(OT) OLD AGE HAS NO BOUNDS..........

[[TSQN]RedKite]

I have a neighbour who has a old caravan in his back garden where he fiddles and guddles around with his collection of very old pc's. He has one fairly modern pc, so for months now i've been encouraging him to get onto the internet, "Dont have a modem" says he "i'll give you my old 'un " says i.
And so its gone on for many months now, until last week i showed him on my own pc how easy it is to find, download and play your favourite music.
Now this guy is a devoted fan of Django Rienhart and was amazed as to how much Django music and information there was on the net..........so yesterday he finaly took the plunge and i installed my old modem on his pc and i registered him with lineone for off-peak free calls.
Last night sitting next to him was like watching a kid with a new train set, the smile was beaming from ear to ear, and the highlight was finding his own village website and an old picture of a past flame standing at the local bridge in the late 1930's.
When i went to bed just before midnight "old Phils" caravan light was still burning......what have i started ...:naughty:
"Old Phil" BTW will be 80 next year, do you know any older surfers:)

[Mini Me33]

Not got him AA yet then???

tsk

[freedom fighter]

ROFL BLESS!!!:cheese:
.......wot is it with u and caravans..lol:farmer:

[Dave B]

Redkite, are you a pikey?

Bit of tarmac down here sir, £50 pounds for the whole drive?

[natiko]

Arr bless, nice story... Wonder what PC's will be like when I'm 80.

[Denham]

Lmao^^
I think its good that old people are now accessing the web.
Sorry i mean wise not old:)

[freedom fighter]

Must be nice for Mr kite to have some one to play with around his own age...lmao.

.....GIT OOFF MIEEE LAND.....:farmer:

[freedom fighter]

OI NAT DENNIS..SHOULDNT YOU TOO BE AT WORK OR COLLEGE??.:doom:

[ReKKa]

Theres anough old people round these days.
They don't belong here! :E

Tell him the AAW site is @ http://www.airattack.co.uk/aaw

Coogs will get him trained up. :P

[Rocky]

Nice story that Kitey. Quite sad really, in a sort of "awwwww" way if you understand? :)

[Denham]

Lol Freedom:)
Im on my way soon, but i dont think its worth it for 2hrs and 15minutes:(

[[TSQN] Fu11]

there used to be an AOL Guide, can't remember his initials (GuideUK**), but he was 86 :D

sadly he passed away last year :cry:

[animani]

nice post m8

i got my mother to get her 1st pc a couple of months ago,then signed her up to the net.
It took her two weeks to learn how to send mail(bless her).
She is in her late sixties

[Samson]

Nice post RK.
My mother now uses the internet at 60, she had to, it's the only way to get hold of me :laugh:

Originally posted by [TSQN] Fu11
there used to be an AOL Guide, can't remember his initials (GuideUK**), but he was 86 :D

sadly he passed away last year :cry:

Gahh didn't know that, I trained with him when he took it up, can't remember his name or his Guide initials as I didn't do it for long because of work commitments plus it was a long time ago, cracking bloke :cry: have to dig out my old buddy lists and try and remember now :(

[[TSQN] Fu11]

i think his initials were BB, but i really can't remember :cry: i didn't know him too well, didn't find out until a few weeks after that we'd lost him :(

i was actually accepted into the guide programme, then got thrown out after breaching confidentiality rules :laugh: D'OH :emb: my years ban on applying runs out next week! :D

:E

[COBRA/Highlander]

Nice story RK I was hopeing to have another OLD bod to fly with me on Air Attack and then we could realy kick ass hehehehhe.

[[TSQN]RedKite]

I darent show him AA lads he might be better than me :)

[COBRA/Highlander]

HEHEHEHEHEHEEHHEH

That would not be to hard hehehehehhehehehehehe

[Happy]

I keep trying to persude my dad (77) to get a PC and connect to the internet. He flew spitfires and hurricanes in the latter part of WW2, and I'm sure he'd love a game of AA. He is extremely tecnophobic though ;(.
I let him have a go on my PC once, but he just froze and panicked and said it wasnt for him.

Fair enough I suppose, but a shame.

Happy

[BlueJam]

I can picture the scene.

Redkite leaves the caravan, Old Phil rubs his hands together and shouts "RIGHT WHERE'S THE PORN!"

[Dave B]

Mr Jam, you have an awfull way of destroying a little picture of happiness I was storing in my mind :(


hehehehe....

[freedom fighter]

When that caravans a rocken dont go anocken Mr Red:emb:

[Samson]

Originally posted by [TSQN] Fu11

i think his initials were BB,


Yeah I'm 99% sure it was BB and iirc rn was Brian. He was a well funny bloke, a real character. Come to think about it, I believe most of that batch were over twice my age at the time :laugh:

I wouldn't bother trying again m8, was quite hard to keep up with other online activities as well as guiding. Minimum of 2 x 3 hour shifts a week, with 60 odd other people trying for the easy shifts (mine were either the busiest times, pub chuck out times or 3a.m. shifts :() and when you gotta work 10 hours a day as well, can be really tiring :)
Mind, that was quite a few years ago, may have changed a bit now :)

Haven't been in chat rooms in years, reminds me too much of near breakdowns in AOL chatrooms, was fun for a while though :laugh:

[[TSQN]RedKite]

Bluejam yer not far wrong m8 :wink: i've been backwards and forwards all day trying to show old phil the email side of things, and its been a real hoot.
But the latest news is that he's currently banned from going online by his missus cos she missed incoming calls last night from friends and family (they only have one line)
So........not to be deterred, i'm going to download Lineone Call Manager from http://www.ocmuk.com/ and hope that i can resolve that problem for him.
Has anyone any experience of Lineone call manager, which says it can divert calls to a voicebox or even take the call whilst staying online.

[[TSQN]RedKite]

Sad news here guys, yesterday i spent some time with Old Phil installing MS messenger, so that he could message me when we were both online. He eventualy got the hang of it and returned a few humourous messages early yesterday afternoon.
Last night about 6.30 i wandered down through his garden with a friend (who ironicaly is an AA player) to visit him and as Phils caravan light was out we assumed he was in his house, but as we passed the caravan we heard moaning, and after opening the door of the caravan found Old Phil sitting slumped in his chair having suffered a stroke. He'd lost the use of his left leg and his left arm, and clearly his speech was impaired. He could'nt even reach the phone next to his pc, or switch the light on, and had been sitting there since 4pm fully aware of what had happened to him.
He's now in hospital and the latest news is he's comfortable.
I'm gutted, but thats the sad reality of life for you.
I dunno yet whether he's going to make it but if anyone feels minded to email him then old Phil's addy which i set up for him is oldphil78@hotmail.com :cry:

[XRobList]

I got my grandad on the internet (well internet TV)hes very into it watching him play around it like me when I first got onto the net.

He still hasnt got the hang of email yet, he gets the address right, he just keeps trying to type the entire email in the subject line lol :)

[[TSQN] Fu11]

AOL Chat was my life for a good two years Samson :cry:

I actually counted down the days from my 17th birthday until I was the minimum age to be a Guide, hmph! Got accepted first time etc, over the moon, couldn't keep my mouth shut, told a Guide who i thought was a friend, who in turn, opened their mouth, hey presto! Thrown out of the guide program and banned for a year, pfffffffft.

To be honest, i've hardly chatted since, feel like such a stranger sometimes. I loved being able to help others with both AOL related stuff and anything else that cropped up, Guiding would've been perfect. I was set to become the youngest AOL UK Guide (apparently they don't usually consider anyone under 21 ish?), and I blew it :cry: Gutted didn't even come close.

Kitey, so sorry to hear about Phil, I'll mail him later and say hi, we can't let something like this come between him and the internet, we need to sort his priorities!