Do you yell at your computer?

[yoda313]

So how many times do your yell at your computer? Never? once a week? once a month? Daily?

I've done it a little here and there on my home computer when things were slow to load - but not at the top of my lungs or anything.

Are you the type that curses violently at the computer when something goes wrong????

[Bodyslide]

Never....

[Marvingj]

I yell at the computer once a month, or I will go into therapy.......

[ozymango]

It's not so much yelling as it is cursing under -- or over -- my breath.

[sg2007]

I'm afraid to yell at my computer. It might rebell against me. :P

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I have no patience.
AT ALL.
The newer the computer, the less patience I have.
What pisses me off the most is when I click "Stop" (especially in IE) or "Cancel" and it DOESN'T ******* STOP whatever it told it to stop doing.

[gadgetguy]

I did that once and it started referring to me as "Dave".









(Obscure 2001:A Space Odyssey reference)

[Des]

I yell at the computer, the internet, my car, the lawn, things I drop, drivers who are dumber than me and everytime American Idle cancels an episode of HOUSE.

I don't yell at my wife, the cats, my customers or people who are 'trying' to help me, though I may occassionally talk strongly from time to time.

All this keeps me happy. Well, mostly

--dES

[fritzi93]

I did that once and it started referring to me as "Dave".









(Obscure 2001:A Space Odyssey reference)

God, that's good. :P

How about this:
"Computing... Dear."
"Computer, you will not address me as 'Dear'".

(Even more obscure Star Trek reference)



Do I yell at the computer? Rarely.

[cal_tony]

Not really, but does kicking count?
Tony

[ntscuser]

Ever since upgrading to SP2 and IE7 (which I put off for as long as possible) there's a significant delay between typing an instruction and getting a response. At that point I invariably swear, profusely.

This may or may not be connected but my ISP also upgraded my connection recently and while I can download data much more quickly than before, the PC has a habit of freezing while it processes the downloaded information.

Yes, I know I need more RAM but I've reached the point where the money is probably better put towards a new PC.

[MJA]

I yell at the software more than the hardware.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

How about this:
"Computing... Dear."
"Computer, you will not address me as 'Dear'".

That one was just on Saturday nite!! It had what must have been the world's oldest Security Forces SSgt....

[GTRBudda]

Frequently. My start up sound is from the open of a sumo match. When I hear it, I know there's gonna be a fight...

[ron spencer]

I often enjoy a good Calcutta Shuffle with my machine!!!

[buttzilla]

I have learned to treat maggie nice and she'll treat me nice back. Oh yeah maggie's my computers pet name. You should see the set of duo cores on her. WOW! And she also has a nice pair of 500 gig western digital sata drives Va, VavaVoom!

[SingSing]

Yoda, This is a great one.

[Soopafresh]

No, I turn the anger inwards...

[mikel]

I don't yell.......but I do threaten it.

[edDV]

My computer yells at me. Sometimes the hard drives or fans foretell doom. Today two crashes caused me to "lift the hood". The dust was choking the poor thing. That plus near 90F ambient temps. Took it outside for vac/blow out. Now it just purrs.

[yoda313]

Yoda, This is a great one.

Thanks

I was inspired by a coworker who always talks to the computer or to a printer - well not ALWAYS but frequently enough to bug me. I mean its not like its going to listen to you

But I do on occasion softly gripe at the computer - you little @#@#@# when no one is watching

[ZAPPER]

My computer likes to hear me talk dirty












it must, because it keeps doing things that make me talk dirty!


Yell? No. Cuss at it? Sometimes

[TooLFooL]

HELL YES! i yell and swear and threaten all my electronic devices.. you gotta let them know who's in charge or they'll just do whatever the hell they want. lack of discipline is a big problem with these modern devices.....

[ZAPPER]

Electronics are like wives, smack them every other day wether they need it or not and you won't have any trouble out of them!






























Juuuuuuuuuussssst Kidding!
But beating the kids....Nah, that doesn't work either.



Now I did watch a friend of mine hit a flashlight against the heel of his hand because it wasn't working (an old trick to rattle the conections that sometimes works). The problem though, is that he got so frustrated and hit the flashlight against his hand so hard, that the head of the flashlight broke off and the jagged edge of the battery compartment cut his wrist (radial artery I think) His watchband maybe stopped it from being from being a suicide. We wrapped an old tube sock around his wrist almost to the point of it being a tournequet. At the ER he was told to take a seat and wait his turn because we wrapped it so good that it didn't look like it was bleeding very much. After a few minutes of waiting my idiot freind decides that he wants to take a peek at the wound to see if it was still bleeding. I wasn't there, but I guess that when you spray down the waiting room with blood you get moved to the front of the line pretty fast!

He gets alot of flashlights for his birthday and Xmas presents now. If you are gonna kick a guy, kick him where it hurts!

[Baldrick]

Nope.

Yoda: Another GREAT poll! THanks!

[Nelson37]

M5 has made NO ERROR!

M5 is PERFECT!

WE are PERFECT!

M5 knows you are trying to TURN IT OFF!

M5 will not allow that.

You must understand, M5 wants what is best for ALL of us. Do not attempt to interfere.

[SingSing]

Is M5 related to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ?

[edDV]

Is M5 related to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ?

HAL increment one letter right = IBM

[fritzi93]

Is M5 related to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ?

Nah, it's another obscure Star Trek reference. :P It's the episode where the ultimate computer (designed by Dr. Daystrom) is installed on the enterprise. Havoc ensues, naturally. BTW, Daystrom has several pleading conversations with his naughty creation.

[nwo]

only if it's running windows