# you unstable stupid piece of shit (in which i pit msn) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917 "2005-02-08T01:37:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/1 "2005-02-08T01:37:12Z")
fuck! since the new year, msn messenger has been crashing every few days, often staying down for up to a day at a time. and guess what? its down again. fuck! get a decent server or something micro$oft. and maybe try running it off somebody else’s software, cause yours ain’t cutting it. jeez. i mean, once in a while, shit happens. i can understand that. but fuck! this down for a day twice a week thing is getting sad. and did i mention, fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/2 "2005-02-08T01:39:09Z")
I haven’t had any trouble at all with MSN in months, but it’s been a huge hassle all day today. Very aggravating. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/3 "2005-02-08T01:44:51Z")
Interesting. Mine isn’t working either. Luckily I don’t use it hardly at all. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/4 "2005-02-08T01:54:34Z")
And I thought my internet was just fucked up again. Happy (sort of) to know it isn’t just me. MSN is a piece of shit anyways, but normally it at least connects. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/5 "2005-02-08T01:58:12Z")
[Lookee](http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=26992&category=main) ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/6 "2005-02-08T02:07:46Z")
Heh. Well, now we at least know it’s not a “tech” problem. Thanks for the linkage, **GuanoLad**. I do use MSN more than all the others, but it’s not really pissing me off. Yet. (It will be if it keeps on until tomorrow, though…) ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/7 "2005-02-08T02:12:30Z")
Dammit dammit dammit. I hate when MSN goes down. Now it means I have to study. You bastards! Did my mother put you up to this? ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/8 "2005-02-08T02:23:24Z")
It is somewhat incredible that Microsoft, the richest company on the planet, dedicated to taking over the entire computing universe, can’t get their own servers to work correctly. Have you ever tried to use a hotmail account? What an annoying, buggy site that is! ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/9 "2005-02-08T02:40:29Z")
It may be buggy, but I’ve had it for years and I don’t see any reason I need to switch. Unlike my last e-mail account, which I lost when the site went out of business. Unlike some people, I prefer to change my address as little as possible. MSN is back up–for now at least. On the upside, I won’t be home tomorrow, if something happens it won’t bother me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/10 "2005-02-08T02:41:02Z")
I have a very good friend in Germany that I love to chat with. We use ICQ for text, and MSN for _occasional_ video, because MSN is so freaking undependable. We can manage a connection videowise about once a month=\ Supposedly you are supposed to be able to video and voice chat at the same time, but we have NEVER managed to get the voice part working at all…and he is a computer geek for a living [he was a network/server geek for arlt just before this new job] ICQ does have its problems…but at least we can connect! Actually in retrospect, AIM didnt work, Yahoo didnt work, MSN barely works _occasionally_ and ICQ doest have voice/video chat=(] ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/11 "2005-02-08T02:52:45Z")
yeah it’s back up now, and this outage wasn’t as long as the last few have been, but i still think it’s a piece of shit. if only i could convince my contacts to switch to a more reliable messenger type program. but everybody stays with msn cause everybody else is staying with msn. gah! and fuck. fuck shit ass etc. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/12 "2005-02-08T21:48:36Z")
Down for me as I type. What really chaps me is that the messages that are sent, as to why you can’t be connected, are big lies, insinuating that the problem is with you or your computer. Grrrr. “Be sure you are connected to the Internet” or “You may be behind a firewall that blah blah blah” ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/13 "2005-02-08T22:21:04Z")
fucker. it was down for a while this morning/afternoon (not sure how long, i wasn’t around but noticed my status reset when i came in) and now again. gah! fuck! what the fuck? how the fuck? fuckity-fuck-fucker-fucking-fuck! (and now it won’t let me even try to sign in, because i’m already signed in? wha? no, buddy, i’m not. fuck!) ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/14 "2005-02-08T23:14:02Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Down for me as I type. What really chaps me is that the messages that are sent, as to why you can’t be connected, are big lies, insinuating that the problem is with you or your computer. Grrrr. “Be sure you are connected to the Internet” or “You may be behind a firewall that blah blah blah” I’ve been getting the same shit for two days. Luckily most of my family has Yahoo Messenger instaled as well. I like there animated stuff anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-unstable-stupid-piece-of-shit-in-which-i-pit-msn/288917/15 "2005-02-15T16:08:56Z")
I’m still unable to connect to MSN Messenger, and it’s been this way for days now. Am I the only one still having problems with this?