# Friggin' Work Computer, Oh how I hate thee...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-work-computer-oh-how-i-hate-thee/56807>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 5, 2001, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-work-computer-oh-how-i-hate-thee/56807 "2001-03-05T09:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-work-computer-oh-how-i-hate-thee/56807/1 "2001-03-05T09:02:14Z")

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I don’t have a computer at home right now, and the only way I can post here is from work. The problem with that is I can only get on the internet through an alpha numeric terminal. No pictures is fine, I mostly hang out here while I’m online, and I’m here for the conversation, so to speak. The problem is that I cannot put words into italics, or bold things, or make paragraphs, or see what the fuck I’m writing, because I can only write on one continuous line. If I try to see what I wrote prevously, I need to use the fuction keys to move side to side, 60 characters at a time. If I find an error in what I write, I have to delete my entire post and start from the begining. Like right now, I had to stop after the last sentence to answer the phone, and I don’t remember what I wrote. This is an international fucking company, why can’t they get me a goddamn decent computer to play on the internet with. So to my computer I say “FUCK YOU, I’M SICK OF LOOKING LIKE I HAVE NO CONCEPT OF HOW TO WRITE. I’M SICK OF YOU COMPUTER AND I HATE YOU”

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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-work-computer-oh-how-i-hate-thee/56807/2 "2001-03-05T09:58:39Z")

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Are you sure it’s a computer, or a calculator?

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**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-work-computer-oh-how-i-hate-thee/56807/3 "2001-03-05T10:00:50Z")

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If it were a calculator, at least it would be able to add.