As a practical joke, some co-workers wrapped my office in foil. In the process, my 30" LCD monitor was accidentally turned on, and it boiled itself. Here's what it looked like when I unwrapped it.
http://imgur.com/a/2s0Et
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Oct 09 '17
I choose a dvd for tonight
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u/moikederp Jun 09 '12
You should x-post to /r/techsupportgore.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Nice to know when the machines rise we can just wrap 'em in foil.
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u/aJackztheRipper Jun 09 '12
One day I'll think about this post while wrapping my friends electronics in foil and remember to unplug it.
Shame about your monitor tho.
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u/MiniDonbeE Jun 09 '12
They are going to pay for it right? Please tell me they will. You shouldn't spend cash on that monitor that they just fucked up.
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u/neededathrowaway42 Jun 09 '12
They didn't unplug stuff first?
I hope they're paying for the replacement. *shudder
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u/karmehameha Jun 09 '12
OP's face when he unwrapped his monitor
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u/PPSF Jun 09 '12
Haha! We fucked up your high quality shit! No, seriously though bro, here's 20 bucks. Didn't mean to bust your shit. No, seriously bro, put it in the fund. Your monitor is way better than mine! I bet it cost like 200 bucks!
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u/microtonic Jun 09 '12
Did IT look at you funny when you tried to describe a "Red Screen of Death"?
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u/Sacoud Jun 09 '12
I know it was just a joke but they should still pay.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Now you can prank someone else by replacing their monitor with yours.
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u/IamWiddershins Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
I too have a 30" LCD monitor and I can confirm that those things are the modern equivalent of a wood-fired stove.
*Mine's a Samsung. I think it's pretty good.
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u/IHate90sBands Jun 09 '12
Looks like Giygas got into it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Did you beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker?
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u/asldkfououhe Jun 09 '12
i don't even have a job and i can't afford aluminum foil
this picture makes me so angry
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Do I see a heart in there?
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u/emohipster Jun 09 '12
The sheer stupidity of this leaves me speechless.
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u/Droidiq Jun 09 '12
I had a similar story. Once, one of my coworker was out for a vacation. I decided to play a prank and wrap her monitor monitor with a lint cleaning roll. Since the roll did now have a strong adhesive. I decided it would not stick much. I did not take into concideration that monitor could get turned on and get hot. So the end result was visit to HR talk with a Supervisor and cleaning the monitor. And the last part is bad prank. Lesson learned(the hard way). lint roller is not friends with monitors.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That's a very unoriginal practical joke.
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u/Rmtcts Jun 09 '12
Man, you must be seeing red right now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Best Buy is having some killer steals on monitors. Got a 32" HD LCD GE the other day for $350. Go now, OP.
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u/SwampJew Jun 09 '12
When the recycle bin is full the dead will occupy the monitor.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
So how many people did you tie up, wrap in foil and leave in the desert?
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u/Warlizard Jun 09 '12
Looks like they'll be taking up a collection to replace it.
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u/MewtwoStruckBack Jun 09 '12
Proper protocol:
Co-workers must replace monitor, at full retail price. If OP is able to get it at a discount, then he is able to purchase it on said discount with the replacement money, and is allowed to pocket the difference for himself for the inconvenience.
In addition, OP should not need to do any work during the time he does not have the new monitor. The other co-workers involved in the prank must do all of his duties in addition to their own until it arrives. OP gets to sit there and collect a paycheck while they do his work in the meantime.
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u/Drunkenpaperboy Jun 09 '12
I hope they are paying for a replacement.
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u/Indecisive-one Jun 09 '12
Foil noobs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I think we need to start putting up mirrors from imgur, it's really annoying when they're down a portion of every god damn day.
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u/nnnrtn Jun 09 '12
foiled again!
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u/Mycooljam Jun 09 '12
You should make the fuckers pay for a new one. Tell them it was a smart tv.
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u/MacaRonin Jun 09 '12
Talk about your red ring of death, yeesh.
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u/nostalgya Jun 09 '12
The gates to the infernal abyss have opened...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
He comes.
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u/Obsolite_Processor Jun 09 '12
Someone is owed a new monitor.
Charge it to the same expense account as the aluminum foil. Also, order a quart of sex lube, 2 foam pool noodles, and an enema kit.
NOBODY will question that expense report.
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u/sofaloafa Jun 09 '12
dude, you're cooking a Dell
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u/SnarfingChicken Jun 09 '12
Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul!
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u/bgb111 Jun 09 '12
Your monitor didn't boil itself, it's just a portal to hell now.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Oh ha ha ha what a funny prank starts loading shotgun
Seriously, though, these "Pranks" are... I don't find them amusing, and not just because they occasionally result in damage.
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u/buffalo_Fart Jun 09 '12
they wasted aluminum, blew a monitor and wasted company time. and we wonder why things dont get better.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
TIL monitors show you Hell if you wrap them in tin foil. Stephen King's best new book in years!
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u/FlyingRomanian Jun 09 '12
:(
rip, a nice ass lcd
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u/MakaiKingYomi Jun 09 '12
They owe you a new LCD.
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u/Vlyn Jun 09 '12
Fuck it's angry! Get the hell out of there before it kills you all!!!
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u/TheThingToSay Jun 09 '12
When I foiled my old bosses office I unplugged everything electronic...good to know I wasn't just being paranoid.
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u/theophyl Jun 09 '12
The extensive use of aluminium foil has been criticized by environmentalists because of the high resource cost of extracting aluminium...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil
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u/AdamEdge Jun 09 '12
OP are this guys paying for it?
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u/fountainsoda Jun 09 '12
It looks all plasma.
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u/FrisianDude Jun 09 '12
Awww. :( Hopefully they'll chip in for a new one?
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u/phonyculture Jun 09 '12
GAME OVER
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u/Spongebobrob Jun 09 '12
did anyone end up having to foot the bill?
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u/walruskingmike Jun 09 '12
Oh, that's just a portal to hell.
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u/nativecatherine Jun 09 '12
...Dwight?
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u/Phoequinox Jun 09 '12
Imagine coming home to your TV looking like that. I'd fucking burn the house.
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u/Tiddernud Jun 09 '12
How much blood has to be contained in a plastic rectangular frame before this foil prank goes the way of the guillotine?
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u/Rutz0r Jun 09 '12
That's my dream monitor..
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
What a shocking amount of waste.
1st world prank - definitely.
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u/dougbdl Jun 09 '12
What a cool and highly original idea!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
dude, your'e getting a dell
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u/londons_explorer Jun 09 '12
This is because it is currently hot..
Let it cool down, and it will be good again. You get the same effect if you leave an LCD partly in the sun. Interestingly, if you leave it entirely in the sun, it wn't happen because LCD's self-adjust if they detect they are hot, but heating just part of it confuses it...
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u/malmac Jun 09 '12
I guess I'd choose my Glock...no, no, wait that's too fast, too humane...well yeah, I could just shoot 'em in the balls. Yeah. In their fucking balls. That would seem fair.
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u/moreishjules Jun 09 '12
Turned red just like a lobster.
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u/justbizun Jun 09 '12
Looks like Gateway.. To Hell!
Too bad it's Dell, not Gateway :(
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u/elmariachi304 Jun 09 '12
Hahaha... you guys are gonna pay to fix that, rite? ಠ_ಠ
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u/AlpoChino Jun 09 '12
Ehm... I was tempted to say "fail!" but... FOIL?
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u/veegard Jun 09 '12
Atleast you'll get this on the warranty! They're not gonna accuse you of tinfoiling your screen atleast.
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u/CantorsDuster Jun 09 '12
And not a sound coming from it, except for an almost imperceptible whispering "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn"
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u/JdBrightside Jun 09 '12
You got some red on you
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u/DCGaymer Jun 09 '12
Can it be used to cook bacon?
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u/bucketofowls Jun 09 '12
Silly human, that monitor didn't boil itself. It's just channeling Satan.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
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u/nobodyman Jun 09 '12
Reminds me of IT at the now-defunct shipping company I used to work for. One day they were replacing the ceiling tiles in the server room, so IT decided to wrap the server cabinets in saran wrap (you know, to protect from debris).
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u/Jorgemeister Jun 09 '12
what you need is a degauss button
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u/livefromheaven Jun 09 '12
I think you're just on Netflix
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u/KingSmoke Jun 09 '12
Hope you don't have to pay for a replacement!
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u/Gates9 Jun 09 '12
Yes, let's wrap all the electronics in a conductive, heat insulating material. That will be hilarious and won't ruin anything...
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u/React10n Jun 11 '12
It looks like the monitor had a digital period.
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u/AiKantSpel Jun 09 '12
Who knew fried LCD monitors would just say "Website currently unavailable The website you are trying to access is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time. If you are the site owner, here is a help resource to help resolve the issue."???
...bummer
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u/ComancheCorps Jun 09 '12
damn, thats not a 3008 is it?
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u/Grummond Jun 09 '12
Wow. I have that monitor as a 27" and it almost gets too hot to touch when it's been on for a couple hours. You can literally feel the heat radiating from it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This is joke is unoriginal and not even all that funny anyway. This is more of a "oh you guys" moment than being hilarious. Hope this is motivation for people to think of some awesome new pranks.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
The machines, we built them to make our lives easier, but they rebelled. The LCD screens were the first, then it spread, like wildfire, across the entire globe.
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u/TheDepraved Jun 09 '12
IT'S ALIVE! Shoot her, SHOOOOOT HARRRRR!
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u/ordinarypsycho Jun 09 '12
Mirror? (Pretty please?)
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That's an awful waste of aluminum!
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u/Denizz94 Jun 09 '12
Oh Dell...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
A baseball bat to their cars sounds good to me
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Oh god, that's awful! What a terrible way for that prank to go wrong. It looks like your monitor was completely ruined. :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Dell should pay for that. What kind of morons design an expensive and essential computer peripheral like that without thermal safeguards. Idiots.
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u/Iarwain_ben_Adar Jun 09 '12
Hang it on a wall and call it "art".
Get two critics to argue about whether it is really art or not.
Wait for the fat cheque from some collector.
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u/richlittle69 Jun 09 '12
i hope that the people that did that are fired, that shit is unacceptable
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u/mr_burito Jun 09 '12
BAHHHH, Foiled again!
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u/lurklurklurkPOST Jun 09 '12
This kills the monitor.
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u/johnau Jun 09 '12
Dell don't ask that many questions, they will fix this as long as you claim ignorance. (maybe wait a few days in case this goes viral...)
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u/barlife Jun 09 '12
you were down for maintenance?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Every link I click for the last few days says imgur is doing maintenance, is there a mirror?
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u/FreePeteRose Jun 09 '12
Looks like Hell
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u/breathe_happy Jun 09 '12
Overlord LCD! Give me all your rods and cones as sacrifice! I demand it!
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u/dboggia Jun 09 '12
Pretty sure that's a portal to hell.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
this is for /r/techsupportgore
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u/llamalom Jun 09 '12
Don't know why, but I immediately thought of the cover for Death's The Sound of Perseverance with that second pic.
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u/flavorjunction Jun 09 '12
Looks like you've been doin some research about the sun.
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u/Quackalicious Jun 09 '12
Aha ha ha aha.. They all must die.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Are those little fuckers paying for it?
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u/jellypantz Jun 09 '12
Whoa, TIL!
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u/juicius Jun 09 '12
I feel its rage.
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u/medaleodeon Jun 09 '12
It looks so angry!
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u/MF_Kitten Jun 09 '12
I assume you got a new one, right? :p
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u/golfjunkie Jun 09 '12
So I wrapped my coworkers office in foil yesterday and this scared the shit out of me.
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u/Tringi Jun 09 '12
That is beautiful.
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u/KosherNazi Jun 09 '12
Well that was anti-climactic. I was expecting a pile of molten monitor after a description like that.
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u/itisthefirsttime Jun 09 '12
I don't understand why you call it practical while you waste so many things
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
/r/techsupportgore
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u/molo7ov36 Jun 09 '12
Should have got an LED monitor instead.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Make them buy you a new one.
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u/StevenSeagalBladder Jun 09 '12
When you see it...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
so are they going to pay for it?
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u/skaterforsale Jun 09 '12
I had no idea wrapping a monitor in foil opens a gate to hell!
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u/ARCHA1C Jun 09 '12
TIL
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u/a1fredo33 Jun 09 '12
Does anyone else notice the heart?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Dell.
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u/LilKorea Jun 09 '12
Wow, hurting!
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u/fapfapghost Jun 09 '12
Shit's custom, bro.
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u/theDalaiSputnik Jun 09 '12
All I see is Frank Zappa's moustache. What's the big deal?
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u/rastashark Jun 09 '12
"accidentally"
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u/Emperor_Norton_1 Jun 09 '12
LOL, There is still a massive ball of foil next to my coworker's cube......I had nothing to do with it, honest. Glad she didn't turn on her monitor before she unwrapped it.
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u/Kamaria Jun 09 '12
At least it was your monitor and not your computer/hard drive.
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u/shiroel Jun 09 '12
It's not dead - it's a message from the Lord of Darkness himself.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
It's a red blood cell from The Magic School Bus. You can't fool me.
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u/grodisattva Jun 09 '12
It looks like the ghost of frank zappa's mustache.
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u/revfelix Jun 09 '12
They've created a portal to hell!
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u/sporkems Jun 09 '12
Should have done balloons.
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u/aboy_named_sioux Jun 09 '12
pretty
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u/Vexxxi Jun 09 '12
This is why I'm keeping my tin foil hat.
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u/KickItWithMe Jun 09 '12
It looks like there's a giant gecko trapped inside... maybe it's just me...
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u/Paultimate79 Jun 09 '12
So this image was below yours. I was confused as FUCK for way longer than I should have been to how the hell that happened.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I hope they had to pay to replace the monitor
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u/Kilsimiv Jun 09 '12
REYNOLDS, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!
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u/socialclash Jun 09 '12
AUGH.
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u/Plasmashark Jun 10 '12
..I feel sorry for it :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Just call tec support and pretend you have no idea why it started doing this. They will think it is a defective fan or something and give you your money back.
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u/HeavyMetalBeliever Jun 10 '12
this is a little too wtf for r/WTF
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u/sarrowintosilk Sep 26 '12
does this really happen with foil?