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I have this piece of sh*t Acer laptop with Windows 10 on it and it's been wonky since day one and I've only had it for two years. The Number Lock never stays on, the Caps Lock has no display on key light on it, so I never know when it's on or off, and the USB drives are sh*t. That's not even getting into all the issues with Windows 10 and why I'll never buy another Microsoft product in my life.

So I was playing Resident Evil on Saturday and I'm at the final, hard as f*ck, ten minute boss. The USB starts shorting out my controller. It eventually stops, leaving my character unresponsive (the game doesn't auto-pause when the controller is detached, unlike so many others), and I die. All because of this F*CKING SH*T-ASS laptop with sh*tty broken USB ports!

Long story short, I Hulk Smashed this f*cking machine into bits. Don't even regret it, either. Nothing pisses me off like stuff not working right when you paid for it. Like glitches and bugs in video games. Or a garbage, probably-made-in-China laptop. $250 and four hours later at the repair shop, I got it back, but my hard drive and everything saved on it is f*cked. I'd been happier if everything BUT the hard drive was broken instead of the inverse.

Have you ever raged out on something before?

So there's a kinda shy girl at work whom i sometimes talk to at the end of our shift for about 20m. She seemed interested in our convos. So i got her number but she is slow to text back. Its like i only got a 1-4 texts a day from her. Is this a sign to fack off and dont bother her? I don't know if she's taken either or not. What u think?

Some people have “ribbing” yet teasing attitudes towards other people particularly of opposite gender and/or people they are interested in. It’s like teasing your crush to show confidence and/or get them to open up their more “real” side. It can also be about testing people by playing hard to get to see if they can “handle you”.

Women often do this to men to as quasi shit test to see if they are smart ass enough to deal with their sassiness. Men do this to women as a sign of confidence and/or to give off a slight asshole vibe because they know many girls like that.

But I noticed this is more common in some parts of the country (and world) than others. Los Ángeles and New York City are notorious for this.

Personally I never liked it. Unless the girl hits the absolute right teasing chemistry and I’m in the mood to banter it’s doesn’t get me turned on. Different if I’ve already known her for a bit and we are already well acquainted. But if I’m interested I am not looking to play faux asshole just to create a jibe to be more interesting. Rather have a real conversation with maybe some practical joking about other things besides each other.

But I think some men and women always start out with joking and slightly hard to get attitude when they like someone. It also their way of avoiding being boring at all costs.

So did men do this in response to what women want or vice versa?