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How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly?

basementman writes "I recently purchased a 10 inch white MSI wind. As you can see it's a small computer and it's good for what I use it for. I get a lot of comments from women saying it is 'cute' or 'adorable.' Not the good kind of cute that will get me the attention I want though, the kind of cute that says they think I have a different presence than I actually want to portray. So how can I make my netbook more manly, or at least have some witty line to respond to the their comments?" Hopefully basementman didn't get a netbook with the hopes of it getting him some action, but what cool mods (or witty one-liners) have others used to salvage their dignity from hardware that is "a good size"?

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  1. There's this dog t-shirt ... by Qbertino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... you can put the same on your White Wind. Go to a copyshop that also has those cut-plotters and get a set of decal lettering cut out in black saying "I'm his new Netbook and help him pick up chicks." That should fix both the 'manly' and 'whitty reply' part in one stroke. And it's quite funny aswell.

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  2. Re:Exactly, women love cute and adoreable. by Facegarden · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.

    You sir are a dick. Mainly because you claim to have a girlfriend and then effectively tell her you're going to cheat on her to her face - unless that was in jest, in which case that was still a dickhead thing to do.

    He was obviously kidding, and my girlfriend would laugh too if I said something like that in a scenario like that. If you think joking around is a dickhead thing to do, you must be really fucking boring, or date boring women.
    -Taylor

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  3. Re:Obligatory Serious Answer by aztektum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No joke. A friend of mine is an electrician. He was tired of his yellow or orange extension cables going missing from job sites. What did he do? Started buying purple and pink ones. Instead of 2 or 3 going missing a year, he has had one "walk away" in the last 6.

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  4. Re:My manhood isn't online by raddan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can deny it all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that marriage (among people with with European ancestry, anyway) was essentially a financial transaction for millennia. That didn't start to change until the mid 1500's, when the Catholic church stepped in and demanded that marriages be approved by priests.