Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

My brain just doesn't want to take on board all this tech.
I find it tedious in the extreme.

QR codes ... no idea
Still struggling with a Podcast

I just can't be bothered really ?

Hellogirl1

I`ve just about mastered how to watch TV on catch up, but now ITV, and BBC, have made it more difficult (for numpties like me) by saying we have to join to watch now, and I just CAN`T seem to figure it all out, so at the moment am missing my programmes.

I think this will work. Go to BBC iPlayer on your computer and register with name etc. Then go to your TV and try to watch BBC iPlayer. It will show you or send you a code. Enter that on your computer (while logged in) and it will link your name etc. to your TV.

You only have to do this once and the TV will remember you. Keep your log in details though, in case you need them again. the same applies to ITV Hub for ITV catchup.

The basic idea is to register you and then link your TV to that registration.

Booking a holiday. In the old days you went to a travel agent and picked up some brochures. Then you went back after choosing your hotel and destination. The travel agent did the rest. We're off to Spain next week and my husband has had to check everyone in on line and print off boarding cards. He's also researched and found we don't need passenger locator forms this time but we do need vacinne certificates on our phones. It's a lot of administration that the travelling public have to do themselves. You might wonder why he's doing it, not me. I would be so anxious about getting it wrong!

DD1 bought me a Fire Stick. A what?? She put it in/on a rarely watched tv - I don’t know how to get it, really don’t want to and keep blaming the aerial for poor reception!

MrOops (as a surprise) bought me, and had installed, an all singing all dancing Radio/CD player for my car, except that I can’t make it sing or play the Radio so I can’t dance.
It just sits there, when I eventually manage to turn it on (Difficult as the whole front pops off when I push the incy wincy button) it just changes colour with the fancy lights dancing on the front.
B****y thing, by the time I’ve changed my glasses to find the on off switch, I’ve lost the will. So it sits there . Off. And I fume.

Apparently the chap who fitted it in the shop showed MrOops how to use it, but he’s forgotten and I now have to go online to try to figure it out, it’s been 2 years now…………

I`ve just about mastered how to watch TV on catch up, but now ITV, and BBC, have made it more difficult (for numpties like me) by saying we have to join to watch now, and I just CAN`T seem to figure it all out, so at the moment am missing my programmes.

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I've just attempted to put full make up on for the first time since I retired a year ago. I seem to have lost the knack. ?

Yes, my writing has got worse.
I thought it was old age but it's lack of practice.

I can't write any more. I gaze at the pen I've picked up. Almost a foreign object. I put it to paper. End up with a nasty ham fisted scrawl. I only have to write birthday and Christmas cards these days and it's so difficult.

I used to be rather nifty with calligraphy. Now my handwriting looks like a 4 year olds done it.

I have no idea what those QR codes are all about.

Apparently the codes on the new stamps are full of exciting things we never knew we needed and we will have to pay more for the privilege of receiving something we never wanted in the first place!

I just hint that I may be blind if anyone tries to make me do tech stuff.
They're never sure whether to insist or not.

Chestnut

My daughter pays in a shop or restaurant with her watch. She doesn't carry a bank card. I really wouldn't be able to cope with that!

I squint if I look at my mobile, let alone a watch.

I went swimming the other day…..sank like a stone!

Well..... I was given a lovely bicycle recently. Thought all I had to do was get on board and pedal off with past proficiency. Not a chance. I seem to have lost all powers of balance and confess to not understanding this at all.

With your finger on the screen MissAdventure! Your signature will look nothing like your real one; more of a squiggle!

I also get emails which need to be signed and returned.
How the hell am I supposed to "sign" an email on a mobile phone?

I can't understand catch up tv, and I don't know how to put the subtitles on it (or off)
I can't retune it, and I have to hold it right up to my face to find the 3 or 4 buttons I do understand.

QR codes are just fancy barcodes.

MissA you made me proper lol!

I can't do all the diy anymore.
If I manage to make it up a ladder, my belly gets in the way .
If I move the ladder to accommodate my belly then I can't see from that far away.

FannyCornforth My husband has written me instructions on how to use the TV and I still can't do it! I'm hoping it's a matter of my lack of interest rather than intelligence.

Love the sound of just being able to talk to your TV and love the idea of a navy blue one even more - why are they all so unrelentingly black?

I can’t use the TV remotes at all. ☹️

I don’t know what QR codes are either