The curse of the touchscreen

hairyprincess

So I was having, shall we say, 'a difference of opinion' with a family member on the phone today and it struck my how infuriating it is not to be able to slam down the phone in frustration. All one can do is furiously stab at the screen, in the hope of releasing some angst. However this, slight omission of anger can be cruelly taken away if the opposing caller manages to hang up first!! Oh the pain!

Anybody got any other disappointments in the world of modern technology?

JonathanAnon

Could you not just hop the phone off the ground... That'd really show them..

brummytom

Throw the phone at a wall.

Duff

hairyprincess wrote: »

So I was having, shall we say, 'a difference of opinion' with a family member on the phone today and it struck my how infuriating it is not to be able to slam down the phone in frustration. All one can do is furiously stab at the screen, in the hope of releasing some angst. However this, slight omission of anger can be cruelly taken away if the opposing caller manages to hang up first!! Oh the pain!

Anybody got any other disappointments in the world of modern technology?

The 10 year old shítehawks that are allowed play Call of Duty online.

skinny90

Duff wrote: »

The 10 year old shítehawks that are allowed play Call of Duty online.

especially the ones that are better than you!:mad:

Freddy Smelly

hairyprincess wrote: »

So I was having, shall we say, 'a difference of opinion' with a family member on the phone today and it struck my how infuriating it is not to be able to slam down the phone in frustration. All one can do is furiously stab at the screen, in the hope of releasing some angst. However this, slight omission of anger can be cruelly taken away if the opposing caller manages to hang up first!! Oh the pain!

Anybody got any other disappointments in the world of modern technology?

you should revert back to the tried n tested method of door slamming when pissed off

you know you are doing it right when the door spilts at the edges

Tombi!

Why don't you say "hand on, me phone is dying". Then call them back on a landline and slam the phone the feckers then?

OneArt

Common people being able to access a world wide radiated library of information.

There's going to be a proletariat revolt any day now...

Standard Toaster

The UPC remote.
I'm pretty sure mine has a personality disorder.

keith16

OneArt wrote: »

Common people being able to access a world wide radiated library of information.

There's going to be a proletariat revolt any day now...

Being able to access and actually accessing are two very different things!

PizzamanIRL

Another curse of the touch screen is when you're scrolling through facebook and you accidentally like something.

Codpeas

Standard Toaster wrote: »

The UPC remote.
I'm pretty sure mine has a personality disorder.

My UPC box has the same problem... And the remote has this fascination with the number 4 for some reason.

Havermeyer

Standard Toaster wrote: »

The UPC remote.
I'm pretty sure mine has a personality disorder.

Nope. If it is this remote, then there's no personality disorder. It is just singla handedly the worst piece of technology ever created.

It really should be called a remote con-troll.

Fecking useless.

longhalloween

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Another curse of the touch screen is when you're creeping on your ex's facebook and you accidentally friend her.

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