Anger Management: Over 33 Percent of Americans Verbally or Physically Abuse Their Computers

Hot Hardware ^ | 8/2/2013 | Hot Hardware

[Dallas59]

It doesn't matter if you're a saint or a frequent sinner, a sailor with a potty mouth or a monk who took a vow of silence. If you own a computer, then at some point you've belted out a line of obscenities that would make Andrew Dice Clay wince in astonishment. PCs have a way of bringing out the worst in us when things go wrong, and according to a recent nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Crucial in June 2013, some even tend to get physical.

Out of over 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older who were surveyed, more than a third -- 36 percent -- of Americans who experienced computer problems in the past six months admit to lashing out at their PC by using vulgar language, screaming, shouting, and even punching it or using an object to beat down the insolent machine.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

yeah huh it is easy to throw a laptop and you dont bruise your hand

I guess This guy didn't get that memo.

[petitfour]

You should hear what hubby says about Comcast high speed Internet! Let’s just say we have had some connectivity issues at times, and comcast is receiving the verbal unhappiness that used to be reserved for our computers. I don’t know what hubby does at work when there are network issues. Whew!

[lefty-lie-spy]

Todd Rundgren wrote a song called “I Hate my F***king ISP” in 1996 or so.

[Shimmer1]

I need to sing that song!!!! Windstream has a monopoly on my area, I can’t get ANYTHING else. So they are free to give poor service and they seem to take full advantage of that.