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  Your parents' Guitar Hero.
  My dad watches Tae-bo VHS tapes on a tv in his gym, but he wanted to convert them to DVD. His solution was to place his new macbook on the top of a ladder and use the built-in webcam to tape the TV, then try to burn them onto a disc.
  -Steve from Loyola
  


• My mom asked me to find her the video of Ms. Philippines on YouTube. I explained to her that the video was on CollegeHumor and she replied, "Nevermind, I don't have that."
  -Matt from O'Connell High School


• I found this "review" for Thank You for Smoking while browsing Netflix:
  
  "We don't want any R rated movies sent to us. We know that this limits our choices, But that's O.K. When I ordered this movie I didn't know that it was rated R. If I order another one by accident, don't send it. Thanks, Jan."
  -Sara
  
  
• And a very special sisters don't understand...
  My girlfriend and I were trying to connect to the wireless network at her house but were having problems. Her little sister, a high school senior, then told us that we should try and connect to an unprotected network at the Linksys' house. When we explained it was a company and not a name, she told us that she had been trying to figure out for months where in the neighborhood the Linksys family lived. She couldn't understand why she could still access their network at her boyfriends house a couple of miles away. She figured that they just had a "really strong connection."
  -Rodrigo from Syracuse

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  Your parents' Snoop Dog.
  My mom finally got a cell phone with a camera. She asked me if she had to buy special film.
  -Mike from Kean
  


• A friend of mine found a cell phone. She called the owner of the phone's parents to see if they could get the phone back to their daughter. Five minutes after she got off the phone, a text message came through from the girls dad saying "Lizzy, some girl found your phone...call her at ***-***-**** to get your phone back"
  -Kyle from LSU


• I work in tech support, and an old lady called asking for help with her computer. It just wouldn't turn on. Eventually we figured out that she had a lot of cats and had saran wrapped her tower so no cat hair would get in. The motherboard melted.
  -Dave L.
  
  
• When using AIM my parents use correct grammar and punctuation.
  -Bank from UW-Oshkosh

Steve: I'd love to see a To Catch A Predator videogame adaption. There could be a lecturing level with Mass Effect-ish dialog trees.

A Lost video game should probably just be all about Locke.

Steve: I just don't know why this trend couldn't have started 10 years ago. We'll be forever poorer without a Sliders game.

Jeff: They tried to make an Entourage game, but it was too easy. You could never lose.

Steve: The Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader game is basically a rebranded Math Blasters.

Jeff: There's no mystery why they keep making these. Despite a 57/100 average on metacritic, the Lost game will almost certainly sell more copies than something new and unfamiliar. The question, then, is why do people continue to buy them?

Steve: Maybe there should be a law that grandparents are no longer allowed to buy videogames. Are there any good TV show games?

Jeff: The Simpsons has a long and proud tradition of mediocre games. I think the last one I really enjoyed was Ducktales. Actually wait - Ducktales 2.

• My grandma kept complaing about how she couldn't get her new alarm clock to stop displaying 12:00. I went up to her room and took the sticker off of the display screen.
  -Brett from Ohio State
  

• A friends grandmother recently asked him, "Will I be able to receive my Gmail through the internet?"
  -Michael from University of Texas-Arlington

• We decided to get my dad a new laptop, and his first words upon opening it up were, "Thank God! All the keys are in the same place. I thought I was going to have to learn a whole new setup."
  -Dan from Framingham State.

• This is the notepad my grandfather keeps next to his computer:
  

  
  
  - Darius
  

• We recently gave my grandparents our old computer to play solitaire and slot machine games. When they first started using it, my grandmother would call and tell me that she lost the "mouse", referring to the arrow on the screen.
  - Mike from University of Nebraska, Lincoln


Your parents' favorite Genesis game.

• Recently I bought a orange microfiber cloth to clean off my laptop's screen. My mom saw me using it and asked to borrow it. When I gave it to her, she stopped and asked, "Oh, will this work for my Mac?"
  -Mark H. from Occidental College

• I came home from work one night and my mom and her boyfriend were watching a DVD. I asked how it was, and they said really good but it didn't make any sense. I sat down for a few minutes and eventually figured out they were just watching deleted scenes.
  -Dan from Framingham State.

• My Dad asked me what an apple pie phone was.
  -Steven from University of Washington
  
  

• My mom's CD drive was stuck closed. I restarted the computer, and the drive light came on.
  Mom: "Oh look, it's working!... now it's not... now it is... now it's not... now it is... now it's not... why isn't it working?"
  Me: "Mom... the light is blinking."
  - Rafael from Raleigh, NC


Your parents' pirated music.

• My mom tried watching a DVD, but got stuck on the menu. I asked her what she was doing, and she said "I think there is a skip in this disk because it just keeps playing the same scene over and over".
  - Nicole C. from Omaha

• We just gave our grandpa our old computer. The first email he wrote said "Sorry about the slow typing, I'm still really new at this."
  -Brian S.

• My mom walked in on me looking at porn one time and all she could say was, "Trey! Did you download that? Delete it! It's illegal you know."
  -Trey H.

• My dad got a cell phone a few months ago, but he never turns it on. He thinks that you get charged for every minute the phone is on.
  -Sara T.

 

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• My parents got their first new computer in eight years while I was in town over Christmas, so I set it up for them and helped them get used to Vista. I left my dad to transfer files from his old computer on floppy disks, but soon got called back in to help him. He thought he had gotten the wrong size floppy drive. I came back in and found him under the desk, trying to fit a disk into the subwoofer."
  -Daniel L.


Your parents' Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

• My friend's dad worked for a local cable company answering phones and helping people with their computer problems. One time an old lady called and asked if somebody could come by and shorten her cable because it was too long. He said, "oh we can do that automatically from here if I just pull on it....how is it now?" She replied, "It's much better thank you."
  -Patrick R.

• My mom asked me to send my sister an e-mail telling her to "check her e-mail."
  -Jeff A

• I've worked at an internet company for about a year. One day, a lady called and told me her computer wouldn't turn on no matter what she did. I said "Ok, can you look at the back of the computer and make sure the power cable is plugged in." She responded, "Just give me a second, I have to find a flashlight because the power is out here at my house."
  -Nick P.

• My parents were shopping for a new dictionary online. I told them it was free at dictionary.com. My mom said, "Free? But you must still have to pay for shipping."
  -Alex J.


Your parents' super bowl.

• My father called and asked, "I know you know computers, so I wanted to ask you which is the best type of computer out of Apple, Dell, or Gateway?" I told him, "I'm not sure, it depends on what you want to do. Are you getting a new one?" He says, "Probably, I just wanted to ask you because I got an email telling me I've been chosen chosen to win a free computer out of those choices, and I also got a $200 gas card."
  -Darby D.

• I received the following text message from my mom: "ill call them when i get off work lATER TODAY AND HOW DO I KEEP GETTING THESE GOD DAMN CAPITOL LETTERS ON!!!" .
  -Kyle from VT

• I walked into my house and my dad said he heard on the golf course about a book of faces, and that all his friends were worried that their children were in it because it is supposed to be college kids. He asked me if I had put my face in it and if it was a cult.
  -Anonymous

• My sweet ol' Granny Myrle recently got her first computer. After playing solitaire for a while, she called my dad and said, "I have to stop playing! I owe a lot of money!" She had the "vegas scoring" option turned on. I love you Granny!
  -Gabe S.

Do your parents not understand technology? None of them do, they're all morons! People that dumb shouldn't be allowed to breed. It's tragic, really.

If you've got an example of your Parents Just Don't Understanding, embarrass them and send it to parentsjustdontunderstand (at) gmail.com.

This is how you stole music in the 50's.

• My aunt asked why her wireless router wasn't working. I went to check it out, and she had the cable modem plugged directly into the laptop and nothing but the power plugged into the wireless router. I explained to her that she needed to plug the modem into the wireless router and she responded, "So now I am going to have to carry around that stupid box everywhere I go?"
  -Kyle W.

• I let my mom borrow my laptop one day and when she brought it back she was angry about how the "stupid thing didn't work" and "the touch screen was unresponsive." I don't have a touch screen.
  -Shannon M.

• Once I was supposed to be doing a project for school, but all my friends were on AIM. Hours passed and I had done little on my project, so my father screams at the top of his lungs, "Matt - if you don't start working on your project I'll unplug your A-I-M!"
  -Matt O.

• My 75-year-old grandfather just bought a laptop so he could learn to use the Internet. I got an empty email from him yesterday, and the subject heading was, "Andrew what does it mean when it asks 'are you sure you want to send an empty message' when i click on the send button??? ----love grandad"
  -Andrew S. from Frostburg

Do your parents not understand technology? None of them do, they're all morons! People that dumb shouldn't be allowed to breed. It's tragic, really.

If you've got an example of your Parents Just Don't Understanding, embarrass them and send it to parentsjustdontunderstand (at) gmail.com.

Your parents' Cloverfield.

• My mom asked me to set her up with an email address, but she has never oncelogged on. She said she thought she needed one to be able to playsolitaire on the computer.
  -Kailey D.

• My dad wanted to get an HD television, so my mom asked me how much it would cost to upgrade their 30-year-old tv.
  -Darby D.

• It took nearly an hour on the phone for me to explain to my mom how to open, save, and re-open a file in Word. The next week she called me back asking how to save a file in Excel.
  -Sean from University of Alberta

• My dad asked me to go with him to buy a new cell phone. While we were in the store, I was explaining to him all of the new features you can get on a phone. I said, "This has the basic stuff, like when someone calls you, their picture appears on the screen, so you can see who is calling you." Hhe responded, "What if they are in the bathtub when they call?"
  -Curt

• I was showing my uncle how to do something in Microsoft Word, so I told him to move the mouse to the file button. He then picked up the mouse off the desk and touched it to the screen.
  -Courtney K.

  

  Your parents' MacBook Air.

• When my father first got his new cell phone, he kept giving me a confused look everytime he went to use it. Finally he asked me, "How come I don't hear a dial-tone?"
  -Daniel

• While explaining AIM, my 11 year old sister told my dad, he could click on an AIM bot like MovieFone or Shopping Buddy and it would anwser any question heasked. He clicked it and said "Hey. Who are you?" outloud.
  -Max from Western Illinois University

• I got on the computer at my Aunt's house over Christmas and the InternetExplorer icon on the desktop was titled "MOM THIS IS THE INTERNET"
  -J from VT

• My mother offered to take me and my sister to the cell phone store so we can "pick out a new ringtone."
  -Curt

• Every time my dad wants to check his email, he goes to Google, types in www.hotmail.com, hits search, and clicks on Hotmail. He recently told me he discovered a shortcut - he can just hit "I'm Feeling Lucky."
  -Jared Codling

  

  Soulja Boy in the 50's

• My grandmother once used all the pictures on a disposable camera, then threw it away. She thought the pictures would come in the mail.
  -Mike M. from Mass Maritime

• "My uncle asked how much it costs to delete files from his computer -- which was not online, I should add."
  -Patrick Cassels
• I received a message in my Facebook inbox from my mother with the subject "OMG what have I done????" and a message that said "Help!! I don't know what I'm doing! I'm just following the prompts!!!!!"
  - Lauramy N.

• And the most dangerous award goes to - My mom turns down the radio in the car so she can read her text messages.
  -Bret S.