our kids were 3 at pre-school one of the criteria objectives they were assessed on was, are they able to navigate and use an iPad!!! I remember feeling quite surprised at the time!!!!
Shaggy dog stories, eh? Here's something I remembered the other night and then cringed about:
I went to stay with a good friend of mine in London for a few days a couple of years back. We got heavily battered. Very heavily battered.
On the second night we went into town to meet some other friends for dinner. I hadn't slept for a couple of days by this point and we'd been caning it heavily all day. I was n't thinking clearly. Quite happy but not really with it.
At some point I left the restaurant to buy some tobacco, which I managed successfully but then I was so befuddled that I couldn't work out where the restaurant was and I had left my phone there, so I wandered off and found a pub with a random outside and I asked if I could borrow his mobile to call my mate.
Now. I have half a dozen important telephone numbers stored inside my head and I called and left some (probably rambling) message about how I was a bit fucked up, lost somewhere and could my mate please come and pick me up?
Job done, I had a smoke and waited for back up, which duly arrived.
Problem was, when I left the message I hadn't called the friend I was with, got confused and rang home. I gave the wrong name of the person I was with, prompting the other half to call a 3rd friend (who I thought I was with, having hallucinated his presence, but of course I wasn't, which then sparked an incident of "Where is he, who is he with, is he ok, why hasn't got his phone?! &c &c while I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
My 3rd friend actually got out of bed, left his house and came into town to search for me, which is a measure of his friendship.
As far as I knew, I got lost, made a phone call and then my friend had found me...
What I didn't realise was the trail of pissed off people I'd left in my wake.
Ooops.
I went to stay with a good friend of mine in London for a few days a couple of years back. We got heavily battered. Very heavily battered.
On the second night we went into town to meet some other friends for dinner. I hadn't slept for a couple of days by this point and we'd been caning it heavily all day. I was n't thinking clearly. Quite happy but not really with it.
At some point I left the restaurant to buy some tobacco, which I managed successfully but then I was so befuddled that I couldn't work out where the restaurant was and I had left my phone there, so I wandered off and found a pub with a random outside and I asked if I could borrow his mobile to call my mate.
Now. I have half a dozen important telephone numbers stored inside my head and I called and left some (probably rambling) message about how I was a bit fucked up, lost somewhere and could my mate please come and pick me up?
Job done, I had a smoke and waited for back up, which duly arrived.
Problem was, when I left the message I hadn't called the friend I was with, got confused and rang home. I gave the wrong name of the person I was with, prompting the other half to call a 3rd friend (who I thought I was with, having hallucinated his presence, but of course I wasn't, which then sparked an incident of "Where is he, who is he with, is he ok, why hasn't got his phone?! &c &c while I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
My 3rd friend actually got out of bed, left his house and came into town to search for me, which is a measure of his friendship.
As far as I knew, I got lost, made a phone call and then my friend had found me...
What I didn't realise was the trail of pissed off people I'd left in my wake.
Ooops.
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There was me, merrily sat on the roadside, congratulating myself for having solved my problem when in fact I caused significant complications for others.Now that's classic
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All because I rang the wrong bloody number.
Apparently so.Hey it happens
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The weekend got worse btw. But I don't need to share that
Frigging Alexa!!
The kids heard me setting reminders with Alexa earlier this week...... they saw an opportunity.......
The next evening Alexa started shouting out random reminders:-
"Reminder Dad smells"
"Reminder Dad don't eat your poo it will make you sick"
"Reminder Dad's farts stink"
"Reminder Dad pees his pants"
Karen's homecare nurse had come to see her too! The kids were creased laughing. I would've done exactly the same, I was so proud
B x
Awww.. lolzFrigging Alexa!!
The kids heard me setting reminders with Alexa earlier this week...... they saw an opportunity.......
The next evening Alexa started shouting out random reminders:-
"Reminder Dad smells"
"Reminder Dad don't eat your poo it will make you sick"
"Reminder Dad's farts stink"
"Reminder Dad pees his pants"
Karen's homecare nurse had come to see her too! The kids were creased laughing. I would've done exactly the same, I was so proud
B x
Apparently so.
The weekend got worse btw. But I don't need to share that
Bit late but yes you bloody do
Vxxx
@Baldricknkaz we are sharing your pain, amusement and poo/wee jokes!!!!!!!!!! Sodding Alexa! X ps. We would be proud too!!
If you get me drunk enough, I can give you a perfect recap on the multiple theories on time travel and what they mean, both in academic and layman's terms. I also have a favourite quantum mechanics lecture too hahaha!
