Posted on 04/02/2020 8:42:29 PM PDT by dangus
Oh, sure I hate people who design packages like the inner cereal bag you can't open without using your teeth. Or the tiny little necks on ketchup bottles. Or the erupting juice boxes (why can't I peel off the seal? Why make me apply pressure with the ideal conduit for juice to squirt at my new shirt?)
But no-one deserves to be stuck on a car trip with the Eagles' Love Will Keep Us Alive on endless loop like the bastards who made *every* *single* *appliance* *I* *own* attempt to tell me something with the same high-pitched beep that goes off too frequently to catch naps in between but far too infrequently to be hunted down with any human sense of auditory direction.
Is it my dishwasher? My microwave? My can-opener? My refrigerator?
Seriously, if my fire detector batteries are going bad, I need to know that I might die if I don't replace. I am NOT going to die because I left 13 seconds on the timer on my microwave, unless my lack of sleep causes me to drive my car into a bus filled with 50 innocent school children on their way back from visiting the old folks' home.
After unplugging every device in my house, the beep continues. And kitchen appliances aren't easy to unplug; I had to simply hit the circuit breaker to turn off my stove. WTF!!! Someone designed an internal battery to stay on when the power is off just to remind me that my popcorn finished popping 13 seconds faster than I expected? Or was my dishwasher reminding me that I decided to wait until my wife was finished showering before finishing the dishes? Can't you design a dishwasher that says, "The dishes are not finished being washed." I can even look up what "Shokkiarai ga owatte imasen" means if it comes to that. Where do I look up what "beep ... [nine minutes of silence] ... beep" means?
I need someone to decode these beeps! I finally figured out what was making the beep, after finishing my letter to the Maytag repairman that my washing machine didn't come with a pet bat enclosed. (Is that how everyone else knows what the beeps mean? You all have pet bats or something? Was I not allowed one after the ASPCA found out I was playing a Mariah Carey album so I could laugh at the bats crashing into my shed when ever she hit a high note?)
See, when I bought my house, it came with a security system. I don't have a subscription, but it does tell me whenever someone comes into the house. Yeah, that's right, it tells me "Front door is open" whenever I come home. But six weeks after moving in, it decides to beep to tell me that my subscription ran out six months ago. THE THING LITERALLY COULD SAY "My subscription ran out, you cheap bastard!" And instead, it uses the EXACT SAME NOISE my dishwasher uses to tell me, "Hey idiot... the wife is out of the shower and the rice is starting to fuse to your breakfast bowl."
Electronics engineers, know this. I will find you. I have an old car, an auto-looping cassette player, and a cassette single of Dream Lover. You will pay.
>>>> Where do I look up what “beep ... [nine minutes of silence] ... beep” means? <<<<
>> I did this internet search: “my house beeps once every 10 minutes”
This came up: Why Is Your ADT System Beeping? <<
ARE YOU FRICKIN’ KIDDING ME??? I went through all that because my ADT beeps a little too quickly??? LOL!!!
Don’t get me started on phone sounds! I have a cheapo cell phone that I use infrequently. When I turn it on it plays weird music and then this chick says “Hurro, mofo!” in a very suggestive tone of voice.
My previous cheapo played something that sounded much like “Came The Dawn.” Or the Microsoft opening notes.
Is there any phone that just powers on silently?
My fridge beeps if one of doors is not closed. One door is very finicky.
Have you noticed how many damn LEDs there are in your house? Little red, green, and blue eyes peering out in the dark.
Same here. The insistent microwave is the one I’d like to smash to bits but there are many more.
” I’ll stop randomly flicking that wall switch that didn’t seem connected to anything.”
Reminds me of when the power goes out and I’m walking around the house with a flashlight and flip the light switch every time I go into a room.
Lucky if it’s in English.
Who hasn’t asked their phone, “If your battery’s low maybe you should shut up and save your energy!”
I remember once having a big party many years ago, and there were a lot of intoxicated people, about ten of us, who stayed over night.
We were all so plastered we were passed out on the carpeted floor everywhere.
There was an 8-Track player, and it was playing Journey, Foghat, or something like that. It has been so long I can’t remember. But that damned eight track played all-night-long. All night. We were so intoxicated, nobody could get up and shut it off.
The thing about eight tracks if you recall, is they have that loud, metallic “clack” when they change tracks.
Over and over and over I heard that album all night, and there was one song where it changed tracks in the middle of the song.
To this day, if I ever hear that song, my mind inserts that “clack” right into it and I hear it.
Whether it is there or not.
Most of the ones I am using are the CyberPower SL750U model. It’s their slimline model. I have several of them. One for the fiber optic gateway. One for the modem/router in the media cabinet. One for the bedroom TV, Blu-Ray, and STB. One for the family room TV, Blu-Ray, and DVR. One for the spare room PC (which is rarely powered on) and wireless bridge.
Most of these devices don’t use much power, and the primary need for the battery backups is to handle the short power outages and dropouts we experience in central Texas. For those times, these units have worked exactly as we have needed. It wasn’t until our extended outage today that the odd beeping started.
Somewhere between Samuel Morse and the Roadrunner.
LOL
SLOW RIDE *click* TAKE IT EASY....
That makes me thinks of my records that had scratches at certain parts and I always think of the scratch when I hear the song at that point.
Is that you, Steven Wright?
At least you still remember what you were looking for after wandering around the big house.
I have two Tripplites here in my Dallas area home, but the rest are older APCs I’ve rebuilt with new batteries (this is the cheapest way, by far, to get a decent/good UPS). All of them are 1500 class.
The APC “Power Is Out” beep chorus when the power goes out is kind of amusing, when all eight of the APCs are singing in time.
I remember when Nissan introduced the first talking car. Instead of beeping it would say “You reft your rights on” but it did not catch on with customers.
Last month, a friend was driving me into town and his car kept beeping at him. We tried everything we could think of until we’d reached our destination and shut off the engine. It was when we were finished and he started it again that he realized why it was beeping - the park brake wasn’t fully disengaged. My friend is 82 so he drives like the park brake is on anyway.
Mine beeps 5 times at the end of a cycle. I can shorten this by hitting the “start” button while it’s beeping...which produces its own beep, but it stops the rest of the automatic ones. So I usually hit “start” right after or during automatic beep #1.
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