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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Uncle thinks that Jade's laptop is a magic waffle iron and fails miserably when trying to sell his antiques online, destroying the laptop when he thinks it's been possessed by dark magic (due to his inabiliity to figure out how to use it.)

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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Uncle thinks that Jade's laptop is a magic waffle iron and fails miserably when trying to sell his antiques online, destroying the laptop when he thinks it's been possessed by dark magic (due to his inabiliity to figure out how to use it.)) One episode shows he doesn't understand how a fax machine works and yet he can somehow transfer a chi spell through a cellphone, which Jackie lampshades.
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-->'''Jason:''' Dad, the computer's not turned on.\\

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-->'''Jason:''' --->'''Jason:''' Dad, the computer's not turned on.\\

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* Roger Fox of ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of TheSeventies, though in his case it could be this trope or his being [[BumblingDad just that stupid.]]
** In a comic strip that gleefully uses ComicBookTime, it only gets worse (at one point he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, since there's a window right there in the computer room).
** In one strip, he sees Jason using the computer and starts waxing on about the Information Superhighway.

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* Roger Fox of ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of TheSeventies, though in his case it could be this trope or his being [[BumblingDad just that stupid.]]
**
]] In a comic strip that gleefully uses ComicBookTime, it only gets worse (at one point he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, since there's a window right there in the computer room).
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** In one strip, he buys tax return software that won't install on his computer:
--->'''Jason''': Dad, '''duh!''' You bought the Windows version!\\
'''Roger''': So?\\
'''Jason''': So we don't have Windows!\\
'''Roger''': ''(points to the wall)'' Are you nuts? There's a window right there!\\
'''Jason''': ''([[FacePalm face-palming]])'' Would you '''like''' me to go nuts?
** In another, he
sees Jason using sitting at the computer and starts waxing on about the Information Superhighway.



** He once pushed the computer off the desk because it said to back up the hard drive.

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** He once pushed the In yet another, he takes his wife's instruction that ''"the computer off needed backing up"'' by shoving it backwards on the desk because desk, until it said crashes to back up the hard drive.floor.



-->'''Jeremy:''' I can't believe it doesn't have Bluetooth!
-->'''Walt:''' ''<opens the flip phone slightly, peering inside looking for teeth>'' What color tooth does it have?
** In another strip, Walt diagnosed a problem with Jeremy's computer as "a loose fan belt on your search engine".

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-->'''Jeremy:''' I can't believe it doesn't have Bluetooth!
-->'''Walt:''' ''<opens
Bluetooth!\\
'''Walt:''' ''(opens
the flip phone slightly, peering inside looking for teeth>'' teeth)'' What color tooth does it have?
** In another strip, Walt diagnosed a problem with Jeremy's computer as "a ''"a loose fan belt on your search engine".engine"''.



--> '''Rick:''' "Am I doing this right?! Should I update my software?!"
--> '''Linda:''' "Just hit enter! Hit enter!"
--> '''Rick:''' [screams] "I accidentally ordered 12 Swiffers on Amazon! What did I--"

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--> '''Rick:''' "Am I doing this right?! Should I update my software?!"
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software?!"\\
'''Linda:''' "Just hit enter! Hit enter!"
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enter!"\\
'''Rick:''' [screams] ''[screams]'' "I accidentally ordered 12 Swiffers on Amazon! What did I--"



* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/DarkestHour2017''. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, 66 years old by the time he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1940, has a hard time understanding that [[LightningBruiser fast-moving armoured vehicles that do not need to slow down for supporting infantry]] are the new way of warfare. He apparently believes that World War II will be fought almost exactly like World War I. He is wrong.

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* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/DarkestHour2017''. UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, 66 years old by the time he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1940, has a hard time understanding that [[LightningBruiser fast-moving armoured vehicles that do not need to slow down for supporting infantry]] infantry]], and can refuel using commercial petrol instead of having to wait for special refuelers, are the new way of warfare. He apparently believes that World War II UsefulNotes/World WarII will be fought almost exactly like World War I.UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. He is wrong.

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