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Title: Have you ever thrown a keyboard?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 21 May 2014, 06:54:29: Ok let's be honest, at one time or another we have all wanted to throw a keyboard for whatever reason. BUT have you ever actually thrown a keyboard?

Maybe we could have a contest :o

Also watch this for inspiration
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Post by: maxtortheone on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:02:16: Only a remote control against a wall.
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Post by: blackbox on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:08:01: Nope I have not. But there have been many keyboards that I wanted to throw in the garbage.
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Post by: Razor Lotus on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:27:15: I tried blending one to find out if it would blend
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:30:01: I only throw dome boards
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Post by: qwack on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:32:53: I have ~~punched~~ hammered keyboards out of frustration (the last one was a thin alu Apple keyboard; it taught me to never do that again.), but never thrown.
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Post by: Kagusaki Wolf on Wed, 21 May 2014, 08:14:57: I never threw a keyboard but there was a time where my keyboard somehow "accidentally" jumped out of my hands and onto a wall so fast that the keys flew left and right >.> Luckily it was a cheap membrane gateway keyboard that did it lol
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Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:17:42: Quote from: qwack on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:32:53
I have punched keyboards out of frustration (the last one was a thin alu Apple keyboard; it taught me to never do that again.), but never thrown.

More like hammered.
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Post by: Wildcard on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:18:45: I snapped a keyboard in half once. It was at home in my office. This was a long time ago, it was a thin low profile Compaq keyboard.

Edit: I should also mention that it was not my main keyboard but the keyboard attached to a server storage array that had failed.
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Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:43:20: I know a guy who got so angry at the computer that he broke a keyboard in half over his knee. I think it was a Mitsumi rubber dome.
I have an Apple Aluminium keyboard that we can destroy in creative ways at the next keyboard party ...
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Post by: qwack on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:52:57: Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:17:42
More like hammered.

Yes, that's more like it :D
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Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:56:31: Quote from: qwack on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:52:57
Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:17:42
More like hammered.

Yes, that's more like it :D

I broke my entire laptop like that. I hammered on the keyboard until I killed the hard drive and smashed in the screen until there were little crumbs of it everywhere.
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Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:59:05: Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:56:31
Quote from: qwack on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:52:57
Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:17:42
More like hammered.

Yes, that's more like it :D

I broke my entire laptop like that. I hammered on the keyboard until I killed the hard drive and smashed in the screen until there were little crumbs of it everywhere.

(http://i.imgur.com/nJVy1fN.jpg)
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Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:00:25: I wouldn't have bled as much if I used a bat...
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Post by: C5Allroad on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:04:46: You gave me an idea to make a rage video now.....
Grab an old alienware keyboard and ***** about how its not mechanical and rage, and smash it against **** lol
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Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:09:52: Though one time, a long time ago, I was playing N64 and I got upset. I calmly sat my controller on the ground, pulled out a bat, and bashed it.

Those things were tough though. It still worked, except for the analog stick in the middle. But I took it apart and messed with it and it worked again... just all broken plastic.
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Post by: katushkin on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:11:56: Quote from: jdcarpe on Wed, 21 May 2014, 09:59:05
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/nJVy1fN.jpg)

Fukken A
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Post by: suby4me on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:33:50: never thrown, but i did smash both of my fists down like a hulk smash on a keyboard. forgot why. strong keyboard. the surface it was on not much.
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Post by: tricheboars on Wed, 21 May 2014, 10:42:35: one time in college i was working on my wife's old mac (we were not married at this point). it had that really atrocious keyboard apple made, you know the one i am talking about. all white and rubber dome with terrible action. anywho i was typing a history or religion paper with it and i got so mad at it that i smashed it. i mean i smashed the **** out of it. stomped on it and everything.

i felt bad afterwards cause it wasnt mine. but i bought her a new keyboard and honestly i dont think she ever noticed even though it was black and the original mac keyboard was white. lol.

that was the worst keyboard ever made.
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Post by: Awful on Wed, 21 May 2014, 11:45:36: No, but I ripped the keyboard tray off of my desk and stuck it into a sheet-rock wall 1/2 way deep.. does that count?
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Post by: badboybry9000 on Wed, 21 May 2014, 12:56:10: I've slammed my fist down onto keyboards before, but never thrown one. Maybe I'll try that next time I'm angry.
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Post by: IvanIvanovich on Wed, 21 May 2014, 13:09:41: (https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zx1axxLU1qbze77o1_500.jpg)
(http://bashny.net/uploads/images/00/00/35/2013/04/28/535ee85a84.jpg)
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Post by: luisbg on Wed, 21 May 2014, 17:35:09: At some parties at my University there were phone throwing competitions. People would collect old phones. Funny to see those brick Nokia's fly.

(http://mobilesyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mobilephonethrowingworldchampionship.jpeg)
Apparently it is a competitive sport now.
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Post by: Candyflip on Wed, 21 May 2014, 17:42:43: I have thrown a rubberdome one out the window when I was younger. The keyboard landed on someones car, the dude pissed knocked and screamed at every single door in the building. That was my first and last time..
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Post by: johndavis33 on Wed, 21 May 2014, 17:49:45: Never thrown any, but whenever I find a rubber dome I like to either snap in half on my knee or swing it at a tree like a baseball bat.

It's fun.
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Post by: rowdy on Wed, 21 May 2014, 19:41:34: Not thrown, but pounded my fist on a Dell rubber dome keyboard a few times, enough to snap the legs off and cause a few keycaps to go flying.
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Post by: Belfong on Wed, 21 May 2014, 19:47:58: I don't rage throw or bang on stuff but there was this one time when I was working late in the night in the office trying to get that computer program job to run and it just failed and failed. I was so upset I slammed both of my hands on the Model M and hurt my hands instead! I wimp like a babe. Those Model M ****ers are tough!!
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Post by: Rafen on Wed, 21 May 2014, 20:20:14: Nope never thrown a keyboards, I have punched my mouse before. That was way back when I was young, dumb and took computer gaming way to serious. Since then I have never punched my mouse, mainly because it hurt my freaking hand. Never once have I come close to throwing a board though.
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Post by: xxghostxx on Thu, 22 May 2014, 14:52:39: slammed my last mouse. that's how my IHOME mouse i had died, and i got a real mouse (aka steel series) now and try not to do that as much it'll get expensive fast...
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Post by: gir489 on Thu, 22 May 2014, 14:56:24: I had a pile of old Model Fs and Model Ms, we used to toss them off a 10 story roof. It was amazing to watch all the springs and caps fly everywhere.

Good times.
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Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Thu, 22 May 2014, 18:17:40: I tore up the motherboard of a Tulip 286 PC and cut myself with all the stray traces that came off. (I forget what it did to deserve that but at one point it erased the whole of C:\DOS by itself, and I had to write my own DOS installer as DOS 6.2 wouldn't install onto a machine that was still DOS bootable.)

The keyboard was one of the few things I saved from that stupid computer — turned out to be blue Alps!

I did pound my fist on my desk so hard that it damaged the PSU fan bearings, and I had periodic horrible grinding out of the PSU for a long time afterwards, until we ended up with a discarded PC of the same model (OptiPlex 330 DT — custom PSU) and I swapped the PSUs over. It's been fine ever since then!

I came close to having a busted Majestouch after I dropped a desktop switch on mine, but fortunately it only clipped F8 and pinged off the keycap, and put a big dent in the desk instead.
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Post by: rowdy on Thu, 22 May 2014, 21:26:46: Quote from: gir489 on Thu, 22 May 2014, 14:56:24
I had a pile of old Model Fs and Model Ms, we used to toss them off a 10 story roof. It was amazing to watch all the springs and caps fly everywhere.

Good times.

Heretic.
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Post by: Novus on Thu, 22 May 2014, 21:29:35: Quote from: gir489 on Thu, 22 May 2014, 14:56:24
I had a pile of old Model Fs and Model Ms, we used to toss them off a 10 story roof. It was amazing to watch all the springs and caps fly everywhere.

Good times.

WHAT THE THOCK
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Post by: VilaBobz on Sat, 24 May 2014, 16:51:10: That guy knew that was going to happen right away
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Post by: paicrai on Sat, 24 May 2014, 16:53:16: I've punched my QFR and tossed the XBox controller all over the place
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Post by: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 18:45:43: Never seen the need to rage on a keyboard/mouse. ;)
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Post by: rowdy on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:15:11: Quote from: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 18:45:43
Never seen the need to rage on a keyboard/mouse. ;)

What about a steering wheel?

The number of times I've smashed my Microsoft SideWinder wheel and it just keeps going. Very well made :)
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Post by: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:20:21: Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:15:11
Quote from: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 18:45:43
Never seen the need to rage on a keyboard/mouse. ;)

What about a steering wheel?

The number of times I've smashed my Microsoft SideWinder wheel and it just keeps going. Very well made :)

I don't play racing games / have a racing set up :P
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Post by: CK Briefs on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:37:45: Most I've done was rip off or break a crappy abs key on a dell rubber some :P
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Post by: jonathanyu on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:52:03: Yes, I have thrown a rubber dome keyboard once. because I spill a whole cup of orange juice on it in accident, and it's not the end, I spill a cup of soy milk on it a minute later.
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Post by: rowdy on Sat, 24 May 2014, 21:01:43: Quote from: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:20:21
Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 24 May 2014, 20:15:11
Quote from: Zeal on Sat, 24 May 2014, 18:45:43
Never seen the need to rage on a keyboard/mouse. ;)

What about a steering wheel?

The number of times I've smashed my Microsoft SideWinder wheel and it just keeps going. Very well made :)

I don't play racing games / have a racing set up :P

You are missing out on a whole new area of computer game frustration inducing peripheral pounding annoyances :p
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Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 24 May 2014, 21:11:31: I have never thrown a keyboard. I have felt like going office space on my scanner/printer at work, but never have I thrown a keyboard.
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Post by: Novus on Fri, 29 August 2014, 13:57:23: I threw a keyboard on the bed.
It found out I was having an affair.
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Post by: Lurch on Fri, 29 August 2014, 13:59:06: I threw a mouse once but never a keyboard.
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Post by: wes1099 on Fri, 29 August 2014, 17:03:13: Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 21 May 2014, 07:30:01
I only throw dome boards
Same here.
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Post by: Grim Fandango on Fri, 29 August 2014, 17:07:13: Never in my life even had the urge to do so.
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Post by: 0100010 on Fri, 29 August 2014, 17:43:52: (http://s28.postimg.org/5tqm28r3x/Untitled.png)
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Post by: Input Nirvana on Fri, 29 August 2014, 18:15:39: Ummmm...In a fit of rage I leaned over and slammed my forearm/fist from over my head onto a generic keyboard. I estimate I hit about 85-90% total strength. Much harder I woulda broke part of me.

What pissed me off later...the keyboard had like only 2 keys that didn't work well after that. That's all that happened. It's flat so it didn't "compress" much. But my arm sure hurt.
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Post by: niubio on Fri, 29 August 2014, 18:18:48: I've smashed a couple of boards in the past, but never destroyed any of them as far as I remember... I've managed to broke a joystick for Commodore 16 plus 4 in half as a kid tho.
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Post by: EpicSNES on Sat, 30 August 2014, 22:07:29: I threw a keyboard through my wall when I was 13.. because Counter Strike.. :p I used to rage at that game
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Post by: rowdy on Sun, 31 August 2014, 00:13:27: I threw out some keyboards today.

Rubber dome membrane boards.

About a dozen of them.
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Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 31 August 2014, 07:48:23: I threw my keyboard when I played Ragnarok Online.. it's a very frustrating game.