Fixing things by hitting them

[highwind]

Re: Fixing things by hitting them

we had a tv you had to smack for the audio to work properly.

then it broke completely.

oops.

[AbstractOrigin]

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TVs.

[Smurf Taco]

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My old phone's vibrate function would stop working occasionally... I usually just dropped it from a good height to get it working again.

Until I threw it in a parking structure. Then it stopped working completely.

[Caciss]

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My computer.

[Jamos]

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If it is mechanical and it doesn't work, I will smack the bejesus out of it! Works everytime!







....Except for the final time.

[Sezjeuric]

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Those Gamecube controllers are not very good.

Why bother? They're like, $6 at EB games.

[Magus]

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I haven't stepped foot in an EBgames for months.

[Sezjeuric]

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Anything particular stopping you? Otherwise, stock up, hell GO CRAZY, buy THREE!

[Kirin]

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I'll usually end up tossing controllers out of fustration with a game. It'll freeze up, and then I'll have to toss it again to make it work.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Our TV back in my dorm this past year. My roommate had to smack it several times while we were watching Face/Off. A few weeks later, that stopped working, but I never used that TV afterwards, anyway.

[Red Dragon]

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I've never had trouble with GCN controllers.

:shrug

[Kit Carruthers]

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every pair of ear buds i've ever had i've fixed by whipping them really hard against a solid surface.

i usually try to fix everything by hitting it and then i end up breaking it further.

not the ear buds though. it works with ear buds.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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My old Rio Nitrus MP3 player. One day my Mom dropped it and it ceased to function, and I was so mad I threw it against the car floor until it decided to work again.

When that thing finally died (it was a piece of crappy junk), I gleefully smashed it with a hammer!

[thetruecoolness]

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I've never had trouble with GCN controllers.

:shrug

Yeah, it's the 64 controllers that really suck. Worst made analog stick ever as after a few years it gets loose, and will never stay calibrated.

As for hitting things, I don't do it that often, mainly because of the fact it usually causes more permanent damage than what you're trying to fix. I'm sure I have a few times in the past but can't remember any.

[Misty]

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The Nintendo Entertainment System has caused me so much grief.

I blew in it so many times to get games to work on it--my lungs nearly collapsed. I smacked it so many times to get the system to work that I've nearly made a dent in the plastic with my bare hand.

Of course, what does it matter now? I don't even play it anymore--it's in the garage sharing itself with the daddy longlegs and silverfish.