Computer: Printer: Sound
Painful Printer   (+2, -1)  [vote for, against]
For all those crazy night-thriving sado-masochists who need to shape up during the day when at work in the office.

A very simple idea: a printer that screams in pain whenever you print a document.
-- Pocketassreturn, Jun 16 2004

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[etherman, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

"Punish people who do x" where x = live a life more interesting and exciting than your own.
-- calum, Jun 16 2004


I don't understand how this idea is punishing anyone [calum]... motivating them perhaps?
-- Lacus Trasumenus, Jun 16 2004


I thought this was going to be like the machine in the Franz Kafka short story that inscribed a miscreant's crime into their flesh. But this would be an elective version for the BDSM crowd.
-- oneoffdave, Jun 16 2004


Where "punish" = subject people who do x to hangover-rattling playback of screams.
-- calum, Jun 16 2004


my juke box printer could be loaded with screaming mp3s. therefore baked.
-- etherman, Jun 16 2004


// Where "punish" = subject people who do x to hangover-rattling playback of screams //

Yeah... but I guess I read "sado-masochists" literally, suggesting their reaction to screams of pain wouldn't be negative. Moving on...
-- Lacus Trasumenus, Jun 16 2004


I used to work in an office with a printer that did this. Thankfully I managed to get it upgraded to a new one after screaming in pain myself long enough. If you really want your printer to do this, try pouring some sand in it.
-- DrCurry, Jun 16 2004


Printers that make any type of noise do not seem to be popular.

Anyway, I'm all for locking PAR in a room together with a bunch of them screaming printers all printing away all day long. Some of that sound might even penetrate up the nether portion of his alimentary canal and reach his ears.
-- neelandan, Jun 18 2004


It's jammed full.
-- Lacus Trasumenus, Jun 18 2004


when i got carmageddon i used some of it's .wav files as windows noise. this allows me to confidently say that this printer would get annoying very quickly.
-- stilgar, Jul 09 2004


I can't even fathom what you're trying to accomplish with this.
-- Tabbyclaw, Jul 18 2004



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