No this is not some ancient iPhone.
Posted on 01/11/2019 3:47:20 PM PST by SJackson
Kids today know plenty, whether it's how to become a social media star on YouTube or how to navigate Snapchat. (It's a snap.) And at every step, their cellphones are close at hand, part extra appendage, part security blanket.
But cellphones are one thing.
And rotary dial models, quite another.
Two adorably clueless 17-year-olds, Jake and Kyle Bumstead of Illinois, got four minutes to dial a number on a rotary phone. It was their first time using such a relic from a bygone age.
Imagine asking an English speaker to parse some Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In this case, it took the pair more than a minute simply to recognize that Step 1 involved lifting the receiver.
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I still miss cursive. Indeed. I still miss cursive. People wrote in style.
The challenge wasn’t fair to the teens imo.
This is because all phones, antique and modern, have a minimal learning curve dependent on either an instructor or manual.
Opps... Apparently the resizer didn’t catch it... Sorry.
Exactly what is supposed to be adorable about them?
I know you are trying to give the benefit of the doubt. But some like mine needed a whole different infrastructure and system. lol
> Smart parents will get their children out asap. <
In the meantime, quit voting for stupid school board members.
Isn’t there an app for that?
Please no one is that stupid.
They were asked to “Dial” a number, not push a number or text a number.
So dummies you dial it aka in a circle
Did these idiots ever watch an older movie ?
Dont buy it
I dont think that is the issue. School board members only have so much pull. the union and teachers have the most.
there is no in the mean time.
“Call her on the Ameche.” —Ball Of Fire (1941)
The challenge wasn't fair to the teens imo.
Agreed. As a very elderly man with computer, I have been absolutely baffled at some glitch. Happily the younger persons just showed me what was only too glaringly obvious. Obvious to them that is.
I suppose a genius with the IQ of 120 would not know how to drive an ordinary auto. This if they had never seen one before. Seemingly second nature to us.
Without cursive, how do these people sign anything like checks, letters, legal documents, etc.?
Wanna confuse a millenial?
Next time it’s 15 minutes after the hour, tell them it’s “quarter past”
In Texas, in the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s, they ran regulat competitions in number sense (strictly mental arithmetic and math (word problems), slide rule, and science.
I competed in slide rule (junior and senior) and science (senior) in high school. Won many times, but placed only in science at the state level.
That famous auction site has them. Some are “collectable” I suppose. Pay phones, the really old ones from the 40s and 50s would be cool, maybe in the garage. One cool thing about the older phones is they still work in a general mains power outage, they get 90 volts DC from the office.
But landlines are becoming a thing of the past.
I was thinking the same thing...
They are just following orders? Hate to put it like that, but there sure is a lot of that going around these days.
(and people worry about living in a surveilled society today)
My grandparents had a party line back in the day.
I’m not sure that they COULD have made a phone call with that setup. The rotary phone is plugged into a VOIP router. I am doubtful that the router knows what to do with the rotary pulses. You’d get a dial tone, but might not be able to actually make a call (though you could pick up).
No this is not some ancient iPhone.
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