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It's one of those nights when I'm trying to hybrid & 'just make a quick card' ahead of a birthday tomorrow & *every time* I do this, I forget that it involves a fair amount of waiting for the printer to do its warm up, & thinking & whirring, & more thinking, & 'what are you actually doing in there? it's the same ink you've had all month, you don't have to align anything, just get on with it' :rollingpin- I find the longer it takes, the more insane I get & I go from talking to it, talking more assertively & then yelling at it, & then I realise I'm talking to an appliance basically, expecting it will affect it's performance, so...

today's super serious** topic is do you find yourself talking to inanimate objects? what appliance /technology /other do you talk to / yell at regularly or the most ?

**not really
 
Mostly the computer and laptop. You know how when you click a key and nothing happens, you feel compelled to click it again and maybe again just to be sure that you really clicked it. Then everyone of those clicks must be executed before you get to where you want to be. Now it is taking forever and I am yelling that "I don't want you to open three copies of the program. Just quit!" :crazy3
 
If I didn't talk to inanimate objects, I wouldn't talk at all. lol
Mostly my modem because my connection goes out a lot, but really it's not my modem's fault. It's my jerky service provider! That's probably who I "yell" at most.
 
Me and printers --- arGGGGHHHHHH! The only thing more frustrating is copiers. :badputer:hairpol

We have 2 printers and one refuses to talk to the router. Fortunately, it has a built in copier, so we just use it to make copies. The other keeps forgetting how to wire-lessly connect to the router which is sitting on the shelf below it. Sigh.

And don't even get me started on the ink. Although, every time I am at Staples and they announce over the speaker "Phone call waiting for the ink department", I think they are saying "meat department". So confusing how there is a meat department at the office supply store - and I get a chuckle.
 
I'd say I talk to inanimate objects more than people, but I'm not sure that's entirely correct - and if it is, it's too depressing a thought to deal with before I've had my coffee.

But yes! I talk to everything. Sometimes nicely, sometimes an out of patience "Are you done yet? Feel better?" after some piece of equipment acts up. Not usually the printer though, I gave up using it as anything other than a scanner. (For as little as I use it, it's cheaper to hit up Staples and let them do the printing for me.) Although now that I think about it, I probably do fuss at it, even if I'm just scanning I still have to sit through the noisy warm up.
 
I talk to inanimate objects and the dogs all the time. I talk as if they understand me, and my husband laughs heartily at me because of it.
 
I talk to my laptop all the time. I talk to my dog all the time, too. She's always laying under my desk or right beside my chair, so she's my favorite "talking" companion.
 
BevG said:
Me and printers --- arGGGGHHHHHH! The only thing more frustrating is copiers. :badputer:hairpol

We have 2 printers and one refuses to talk to the router. Fortunately, it has a built in copier, so we just use it to make copies. The other keeps forgetting how to wire-lessly connect to the router which is sitting on the shelf below it. Sigh.

And don't even get me started on the ink. Although, every time I am at Staples and they announce over the speaker "Phone call waiting for the ink department", I think they are saying "meat department". So confusing how there is a meat department at the office supply store - and I get a chuckle.
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:compcoffee Meat department !And yep ours 'forgets' it is Wi-Fi enabled often too, all our laptops & DH's desktop can supposedly print wirelessly but while DH & I try to reason with it, DD just goes & plugs hers directly in to the printer to save time, sometimes the old ways are the best!
 
Oh and I thought of another one - I talk to the "nobodies" on the phone. I usually don't answer the phone if we don't know the number, but hubby has been putting the number out there in search of a job. So now I have to answer it, but so many times it is a computer dial and there is not even a recording talking to me. It rings, I answer, and it hangs up, but before it does I talk to them.
 
BevG said:
Oh and I thought of another one - I talk to the "nobodies" on the phone. I usually don't answer the phone if we don't know the number, but hubby has been putting the number out there in search of a job. So now I have to answer it, but so many times it is a computer dial and there is not even a recording talking to me. It rings, I answer, and it hangs up, but before it does I talk to them.
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That reminds me of 'the old days ' of answering the phone to find a fax machine dialing -ugh that was painful!
 
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A lot!!!

I tell my 2004 minivan how great it's doing, patting it on the dashboard, wanting to encourage it to keep on going because we can't afford a new vehicle! :wub

Sometimes I speak encouragingly to my 2011 iMac too, but often I get impatient with it as well. I ask it, "What's your problem?!!!" :mad: when it's sluggish. However, despite having windows to the right of me as I sit at my desk, I've never been mad enough at it to contemplate throwing it out into my backyard and this emoticon has always been rather disturbing to me. :throwpc :eek: :P

I can't think of a specific story to tell right now, but I know I have talked to plants and books and many other various inanimate objects. I have no shame about it either! :D I have felt no urge to acquire one of those devices like Alexa but I think I might not have trouble adjusting to a machine that can respond.
 
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I pretty much talk to everything in my house. Sometimes I'm sweet and encouraging, sometimes I'm grumbling "POS". I would say that most often I talk to the furniture because it is always smacking me in the leg, stomping my toes, or smashing my fingers :giggle. I've also been known to plead with the electronics to work correctly, and often thank things when they work correctly.
 
IntenseMagic said:
I pretty much talk to everything in my house. Sometimes I'm sweet and encouraging, sometimes I'm grumbling "POS". I would say that most often I talk to the furniture because it is always smacking me in the leg, stomping my toes, or smashing my fingers :giggle. I've also been known to plead with the electronics to work correctly, and often thank things when they work correctly.
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LOL! Sounds like me with my cats!!!!
 
michelepixels said:
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A lot!!!

I tell my 2004 minivan how great it's doing, patting it on the dashboard, wanting to encourage it to keep on going because we can't afford a new vehicle! :wub

However, despite having windows to the right of me as I sit at my desk, I've never been mad enough at it to contemplate . :throwpc :eek: :P

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Oh yep I talk to my car to, 'you can do it's and such, heading up a big hill & I've always wondered if anyone has ever followed thru from that emoji too - it's not a mess I'd want to deal with
 
I don't really talk out loud all the time, but I do have a running commentary going in my head for computer software that gets buggy, printer that won't recognize my computer half the time, Google search engine (no, I wasn't searching for THAT, I was searching for THIS) . . . of course, if it's really frustrating, I will spew out some not-so-nice things. LOL
 
I have a solid state drive on my pc so it really boots up quickly. no complaints on that front. I have long running conversations with the cats all the time and they answer me.
The toaster seems to need the most encouragement to get going.
 
I rarely talk to inanimate objects - but I do talk to Poppy Dog all the time. I tell her what I'm doing etc. Sounds mad now I'm writing it down :blush:giggle
 
I don't talk out loud at all unless I'm talking to an actual person. Sometimes I don't even talk out loud when there is an actual person to talk to! :giggle

My DD talks all the time to herself, though, especially when she's concentrating like gaming (no headset so not to anyone) or doing her homework. It cracks me up.
 
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