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ULTIMATEGP
May 25, 2006, 09:13 PM
Well this thread is for you to find out if your computer sucks. I'll start the first and you all add more.

1.Your kids public school has better computers.

SuperBeaverInc.
May 25, 2006, 09:21 PM
2. It's almost as old as you...and you were born in the 70's...

malclave
May 25, 2006, 09:24 PM
3. You post your specs on a gaming message board (there'll always be someone saying your system sucks 'cause he has a homebuilt system with the current latest of everything).

lz14
May 25, 2006, 09:31 PM
4. you type "tree" and the whole result fits in one screen

VRWCAgent
May 25, 2006, 11:10 PM
5. You're having trouble finding a replacement for the VL-Bus video card that just went bad.

Strider
May 26, 2006, 07:09 AM
6. You can type an entire paper before the first character even shows up on the screen.

Tycoon101
May 26, 2006, 01:50 PM
7. You try to wipe a smudge off your screen for five minutes until you realise that the smudge is your desktop picture.

Yuri2356
May 26, 2006, 02:04 PM
8) You can hear your processor tick off every bit

FriendlyFire
May 27, 2006, 06:26 AM
9) you realise 1 meg of ram isnt enough to run the latest games

Mirc
May 27, 2006, 06:31 AM
1 is true for me.

10) Your computer is worse than mine.

ybbor
May 27, 2006, 07:21 AM
11)you attempt to install civ and your computer laughs at you

Tycoon101
May 27, 2006, 09:53 AM
12. You install Civ 1, and your computer crashes due to a "system overload".

WerBackIII
May 27, 2006, 10:34 AM
13)Every time when you wanna start "Windows" you write "win" in DOS

14. You computer overloads when you start "Minesweeper"

15. Your computer is bigger than you!

Warned for spam. You could have just as easily put them all in one post as you did in three within two minutes. Posts merged.

wiseguy101
May 27, 2006, 11:07 AM
16. You're still using a computer that uses vaccum tubes, instead of a microchip.

BCLG100
May 27, 2006, 12:44 PM
17- your 'computer' resembles something not unlike an Abaccus

Dr. Yoshi
May 28, 2006, 12:20 AM
18. Your computer only accepts punch cards.

SuperBeaverInc.
May 28, 2006, 01:01 AM
17- your 'computer' resembles something not unlike an Abaccus

19 After closer inspection, you realize your computer is inferior to an abacus

Truronian
May 28, 2006, 06:35 AM
20. Your computer only has a VCR drive

plarq
May 28, 2006, 08:17 AM
21. You're off CFC since your computer can't process this page.

Raisin Bran
May 28, 2006, 08:37 AM
22 - your computer uses 3 rooms in your appartment

Karl Townsend
May 28, 2006, 12:27 PM
23 your comuter struggles to run civ 1

Yuri2356
May 28, 2006, 12:57 PM
24) Your laptop weighs in at a portable 42 pounds, with may colour screen and half of ten minutes bettery power.

(Cookie if you guess the reference)

Lord_Iggy
May 28, 2006, 02:06 PM
Disclaimer: If you have an Apple computer or like Apple computers, skip to reason #26.

25. Your computer has 'Apple' or 'Macintosh' written on it. :p

26. The tech support people make a choking sound when you call them.

azzaman333
May 29, 2006, 03:49 AM
27. You wish you had seen the blue screen of death.

kingofkings
May 29, 2006, 05:25 AM
28. You have technical support on speed dial.
29. Technical support just blocked you're number.

Ramius75
May 29, 2006, 05:41 AM
30. U need to know the diff between expanded and extended memory.

plarq
May 29, 2006, 08:29 AM
31. Dos=High
32. Your computer can't beat an NES.
33. Pac Man can't run well in your Macintosh

azzaman333
May 29, 2006, 08:47 AM
34. Space Invaders is the best game you could possibly have on your computer, and that is all your computer fits.

puglover
May 29, 2006, 12:27 PM
35. You can't run Media Player and volume control at the same time. (true! :eek: )

Raisin Bran
May 29, 2006, 02:32 PM
36 - You just bought a DOS update and it comes in 10 - 5 inch floppies!

Ghost
May 29, 2006, 10:54 PM
37. Your computer can't even load the blue screen of death

plarq
May 30, 2006, 12:02 AM
38. You can read a novel after you press the button, before beginning your work on your computer.

ULTIMATEGP
May 30, 2006, 12:23 AM
39.you could write your 50,000 word term paper before you could type it

plarq
May 31, 2006, 02:04 AM
40. Telnet is your only access of electronic network, with your 100b Modem.

RickFGS
May 31, 2006, 03:46 AM
41.You ve bought a printer and you ve come to the install software part. There are 3 floppie disks, you insert the first one, run the prog, and when it asks to insert the second you put it in with a lot of difficulty, by the time it asks for a third, you have to use the help of a hammer to fit it in the floopie driver. You computer explodes on you and then you call tech support claiming the disks had some sort of virus...

Zuffox
Jun 03, 2006, 08:18 AM
42. When you call technical support, they address you by your first name and grant you extra fast shipping and repair.

Last part is, in fact, true in my case.

SuperBeaverInc.
Jun 03, 2006, 10:23 AM
43 You're still using punch cards

Lord_Iggy
Jun 03, 2006, 11:07 AM
44. Putting a tv and a stereo next to your computer are the closest you'll ever get to a media edition PC.

AxiomUk
Jun 05, 2006, 09:34 AM
45. When doing anything remotely interesting on it causes it to lock up.

LLXerxes
Jun 05, 2006, 11:27 AM
46. Your harddrive doesn't have enough space to download the basic substitutions for windows products
47. subsequentially, you're stuck with IE, MSWord, MSOutlook, WMP...
48. your sound doesn't work
49. You can't rip new cd's onto your computer
50. subsequentially, you're stuck with 3 sound bits and two 'Beck' samples your computer automatically had as your default playlist

puglover
Jun 05, 2006, 11:46 AM
19 After closer inspection, you realize your computer is inferior to an abacus

51. The abacus has better multiplayer capabilities.

Perfection
Jun 05, 2006, 02:38 PM
52. magenta, cyan, black and white are the only colors you can display

Souron
Jun 05, 2006, 02:42 PM
53. When mentioning the brand of your computer, people are surprised to hear that that company even makes computers.*

*guilty

puglover
Jun 05, 2006, 03:22 PM
53. When mentioning the brand of your computer, people are surprised to hear that that company even makes computers.*

*guilty

54. The company is McDonalds

Perfection
Jun 05, 2006, 04:56 PM
55. The user interface consists of a lever, dipictions of various animals, and recordings of what they say.

Yuri2356
Jun 05, 2006, 05:37 PM
56. Installing new programs consists of manipulating a series of switches, dials, gears, and a stearing wheel.

Zuffox
Jun 05, 2006, 05:42 PM
57. To you, upgrading the computer is replacing the guinea pig running around inside the wheel of the computer.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 05, 2006, 06:28 PM
58)The RAM's clock rate is faster than you processors.

azzaman333
Jun 05, 2006, 08:59 PM
59. Space Invaders is too high tech for your computer.

Yuri2356
Jun 05, 2006, 09:29 PM
60. You measure your monitor's refresh rate in seconds per frame.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 06, 2006, 06:18 PM
61. When your calculator can answer you what 100! is faster than your computer

Tycoon101
Jun 06, 2006, 07:11 PM
62. Your computer makes you feel suicidal.
63. Your computer is so horrible that you actually begin to hate playing Civ.
64. Your computer beat you up and stole your lunch money. :mischief:

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 06, 2006, 07:43 PM
61. When your calculator can answer you what 100! is faster than your computer

65. When you can figure out what 100! is faster than your computer.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 06, 2006, 07:51 PM
65. When you can figure out what 100! is faster than your computer.
That too
66. When its faster to call your friend rather than aim him/her

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 06, 2006, 07:57 PM
That too
66. When its faster to call your friend rather than aim him/her

67. When it's faster to send a carrier pigeon to your friend than AIM him/her.

(I'm not trying to one-up you, I swear . . .)

Genocidicbunny
Jun 06, 2006, 08:00 PM
67. When it's faster to send a carrier pigeon to your friend than AIM him/her.

(I'm not trying to one-up you, I swear . . .)
Doesnt seem like youre not...j/k
68. By the time your computer finishes responding to someone on these forums, the thread has already been closed due to the max posts in a thread being reached

YNCS
Jun 06, 2006, 08:19 PM
69. Your computer has a hatch on the top to load coal.

70. You have to turn on the cooling water before you start your computer.

71. You have to power down every ten minutes to give the squirrels a chance to rest.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 06, 2006, 09:18 PM
72. Your computer is so old, it has started gaining value.(Normally computers lose value as soon as you buy them, and they continue to do so)

Perfection
Jun 07, 2006, 11:35 AM
73. When something important breaks the most cost effective means of repairing is to whittle a replacement.

Tycoon101
Jun 07, 2006, 12:55 PM
74. You can't find your dog, and think that he got sucked into your computer's vacuum tubes.

Perfection
Jun 07, 2006, 10:00 PM
75. You accidentally taped "You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog" over your program.

Mirc
Jun 08, 2006, 01:35 AM
76: You spin the mouse wheel and the operating system tells you "Unknown Command! Please restart your computer"

Tycoon101
Jun 08, 2006, 05:41 AM
77. The BIOS setting screen has better graphics than your computer normally has.

Perfection
Jun 08, 2006, 12:11 PM
78. It's analog

Souron
Jun 08, 2006, 12:45 PM
79. It's mechanical

80. It looks something like this:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/attic2/images/122.jpg

3 EMS
Jun 08, 2006, 05:23 PM
81. You just realised that your Sharpie is dried up and have to make an emergency trip to the store.

82. You just figured out how to write a program to draw your initial on a plotter.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 08, 2006, 09:13 PM
83. You need to compress a text document to fit it onto your harddrive

Jafendel
Jun 09, 2006, 09:15 AM
84. The robbers only steal your mouse pad and leave a Post-it note in monitor: "Hey, I wish i knew."

WerBackIII
Jun 09, 2006, 09:22 AM
85.The best game you can play is this-
~COMPUTER- 0 or 1
~if 0 write "win"
~if 1 write "lose"

RameNoodle
Jun 09, 2006, 01:01 PM
86. The only song your computer can download is... wait, that's the fan.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 09, 2006, 01:10 PM
87. You purchased it 3 years ago, and its still booting for the first time ever.

Perfection
Jun 09, 2006, 01:20 PM
88. It refuses to open the pod bay doors.

Truronian
Jun 09, 2006, 02:03 PM
89. You know the dial-up noise of by heart

Genocidicbunny
Jun 09, 2006, 02:35 PM
90. I has so many fans for cooling because its so old, that its louder in your room than on an airport runway

Rossiya
Jun 09, 2006, 03:17 PM
91. there are twenty four guinea pigs running in the wheels at the back of your computer, thus powering the whole system.

Swiss Bezerker
Jun 09, 2006, 05:56 PM
52. magenta, cyan, black and white are the only colors you can display

Not even Yellow!

92) you have to wind it up every 10 seconds.

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 09, 2006, 09:16 PM
92) you have to wind it up every 10 seconds.

93. You have to enter a sequence of numbers into it every 108 minutes or it goes berserk.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 09, 2006, 09:21 PM
94. Every time you want to run a new program, you have to switch out the gears. ( a la charles babbage's difference engine )

Tycoon101
Jun 09, 2006, 09:41 PM
95. Folding at Home involves your computer sputtering bianary code and gentics dealing with proteins all over the desktop.

Truronian
Jun 10, 2006, 11:18 AM
96. Your speakers look like this:

http://www.searsarchives.com/history/images/gramaphone.gif

MooManof_
Jun 10, 2006, 10:01 PM
97. The Natural history museum and your PC's tech support people share staff and office space.

megalomaniac
Jun 10, 2006, 11:31 PM
89. You know the dial-up noise of by heart


98. You've begun to listen to the dial-up noise as if it were music.

salty mud
Jun 11, 2006, 09:30 AM
99. To find replacements for your computer you must go and dig them up.

Truronian
Jun 11, 2006, 12:05 PM
100: Your moniter is black and white

salty mud
Jun 11, 2006, 12:08 PM
101. Your Great Grandad who was a Major-General in WWII co-ordinated attacks against the enemy on the comp

MooManof_
Jun 11, 2006, 04:37 PM
98. You've begun to listen to the dial-up noise as if it were music.
102. You dance to the 'music'... (I used to, when I was a kid :P)

100: Your moniter is black and white
103. Your 'colour' moniter is Green on Black.

Maniacal
Jun 11, 2006, 04:44 PM
89. You know the dial-up noise of by heart

That's not nesecaraly to do with your computer quality. Ok, my computer is crap, but TELUS said we were getting highspeed, last Fall. (so glad my mom has cable).

104. YOU have to ride a bike to power it and have the handlebars as the keyboard/mouse.

Souron
Jun 11, 2006, 06:11 PM
105. Color on your monitor is determined by what plastic film you put over it.

MooManof_
Jun 11, 2006, 06:55 PM
106. You use coloured glass plates, because plastic wasn't around when your PC was built.

Truronian
Jun 12, 2006, 01:11 AM
107. Your printer uses various crushed flowers for ink

Ultima Dragoon
Jun 12, 2006, 01:27 AM
108. Your internet loads faster than your comp.

Heretic_Cata
Jun 12, 2006, 03:01 AM
Lots of stuff posted apply to my comp.

109. Your mouse looks like this.
http://www.resonancepub.com/images/First_Mouse.gif

megalomaniac
Jun 12, 2006, 03:36 AM
110. Windows 3.x is too advanced for your machine

MooManof_
Jun 12, 2006, 11:59 AM
111. You find yourself drooling over the 'advanced' features of Minix.

The 777 Hoax
Jun 12, 2006, 07:50 PM
112. It has a picture of an apple on it.

:p

Perfection
Jun 12, 2006, 11:31 PM
113. The drawing program consists of translucent pieces of plastic and a black sheet of paper.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 13, 2006, 12:08 AM
114. It looks like a fridge

Genocidicbunny
Jun 13, 2006, 12:08 AM
115. The clicks it makes can be used as music.


--internet was being a b***h...

MooManof_
Jun 13, 2006, 12:44 AM
Because of stickciv's double post, I'll let him take the 115 slot...

116. Your PC is really just a fridge with an apple-shaped magnet on it, and your keyboard it just fridge-magnet letters.

117. You still can't find where to plug the mouse into your fridge, and it starts squeaking and trying to bite you.

Truronian
Jun 13, 2006, 02:47 AM
118. It can't handle the concept of a roller-ball mouse

Mirc
Jun 13, 2006, 02:56 AM
119: It does not have a mouse function incorporated, and you can't edit, since Norton doesn't work on it and you have to use MS-dos.

BlizzardGR
Jun 13, 2006, 03:26 AM
120: It's labeled as "Eniac's Great Grandfather"
121: Operating your computer is like working out at the gym.

Mirc
Jun 13, 2006, 03:33 AM
121: Operating your computer is like working out at the gym.
That's the best I heard.

BlizzardGR
Jun 13, 2006, 03:44 AM
That's the best I heard.

Thanks!

122: Your computer is so old that a Pentium @ 200Mhz seems like alien technology to you and you blame the government for a UFO crash cover-up.

122: You are the best client of the Electric company.

123: Your birthday is a national holiday in the United Arabic Emirates as you are their main source of income.

124: You are the reason Peak Oil will occur 20 years earlier than it should.

Pentium
Jun 14, 2006, 04:14 PM
Not bad either:

125. Your computer Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Math.

Souron
Jun 14, 2006, 04:22 PM
126. Your computer has a big key sticking out of the top that you have to wind to use the computer.

Genocidicbunny
Jun 14, 2006, 04:24 PM
127. You use Raid to keep to get rid of the systems bugs

Pentium
Jun 14, 2006, 04:26 PM
128. Your computer is the biggest consumer of coal in the town.

Mirc
Jun 14, 2006, 04:39 PM
129: Your computer has been used by Hitler himself

Truronian
Jun 14, 2006, 05:13 PM
130. Hitler also thought it was crap

BlizzardGR
Jun 15, 2006, 03:00 AM
Not bad either:

125. Your computer Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Math.

He, he! Didn't thought of that! :goodjob:

Maniacal
Jun 15, 2006, 10:06 PM
131. It's made by Barbie.

megalomaniac
Jun 16, 2006, 08:03 AM
132. It's made by Fisher Price.

BlizzardGR
Jun 16, 2006, 08:25 AM
133. Your great grandfather fished it from the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera in Greece.

Heretic_Cata
Jun 16, 2006, 09:50 AM
133. Your great grandfather fished it from the botton of the sea near the island of Antikythera in Greece.
(A little extra) And it looked like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/NAMA_Machine_d'Anticythère_1.jpg/672px-NAMA_Machine_d'Anticythère_1.jpg

azzaman333
Jun 16, 2006, 09:51 AM
cant see it h_c.

Heretic_Cata
Jun 16, 2006, 10:03 AM
That happened quite alot lately ... :hmm:

Anyway, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NAMA_Machine_d'Anticythère_1.jpg

azzaman333
Jun 16, 2006, 10:27 AM
:rotfl:

134. You cant have your computer on for 10 seconds without it exploding and burning down your house.

135. Despite 134, you continue to use it even though you cant actually do anything on it without causing it to explode quicker. Even watching the screensaver makes it explode quicker

Perfection
Jun 18, 2006, 02:25 AM
136: Inner-city public schools won't accept it as a donation.

Truronian
Jun 18, 2006, 03:04 AM
137. Your screen saver is a curtain.

138. It was advertised as a cvmpvter

classical_hero
Jun 18, 2006, 03:20 AM
139. You still back up your computer using magnetic tape.

Truronian
Jun 18, 2006, 03:25 AM
140. Your start button reads "s‽ar‽"

TheBladeRoden
Jun 18, 2006, 03:46 AM
141. Your monitor lacks the color depth to display the blue screen of death.

142. Your mouse is, like in the olden days, literally a rodent that manually types in the coordinates for the cursor "x:567 y:024 [enter]"

143. Your keyboard is in cuneiform.

144. The power system requires a constant supply of firewood to keep it chuggin.

145. Your father can use it. (happy father's day! ;))

Genocidicbunny
Jun 18, 2006, 02:37 PM
146. The only place you can find upgrades for it is in a computer museum

LLXerxes
Jun 18, 2006, 03:07 PM
147: The USB port is slightly smaller than the Port of Baltimore

Truronian
Jun 18, 2006, 03:28 PM
148. The desktop clock must be wound.

The 777 Hoax
Jun 18, 2006, 06:44 PM
149. You can't run Minesweeper on it.

Sephiroth
Jun 18, 2006, 08:59 PM
150. it uses one of those old car starters to start up (the ones you had to wind):p

Yuri2356
Jun 18, 2006, 09:24 PM
151) You need industrial-grade ear protection to defend you from your cooling fan.

152) You've just upgraded to vacume tubes.

153) Your main output device is a single LED.

154) You can see the individual switches on your main board...

155) ...from orbit.

156) There's more processing power in the nerves of your pinky than in your entire PC.

BlizzardGR
Jun 19, 2006, 04:34 AM
157) Your mobile phone has a higher capacity memory than your hard drive.
158) And your mobile phone is more than 10 years old.

steviejay
Jun 19, 2006, 06:51 AM
159) In order to get it to finished a calculation you have to do a ritual sacrifice to please the Gods

azzaman333
Jun 19, 2006, 07:11 AM
160. Computer? What computer?

Truronian
Jun 19, 2006, 08:52 AM
161. It has an aerial.

162. The aerial has bad reception.

163. The internet is accessed through the operator.

BCLG100
Jun 19, 2006, 05:25 PM
164-your computer consists of little dwarves inside a box-to get word up they bring along a typewriter, to play music they sing you a song, to play FPS's they have finger puppets.

plarq
Jun 20, 2006, 01:57 AM
165. Your home is full of computer hardwares, in fact, you're going to buy your neighborer's apartment for your computer.

LLXerxes
Jun 20, 2006, 06:46 AM
166.
Not even the main hardware of you're computer can fit in the area of an LAN game.
167.
There aren't plugs to add any seperate hardware to the computer
168.
Your floppy is half-stuck in the disk drive.

Truronian
Jun 20, 2006, 07:35 AM
169. You can cook on the processing unit.

steviejay
Jun 20, 2006, 07:37 AM
170. In order to boot up without over heating you need to have your tower sitting open on your desk and have a house fan blowing air into it as a secondary fan

*mine*

Genocidicbunny
Jun 20, 2006, 01:21 PM
170. In order to boot up without over heating you need to have your tower sitting open on your desk and have a house fan blowing air into it as a secondary fan

*mine*
171. In order to boot up wihout overheating you designed a special airtight container which has an air conditioning unit attached to the side that you have to start up an hour before you turn on your computer in order to have the inside cooled enough

zanahoria
Jun 21, 2006, 03:04 AM
172. You can hear the beads on the abacus move everytime you click

Truronian
Jun 21, 2006, 03:43 AM
173. It needs daily oiling

steviejay
Jun 21, 2006, 03:46 AM
173. It needs daily oiling

174. You're daily consumption of oil is the reason for high crude oil prices

ULTIMATEGP
Jun 21, 2006, 12:51 PM
lol at all of these I didn't expect my thread to do this good this fast

BlizzardGR
Jun 21, 2006, 01:32 PM
121: Operating your computer is like working out at the gym.

175) You have been operating it for too many years and you look like this guy:

http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/4049/flexx3ls9yp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Genocidicbunny
Jun 21, 2006, 01:38 PM
175) You have been operating it for too many years and you look like this guy:
k, thats just friggin scary....
176;When you try to install civ1 it tells you: "You dumba**, you shouldnt be installing this on me, wth are you trying to do? Kill me?"

BlizzardGR
Jun 21, 2006, 01:53 PM
k, thats just friggin scary....

I know!
He seems like he's ready to blow up! :lol: :lol: :lol:

LLXerxes
Jun 21, 2006, 07:46 PM
175) You have been operating it for too many years and you look like this guy:

Can't be that bad... look how huge his slong is.

177. You consider playing the '1,0' game on DOS a 'game'
178. Your memory stick is a twig (geddit?)

Genocidicbunny
Jun 21, 2006, 10:49 PM
Can't be that bad... look how huge his slong is.

177. You consider playing the '1,0' game on DOS a 'game'
178. Your memory stick is a twig (geddit?)
@178: HAR HAR
179: 4kb memory is enough to run everything you have on your computer, at the same time..

ULTIMATEGP
Jun 22, 2006, 02:22 PM
180.Yuor computer's oil cumsuption will be the reason bush invaed Saudi Arabia

Yuri2356
Jun 22, 2006, 02:30 PM
181) There is a Coal power plant in Serbia devoted to fueling your machine.

Truronian
Jun 22, 2006, 03:37 PM
181) There is a Coal power plant in Serbia devoted to fueling your machine.

182) Your machine's proccessor is entirely devoted to the running of that coal plant.

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 22, 2006, 03:49 PM
182) Your machine's proccessor is entirely devoted to the running of that coal plant.

183. The need for coal for said plant will be the reason Bush invades Serbia.

Kapn Skwishy
Jun 22, 2006, 04:41 PM
184. This is your next upgrade

Truronian
Jun 22, 2006, 04:43 PM
185. Your cursor has a turning circle

steviejay
Jun 23, 2006, 02:55 AM
:lol: I love that one

classical_hero
Jun 23, 2006, 07:24 AM
186. Your cursor has been censored by the FCC.

MooManof_
Jun 23, 2006, 12:54 PM
187. Your cursor isn't allowed to move or change into a pointy hand or an hourglass, because it's a listed monument.

Maniacal
Jun 23, 2006, 09:50 PM
187. Your cursor isn't allowed to move or change into a pointy hand or an hourglass, because it's a listed monument.


:crazyeye:

189: It has more dust on/in it than in all of Africa.

164-your computer consists of little dwarves inside a box-to get word up they bring along a typewriter, to play music they sing you a song, to play FPS's they have finger puppets.

THE WINNER!

North King
Jun 23, 2006, 11:04 PM
190. You really *would* have had the second post in this thread, if the computer wasn't so blasted slow...

191. Your computer needs to be kept in a separate building from your house.

192. You can't bump the computer, or else the abacus beads will rustle and completely ruin your memory.

193. Which gives you an idea--since you can't give away your computer to the local school system as a computer, you instead advertise it as the latest in percussion instruments.

194. You can't have children or small animals around your computer, because the stone casing will badly scrape them.

195. A Rubik's Cube's face has better resolution than your moniter.

196. Don't touch that! Fingerprints will add 20 minutes onto the boot up time.

197. Your computer is so large, and explodes so frequently, that people have taken to using land mine detection mechanisms around your house.

198. Insurance salesmen have knocked on the door to your computer thinking that it was your house.

199. The blinking cursor of your typing occasionally overloads your processor.

200. The moniter is an etch-a-sketch.

LLXerxes
Jun 25, 2006, 04:23 PM
201. You fake IRC with notepad for sparetime.

MooManof_
Jun 25, 2006, 04:57 PM
202. You fake Notepad with a yellow Post-it pad stuck to the screen.

Perfection
Jun 25, 2006, 07:41 PM
203. You fake a screen with a hunk of glass and a chunk of cardboard.

Cheezy the Wiz
Jun 25, 2006, 09:46 PM
204: you run Microsoft Windows

megalomaniac
Jun 25, 2006, 10:02 PM
205. Your comp has an apple stamped on the side

Genocidicbunny
Jun 25, 2006, 10:28 PM
204: you run Microsoft Windows
205. Your comp has an apple stamped on the side
so unless you run linux you're screwed?

Pentium
Jun 26, 2006, 05:40 AM
so unless you run linux you're screwed?You're screwed either way :crazyeye:

Perfection
Jun 26, 2006, 06:15 AM
Every OS Sucks ;)
http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/ossuckscable.html~content

LLXerxes
Jun 26, 2006, 08:23 AM
206. Your 'firewall' is tin foil

MooManof_
Jun 26, 2006, 10:27 AM
207. Your 'fire wall' is in danger of burning down your house and your neighbours houses.

Perfection
Jun 26, 2006, 07:32 PM
208. It's incapable of performing the NOT logical operation

Yuri2356
Jun 26, 2006, 08:29 PM
209) Your cooling fan is oft mistaken for a wind turbine.

Souron
Jun 26, 2006, 11:18 PM
210)You have dial up.

BlizzardGR
Jun 27, 2006, 01:51 AM
210)You have dial up.

211) You need to connect your Grandmother's old telephone in order to dial and surf the internet.

Maniacal
Jun 27, 2006, 02:20 AM
212) You screen can show only one pixel.

Truronian
Jun 27, 2006, 06:11 AM
213) Your graphics card is the Jack of Clubs

Perfection
Jun 28, 2006, 09:09 PM
214) It smells of the poops

megalomaniac
Jun 28, 2006, 10:04 PM
215) Your processor is actually thousands of very small chinese people doing math by hand.

BlizzardGR
Jun 29, 2006, 02:57 AM
215) Your processor is actually thousands of very small chinese people doing math by hand.

That would be faster than a Pentium 4! :lol:

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 29, 2006, 09:56 AM
216. It is not advanced enough to use both 1's and 0's; it just uses the letter "O" for programming.

Truronian
Jun 29, 2006, 10:18 AM
217. The printer uses papyrus

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 29, 2006, 10:31 AM
218. The display consists of highly-trained mice holding up little pieces of paper.

BlizzardGR
Jun 29, 2006, 11:42 AM
218. The display consists of highly-trained mice holding up little pieces of paper.

219) You have a guarantee of zero dead mice for 3 months (not feeding them will void the quarantee).

Souron
Jun 29, 2006, 11:45 AM
220) You keep a fire extinguisher by your desk for your computer.

Yuri2356
Jun 29, 2006, 12:34 PM
221) Your PC was assembled by 20,000 hebrew slaves.

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 29, 2006, 01:53 PM
222. Your PC was asembled by 20,000 Amish slaves.

BCLG100
Jun 29, 2006, 02:22 PM
223-Your PC was assembled by Bill Gates

Abaddon
Jun 29, 2006, 05:58 PM
223. You had to disassemble, reassemble your PC several times in the last week.

MooManof_
Jun 30, 2006, 03:10 AM
216. It is not advanced enough to use both 1's and 0's; it just uses the letter "O" for programming.
Someone's been reading Dilbert :mischief:

Truronian
Jun 30, 2006, 03:19 AM
224. It tries to display surds as fractions

Eran of Arcadia
Jun 30, 2006, 08:16 AM
Someone's been reading Dilbert :mischief:

Well, yes, of course.

225. Entire religions have been formed specifically prohibiting its use.

Tycoon101
Jun 30, 2006, 12:29 PM
225. Entire religions have been formed specifically prohibiting its use.

:mischief: Well...

226. The Pope of The Catholic Church has publically condemned your computer as a heresy.

MooManof_
Jun 30, 2006, 05:43 PM
227. Conversely, entire religions have been formed worshipping it.

Blazer6
Jun 30, 2006, 07:15 PM
228. You physically move the electricity from the electric company in a box and empty it into your computer.

229. You draw faster on the monitor than its refresh rate.

megalomaniac
Jul 02, 2006, 05:13 AM
Check the numbers on your posts. There are two #223's

ggganz
Jul 02, 2006, 05:34 PM
230. You turn it on and it turns on the light instead (:confused:) and then you turn off the light and the garage door opens instead (:eek:) and then you close the garage door and it turns on the sprinklers instead (:mad:) and then you turn off the sprinklers and it opens the windows instead (:wallbash:) and you close the windows and it turns on your computer instead ([pissed]) only to start a fire because the window was open and the sprinklers got the computer wet (:aargh:) and cost you $1.5 million (:suicide:).

steviejay
Jul 02, 2006, 06:00 PM
dude......... you've spent WAY too much time thinking about this..... either that or you're relating to a past memory, in which case my condolences ;)

231: Your computer starts singing 'Daisy'

Pentium
Jul 02, 2006, 06:01 PM
Check the numbers on your posts. There are two #223'sHappens if your computer sucks ;)

ggganz
Jul 02, 2006, 06:09 PM
dude......... you've spent WAY too much time thinking about this..... either that or you're relating to a past memory, in which case my condolences ;)I've seen lots of commercials for OSH or Home Depot like that, and I just found this thread today.:rolleyes:

ggganz
Jul 02, 2006, 06:10 PM
Happens if your computer sucks ;)That should be a reason.

Truronian
Jul 03, 2006, 04:29 AM
232. Your computer needs a DC wall socket

raen
Jul 04, 2006, 04:10 AM
233. Your Computer is jealous of your camera, so it refuses to work for you anymore :P

Pentium
Jul 04, 2006, 05:04 AM
234. You computer is jealous of your neighbour's radio.

Truronian
Jul 04, 2006, 05:14 AM
235. Your computer supports Man United.

BlizzardGR
Jul 04, 2006, 06:16 AM
236) Your Computer is half the speed of your pocket calculator.
237) You got your calculator with a box of kellog's.

Pentium
Jul 04, 2006, 06:30 PM
236) Your Computer is half the speed of your pocket calculator.238. Half the speed, but twice the hard drive space :)

carmen510
Jul 05, 2006, 04:41 PM
239. It gets so hot in 1 second, you had to go to Antartica to run it, and then it melted the polar ice caps.
240. Even though you have 5 of the latest GeForce Chips in your computer, you still have graphics that are like Cave drawings.
241. Your computer is so primitve, your God has used it and said it sucked. (I'm athiest)

Eran of Arcadia
Jul 05, 2006, 05:48 PM
241. Your computer is so primitve, your God has used it and said it sucked. (I'm athiest)

242. It's so primitive, even atheists believe that God says it sucks.

The Omega
Jul 05, 2006, 05:56 PM
243. You're computer takes 5 hours to load Pong.

Comraddict
Jul 05, 2006, 06:17 PM
244. you open web pages in command prompt.

ULTIMATEGP
Jul 05, 2006, 08:24 PM
245.its heat up is the cause of global warming

Perfection
Jul 06, 2006, 02:03 AM
246. Its clock has a pendulum.

Truronian
Jul 06, 2006, 03:03 AM
247. It killed your cat

Heretic_Cata
Jul 06, 2006, 07:26 AM
^ by eating it.

248. You need to feed it a stray cat/dog every week.

azzaman333
Jul 06, 2006, 07:57 AM
249. A stray cat/dog would be 50 times faster than your current computer.

flaming_iles
Jul 06, 2006, 08:56 AM
250. It runs on alcohol (yay futurama's back :D)

Eran of Arcadia
Jul 06, 2006, 09:05 AM
250. It runs on alcohol (yay futurama's back :D)

251. It runs on the blood of virgins - which is so hard to find these days.

steviejay
Jul 06, 2006, 09:12 AM
heh yeah, virgins around computers? they're in short supply :p

252. an idea of a quiet night in with your girlfriend means her sitting beside the tower fanning it while you play Call of Duty

ULTIMATEGP
Jul 06, 2006, 02:07 PM
rofl another Call of Duty fan?

Souron
Jul 06, 2006, 03:53 PM
238. Half the speed, but twice the hard drive space :)
253)And All that space is used up by the OS. IOTW, Your Harddrive is full even though you never installed a single program.

254)Your computer dose not have a harddrive

Stormrage
Jul 06, 2006, 05:57 PM
255. It actually works better when you kick it (true)
256. You can`t play standard civ3 maps, only smaller ones. And they are slow too (also true)

Eran of Arcadia
Jul 06, 2006, 06:46 PM
257. The leaders of North Korea, South Korea, mainland China, Taiwan, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel, France, Germany, the UK, and the US just released a joint statement condemning it as a crime against humanity.

BCLG100
Jul 06, 2006, 07:12 PM
258-The tower is so big that when you finally dismantle it you realise you've found where Osama Bin Laden had been hiding all that time.

Genocidicbunny
Jul 06, 2006, 09:32 PM
258-The tower is so big that when you finally dismantle it you realise you've found where Osama Bin Laden had been hiding all that time.
Good one:lol:
259: You also find the WMD's

Thisnameislame
Jul 06, 2006, 11:22 PM
260: your computer only turns on 1/3 of the time.
261: your computer can't load the task manager
262: you don't need to worry about viruses and spyware because they realize its not worth it.
263: a tomato has more processing power
264: opening the cd-rom drive takes 5 minutes.
265: Your computer comits suicide if you even mention 3d gaming.

Perfection
Jul 07, 2006, 01:11 AM
266: You need to use a pedal to spin the hard disk.

Heretic_Cata
Jul 07, 2006, 06:55 AM
262: you don't need to worry about viruses and spyware because they realize its not worth it.
267. You don't worry about because there's no more space for those.
268. The amount of gamma radiation that enriched uranium emits is = to the amount that your computer emits.
(when it's turned off of course)

Eran of Arcadia
Jul 07, 2006, 09:26 AM
265: Your computer comits suicide if you even mention 3d gaming.

268: Even 2D applications are beyond it; everything is linear.

MooManof_
Jul 07, 2006, 12:58 PM
269. Your computer can't even load this page of thread, as it only has 8 transistors on the processor (thus can only count as far as 255).
270. It can't get that far, because it lost count after the first post (it couldn't understand the concept of 500)

carmen510
Jul 07, 2006, 05:11 PM
271. Your computer is it's own Anti-Virus system as viruses and spyware are too 'high-tech' for it.

Perfection
Jul 08, 2006, 12:23 AM
272. Its approximation of pi is 4

truckingpete
Jul 08, 2006, 12:41 AM
273. North Korea used it to launch a test missle, so that's why it landed in the Sea of Japan.

274. The missle was the computer.

Kapn Skwishy
Jul 08, 2006, 09:20 AM
274 The manufacturer PAId YOU to take it off there hands.

Pentium
Jul 08, 2006, 06:36 PM
275. A word as long as Civilization takes all its memory.

Perfection
Jul 09, 2006, 12:39 AM
276 It's packaging reads: "Now with transisters!!!"

carmen510
Jul 09, 2006, 06:12 AM
:lol: Nice one about the missles!
277. The computer has been the reason the twin towers collapsed, it was too heavy and was on the top floor. :P

Dreadnought
Jul 09, 2006, 09:56 AM
278. The computer's calculator takes two minutes to add 3+3

Souron
Jul 09, 2006, 10:44 AM
278. The computer's calculator takes two minutes to add 3+3
279. And the result is 8.

Truronian
Jul 09, 2006, 12:47 PM
280. Even viruses avoid it.

ggganz
Jul 09, 2006, 02:22 PM
269. Your computer can't even load this page of thread, as it only has 8 transistors on the processor (thus can only count as far as 255).281.You're computer is stupid enough to let you post this because nobody that applies to that scenario would be able to know it.
270. It can't get that far, because it lost count after the first post (it couldn't understand the concept of 500)281. If it didn't see the 500, it also got stopped at the two 223's

Kozmos
Jul 09, 2006, 02:49 PM
282. Your computer was used in the filming of 'The Independence Day' as the alien mothership supercomputer.

Perfection
Jul 09, 2006, 02:52 PM
283. It wrote half of these "jokes"...

Genocidicbunny
Jul 09, 2006, 04:19 PM
284. It would take it 100 years to rewrite all of Perfections Spam posts

Pentium
Jul 09, 2006, 05:09 PM
284. It would take it 10 years to rewrite all the spam Perfection ever postedThat's very fast, you know... :)

Truronian
Jul 09, 2006, 05:24 PM
285. Your Caps lock has a large metal key.

Leatherneck
Jul 11, 2006, 10:02 PM
286.
You still have to type ...

c:\ edit c:\autoexec.bat

or

c:\ edit c:\config.sys

LLXerxes
Jul 15, 2006, 02:32 PM
287. All IE's 'cookies' are from Chips Ahoy.

ggganz
Jul 19, 2006, 03:31 PM
288. It is actually the voting machine that did this (http://stupidvideos.com/video/rejects/Florida_Voting_Machine/) in 2004.

Kapn Skwishy
Jul 22, 2006, 11:41 AM
288. It is actually the voting machine that did this (http://stupidvideos.com/video/rejects/Florida_Voting_Machine/) in 2004.


my sucky computer wont let me see that, what was it?


289. it its proccesor is to slow to run solitare.

ggganz
Jul 22, 2006, 12:43 PM
288. It is actually the voting machine that did this (http://stupidvideos.com/video/rejects/Florida_Voting_Machine/) in 2004.290. It won't let you see this page, so here it is in word form in the spoiler:
A guy is voting for President in Florida and he clicks on John Kerry. It asks if he's sure and he clicks yes. "Are you really sure?" it asks, and he says, "What the [beep]? Yes!" "Ok, last chance, is John Kerry your vote for President?" appears on screen. He says, "Yes, I"m sure," and clicks yes. Nothing happens. So he goes to click on John Kerry again and it shrinks and George Bush grows. Then they go back to normal size, but start swithching places when he mouses over Kerry. He thinks he has it but then it says, "The state of Florida thanks you for voting for George Bush"
291. Opening the CD drive takes up all the memory.
292. It also causes a power outage because it is so huge.
293. It is so huge that your grandmother tried to put one of your CD's in her record player.
294. It worked.

puglover
Jul 23, 2006, 12:01 PM
294. It worked.

BTW, Pong sounds really weird played on a record player.