Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 26, 2021

Actually, getting the weather forecast over the phone is something that old people grew up doing, even when phones still had rotary dials. They checked the time that way, too. Caulfield’s generational ignorance is showing.

Duh!! Because the weather channel has commercials!!

Answering a question with a question is very useful.

It means you don’t need to say ‘I don’t know’.

As I get older, I’m more the look out the window and read the thermometer type than firing up the phone/computer/tablet for info. I’m retired – if the weather rots, I don’t have to go out in it anymore.

Astoundingly enough, a noticeable percentage of US denizens have no cell phones at all.

Answering with a Question – Does that put her in Jeopardy?

“Whose Line is it Anyway” does a challenge called “Questions Only” where the performers can only speak using questions.

Even at our age, Mrs. Olsen and I have a lot to learn.

A lot of us old people don’t watch TV due to the insane number of idiotic commercials shown. In the 50s, there was ONE commercial break of 2 or 3 30 second commercials in a half hour show. And they weren’t obnoxious. What is it now, every 6 minutes?

Caufield is a bit narrow minded. The weather channel is a TV network with weather related programs. It’s not just a forecast scroll. I don’t watch it, though I have occasionally been sucked into a program while channel surfing.

When I was a young people I used to watch the Weather Channel’s “Local on the 8s” segment just for the music. That and Hey Arnold turned little me into a smooth jazz fan growing up.

The Weather Channel has become useless. Hard to get local weather between their shows on cold weather truckers and the earth is dying bs. And would someone pleeeease remove that condescending blathering blond bimbo from the morning show. I just cant watch it anymore.

How does Caulfield know what old people “obsessively” watch on TV?

I’m in my 60s and I don’t even have a TV. I have Weather Underground bookmarked, though.

LOTW – Look out the window!

I find that radio is a more reliable source of weather reports. Of course, here in The City we have two nominally all-news stations that generally give both weather and traffic reports every 10 minutes, and a third that gives them every 15 minutes.

But given that I spend hours a day in front of my laptop, it makes as much sense to keep a browser tab open to AccuWeather or, better still, the National Weather Service.

I have to sign into my phone – why not use the TV or my desktop instead. Can’t they make the sign-in letters on the phone bigger?? Aargghh.

Really old people would tie a rope to the tree branch outside of the kitchen.

No. It’s to look at the pretty girls giving the weather report….

Because much of the rest of what’s on TV isn’t worth watching.

two words “Alexa, Weather”

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