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Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-21-09 09:36 AMOriginal message BWHAHAHA! My brother gave my 73 yo mom a new Dell computer for her birthday She called me, quite upset, didn't want to hurt his feelings, but..."I really wanted a new Mac."She's got an obsolete candy iMac that she can barely check e-mail on anymore. She never, ever uses credit, but decided she was going to use her one credit card to finally purchase a brand new iMac. Then my brother calls, telling her to be sure she's home for the delivery of her new computer. She actually called him back and said thanks, but no thanks. They were a bit stunned, to be sure, but offered to put the $800 for the Dell toward a new iMac. I'm happy for her. She already has been using the Mac OS for nearly ten years, and my brother (Republican, very wealthy, btw) wanted her to switch to Windows. She thumped him. I love it!
cbayer (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-21-09 11:01 AMResponse to Original message 1. I could never switch over and would also have to politely decline any gift of a Windows OS based computer. I had to recently use someone's vaio to help them with bookkeeping and it was torture to me.Good for your mom!
Touchdown (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-21-09 11:44 PMResponse to Original message 2. That's good! At least they love her enough to respect her wants. I had a friend a few years back that always asked about his laptop, and what this would do, and that isn't working, and how can he get this to do that. I had no answer because I didn't know windows very much. He seemed to know windows even less. So when it came time for him to get a new one, he probed me for info, and I suggested he get a Macbook, gave him the whole worth the money and not a pain in the ass spiel everybody else does. We had been friends for about 6 years. So he takes the advice of a diner cook instead, and buys a new windows book, and then starts to probe me for answers on how to configure this, and load his old stuff that, and I was insulted. If he had no intention of even looking at a Mac, then don't ****ing bother me with questions about windows computers!We're not friends anymore. Not because of that, but because he called me a pedophile for taking professional year book pictures of high school seniors... oh, and he called me an anti-semite because I want my foreskin back.
We're not friends anymore. Not because of that, but because he called me a pedophile for taking professional year book pictures of high school seniors... oh, and he called me an anti-semite because I want my foreskin back.
That deserves a great big ole WTF?There is a lot more to that story then is being told.
Why would someone even add that into the conversation?
There is no way for a sane mind to grasp why DUmmies post what they do.A true professional photographer would never be accused of that....someone doing it on the sly claiming to be one a different matter.As to the other and given his screen name I would think it is a very disturbed and dangerous individual who by no great surprise has found a home on Skins island.
Atman.... and my brother (Republican, very wealthy, btw) wanted her to switch to Windows. She thumped him. I love it!
