BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 09:44 AM

I have successfully and accidentally cut my cable wire 3 times.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 10:49 PM

Ah, the "hereafter" moment. As in, what was I here after?

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jos
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 06:06 PM

If (no, when) I can't remember what I was going to get, or do, I just go back to where I was when I decided I wanted to get it or do it. Usually this reminds me what it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Helen
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 03:53 PM

Regarding the "now what was I going to do in here?" problem, I read an interesting article:

doorways make us forget what we came for

The solution, obviously, is to remove all your doorways. Do people who live in open plan houses forget what they came for?

I have a trick. If I think of something I need to get or do in another room, I think of an object I will see in the room e.g. a picture on the wall, and tell myself that when I look at the object I'll remember to do or get whatever it is. It works for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jos
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 12:36 PM

I don't make tea by putting teabags in cups (a teabag is enough for two cups).
I put either teabags or tea leaves in a pot.
(But sometimes I forget, and make what someone I used to know called "silver tea". She couldn't drink tea or coffee but liked a warm drink. But when I do it it is NOT by design - I just forget to put the tea in the pot.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 11:10 AM

I made a cuppa a few weeks back and found it unusually black. It turned out that mum, the previous user of the kettle, had put the teabags in it rather than in the cups.

I'm not sure that all these things are necessarily senior btw. I (now 60) am capable of this sort of thing but I remember from an early age, running upstairs in a hurry to get something only to forget what I'd wanted.

I guess, these days, it's getting to be an area I find difficult. There are things that maybe we've always done and things that maybe we can laugh off (perhaps reasonably) as getting older but, say with dad when I wheel him to bed at night on the commode and he occasionally says "I'm not sure what I should do now" (use the frame to manoeuvre to sitting on the bed), I see that as possibly part of his stroke related condition deteriorating or other confusion...

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 10:42 AM

I have not yet found my kettle in the fridge, but you reminded me of mom going to the kitchen to get a drink and empty her ashtray, coming back, realizing she had forgotten her drink, returning to kitchen, and suddenly screaming Who made this mess [Hungarian accent needed]?


...


She had emptied her ashtray into the fridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 10:23 AM

On the smart vs dumb phone comments. I thought I'd done a good thing for mum when I set up (new battery and put a more up to date ROM on it) my first smart phone (a Samsung Galaxy Ace 2) to become her phone but it turned out that she was more comfortable/better off with a dumb one.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jos
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 09:07 AM

Senior moment?
I looked at the clock and saw that it was nearly 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I thought 'I'll make a cup of tea and sit down with it to listen to "Woman's Hour".
This was about thirty years after the programme moved to being broadcast in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 08:00 AM

I'm hoping the Sim card will be accessible when I get the next phone

Helen, from my recollection of less than smart phones it depends on how you save the phone numbers, and what the phone provided as choices. On one phone I remember asking to put them on the SIM card as well as the phone. The phone could save more numbers than the SIM card. Best of luck.

If the phone has a micro USB for charging, there is a chance the data can be accessed wherever, so ask your independent phone shop they will have the apps to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 07:11 AM

Senior moments? Stood at the house front door trying to unlock it with the remote-control car key...

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to rifle through a disgusting kitchen bin looking for my keys...

My friend's kettle went inexplicably missing from his kitchen. After an exhaustive search of the house he found it in the fridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: BobL
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 03:07 AM

Spent half of yesterday evening trying unsuccessfully to log on to my regular Thursday Zoom meeting. Consequently, I missed my regular Wednesday Zoom meeting.

The senior moments are getting less momentary and more senior...

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 05:47 AM

It certainly sums up whoever was in charge of the police, Bonzo. You're not wrong there.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: BobL
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 02:52 AM

Helen, I'm with you on smart vs. dumb phones. My own mobile handles phone calls, texts and photos, plus calculator and FM radio, but not e-mails, and no downloadable apps. It does have Bluetooth, but I've only once managed to do anything useful with it. And AFAIK the software isn't updateable (it would be obsolete by now anyway). Photos can be stored on a micro SD card and thence transferred to a PC. Or at least it could until my one-and-only micro SD adaptor packed up....

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Mar 21 - 05:07 PM

Sums up the people at the vigil on Clapham Common at the weekend!!

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 Mar 21 - 10:10 AM

A few days ago, I started a 3d print off and about 15-20 minutes later I realised that, rather than being on the printer, the printer’s glass build plate was still in the fridge (used to make it easier to get items off) with the last print on it.

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On phones and contacts, etc. I changed the server I use for contacts and calendars baikal last week as tasks in the previous one (radicale) went haywire after an update. Repeating tasks are still (and always have been) a bit weird on the Androids but as things are, I can manage that using Thunderbird on my desktop and, paranoid as I may be, I prefer to share across devices without data going to Google.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Helen
Date: 16 Mar 21 - 04:21 AM

BobL, the data is still on the phone. Except for the photos I didn't upload any other information. That's why I'm hoping the Sim card will be accessible when I get the next phone.

My phone is not a smart phone, it's a stupid phone, by my own choice. I use the computer for all my internet access and information storage. I'll probably have to get a smart phone at some stage but I'm putting that off as long as possible. Keep life simple!

So that was the cause of the problem with the software upgrade. It wanted me to send a verification code from my phone, which I couldn't do.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: BobL
Date: 16 Mar 21 - 03:39 AM

Helen, no backup copy?

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: JHW
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 04:21 PM

The dumb stupid idiots are those behind the mindless robots who send out stuff, perhaps genuine, perhaps a trap. No Reply and little chance of any real person dealing with you. That's the future.

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 04:07 PM

Aw Helen!

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Helen
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 03:27 PM

My dumbest stupidest most idiotic recent thing was when my phone software was upgraded it didn't work and I lost the ability to access all the things I'd saved on my phone, like photos, contact info etc so I deleted the software on my computer thinking I could just download it again. It didn't work and there appears to be no way to fix it.

I'm hoping that when I bite the bullet and buy a new phone I can put the Sim card in that and the data will be transferred to the new phone. Maybe. If not, bye-bye to all my data!

Subject: RE: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 03:16 PM

Oh, Mrrzy!

I absolutely HAVE been that idiotic.
And I absolutely don't wanna go further into it.

Bless your heart!

Subject: BS: Dumbest stupidest most idiotic
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 01:24 PM

Ok I looked at threads with those keywords and while most are entertaining, none were refreshable for my purposes...

Which are...

Or, rather, is:

Telling you what I just spent an hour doing, imbecile-ically.

Lost an app clearing caches from my phone. Weeks later realize this, so I redownload the app. Ok. Had forgotten password, ok, reset password. Then they want me to verify what my phone number was. They only show me the last 2 digits. No clue what my phone number was back when I started using that app. Do not want to start anew, I want my old data.

So I try white pages, look myself up, get into some loooong thing that, after telling me I could search for free, wanted money to show me the search results.

So I try several other free searches, all of which end up asking for money. But before I realize that, of course, I have entered my name and email into a bunch of places I will later, certainly, be sorry for.

*Then* I realize...

...Those are the last 2 digits of my current phone number.

So, what have *you* done lately?