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The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard

An anonymous reader writes "Pasta? Pizza? Keyboards are often subject to the harshest of conditions -- spaghetti sauce, coffee spill, et al. ZDNet is running a list of worst-food nominations. What is your pick?"

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  1. Who needs to bother? by t_allardyce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This article is way out of date, most keyboards aren't worth money anymore - they're disposable items. I buy a new one every few months because keep smashing the old one's - its a great tension relief, especially for Windows. Just find a cheap brand of keyboard that you like the feel of and keep buying the same one, theres no need for this fancy crap.

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  2. Re:Why am I even wasting my time reading this? by scoopr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about a $2000 laptop? You wouldn't still care?

  3. Re:Noone here has mentioned! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And you wonder why your significant other won't swallow.

  4. Re:Coke by roeland · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's why I usually turn my keyboard upside down before I lay a line on it, sniff, and turn it back again.

  5. I'm not wowbagger but yet... by Gopal.V · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Ok, the worst meal related accident I had with a keyboard involved a laptop, a liquid lunch and a couple of rubber bands. (I wish I was joking)

    Imagine this, you have your father's office laptop (very costly IBM Thinkpad in 1999) on the coffee table running HellBender at a grainy 640x480 (I'm in that grotto with the ceiling guns). You have a small jar of payasam sitting there on the table. It was wrapped in a plastic bag with a couple of rubber bands (it was made the day before and kept in the fridge). I take the jar, open the plastic without looking up from the game. You know , the rubber band snapped and next thing you know the laptop keyboard is coated in sticky COLD payasam with vermicelli sticking to the padded keyboard bottom.

    I still get teased by my sister whenever I take any food near her PC when I visit my parents.
  6. Re:Coke by Threni · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > Every time I spill Coke on my keyboard (yes, it's happened more than once) I've
    > had to replace the whole thing because the coke at away at the circuitry

    Thank god that it doesn't do the same to your teeth and stomache. I mean, thank god when it does the damage can be cheaply and conveniently undone.

    Seriously, why do you drink that stuff?

  7. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by drsmithy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And people wonder why americans are so fat.

    No. No-one wonders.

  8. Re:Problem with IBM Model M keyboards by ammie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bust my boyfriend like this all the time.

    Mouseclicks.
    Translation:
    Searching.

    Mouseclicks followed by uncertain typing.
    Translation:
    searching password site, found one, trying to remember logon and password.

    Mouseclicks followed by distinct double-key.
    Translation:
    searching password site, found one, trying to
    ctrl-V the password in so I dont get suspicious.

    One Mouseclick followed by confident typing.
    Translation:
    The one site he actually subscribes to.

    Almost no mouseclicks or typing at all, but the sound of the scrollbar.
    Translation:
    He got a winner. Time to wander in sleepy-eyed and innocently ask if he's coming to bed.

    He now says that he's learned women are NEVER asleep. No matter how much you think we are.

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  9. Re:In-N-Out Burger!!!!! by Palshife · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, laugh it up, but the sugar in that soda isn't free. When I decided to drop sugared soda from my routine I lost 30 lbs without doing ANYTHING ELSE. It's called Diet Coke for a reason ;)

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