AIBU to have fallen in love with my new colour laser printer?

[RudolphthePinkNosedReindeer]

Clean lines, no fuss, switched it on and it gave me a piece of paper as a present. Then I introduced it to my laptop and they shagged for a bit via USB, and now it has produced the prettiest excel printout I've ever seen.

Either I ANBU or I should have posted in Geeky stuff for validation

I suspect this love affair will end pretty abruptly when the ink needs replacing.

YANBU
Tis a bit geeky though

YADNBU! I've fallen in love with the one the boss let me have at work - it's colour AND duplex, and I don't have to pay for the toners! Now I can do my personal work official reports without having to run to the other colour printer and remove my stuff before some other git rakes through it and then throws it in the recycling!

Naha! I have ink, and it comes with some initial toners which will run out soonish. I'm not after volume, but am doing a fair number of different colour-coded worksheets.

I mean toners. Blimey, in my young day you were glad if your dot-matrix printer hadn't chewed the paper up

I remember when we were at school and one of the rich kids came in with their homework printed on a .. wait for it ... colour dot matrix! We all stood around and admired it A colour printer ffs! They must have been millionaires!

How old do I feel ...

I am SO jealous!

I have no wish to offend my loyal and fairly reliable inkjet (especially as it can probably 'hear' me over the USB) but I sometimes fantasise about a laser one. Aaaahhhh ....

... But you didn't get a wireless one?

Oh, yes, remember having to get the little holes down the side of the paper roll lined up with the little wheels?

Actually those DM printers were fast. Perhaps I should have kept mine it would be an antique now.

Did so!

Rudolph you are clearly NBU. I suggest you ditch your DP/DH if any, marry this printer sharpish and have lots of tiny little - erm -

Bloody hell! The cheapest set of toners is £100

Inkjet, I love you - no, really, I do ...

I am assured they last a lot longer, garlic

Ahem, as it happens I am ditching DH, printer and I will make beautiful spreadsheets together...

You'll make a wonderful couple. Your printer's enhanced performance and longer staying power must have been part of the attraction ...

Things have progressed. He's told me his name telepathically, of course I already knew his initials.

It's Harold.
Harold Printer.

what make op?

YANBU

Can I have a link to Harold please. I'd like his brother.

At least you'll be able to introduce Harold to your parents and integrate him into some sort of family life.

This poor unfortunate isn't as lucky - al fresco lovemaking will always be the order of the day

HAAAHAHAHAHAAHHHH,Talc!

""Someone who falls in love with objects can control that relationship on their own terms," he said. "Their objects will not let them down."

I feel the same way about chocolate.

I'm interested to know how the Eiffel Tower said its vows.

Meant to say, OP, before Talc distracted me .... A partner with a knack for meaningful silences (and clean lines & staying power!) is quite a find. You've got a keeper :)

or if the marriage has been consummated

I know you meant Talc's example, Pirate, I should explain that my relationship with Harold is a True Meeting of Minds, and minds only

However, you've got me thinking, Talc, I believe I have female AS and have definitely had romantic feelings for various cars (I wept outside more than one scrap dealer), and for my other squeeeze The Whole of County Durham. Plus two horses, and two cats. All male, not a co-incidence.

I wonder if it's perhaps that AS males tend to think of animate things as similar to objects, in a way, and that AS females tend to go the other way and personify inanimate objects?

Interesting point, Rudolph - I think you could be right.

I have sympathatic feelings towards some objects; I feel sorry for my poor car when it has just completed a long and arduous journey. I wish it could come indoors and sit by the fire instead of being left outside in the rain. I pat its bonnet and say thank you.

When I was a child I found myself thinking, on sitting down with a sandwich, that I should have washed my hands after touching my teddy's bottom as I put new knitted knickers on him

My god - this place is like a psychiatrist's couch - I've never told anybody that before...

I felt awful every time I hand washed DS's fluppet Mouse (Beloved by Us All), because it felt as if I was about to drown him

UANBU
I have an all singing, all dancing, photocopier, scanner, printer gizmo.
And I love it!
It's a canon. Supper quality no stripes and no attitude (my older printer also a canon is capable of all of these).
A lazar one would be even better because the copies are much more water proof, but I cannot begin to justify the running costs.