Topic: One of life's simple pleasures (Read 3293 times)

xolik · « **on:** August 31, 2004, 05:24:39 PM »

One of the best things in life it taking a failed hard drive out back and playing smashy-smashy with it against the pavement. There is just something so satisfying about seeing all those shiny platters breaking into a thousand little pieces. "You have failed me for the last time! ARRRGH!" **smash** What do you get to break apart at your jobs? I used to smash monitors like crazy back at The Pit. *sigh* Those were fun times....

The_FOO · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:26:48 PM »

I haven't smashed anything in a while. I do have have some old drives kicking around that I could take some stress relief out on.

hackess · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:30:32 PM »

The cases at work are tempermental. Sometimes the button (to pop the front cover off) doesn't work.

So I take a screwdriver to it.

The last thing I really smashed was a failed optical drive. That was satisfying.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:37:40 PM »

I don't get to smash anything at work

Dark Shade · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2004, 06:22:43 PM »

I tore apart a television once just to see what was inside...

Funny thing, I could never put it back together!

The_FOO · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2004, 07:55:16 PM »

Quote from: Dark Shade

I tore apart a television once just to see what was inside...

Funny thing, I could never put it back together!

As Douglas Adams says " If you try to take a cat apart ot see how it works the first thing you end up with is a non working cat."

Dark Shade · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2004, 08:10:47 PM »

Quote from: The_FOO

Quote from: Dark Shade
I tore apart a television once just to see what was inside...

Funny thing, I could never put it back together!

As Douglas Adams says " If you try to take a cat apart ot see how it works the first thing you end up with is a non working cat."

How right he was. Makes perfect sense in that case.

I also wound up buying a new TV for my friend. As I recall, he wasn't too impressed, but he enjoyed the brand-spanking new digital he recieved as payment.

Law · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2004, 08:35:52 PM »

I make an effort to smash precedents at work. Otherwise, smashing is frowned upon...

Anonymous · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2004, 09:35:51 PM »

I get to shatter other people's confidence!

(Their confidence in me that is

)

ho0ber · « **Reply #9 on:** September 01, 2004, 12:24:47 AM »

Any of you heard of that Cisco smashing deal? They gave my friend's school like, thousands of dollars off if they replaced their entire network with Cisco and then proceeded to smash all of their old network hardware... AND send pictures to Cisco of the smashing and of the final heap.

Needless to say, the difference in switches between 152 to 145 was not easily noticable in the post smash pictures, so I was one of the lucky people to get a nice 3com superstack II 3300. If only it were gigabit.

Smashing stuff rules...

No, i had nothing to do with the above picture, but it must have been fun.

Min · « **Reply #10 on:** September 01, 2004, 08:21:33 AM »

If something pisses me off at work, I print that fucker out and crumble that paper UP!! Right into the recycle bin, yo!

I do not fuck around with my anger, I just let it out...as you can probably tell.

Pop, pop, make the motherfucker drop...straight into the recycle bin.

If I get really mad, I'll take it back out of the recycle bin, straighten it out...and crumble it again!! Then throw it in the TRASH CAN!!! You can't stop me when I'm in that mode! I'm just nuts.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #11 on:** September 01, 2004, 08:26:16 AM »

I had a Lexmark Z23 printer I was going to smash, but some dumbass actually bought the worthless thing when my wife had our garage sale back in June.

Like paid money for it.

Min · « **Reply #12 on:** September 01, 2004, 08:26:59 AM »

Did you buy it back so that you could smash it?

Demosthenes · « **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2004, 08:39:42 AM »

No... I wasn't home at the time.

I'm not sure if I would have actually taken money for it if I had been there. It didn't work at all.

The_FOO · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2004, 10:24:24 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

No... I wasn't home at the time.

I'm not sure if I would have actually taken money for it if I had been there. It didn't work at all.

Whoopsy.

edit* Dammit, it doesn't work anymore. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/what-if-shoot-tv.htm

ho0ber · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2004, 06:10:47 PM »

Quote from: The_FOO

Whoopsy.

edit* Dammit, it doesn't work anymore. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/what-if-shoot-tv.htm

What, this?

The_FOO · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2004, 06:16:06 PM »

Nope, not that.

He took a monitor and shot it. It blew up rather nicely.

ho0ber · « **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2004, 12:53:54 AM »

oh well. Did I mention that my friends and I pulled apart 10 macintosh all in ones with a sledgehammer, 2 chains, a truck and a well rooted stump?

The_FOO · « **Reply #18 on:** September 04, 2004, 07:17:10 AM »

Quote from: ho0ber

oh well. Did I mention that my friends and I pulled apart 10 macintosh all in ones with a sledgehammer, 2 chains, a truck and a well rooted stump?

You monster!

What were they? Classics? SE/30's? If they were older than that they're actually worth some money on Ebay. Bet you feel stupid now.

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