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Author:  AlunD [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:28 pm ]
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12182714

1. Plugthug: someone who'd kill for access to recharging facilities.

Paul, Chester

2. Game-shame: The feeling of slight embarrassment that occurs when you realise what you thought was about half an hour of game play was actually about five hours, especially when you have inadvertently missed an event to which, under normal circumstances, you would have assigned a higher priority than game play.

Ray D, Turku, Finland
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Nice to have intermet you”

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3. Spamnesia: failing to reply to e-mails from friends, because your computer thinks they're spam.

Rob, Australia

4. Meanderthal: someone who tries to drive or walk while using a mobile phone.

Dave Case, Wokingham

5. Sheeple: people who have to go out and buy the latest gadget (usually one whose name starts with an "i") just because they believe that everyone else is getting one, and they can't bear the thought of being left out.

Mike Plunkett, Fleet, Hampshire

6. Memail: e-mail I send to myself to remind me to do things. Everyone else spends all day reading and sending e-mail to each other, I prefer mine to be private.

John Dolan, Cambridge


7. Nerds-nest: the tangle of cables behind your TV or desk.

John, Wellington

8. Faceless: what happens when you get either vindictive or drunk and post on Facebook, someone finds it offensive and your account is suspended.

Tim Ellam, Ashburton

9. Dot con: the process of making money from the internet.

Robert, Rochester

...and, to end on a more uplifting note...

10. My word isn't exactly anti-tech, but it does fill a gap in the language. When I have a friendly conversation by e-mail with a new acquaintance, I finish the e-mail with "nice to have intermet you." A smiley emoticon is optional. If the Oxford English Dictionary is interested, please give them my number.

Kaylie, Runcorn
Author:  HeatherKay [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:58 pm ]
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Meanderthal is my favourite, I think.
Author:  pcernie [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:59 pm ]
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Quote:
7. Nerds-nest: the tangle of cables behind your TV or desk.


I await the day when kids can ask, 'It needed what?' :evil:
Author:  AlunD [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:00 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
Quote:
7. Nerds-nest: the tangle of cables behind your TV or desk.


I await the day when kids can ask, 'It needed what?' :evil:

Mine can't comprehend that TV used to be only in B&W :shock: :lol:
Author:  saspro [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:17 pm ]
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AlunD wrote:
Mine can't comprehend that TV used to be only in B&W :shock: :lol:


Was it broken? :lol:
Author:  Paul1965 [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:26 pm ]
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AlunD wrote:
pcernie wrote:
Quote:
7. Nerds-nest: the tangle of cables behind your TV or desk.


I await the day when kids can ask, 'It needed what?' :evil:

Mine can't comprehend that TV used to be only in B&W :shock: :lol:


Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?
Author:  AlunD [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:39 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


LOL no don't be silly :D
Author:  HeatherKay [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:47 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


Buttons? We had a telly that had a big knob marked for BBC1 BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2. The last was more in hope than expectation. And it was black and white.
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:22 pm ]
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Can't see my message but meant fave not face! Pesky iPhone!
Author:  Paul1965 [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:40 pm ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


Buttons? We had a telly that had a big knob marked for BBC1 BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2. The last was more in hope than expectation. And it was black and white.


And there was no TV for great chunks of the day either. No breakfast TV, nothing between the lunchtime news and children's TV in the afternoon. I am so old I can remember newspapers being black and white too, until Eddie Shah's Today was launched.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:49 pm ]
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Paul1965 wrote:
HeatherKay wrote:
Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


Buttons? We had a telly that had a big knob marked for BBC1 BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2. The last was more in hope than expectation. And it was black and white.


And there was no TV for great chunks of the day either. No breakfast TV, nothing between the lunchtime news and children's TV in the afternoon. I am so old I can remember newspapers being black and white too, until Eddie Shah's Today was launched.


The good old days of the test card. :)
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:22 pm ]
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HeatherKay wrote:
Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


Buttons? We had a telly that had a big knob marked for BBC1 BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2. The last was more in hope than expectation. And it was black and white.

I remember having a B&W TV with a tuning dial, like an old wireless, for finding the channels.
Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:24 pm ]
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Spreadie wrote:
HeatherKay wrote:
Paul1965 wrote:
Can they believe that you actually had to get up, walk over to the TV and change channels (all 3 of them) by pressing a button on the TV itself?


Buttons? We had a telly that had a big knob marked for BBC1 BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2. The last was more in hope than expectation. And it was black and white.

I remember having a B&W TV with a tuning dial, like an old wireless, for finding the channels.


I may have been born in 1988, but I recall that too. the first TV I remember had a dial and was B&W. We got a colour TV after my brother was born, which must have been around 1992...
Author:  l3v1ck [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:16 pm ]
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I memail on a regular basis.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:28 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
I memail on a regular basis.


+1 :)
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