When Your Most Significant Other is a Computer

LauraR · Oct 8, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071008/sc_livescience/whenyourmostsignificantotherisacomputer

"It’s the relationship you spend more time on than any other. It has deepened even during the past few years. When things go wrong, you become enraged and tearful and attack inanimate objects—but you’re willing to spend hours making things right.

Obviously, we’re talking about your relationship with your personal computer....

...They were surprised, Rodio said, to find that computer problems could unleash such powerful emotions. When confronted with a dead computer, 19 percent admitted to wanting to hurl it out the nearest window, 9 percent felt stranded and alone, 11 percent used language normally reserved for special occasions, 7 percent did so loudly, 3 percent did so tearfully and 3 percent additionally vented their wrath on inanimate objects."

dyamond · Oct 8, 2007

LauraR said: ↑

...They were surprised, Rodio said, to find that computer problems could unleash such powerful emotions. When confronted with a dead computer, 19 percent admitted to wanting to hurl it out the nearest window, 9 percent felt stranded and alone, 11 percent used language normally reserved for special occasions, 7 percent did so loudly, 3 percent did so tearfully and 3 percent additionally vented their wrath on inanimate objects."[/I]
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How true!! roflmao

LauraR · Oct 8, 2007

dyamond said: ↑

How true!! roflmao
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hahahaha

The five stages of computer loss. I know I've gone through them.

Grumbles · Oct 8, 2007

Gets worrying when i spend more time looking after the PC than looking after my wife LOL

ItsWendy · Oct 8, 2007

If it's a standard (for me) model, I just fix the sucker. It's the data I'll miss, and for the most part I do backup.

Isn't that what being a geek is all about?

bigbazza · Oct 9, 2007

That's why I haven't changed my avatar for ages. :major Bazza

zallner · Oct 10, 2007

LauraR said: ↑

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071008/sc_livescience/whenyourmostsignificantotherisacomputer

"It’s the relationship you spend more time on than any other. It has deepened even during the past few years. When things go wrong, you become enraged and tearful and attack inanimate objects—but you’re willing to spend hours making things right.

Obviously, we’re talking about your relationship with your personal computer....

...They were surprised, Rodio said, to find that computer problems could unleash such powerful emotions. When confronted with a dead computer, 19 percent admitted to wanting to hurl it out the nearest window, 9 percent felt stranded and alone, 11 percent used language normally reserved for special occasions, 7 percent did so loudly, 3 percent did so tearfully and 3 percent additionally vented their wrath on inanimate objects."
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very much guilty on some of it.
unfortunately, ones pc have morphed into us.
it has become one with us.
parting with it feels like losing an organ. ouch.

darlene1029 · Oct 10, 2007

That's what keeps Dan and I together (being apart)
We each have our computer in different rooms. He does spend more time hypnotized by some frantic game. I tell him he going to have a seizure, he has a lot of pent up energy but his body won't allow him to expel it any more.

Rikky · Oct 11, 2007

Mine just doesnt break :major I'm so adament about moving to vista all I ever wanted was an OS that worked after win98 and XP works just fine.

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When Your Most Significant Other is a Computer

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