Luddite

Def :- One who fears technology (or new technology, as they seem pleased with how things currently are...why can't everything just be the same?)

That's me At least according to the description of me, by someone down the beach this morning, to whom I was explaining an unfortunate misunderstanding

Several years ago I was given a present by my well meaning daughter and son in law, it was a big fancy watch that did a number of other things than just tell the time, it also had a bar chart showing you where the tide is heading in your part of the world. They had set it for Curl Curl.

I neither wanted or needed such a gift, but I was not ungracious enough to refuse it, so I simply made the best of things.

Just one problem, whenever I tried to drive it, like daylight saving changes, I would stuff it up and need to get the giver to fix it, unless I was happy to know the tide at Banzi Pipeline any time of day or night

It recently needed a new battery so my bride took it to a specialist to have it done correctly, but when it returned, the tide was set to Newport Beach, and I don't mean the one up the road from my place, I mead the one on the other side of the Pacific.

I decided, I'm a grown man, I should know this stuff, I can tie my own shoe laces and I know how to make toast this can't possibly be beyond me. I logged on, down loaded the instruction and in a jiffy, I had Curl Curl dial in ( a jiffy equals 45 minutes in my world).

Now I know full well that many of you will see what's coming next, but pretend you don't, that way you can laugh at me even harder in the end.

As I was scrolling through the features, I noticed the word "HEAT", it intrigued me and I though, "I must go back there and play with that feature"

But all the time I was thinking to myself, just how much value would such a feature be

What heat would it measure

Ambient air temp how's that possible, it would just pick up the heat from your body maybe you just wave your arm around in the air

Perhaps it's for water temp, but then you would need to shove your hand under water that can't be right

So finally I returned to "HEAT" option to read how to use it and soon realised (drumroll please) yes you guessed right, it was for a competition heat

Lol. Your humour always make me laugh mate. Thank you

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lol u lost me mate, what reading does it give for a competition heat I would of thought the same (temp)...digital watches sh1t me too, the only time I wear one is when I'm in Bali surfing an outer reef so I know how long I have before the boats coming to pick me up. That $10 waterproof watch I bought in tokyo a few years ago has an alarm set for mid day every day. I have no idea how to turn the barstard off so the watch resides on a window ledge in the garage. Put it there coz its meant to be solar powered & far from us haha

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MickPC said..
lol u lost me mate, what reading does it give for a competition heat I would of thought the same (temp)...digital watches sh1t me too, the only time I wear one is when I'm in Bali surfing an outer reef so I know how long I have before the boats coming to pick me up. That $10 waterproof watch I bought in tokyo a few years ago has an alarm set for mid day every day. I have no idea how to turn the barstard off so the watch resides on a window ledge in the garage. Put it there coz its meant to be solar powered & far from us haha

Mick, you work it out, I've had enough technology for now.

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haha nah, just cruising the net drinking beer mate...thought you might have a simple answer. But you got me thinking its probably like a timer for your heat that a stopwatch would cover...looks flash though mate, cool to have rellies keen to buy u surf orientated stuff

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obct said..
Luddite

Def :- One who fears technology (or new technology, as they seem pleased with how things currently are...why can't everything just be the same?)

That's me At least according to the description of me, by someone down the beach this morning, to whom I was explaining an unfortunate misunderstanding

Several years ago I was given a present by my well meaning daughter and son in law, it was a big fancy watch that did a number of other things than just tell the time, it also had a bar chart showing you where the tide is heading in your part of the world. They had set it for Curl Curl.

I neither wanted or needed such a gift, but I was not ungracious enough to refuse it, so I simply made the best of things.

Just one problem, whenever I tried to drive it, like daylight saving changes, I would stuff it up and need to get the giver to fix it, unless I was happy to know the tide at Banzi Pipeline any time of day or night

It recently needed a new battery so my bride took it to a specialist to have it done correctly, but when it returned, the tide was set to Newport Beach, and I don't mean the one up the road from my place, I mead the one on the other side of the Pacific.

I decided, I'm a grown man, I should know this stuff, I can tie my own shoe laces and I know how to make toast this can't possibly be beyond me. I logged on, down loaded the instruction and in a jiffy, I had Curl Curl dial in ( a jiffy equals 45 minutes in my world).

Now I know full well that many of you will see what's coming next, but pretend you don't, that way you can laugh at me even harder in the end.

As I was scrolling through the features, I noticed the word "HEAT", it intrigued me and I though, "I must go back there and play with that feature"

But all the time I was thinking to myself, just how much value would such a feature be

What heat would it measure

Ambient air temp how's that possible, it would just pick up the heat from your body maybe you just wave your arm around in the air

Perhaps it's for water temp, but then you would need to shove your hand under water that can't be right

So finally I returned to "HEAT" option to read how to use it and soon realised (drumroll please) yes you guessed right, it was for a competition heat

I'm 55 and haven't worn a watch for 37 years because they got too hard to figure out.
It's time to get up when it's light outside.
It's time to go to bed when it's dark outside. (or before it's light outside again)
What more do you need?
And why can't everything just be the same?

Ha ha I can relate to that I've a rip curl tide master I've had for seven years it's in the cupboard and I get it out to change the battery once every two years. It's too bulky too many buttons and too much **** on it I don't need to know. I bought a swatch at the airport two years ago has time and date and hands that go around to tell the time it's also light slim and water proof.Love it fellow Luddites

Seems like there's more than one Luddite on here eh OB? It was a better story when told in person But I hear you. I only use watches with hands on 'em. Now if they only had reading glasses you could surf in, it would be worth wearing one.

who turns on the PC,s for you guys

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obct said..
Luddite

Def :- approximately 16% farkin better than a wine wanker

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thePup said..

obct said..
Luddite

Def :- approximately 16% farkin better than a wine wanker

only 16%,geez

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laceys lane said..
who turns on the PC,s for you guys

interesting concept that, it could be effectively argued, that not knowing how to turn on your computer, may well be the most intelligent thing you could possible do.

The infancy of the internet, (as we now know it) was around 27 years ago, and knowing its origins in the mid 80s as being a tool by which scientists and researchers could exchange data, it would be incomprehensible to those World Wide Web founders, all those years ago, that the WWW would be anything other than a miraculous new tool through which fact and truthfulness would propagate throughout the world in an instance.

I could give many examples of why the opposite (superstition, conspiracy, megalomania, self interests, narcissism, etcetera) could more likely be true, but instead I will use just 2 words as a general example:

"False News"

I vividly recall around 20 years ago speaking with a lady in Macquarie Park in Sydney at a time when I thought the internet was simply a fad, like CB radios. She had the most colourful array theories relating to gold thefts from Kerry Packer and a host of other nonsense.

The one that really struck me was her unshakable belief that Marylyn Monroe was born a man and as a teenager, she went to Germany and had a sex change. This woman was convinced of it, why? because the internet told her so.

Because I knew the exact birth year of that actress (one year after my mothers) and as a matter of simple general knowledge, I knew what was happening in the world at the time she would have been a teenager, I immediately could smell BS, and my immediate thought was:- "pity the WWW does not have some sort of built-in BS filter "

20 years later, I still think it.

Gee,not another marylyn monroe sex change denier