Model number bastards

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

I curse companies all the time for not putting the model number where I don't have to search for it like Stanley for Livingstone. Always somewhere I have to look like I bloody Sherlock Holmes.

Bloody printers to start with. Why not put the model number in big on the front? I've helped out a number of mates printing shit. Always have to look in all four cardinal directions before I find it.
Big printers are the same. The office ones. It's there somewhere behind a shit flap of four. One you have to open in sequence as if in closing down the atomic bomb cunt.

Computers even worse! How many times have I not helped out a mate who has bollocked up his. Probably through porn surf. I want to find the manual online. Must find the model to find the manual. Where do I find it? On some sticker in computer hell.

There should be a standard. As on cars. It's right there on the back where you throw people in you want to kidnap in a maffia movie.

[My Name Is Ian]

Model number bastards

I'm pretty certain that television sets might be the worst offender and that Sony may be the worst among these. Trying to troubleshoot something wrong with my TV a few years back was like trying to complete a cryptic crossword with a blindfold on. They seemed to have around 10,000 different models, each with a lengthy model number that was virtually indistinguishable from all of the rest.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

Model number bastards

Flat TV's can fuck off. All off them without exception.
Who came up with the brilliant idea to make a 9000 inch flat TV screen which has three HDMI ports and once you've installed it up the wall, trying to get to one of the free slots (wanting to hook something up temporarily), not even the rubbery extending dude from the Fantastic Four can make it because the ports are way in there, somewhere in the middle. Not at the very side where you can see it without a flashlight and a map.

[MsD]

Model number bastards

I'm glad that finding this really difficult and annoying isn't a girl thing.

[Ginger Yellow]

Model number bastards

That's kind of your fault for buying a badly designed set, really. I wouldn't dream of buying a set with fewer than four HDMI inputs these days, and two of the HDMI inputs on mine are easily accessible on the side.

[San Bernardhinault]

Model number bastards

The thing about TVs and Computers is that you generally don't really need to know the model, for most day-to-day purposes.

Printers, though, have some ludicrously model specific shit going on with ink cartridges, and drivers, and all sorts of stuff. And should have the model number emblazoned in bright pink letters on the front, to avoid any and all confusion.