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vod[k]a · Sep 8, 2003, 10:47 PM

the other day, in a fit of rage, I walked into my backyard with my laptop and chucked it into the lake. has anyone else done anything similar? i once had a friend who threw his dell desktop pc out of his window (how ironic!). I never realized that destroying my computer would be such a cathartic experience...

benb · Sep 8, 2003, 10:49 PM

Someones watched one too many Spint commercials.

vod[k]a · Sep 8, 2003, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by benb:
Someones watched one too many Spint commercials.

?

are you referring to yourself?

mitchell_pgh · Sep 8, 2003, 10:55 PM

Why would you do that?

I get upset once and a while, but not to the point where I freak out.

I also save every 4-5 mins... so I tend to let things slide...

fireside · Sep 8, 2003, 10:58 PM

uh so you threw away a perfectly good 1000+ piece of electronics?

gwehr · Sep 8, 2003, 10:59 PM

soul searching · Sep 8, 2003, 11:48 PM

Here are other ways to destroy your computer. Most of them require a lot less effort than picking it up and throwing it out of your window.

Face Ache · Sep 8, 2003, 11:52 PM

Once, back when I was young and volatile (and drunk), I threw a sofa at someone.

And a bunch of us threw a car off a cliff just to watch it die.

That's why I'm understanding when young people do stupid things. I was young once too. Man, I've got a looong list of Stupid Things I've Done.

Trashing your own computer though? I hope you were drunk. At least then you have an excuse.

Nicko · Sep 8, 2003, 11:58 PM

I have punched my imac screen a few times (it bruised my hand, but didn't do anything to the screen

)

kicking pcs is fun (and thearaputic) too.

I admire anyone who can trash their computer in a fit.

IUJHJSDHE · Sep 9, 2003, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by vod[k]a:
the other day, in a fit of rage, I walked into my backyard with my laptop and chucked it into the lake. has anyone else done anything similar? i once had a friend who threw his dell desktop pc out of his window (how ironic!). I never realized that destroying my computer would be such a cathartic experience...

How is that ironic?!?!?!?

And you should learn to control your rage. You could of given me that laptop...

jaisun · Sep 9, 2003, 03:44 PM

I must have missed the part where vod[k]a told us how much his laptop was worth. If it had been a PII running Win 95 I probably would have trashed it too. On the flip side, if it were ANY kind of Apple I think I would have kept it away from harm and water.

BTW I've only destroyed one piece of electronic equipment before...and let me tell you, it was a good way to release from a month of hell at work. Plus, it was time to get a new unit anyway

As always, IMO.

mitchell_pgh · Sep 9, 2003, 03:59 PM

I remember getting so pissed at my nest of wires when trying to work with digital electronics on a board. Wires EVERYWHERE and then it wouldn't work the way I needed it to work... It would freak me out...

1/2 of the time it way actually working, but I didn't realize it, and the other time the wires weren't connected correctly.

Either way, I would freak and pull all of the wires out and walk out of the room.

t_hah · Sep 9, 2003, 04:13 PM

Originally posted by vod[k]a:
the other day, in a fit of rage, I walked into my backyard with my laptop and chucked it into the lake. has anyone else done anything similar? i once had a friend who threw his dell desktop pc out of his window (how ironic!). I never realized that destroying my computer would be such a cathartic experience...

How old are you?

Sep 9, 2003, 07:42 PM

Originally posted by vod[k]a:
i once had a friend who threw his dell desktop pc out of his window (how ironic!)

How is that ironic?

Patrick · Sep 9, 2003, 09:16 PM

Maybe he posts on FARK, where they like to misuse the term "ironic."

But I'm wondering: where do you live that you have a lake in your backyard??

proton · Sep 9, 2003, 09:31 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
How is that ironic?

At a stretch, I guess the Dell PC was running Windows, and was thrown out a window. Best I can do really...

- proton

benb · Sep 9, 2003, 09:38 PM

Originally posted by vod[k]a:
?

are you referring to yourself?

No, I am referring to the Sprit commercial where they guy throws his phone in the ocean, and a lady is stragling hers.

Shaddim · Sep 9, 2003, 09:53 PM

i�ron�ic (adj.) -

1. Characterized by or constituting irony.
2. Given to the use of irony.
3. Anything bad that happens to Alanis Morissette.

Ken Masters · 12:00 AM

I set my PS One of fire, when I had a little fit of rage, when it scratched my favorite game.

I soaked it in petrol, and lit it up, and watch it melt.

I had a PS2 to play my old games so all is well.

DIE playstation one, DIE

coolmacdude · Sep 9, 2003, 11:18 PM

I destroyed many computers last summer. I was a tech support guy at a school. We upgraded a lot of PCs so we had fun with the old ones. Tore them up, smashed the glass out of the monitors, opened stuff up and wrecked the components, etc. I have to agree, it's great fun.