Something just occurred to me re: the "binders" comment

[PD Turk]

Amidst all the hilarity, I was left seriously scratching my head as to why he would reference something so outdated in the modern, digitized world of 2012 where just about everything is stored and accessed in digital format? Even the few forms that are still filled out on paper are scanned into databases in modern office work environments.

Then it hit me. He has no clue about any of that. For all his yapping about "running businesses" , I doubt he has a clue of how modern offices and business networks function. This powdered and pampered popinjay has "people" that do, well.... everything for him. I get the impression he has done very little other than point and bark orders for a long, long time. Work is a foreign concept to him and has been for decades, hence the outdated reference.

[CottonBear]

1. The first president Bush had never experienced a supermarket checkout.

The check out scanner gob smacked the old guy.

[PD Turk]

5. lol

The last time he had to go to the store they still had a hand cranked cash register I bet

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. At least he had an excuse

At the point he made that mistake, he had been in the WH security bubble for close to 12 years. When he entered that bubble they did not exist, and a VEEP, even less a POTUS, does not do their own shopping. The SS will frown on that, it is a security issue.

So that one, ok... textbook example of what that security bubble looks like.

[Indpndnt]

23. Except that Michelle Obama does run out and shop at Target. We've seen the pics.

So, if there was a dramatic change in checkout systems (like there was when scanners became widespread), I'm sure she would mention it to Obama, if only as light dinner conversation with a "Guess what I saw today..." Barb didn't shop anywhere that had checkouts, I'm sure, so she wasn't about to pass on any info. like that to Senior.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. But at least he had an excuse

[bulloney]

18. Quayle was equally baffled when the doors automatically opened when you stepped in front of them.

[quinnox]

2. I never heard of "binders" before, its got to be an ancient term, like 1950s or something.

I think you are right in your OP. He is not used to being questioned, that is for sure. His body language is all about some kind of alpha monkey, walking around as if he owns everything he sees.

[PD Turk]

4. Oh they're not quite that outdated

We used them in the '70s and '80s, and my daughter is still using a 3 ring binder for school papers, but for personnel files in an office? Not for quite a long time now.

[Tunkamerica]

15. We still use them in a very modern tv station for logs.

it's a classic design that works very well to hold paper which is still used very prevalently in many offices; especially those that are required by law to keep records that can't just explain lack of records by a hard-drive failure.

[PD Turk]

19. We staple ours together

With a big ass stapler with a compound lever type handlle. And our public file is of course on paper organized in big manila folders. But we've done away with a shitload of the paper we used to use including the copy book, we no longer even print and sign traffic instructions at the station level anymore, they're acknowledged by email reply. and we damn sure don't keep a bunch of paper on people that we don't need to.

By getting rid of all that paper we are saving a lot of money and helping the environment

[Tunkamerica]

30. we have a big stapler too. when we moved in with our sister station that's how they were doing it.

The notebooks work much better. and of course all of the stuff that isn't required to be printed is done through email. my only point was that binders are a thing and are useful. if you really want to argue that point... please continue.

[Frustratedlady]

6. I can think of two uses for binders...

1) to bind mother's breasts to stop producing milk if she doesn't want to nurse,
2) to bind a baby's waist so they didn't get a hernia at the umbilical cord site/belly button; probably used for adults in danger of developing a hernia

[AllyCat]

8. Don't forget foot binding in not so ancient China.

[msanthrope]

10. That just made me feel old....nt

[Tunkamerica]

13. i'm 33 and binders is not unknown. They do go by different names

notebooks, 3-ring binders, trapper keepers...

kind of like how I'd never heard of thongs as shoes and my michigander friend had neverheard of tobaggans as hats

[1monster]

17. It tends to be a regional thing. Some areas refer to them as notebooks and others binders...

[gordianot]

3. I saw a special on one of the women he hired as Governor suspect there were not many women in admin.

It should come out soon. This show will be picked to pieces tomorrow.

[oldtime dfl_er]

9. Here's what a binder looks like

http://www.zazzle.com/mitts_big_binder_full_of_women-127399148657150695

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. How 20th Century can you get?

EVERYBODY knows that modern men keep their women on 16GB flash drives!

[MassedPole]

12. The fuck is a Binder

[Tunkamerica]

14. it's a 3-ring notebook.

still very much in use.

[AsahinaKimi]

16. I have heard people on record say

He is a control freak. Think how that would go over as President of the United States?

[OldDem2012]

24. That's exactly why Romney was so flustered last night. He had run up against someone....

...who not only wasn't buying his line of bull, but he was whacking him over the head with it.

[moondust]

20. Yup.

I think it was Chris Matthews who last night suggested that "all he's ever done is walk into a room and assume the role of boss" (or something like that).

There's never been a speck of dirt under those fingernails.

[madokie]

21. I don't think mutt ever worked

he was born on third base and thinks he just hit a triple. Fuck mutt rMoney

[sadbear]

22. Now, if he had said Trapper Keeper...

I would have changed my vote for him right then and there.

[reformist2]

25. Trap Her Keep Her?

[UTUSN]

26. It was "binders OF WOMEN" - what occurred to me was *polygamy*

Scads of women for one man. In containers.

[Kindly Refrain]

27. Rec for "popinjay"

[riderinthestorm]

29. He was sworn in 2003 so it was definitely a digital age by then.

The Blackberry came in in 99 if I can recall.

IIRC by 2003 they were THE status symbol hand held device.

I've never worked in a corporate office though. Anyone with experience in when the digital age really hit with a vengeance? I do believe it was by 2003....

[abumbyanyothername]

31. Allegedly he did get binders

but they were prepared by non-partisan women's advocacy groups.