My parents would take the power cord. But I had a spare. When they figured that out, they took the keyboard. But I was stubborn and used charmap (old Windows shit, no onscreen keyboards then).
There was an episode of Oprah (I think, it was my mom watching it) where this guy was addicted to World of Warcraft, and his wife said it was ruining their marriage. Oprah asks the dude to shred his WoW CDs on stage in front of everyone. He does it, like, zero hesitation. Everyone is like "oh my, he loves you this much! See?" Meanwhile I'm sitting there going "you don't need the CDs to play it, they were just an install device for the original game....
My mum grounded me from the internet for two weeks for not eating the meatloaf she made for dinner. She flipped the ‘off’ switch on the back of the router and figured I didn’t know I just had to switch it back on, even though I was the one who taught her how to work a computer. She would come back from work and notice the keyboard or the mouse weren’t exactly where she left them then she’d get this smirk on her face and say, “So, you tried to be sneaky and use the computer? The internet only works when I say it does.”
swattages on August 16th, 2019 at 01:49 UTC »
My parents would take the power cord. But I had a spare. When they figured that out, they took the keyboard. But I was stubborn and used charmap (old Windows shit, no onscreen keyboards then).
Aardvark1292 on August 16th, 2019 at 02:20 UTC »
There was an episode of Oprah (I think, it was my mom watching it) where this guy was addicted to World of Warcraft, and his wife said it was ruining their marriage. Oprah asks the dude to shred his WoW CDs on stage in front of everyone. He does it, like, zero hesitation. Everyone is like "oh my, he loves you this much! See?" Meanwhile I'm sitting there going "you don't need the CDs to play it, they were just an install device for the original game....
Edit: Tyra Banks old show, not Oprah.
FrouFrouZombie on August 16th, 2019 at 03:08 UTC »
My mum grounded me from the internet for two weeks for not eating the meatloaf she made for dinner. She flipped the ‘off’ switch on the back of the router and figured I didn’t know I just had to switch it back on, even though I was the one who taught her how to work a computer. She would come back from work and notice the keyboard or the mouse weren’t exactly where she left them then she’d get this smirk on her face and say, “So, you tried to be sneaky and use the computer? The internet only works when I say it does.”