You and your computer

[ShyGuy68]

I read this today at http://www.ananova.com

Survey reveals embarrassing PC moments

An online survey has revealed some embarrassing PC moments.

Confessions include a woman who told a passing IT worker she'd been pressing the F1 button for help for more than an hour and no one had turned up.

The survey was carried out by Direct PC manufacturer Novatech.

It also revealed 25% of users had physically attacked their machines.

Four thousand two hundred people were questioned for the survey which looked into people's relationships with computers.

Another computer novice admitted paying an IT engineer a £56 (US$ 80) call-out fee and £25 (US$ 35) for the first hour to fix a "faulty monitor" - which hadn't been plugged in.

Other mishaps included a computer programmer who turned on his machine with three new clients present only to discover friends had downloaded a 'sound' greeting. It announced in a booming voice: "Hey, over here everyone, I'm looking at porn! Woo Hoo! Porn! Porn over here!"

And one lady logged into a chat room called 'The whipped cream room', presuming it was a room for cookery fans, only to discover a roomful of "sexual deviants" into 101 ways of using whipped cream.

David Furby, managing director of Novatech, said: "We decided to do some research into people's relationships with their computers and we were amazed by some of the results.

"One of the most surprising - and pleasant - results was just how much humour and social interaction they cause. Although in many of these cases, it's probably not the sort of social interaction people were expecting."

So what's yours embarassing moment with your computer??

 

[TinaG13]

LMAO! Those are too funny! How ya doin', ShyGuy?

 

[Guest]

Funny

Hi Tina... how are ya?

 

[TinaG13]

Doing good today, Jaded..

I hope you are feeling better today. You get my email?

 

[Guest]

ooooh email???
ooooh... must go check

 

[TinaG13]

Yes, I sent one last night so that you would have something friendly in your box for a change...lol

 

[Mischka]

So what's yours embarassing moment with your computer??

A friend sent me an e-mail with an attached .gif while I was working in a large conservative law firm. It was the Smiling Mona Lisa - the one where you push the space bar and her top drops and she grins widely. Well, my computer froze in the top-down position, right as a partner was walking to my desk. I had to fling myself over my monitor until I could turn it off.

 

[KillerMuffin]

My most embarrassing moment. When I lived in California no one used the puter but me. So it orgasmed when I turned it on, asked for a blowjob when I wanted to use an application, and screamed WRONG HOLE! when it preformed an illegal manuever, and a very lascivious ooooh baby, was it good for you too? when I shut down an application.

I don't think a lot about sound effects cause I've always got the winamp on and I usually leave my computer running.

In Kansas, the StudMuffin and his father decided to go looking for stuff on the 'Net. They, ah, turned off the winamp. Then they started explorer twice (double clicking in the quick launch bar *rolls eyes*), and were promtly asked for a blowjob. When they shut one down...

Well, I heard the StudMuffin bellowing my name clear down the block. I don't think he ever came up with a satisfactory explanation for it.

Thank gawd I use the visualization on the winamp as my screensaver instead of the naked guys.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Well this was actually on someone elses computer. A new employee at a company I used to work for as a top level executive had turned on her computer and had a question for me regarding a data base. I indicated I would help her in approx. 15 minutes and then ended arriving in about two. At that time I walked in and there was an office email from an employee to the previous employee who used the computer that the new employee received. It basicly stated they couldn't stand me, I was weird, and on and on.

I said welcome aboard to the new employee and grinned. This particular employee was not typical and turned out to be a nice friend.

I have always had a problem with females. Perhaps when my body ages a little more............

 

[Barb Dwyer]

Originally posted by KillerMuffin
So it orgasmed when I turned it on, asked for a blowjob when I wanted to use an application, and screamed WRONG HOLE! when it preformed an illegal manuever, and a very lascivious ooooh baby, was it good for you too? when I shut down an application.

That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen! KillerMuffin, thanks for the big belly laugh!

Where were you when the internal battery on my computer died and froze my screen? Everything I tried to do to fix it failed. When I would shut down, wait and reboot, it kept coming back to the same page. Which was, of course, a very ...imaginative and creative photograph of several people enjoying each other's..ahem..company!

There was no way I was going to take it to a repair shop so I called my neighbor whose son "worked in computers". He came over, disassembled the casing, removed and replaced the battery and then rebooted. He fixed it but it still came up to the same page until I quickly reached for the mouse to exit out of the program! He looked at me and said "Now I see why you called ME!" If I could have died on the spot I would have!