Bring back the quill
Grandad October 21st, 2011
There are times when technology really pisses me off.
Last night I found a document on the Interweb that I wanted to print off. No problem, you say. Fucking wrong, I say.
The Other Fella reinstalled this Linux thing the other day, and the twat forgot to connect to the printer. I have picked up a couple of tips over the years so I decided to connect to the printer myself.
Fucking laptop couldn’t find the fucking printer.
I went to the room where the printer is and checked it. It was switched on all right but the settings were all wrong. I pulled up a chair and typed in the settings. Of course, being modern technology they make that as difficult as possible. It has a sort of mobile phone keyboard so typing any text means endless tapping of keys. And of course as I cycled through the letters, it always went too fast and I would miss the letter I wanted and would have to start again.
I could not get the fucking thing to work. After a couple of hours I gave up.
This morning I gritted my teeth and asked the Other Fella for a drop of help. The wanker got the fucking printer connected in one minute flat. I hate that! He checked and the laptop can see the printer and its status is fine.
He fucked off to the shops, and I settled into printing my document.
The fucking yoke still doesn’t work.
It can tell me all I want to know about the printer, even down to the levels of ink in it. But will it print my document? Hah!
I’ll just have to wait ‘til Yer Man gets back. Doubtless he’ll press one button and everything will work properly.
There are times when technology really pisses me off.
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