OMR gives a lesson to young grasshoppers

[OMR]

OMR was explaining to his young grasshoppers the concept of gender association in the English language. He stated how hurricanes at one time were given feminine names and how ships and planes were usually referred to as "she". One of the young hoppers raised their hand and asked "Then what gender is a computer"?

OMR wasn't certain which it was, so he divided the group of little grasshoppers into two groups, males grasshoppers in one, females grasshoppers in the other, and asked them to decide if a computer should be masculine or feminine. Both groups were asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The group of females concluded that computers should be referred to in the masculine gender, for the following reasons:
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they cause the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.

The male grasshoppers, on the other hand, decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender for the following reasons:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

[Kid A]

I'm hoping mine is a women because its a laptop

[FatWhat?]

Nice!

[singleminded]

Shweeeeet!

[bighit8]

Gregg that is phenomenal!

In my case the woman went from a PC to Mac.