Have you ever fixing your appliances by smacking them?  

Yeah, the "whack it" technique works rather well on electronics! Especially TVs.

Back in the day when everyone has big CRT monitors for their computers, I had one that kept changing the screen colours... So I just whacked the top of the monitor and that solved the problem!

I've "smacked" appliances, tools, etc., usually out of frustration. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't. Sometimes, I really break it!

I'm sure you're familiar with how many human years that a dog year equals. Well, how about with computers? Before I get ahead of myself, my computer is nearly a decade old (and shows it), so an occasional spanking is administered.

Interestingly, this form of "discipline" does not improve the processing speed of my computer. Rather, spanking my computer allows aggression and impatience to leak out of me.

Perhaps it's time to purchase a punching bag...

I have done that when we were using our old tv. It was 20 years old. It was very much like that.. I smack the t.v. the picture comes back on....

Really sometimes it works but in the long run your just adding damage. I smack somethings like the TV and the power supply when they don't work :)

Yes, I've done this. My mother used to do it to the TV all the time. Also, when my chair was breaking and we couldn't afford to get it fixed right away or the insurance was taking a long time, if I hit the chair, sometimes it would improve, but only for a minute. Eventually you have to bite the bullet and fix the thing.

Yes, sometime I have done this. When my TV did some trouble and I would feel a little intense about it, that time I did the same thing you are writing about. But it was not the solution. It even makes your situation worst. So I have learn from my mistakes and now I have completely stopped doing so. If there some problems occurs, I call the concerned person straight away. He would take care of that.

Yeah! as funny as it might sound our tv was like that a couple of years ago, like while your watching all of a sudden it will just stop and you need to smack it just a lil bit so that it will run and play again. Until we ran out of patience and just bought a new one instead lol . Same with the old radio that i have i need to smack it hard this time just to make it sing lol, anyways that was the thing of the past but its always good to look back sometimes and think of all those funny stuff that we use to do ;)

I won't say that hitting the appliance that isn't working right has ever been successful for me in making it work right again, but I will end up hitting something when it isn't doing something that it ought to be doing. I am a person that is very easy to agitate and that is the reason that I will typically resort to smacking something when it isn't working in the way that I think it ought to work.