Can My Mom Use Bluetooth Before I Finish this Puzzle? (THE BOOMER OLYMPICS) 

Have you ever seen your grandma do a puzzle they love that shit

It's literally 3 taps on the screen and it's connected 😭😭 (a bit more if you have to tap "search for devices", but still...)

You open connections like she immediately did, and then you see this: __________ ● Wifi ○ Bluetooth ○ NFC & mobile payment ○ Airplane Mode - Mobile networks - Mobile Hotspot -> More connection settings ______________ What do you do press to connect to a Bluetooth speaker? Bluetooth? No. First, you go to "Mobile Hotspot", then to "More connection settings".

@@irissupercoolsy "It's literally 3 taps on the screen" You need to have grown up with the concept of a screen and taps for that to mean anything at all. The puzzle is literally easier. If you put both down infront of a human that never heard about either, they are figuring out the puzzle first. IMO It is pretty weird that is not obvious to more people.

On the flip side however, after having worked at a Verizon store for a few years where we spent a lot of time helping entitled old people, Ethan's mom's attitude comes entirely from learned helplessness and getting away with just saying "But I don't know how!" in a really whiney voice which gets someone else to do it. It is the anxiety that leads to the prolonged struggle where you get stuck on a menu with 5 clear, big font options and you "just can't see it" because what's really happening is their brain is spinning wondering why they can't just get someone to serve it to them like they're used to. 90% of the energy and time is on "WHY DO >I< HAVE TO DO THIS" then 10% finally gets around to doing it. It was actually an older couple that really opened my eyes to that being how people work by default, with an older wife digging into an older husband for just being straight up lazy and not wanting to even try to figure it out -- after that, we stopped taking technical inquiries at the store outside of the purchase window because it was pretty clear how people would just take advantage. Random useless tidbit but, struggling when you're actually trying is okay -- it's the part where she doesn't actually want to try at all that makes it so bad

Parents don't listen at all

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It was actually frustrating the heck out of me 😂

He couldn’t just unplug it? 😂

lmaoooo poor man 😂😂😂😭😭

@@candyiscool357 it was a phone alarm

LMAOOOO

Every 10 minutes

the rule stated many, many, many, many times and then when he finally listens he's like "dOnT PoINt?!?!?!?!?". sir.

And then accuses ethan of cheating at sudoku like bruh you just did the last challenge for her

It's not even the fact that it happened. It was the fact that she talked about it like it was a normal thing

@@benanzagame2602 big mum energy😭

bruh isn't pandora an accessories store

But she likes Pinterest!

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Gary is a god

its the fact that he was straight up pointing and defending himself saying hes not pointing

@@kellytran8259 lol literally as he was pointing. Lmao as his finger is still out 🤣☠️

I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU IM NOT TOUCHING YOU😂😂😂😂

Good on mum for reminding him not to point!

i’ve done it too many times it’s embarrassing 😭 i be zooted

I do that too. Sober and smoking

the new hot game "high, or just a boomer?"

lmfaooo

Thought I saw that wrong and had to skip back 😂😂😂

I was screaming “Ethan the middle box!” The entire time during the sudoku

It reminds me of “the lid” scene in spongebob, where Patrick touches everything BUT the lid of the jar he has to open

@@gd2234_ HAHA YES

She would've been absolutely lost on her own

@JohnnyRotten I worked at a medical office and when covid happened we did the zoom appointments, we had to invite them via email to those appointments... One old guy literally asked me what an email was. He was so serious I actually had to explain

Nobody realized it but she accidentally clicked on one of the bookmarks, lmao

It shifted between chaotic good, chaotic neutral, and chaotic evil in almost every episode

@@g3inius thats bpd for you🥰

Chaotic boomer

@@namjoonie936 pls don’t romanticize bpd 😂 it can be a horrific mental illness

I hated that show. So glad to see its finally stopped. I watch RU-vid to not have to deal with people like Trisha ffs..

Same. I just remember the elderly people who would call me to rearrange their apps on the Home Screen 😓😓😓😓

@@maybe3019 LMFFFAOOOOOOO

@@maybe3019 lmfaooooo my dad

Lmfao so do I

@@maybe3019 I spent 2 hours teaching an old woman how to copy and paste 😅

oh snap. I was trying to replicate it on my Mac because that's never happened to me before and I didn't know the shortcut, you're right :0 Ethan's mom must really need the haptic feedback which is why she presses so hard lol

🤣 poor Donna. All you need to do is give it a gentle little tap!! You don't need to put your full force into it!

@@meowJACK older people had contact with older computers that required more than a gentle tap. My mom also does this because she worked on a computer the size of a large wardrobe and it couldn't be "lightly tapped". It also printed out sheets instead of having a screen xD

I actually did this on my Mac for the longest time and just realized you can disable it in settings LOL

@@humanbeing2143 wait, are you referring to a typewriter??? 🤣

Right? I wonder if there’s an easier way to help them understand it. They don’t seem to understand how to interact with the UI and it’s so abstract. It’s sad that people take advantage of them and scam them.

​@@cantfiteveryheart Yeah, there's an easier way: better usability. Make the damn "Not now" button more prominent. When googling for "google mail", there should be a clear big box directing to gmail. It could even suggest to write a mail or show a summary of the last 5 arrived mails. When she clicked on that second gmail link, google suggested to "sign in" although she was already signed in. Why? This is confusing. That error thing was just pure bad UX. Errors can happen but they'll certainly disrupt the experience. Tell the user to reload the page, don't leave him alone. Many services with lots of features use tours to guide the user through features they're unfamiliar with. Whether is works well is controversial, but it would've helped in this case. It's easy to blame the user. But creating bad user experiences will lead to people not getting a simple job done; this is especially true for people who are unfamiliar with the topic or computers in general. Solution would be to make better products and to not only design one path. Get your service tested by all sorts of people. Not so hard.

@@hirnfaser7245 lol do you work in product or ux? these are all good recommendations

​@@ezekiellucas4857 haha, ty. im studying design with focus on ui and ux. what about you? it just kinda drove me crazy, all those people pitying her for badly she performed. I think she did perfectly fine if you consider she's not used to the environment.

​@@hirnfaser7245 she didn't do fine. She would have literally never been able to do it if Dan didn't tell her every step

amazing

Why would I need to fill out a home loan? Just to get an entry level job I need to have $50k of student loans. I won’t be able to actually own property for years.

lol so what you guys are saying is you wouldn't be able to fill out a home lone?

@@quillclock so you're saying you can't even spell loan?

impossible we can’t afford to buy a house

oh my god same 💀😂 i once had to explain to an old man that he did in fact have to make payments on his credit card if he uses it 😩

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I used to be a manger at a phone store….. we are cousins in that aspect 😂

That is ADORABLE

my nan had to get my brother inlaw to do her bluetooth 😭

not the manual 😭 glad she got it tho

I’m only 34 and this would be me memorizing a manual.

I'm shocked it had a manual vs online directions. I suppose there are people who really appreciate them. (Like me, tbh)

Omg 😂

I lived for it lmfaoooo I couldn’t stop laughing! She’s too precious 🤣

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Oh my god this is such a good idea, or old slang terms or something

Using a rotary phone xD

@@user-vg8mc8yv4n shhhh if you’re over 35 you can use a rotary phone..somewhat at least.

Use a floppy disc

@@fow8780 I'm the same age as him, we know how to use rotary phones and we used floppy disks a ton 😆

pleaseeee!!!!

YESSSSS

They will probably keep it the same at least until this merch sells out.

What if her favourite colours pink?

@@neuguy maybe do like stripes or just fuck it and do a diff color anyway😂 the pink is so Trish associated

My mom literally has to connect to a Zoom meeting 2x a week and she still asks for me for help everytime.

Lmao Gary is killing me

for real!! they should have given him a bunch of beach balls to stab... to keep him entertained

OMG! Same but I think it also stems from their refusal to actually sit and LEARN to work their electronics... and then forgetting whatever I told them in the first place lol

They taught us everything so it’s only fair we teach them💕 with patience

@@kndllramos my mom just forgets each time lol

@@sayeedkizuk5822 you are clearly like 15 lmao

Same. But it’s the fact that I have to teach them the same things countless times.

It seems like they are they made a post asking for questions for families

Yes, extremely creative

yo, nice seeing you here man. there's no such thing as a coincidence 👁️👁️

Have boomers do the most basic shit. So funny her reaction when she heard what she had to do. You could might as well told her to solve the equation of the universe

it’s actually crazy

I know Trish is unbalanced but I'll miss her.

It's fully scripted and planned.

Honestly I miss her too, that was the point of the show.

@@danieln5041 ok, sure BTW I know a certain person that works on the show and it's not. FYI.

This podcast gave me more anxiety than any other frenimies podcast

It's so cute hahaha like a teenage couple.

As he should be, she must be protected at all costs ❤️❤️

I died🤣

i was like EXCUSE ME

I was waiting for Gary to say "That's what she said" lol

🤣🤣🤣

Haha, and the icing on the cake, Trisha wanted Ethan to hire her family, specifically her sister. 😆

Same I can’t it’s so funny

Well yeah scammers primarily target older people because they are easier to trick. Scammers also purposely use grammatically incorrect scripts in their email bait so only the most gullible people respond. Quite clever actually.

I've heard this from older people plenty of times :') they're scared of accidentally turning on settings that they don't know how to turn off. Or vice versa. That kinda stuff happens a lot to technologically challenged people and they genuinely have no clue how to fix it lmao. I mean, you saw how much of an ordeal it was for her to just connect to Bluetooth or send an email with an attachment. If she accidentally turned on some weird setting on her phone she'd have no idea how to fix it

Youd be surprised, my dad managed to delete his keyboard from his phone trying to watch Netflix

Haha that's hilarious! My dad had a Samsung Galaxy for 6 months before learning that the middle button on an android was for exiting an app. He had, for 6 whole ass months, tapped the shit out of the "back" button on the side until the phone exited an app. I could not stop laughing, when I had to explain that he just needed to tap the middle button to exit.

i live with my nan she is very tech savvy quite like gary but my pop couldnt even turn on a computer lol

@@RuinedComedian dude😭😭😭 bless him

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM SORRU TO LAUVH BUT RHATS SO SAD. I am so sorry oh my gosh. like why would u comment something like this😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

You’re not alone. I also haven’t talked to my parents in YEARS now and I’m envious of their healthy, loving relationship. Maybe one day, we can both have this in our lives 💕

​@@sandy-jp3du what the fuck is wrong with you? why would YOU comment something like this?

you are not alone

It's infuriating! They all look up to the sky then squint downwards.. just look directly at the screen 😂. They also have to read out every UI element even if it's completely unrelated, stunlocked into doing anything until they figured out how to click away some random message.

Dam that sounds rough af

@@xaqlarson1943 It was. I was in mental pain daily. I also don’t miss being yelled at by boomer parents because their little kid spent $4,000 on Fortnite currency because they saved the card info on the kids PlayStation 😳

The worst trait of the Boomer is their treatment of customer service.

I think it’s the computer. Mac track pads are weird. I never learned the trackpad “secrets” and I’m constantly clicking weird things or opening up the wrong things.

@@cantfiteveryheart we need a re-match where she uses a mouse on a machine running windows

@@RamoArt I’m 23 and I hate using the Mac Trackpad because I’m used to other track pads. I miss when there was a left and right click button on the trackpad. Now it’s double finger this and double tap that. I got a wireless mouse to help because I had to student teach via Zoom and I didn’t want to look like an idiot. 😂

@@RamoArt oh gosh and you said mouse and it reminded me of that scene in the first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, where he’s trying to get his dad to email him the file that will stop the machine. The dad is like dragging the mouse across the desk and across the screen.

Fuckin saaaame 🤣🤣

I’m definitely not on Trisha’s side but I’m pretty sure being a good person involves not calling people “putrid” because they had a disagreement on RU-vid…?

@@Mr2BonClay she isn't a bad person because of a disagreement. Lol you obviously have never seen anything she has said or done for the past 5 to 10 years.

@@Mr2BonClay she said she messed up big time she also agreed she goes back to the past so she knew she couldn’t maintain a healthy relationship like this on here. she also pointed out she is literally crazy and that’s okay cuz she’s always relevant. this is all from the podcast she did with zach sang

@@jdawg8475 they only had their positive character arc once they got on this show. And when they blew that they just retracted to the person that they always were which was exactly what you described. Sounds harsh but it’s the truth

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Ethan is a zoomer? He's like old af, nearly a gen x'er

Tomm J i know ethan is not a zoomer lmao i was talking about his mom being a boomer and the youtube/twitch audience being zoomers😂

Tomm J i knew i should have specified lol no worries have a good day man

It's the "families" now

@@edgeshot4246 Good that they changed the name, a bit weird otherwise.

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