Talking in the chat about our computers names we eventually faced this highly interesting question: WHAT SEX IS YOUR COMP?

My comp is male btw, and has no name in particular, though sometimes he gains prestigious titles like "Scheissding", "Dreckskiste" ... *cough* to name a few ... but the more I reflect about it: Me and my comp are one! :borg:

Do you name your comp, does he have a sex or is he just a comp-thingie - if so this is the thread to spam about! :shake: :D

[ August 14, 2002, 12:02: Message edited by: Ragusa ]

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Poll Results: WHAT SEX IS YOUR COMP? (55 votes.)

WHAT SEX IS YOUR COMP? (Choose 1)
* Male - 29% (16)
* Female - 27% (15)
* it's a thing you freaks! - 44% (24)

Female!! My computer needs to be treated gently, subtely guided along the right path... Though occasionally disipline must be used!! Just like a real woman...

Mine is definitely female.

Her name is Jenova Falcon, after jenova from FInal Fantasy 7 and Millennium Falcon.

Why? Because she is *****y and has a habit of breaking at the critical moment...

Her drives are named Zack, Cloud and Sephiroth, after the three Soldiers in FF7...

I actually talk to her quite often... she's like a beloved stuffed toy to me these days...

*Yes, I hug my computer. And? :) )

Ara
(A badge from RopeCon: "I'm a random encounter- Hug me!")

It's a thing, or possibly a very dad female after I've ripped various parts out of her, and then put others in, or just leaving them out to see waht would happen. It still works though, and doesn't smell bad at all, which leads me to believe that it never lived. :D

Subject: Box
Race: Borg
Gender: Male

Seriously, I've ripped out and replaced so many components in it that it hardly resembles its original state. Like the Borg. :square:

[ August 14, 2002, 10:15: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

Hmm, maybe I should name my computer. I mean, I named by two bats on MSN, I named the School Tiger Jeff and I didn't name what I use every day? Sheesh...

Hmmmm...

Male - the only way to get through to it is with violence. And lots of it. :mad:

Its called "Stupidpieceof*&%$"

You know how I know my computer is female? Because I'm a feminist. Other than that, the only evidence that it's female is, that I've written in colourful gel pen, a piece of paper that says "Shadow Chick" taped just above the monitor screen.

Hmmm, that was actually a complicated question... because I have several computers in a network at home. Every time I got a new one (or a new used one), I still kept the old ones, and I used to name them after the TV shows I liked at various stages of my past, like the pc FBI with harddisks Mulder and Scully, or the pc JAG, with harddisks Harm and Mac. :heh: :rolleyes:

My newest one is of course named Fellowship, with harddisks Aragorn and Legolas, my server is named Gandalf, and the whole network is named Middle Earth. :book:
My printer is Sauron, because it always gives me trouble. :evil:

As I'm in the progress of changing a lot in ny network's setup, I want the names to be more homogeneous, so I plan to rename FBI and JAG to Imladris and Lothlorien, and the harddiscs respectively to Elrond and Glorfindel, and Celeborn and Haldir. (No Arwen or Galadriel here, I couldn't stand the actresses that potrayed them in the movie, and I don't want to be reminded of them... ) Then there's another new (or quite old actually) pc which is about to be included, it will be named Moria, with harddisks Gimli and Gloin. It came with an old printer which will be named Balrog. I guess the next used computer I get my hands on, will have to be named Gondor, with Boromir and Faramir harddisks... or perhaps Shire... or Rohan... :D

I never thought of genders for my computers, but in my language, the word for PC is masculine, so I guess they are males... at least my harddisks are. ;) :grin:

Gender Nutral

Male computers had no Help Menue

Female computers crash once a month (weekly if you don't buy them flowers)

:good:

My laptop is male and is called Odessy or my LSM (Life Support Machine.) He has mysteriously lost a lot of memory recently and has been damaged a bit though he's quite cool, silver, though his sound is bad and his video cards don't support a few games that use 3D (B&W and NWN, eg)

But Esion is a female - computers aren't 'things' they are your friends.

Esion is the one I'm on now, she likes me, but mis-behaves when my mother uses her and dislikes some people as she doesn't really trust them, I'm just about the only person who knows her well.

The school one I use for exams is Sharky the male laptop, he is black and has certain surprises - chewing up my exams for example, suddenly turning the sound on loadly when I shut down, disturbing the rest of my class next door

People will now call me insane and rightly too. I like all computers and because I've been on them since I was a wee child I can even hear what is wrong with them! :roll: !

My old comp...
Name: Peice Of Sh!@, Comtrash
Race: Used to be a Compaq...untill I shot it numerous times
Gender: Well, since it has a bunch of slots, and openings...I'm going to say female

My new comp...
Name: Aaron's *****
Race: Dell
Gender: Same as above :rolling:

Well my printer is definitly male, I just spent the best part of an hour yelling at it.

BAD PRINTER, BAAAAD

and guess what, it didn't listen, definilty male

That's exactly why I called my printer Sauron. He is pure evil... :evil:

Mines gotta be a woman the way its always *****ing at me and demanding ansewrs to questions

Logo is a male program:

What do you want me to [101] or [1.1]?
typed: 101
What do you want me to do with 101?
typed: Shove it where the sun don't shine
I don't know how to shove it where the sun don't shine

Frosty got this at school :grin:

My old computer (Poldren) was an OLD Dell computer who passed away three years ago after moving house :wail: He was my best friend :cry:

My Maybelle is a girl. Can't you tell? :p

I named my guitar and my rifles after boys but my computers are always girls. Go figure.

Well, I constantly scream "You f*ckin b*tch!" at my computer so I'm guessing it's either female or a cross - dresser...

It just has to many places to put things, so many slots, it just has to be female :D

And also, whenever I try to put anything new and exciting in it refuses to make a sound! It turns off the hard discs, the floppy drive just plain refuses to work and I desperately want the speakers to work, but they just wont!

It won't make my dinner, keyboard falls off and hits me in the groin everytime I stick my tongue out at it, the mouse constantly squeaks and needs cleaning. Even when I tried to make it look all snazzy and good by buying a new tower for no reason whatsoever it made the keyboard fall on my back whilst I was connecting up all the wires. It's definitely female :(

I name all my computers after Greek or Roman Gods or Goddness. My current one is Aeolus. You can take it from there. ;)

I think mine's male. And it's name is "Joker".

But it doesn't really matter all that much.

Anyone remember the movie "Full Metal Jacket"? Where Joker mouths off for the very first time, and the Drill Instructor *TOTALLY* goes off on him?

I slapped the Joker out of my computer just like that...

Talk about sexual stereotyping... :D

That said, my computer is male. He will only do something when told to, only do the one thing he's asked to do, and will only do it in the specific way he is told to. Once he's done, he just plunks back down, and grumbles mightily if asked to do anything else.

It's a THING, you freaks!! :grin:

A *****y thing, but...neutral. Anything made out of hardware and plastic should be. Which means I'm a racist against robots, I suppose.... :p

Aw yeah baby! I don't know what sex my computer is... but I do be knowin' dey all be lookin da' same wit da' lights out! Know what I'm sayin?

Awwwww yeah!

If you close your eyes, you can't tell the difference. Uh..so I hear...

Edit: As long as the top of the moniter is hawt, and the speakers are grabbable, then it's all good ;)

[ August 15, 2002, 19:23: Message edited by: Damona Silvercloud ]

Hmmm... I dunno... Which gender is a piece of sh*t? That's what I always call it... "You old piece of sh*t!!!" Hmmm, well I'm guessing male... (I'm male myself, though)

I would check what gender my computer is, but I respect its privacy.

Shralp, just lift up its power cord when its sleeping. You know you've always wanted to know.

Edit: I R teh grammar suq

[ August 15, 2002, 19:28: Message edited by: Damona Silvercloud ]

My computer is a he. :(
I usually call him Jävladatorjävel or Snällalillagulledatorn. I wont translate that.
In both cases I am ready to throw it out through the window. (Tell me when I am not ready to do this and we shall celebrate!)
He has a thing for candy though. If you put some sweeties infront of him he works faster. But IO have stopped with that for a while ago. I have actually promised myself that I will never be so foolish again to beg my comp to work. He is a ****in mess anyway so if I want him to work properly I use to swear at him and say that I will always hate him and that I will never forgive him and that he wont get a new graphiccard in YEARS!
(The last part is npot so good though since it affects me in the negative way too...)
EDIT: HAHA! How fun! (not..ghrmblk.) if I write ****ing here it is translated to alot oif stars instead of the word. lol, DAMN!

[ August 15, 2002, 21:56: Message edited by: Eilonwy ]

Usually my comp gets treated like a human being - yelling @ it - Oh, You are not going to crash ... and so on, I also hit it when needed especially it's head ;) But name - not...

Mine has to be a female. So delicate yet so powerful; beautiful yet so fearsome; charming when happy, lethal when angry.

When she says no, its no. :(

So complicated to our short male intellect our only responsability is to look out for her to make her happy so we can be happy (has to be a woman of sorts -too bad she doesn't kiss :o )

Mine is neither gender,st a strange mix of aspects from the two I guess.

It doesn't have a name, but if it did it would be something short and funny like bongo, or ping.

bongo, ping...or Shralp?? :bigeyes:

My three compies are male (but very young). They have no name.
They seem to be happy when i care for them. If they seem to have a bad day it's good to tell them, what i'm gonna do to them, if they refuse to work. Throw them out of the window. Get an axe. But it was never necessary.
Eilonwys words: damned data ? and nice little cute PC :p
Why don't translate?
And Scheißkiste is faecalmatterbox, Drecksding dirtthing.
I wouldn't give them such names they could be annoyed. :D

[ August 16, 2002, 16:56: Message edited by: Oblate ]

Mine is male. That's obvious. It never works when it should and when I've got something else to do it pesters me. And it has to be booted a lot :p

my computer is a male named Rasmus - i bought it used and the last owner named it after himself - couldn´t find it in my heart to change his sweetie - my second harddrive is named Viktor - an another ugly swedish male name - and it is standing on Krister - a computer table from IKEA

Definitely male. :grin: We wouldn't agree on what kind of stuff I watch if it wasn't male. :evil: Hehehe..

my comp is a hermafidite, its a twisted, and edited thing, similar to the moderators borg computer, I wish it was pink, I named it frustration