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do you have a pet name for your PC/laptop/car..?

  • 12-09-2012 2:25am
    #1
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭


    I call my laptop: The Wife........

    older than it looks, does not respond a lot of the time, cant take it anywhere, overheats, uses a lot of "juice", battery doesnt last long, pisses me off several times a day, I need a newer model


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  • #2
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I call my sink Lassie.


  • #3
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    My banjo's called Barbara.


  • #4
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    nice_very wrote: »
    I call my laptop: The Wife........

    older than it looks, does not respond a lot of the time, cant take it anywhere, overheats, uses a lot of "juice", battery doesnt last long, pisses me off several times a day, I need a newer model

    You dont have a wife..do you?


  • #5
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    Chucken wrote: »
    You dont have a wife..do you?


    how'd ya guess lol:D


  • #6
    Whippersnapper
    Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Whippersnapper


    People naming inanimate objects;weirdest thing ever.


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  • #7
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    nice_very wrote: »
    how'd ya guess lol:D

    May I suggest you be nicer to your laptop then :);)


  • #8
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Whippersnapper wrote: »
    People naming inanimate objects;weirdest thing ever.

    *Username* Whippersnapper used to be a very nice sliced pan...

    Do they make that anymore?


  • #9
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Whippersnapper wrote: »
    People naming inanimate objects;weirdest thing ever.
    Well what the hell,are you,supposed to call them.

    'pass me the thing from the thing under the thing beside the thing'


  • #10
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    Chucken wrote: »
    May I suggest you be nicer to your laptop then :);)


    I am much nicer to the ladies: I dont shout at, hit, slap or threaten to throw them against the wall for not perfoming... It does its best I suppose:o


  • #11
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Where To wrote: »
    Well what the hell,are you,supposed to call them.

    'pass me the thing from the thing under the thing beside the thing'


    :o I say things like that.


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  • #12
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Cars are not an inanimate object. They can move :pac: and kill you if they want.


  • #13
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Jhcx wrote: »
    Cars are not an inanimate object. They can move :pac: and kill you if they want.

    Not on their own. ;)


  • #14
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Chucken wrote: »
    Jhcx wrote: »
    Cars are not an inanimate object. They can move :pac: and kill you if they want.

    Not on their own. ;)
    Yet. Self driving cars are my worst nightmare, for obvious reasons :(


  • #15
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    My computer is known lovingly as 'the heap of sh*te in the corner'


  • #16
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Where To wrote: »
    Yet. Self driving cars are my worst nightmare, for obvious reasons :(

    Obvious????


  • #17
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Chucken wrote: »
    Where To wrote: »
    Yet. Self driving cars are my worst nightmare, for obvious reasons :(

    Obvious????
    There's a subtle clue in my avatar and profile picture.


  • #18
    Jhcx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    Chucken wrote: »
    Obvious????

    Robotic cars trying to kill us humans ya know... just waiting to happen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEbhSCHJeY


  • #19
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Where To wrote: »
    There's a subtle clue in my avatar and profile picture.

    You are a car? :cool:















    :D


  • #20
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Jhcx wrote: »
    Robotic cars trying to kill us humans ya know... just waiting to happen.


    I'll be ok then, I'm Dancer.;)


  • #21
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I call my laptop Acer Aspire 5742Z. I think it's a nice name that suits the little guy.


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  • #22
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    While driving around australia i had a small camper van that i called Bettsy.

    We did 16000km together.

    Then i crashed her, 5km from our final destination.

    Heartbroken.

    I actually said "bettsy, noooo"


  • #23
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    I am more formal I call my computer, computer and my car, car.

    "What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them" (Alice in wonderland)


  • #24
    Theta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    Where To wrote: »
    Yet. Self driving cars are my worst nightmare, for obvious reasons :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60


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