Never leave your kids near your lappy

Cueball · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:05

The only thing my little 'un has done is wedge a jam sandwich in the VCR.

Still tasted OK once I pried it out, so on the whole it was OK ! VCR was ****** though.

Wasn't mine, was the wife's. I told her that the fuse blew and zapped the VCR electronics. She bought a new one.

dragonflyy · 24 Feb 2006 at 13:14

My 4 year old did the same thing to his dads laptop last summer! :eek:

PeterNem · 25 Feb 2006 at 13:47

wyrdo said:
I had to dismantle my Sky plus box recently because my son had decided it was a money box and magnetic alphabet letter storage box. I removed about 50 pence in change and a bunch of magnetic letters which had been jammed in the Sky card slots. Bloody kids!

Reminds me of years back when my at the time young brother put the VCR remote in the slot for tapes... my parents were looking for the remote for days!!

K.C. Leblanc · 25 Feb 2006 at 13:53

I work in a school.

When they get older they don't grow out of it, they just put the keys back to spell four letter words.

Yas786 · 25 Feb 2006 at 14:07

VIRII said:
Awww bless them
I set up a login for my daughter so that she can practice her "words" in notepad.

LOL Damn Virii you kinda remind me of my bro in Canada, hes set up a workstation with a nice 17" monitor in her bedroom with a wireless connection. So she can visit her websites and play her music, when i was there it was mariah carey all day long and she loved showing it off to her friends when they came over for a sleepover. Mind you shes 6 yrs old though and quite advanced for her age. She was always playing on my bros laptop, so he decided to buy her a pc and set up her own login etc etc and its all tied into his network in his house. Everytime i go over or speak to her on the phone, she tells me about her pc and what she can do with it

HighlandeR · 25 Feb 2006 at 14:34

KASM said:
I work as tech support/repair for yes the purple shirt brigade and had a customer who's young daughter had jumped up and down on his laptop to the point the screen was smashed and hanging off; luckily the guy had insurance and as his daughter was very young ie couldn't understand the consequences of her actions I authorised repair for free.

Before we could collect the laptop for repair the guy rang back several hours later to report his daughter had got the laptop again and this time given it a bath at this point it was advised to the customer that he would now have to pay for the repairs.

We cant authorise the repair though thats Pcservices call isnt it? Accidental damage isnt even covered anymore on PCP anyhow, I think sometimes we get away with it though!

You gotta be careful as long as its reported on the 2nd year and PC performance will cover it then sometimes u can get away with it, 1st year warranty though they certainly wouldnt fix the keys even not without a charge.

Now adays cant be bothered I just tell them we dont fix laptops or Pcs here in the Clinic, give them the manufacturer/3000 number and tell them to sod off !

Your in store or service call ?

Skunkworks · 25 Feb 2006 at 14:45

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DannyDan · 25 Feb 2006 at 15:15

Skunkworks said:
Why is cvb censored?

Because they're not missing i assume

Skunkworks · 25 Feb 2006 at 15:16

DannyDan said:
Because they're not missing i assume

Oh yeah.

That'll teach me not to pay attention.

VIRII · 25 Feb 2006 at 17:04

Spawn said:
LOL Damn Virii you kinda remind me of my bro in Canada, hes set up a workstation with a nice 17" monitor in her bedroom with a wireless connection. So she can visit her websites and play her music, when i was there it was mariah carey all day long and she loved showing it off to her friends when they came over for a sleepover. Mind you shes 6 yrs old though and quite advanced for her age. She was always playing on my bros laptop, so he decided to buy her a pc and set up her own login etc etc and its all tied into his network in his house. Everytime i go over or speak to her on the phone, she tells me about her pc and what she can do with it

Hehehe shes only 3 and 1/2 so she is always supervised when on the laptop but she can type "mummy" "daddy" "puppy" and words like that from memory.

Her entertainment is via one of my old enhanced xboxes so it has her films and games on and she can choose what she wants to play or watch from a very safe collection of items. Right now she is playing Shrek 2 which is fine as I can help her on a couple of trickier parts. We are absolutely stuck on Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Wererabbit though. Haven't got a clue how to so some of it.

Mickey_D · 25 Feb 2006 at 18:56

Another vote for IBM's here. My son has had complete and free access to my old ThinkPad for over 2 years now. It's about the only thing he has that HASN'T been broken in one way or another.

And I'm not talking just about electronics, either.......

Chris1712 · 25 Feb 2006 at 19:19

SB118 said:
Heh, we've got insurance on the printer we got at the same time, printer got a pounding from the stairs (which i fell down), now we can't find the recipt, bum!

The insurance on printers doesnt cover accidental damage, so gl with that.

Ofcourse moan enough and you'll probably get your way.

surfsquid · 25 Feb 2006 at 20:26

Skunkworks said:
Oh yeah.

That'll teach me not to pay attention.

no, that'll teach you to pay attention

SB118 · 25 Feb 2006 at 21:19

Chris1712 said:
The insurance on printers doesnt cover accidental damage, so gl with that.

Ofcourse moan enough and you'll probably get your way.

Doesn't it? gah, that's the only reason we bought the policy, bum!

SB118 · 26 Feb 2006 at 09:28

Oh it gets better, she woke up from her snooze on the sofa last night, rolled over and kicked my lappy of the coffee table

I now gets as far as the POST screen before turning off (on battery), and the charger doesn' seem to do anything (no lights). Oh goody. :rolleyes:

Matblack · 26 Feb 2006 at 09:30

SB118 said:
Oh it gets better, she woke up from her snooze on the sofa last night, rolled over and kicked my lappy of the coffee table

I now gets as far as the POST screen before turning off (on battery), and the charger doesn' seem to do anything (no lights). Oh goody.

Don't learn do you?

We had a 2yo around here yesterday, believe she was under very close observation!

MB

fatiain · 26 Feb 2006 at 09:41

SB118 said:
Oh it gets better, she woke up from her snooze on the sofa last night, rolled over and kicked my lappy of the coffee table

I now gets as far as the POST screen before turning off (on battery), and the charger doesn' seem to do anything (no lights). Oh goody.

Oops.

I've lost count of the number of cds/dvds I've pulled out the video. And after having the drawer of my one week old DVD rewriter pulled right out, the PC is now up on the desk, out of reach of 2yo hands.

Thought about getting one of them toughened laptops?