Something small, seemingly insignificant, but ultimately a prize bastard of the highest order.
I'm not sure why it was invented and it appears to be the sole domain of the cuntish. It encourages behaviour that is generally deemed to be rude, and the people who feel the need to use it usually need some sense beating into them with a baseball bat wrapped in rusty barbed wire.

Caps lock.

I've actually edited the registry on all of my home PC's to make the fucking thing function as a regular shift key. Work wouldn't allow this though, so I removed the key, pulled the rubber insert out, destroyed it and replaced the fucking thing, completely without function. They viewed this as acceptable.
( Muns, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 14:17, 18 replies)

Yeah, real men hold down the shift key while they type angry responses on the internet.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 14:47, closed)

I preferred simpler times.
Where frustration was demonstrated by the instertion of profanities into the middle of sentences to make them sound more frustrated, along with an unnecessary number of exclamation marks at the end.

Much more fucking creative!!!!!!
( Muns, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 14:55, closed)

what i dont understand
among quite alot of other things

is why you can emboldify a line of text, or italicify one. but you cant block capitalisyfy or decapitalisyfy in the same way

am i missing something very simple?
(magictorch, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:07, closed)

Highlight text, shift F3 (in Word at least)

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:15, closed)

and all this time ive been hitting it with a 15mm spanner.
damn
(magictorch, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:17, closed)

Boring explanation
Italicising or emboldening text just changes the way it's displayed, leaving the same letter under the formatting. Upper and lower case letters are, to a computer, different bits of information, so swapping them around is more complicated.

This has been a SubstandardUnclear® explanation. Thank you.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:16, closed)

had i actually given this some thought,
i might have reached this conclusion myself. you may as well ask it to change it to a number.
(magictorch, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:18, closed)

Not at all.
I just don't understand why they have to put it directly above the shift key so it can be caught by accident. The current primary use of the Caps Lock key, I.E. coming across as a prize cunt on the internet just caused my frustration with the physical presence of the key, as opposed to a keyboard shortcut that actions such as italicising, underscoring etc would require.
( Muns, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:18, closed)

So you found that editing the registry
and/or taking your keyboard to bits was easier than simply remembering not to use the function you hate so much? Have you got a Tyler Durden-style keyboard warrior alterego?
(Eukanuba, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:06, closed)

The main frustration came from catching the fucking thing accidentally.
Especially when typing up some hand-written notes. I just removed the chance of it happening. The main reason it pisses me off is that it's completely fucking unnecessary.
( Muns, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:13, closed)

I'd remove the insert key for good measure

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:19, closed)

That's what I do.

( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 19:20, closed)

That the caps lock key is larger ...
... than the Shift, Ctrl and Tab keys defies belief.

Caps lock should be put away safely next to scroll-lock and the shift key made double-height. I'm sure it's only next to shift because the mechanics of a type-writer made that convenient.

We should start a petition or something.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 15:33, closed)

What is actually the point in scroll lock?
The only use for the key I have is for the Fn key when I have a USB keyboard plugged in.
(D.I.pshit solved another case on, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 17:37, closed)

Of course,
you could just use shift and not Capslock?
(D.I.pshit solved another case on, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 17:36, closed)

www.b3ta.com/questions/driventomadness/post1749801
( Muns, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 0:24, closed)

capslock
The thing that gets me about capslock is when people use it instead of the shift key, as in they press capslock, press one letter key, press capslock agai then type the rest of the word. For every capital letter. Grr.
(DonMorte Cake is a made up drug, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 9:22, closed)

Yes
I concur. Click
(justin(e), Sun 7 Oct 2012, 14:25, closed)