i walked into the den the other day to see my father rubbing the mouse on his head i asked him what he was doing and he said "trying to get better reception for the internet"
Honor taken away by Facebook privacy settings
I come from a very traditional foreign family. Expectedly, we( rather they..) make an exhuasting effort to abide by nonsensical social rules. Anyway, my mother and i are friends on facebook, through no choice of my own, but I figured out a way to block her from seeing anything that would insult her. We operate on the belief that she can see everything on my facebook but she is too technology handicapped to see that she is under the strictest privacy control. On Valentines day, I shared a video called 'the inside view of a kiss - GROSS' without realising that the new facebook layout had quietly altered my previous privacy settings. I wake up the next morning, to find 30 missed calls on my phone, and countless facebook messages from my mother. She said I brought shame to her, and asked me how I could possibly think to look up "unsutable bad pictures". She then went on to claim that now that I study abroad, she reasoned that I had been abducted by and hypnotized by sinners and their 'tools'. The worst part about this is I have a ticket booked back home in a week.
Today my mom called sounding very excited. When I asked her what had happened, she replied "I know what I'm getting your brother for christmas. The computer just told me that I won a Wii!"
I was bringing my boyfriend home for the first time to introduce him to my parents. We were talking and he said to me, "Oh wait, did you see my picture on FaceBook?" And I was about to reply when my mother jumped in and said, "Facebook? We have a Facebook! One second hold on!" She ran upstairs, leaving all of us in confusion (everyone knows my mother is horrible at... Read More »
I went to my parents house for a visit to find that my dad had put an aluminum pie plate over the wireless router "to stop the neighbours from stealing the internet"
I convinced my mom that the lighter app on the iPhone actually heated up the phone. She was skeptical at first, but after 10 seconds of the top of my phone on a light bulb when she wasn't looking, thoroughly convinced her the iPhone can do anything.


