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.
I saw them open for Jeff Beck in Buffalo, NY. Maybe 1973. They had two lead guitars. Kinda like Spinal Tap.
You sure would not have survived in a telephone central office, poor baby.
Yes, that.
I hate to tell you this but. . . I think that means the battery in the unit is no longer capable of sustaining power during a power outage and needs replacing. If you bought the two units at nearly the same time, it demonstrates what good quality control the battery maker had. If both are defunct, take them to a Batteries+ store and they can replace the batteries for you, or you can open them up yourself and see what you need for a replacement and buy a couple from Amazon and do it yourself for less money.
My VCR is still flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00
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GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY!
GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY!
GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY!
GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY!
GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY!
One of the scariest Twilight Zone episodes ever, where the electric shaver grew eyes and attacked him, then his car plunged itself into the pool just to drown him.
The water rising over the headlights was eerie.
Gotta get to those when you first start hearing the random tweeting.
But there was a bonus for me though. I got to listen to people's private phone calls, night-after-night, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year, gay or straight, criminal or saint. What humanity and what a life. We would patch them into the PA system so the whole site could hear. New York to Miami or New York to Dallas had the most interesting phone calls and you should know that everyone was anonymous to us.
Don't get your knickers in a twist FReepers, in the Digital Age that does not happen near as often because voice is riding through a digital carrier and the technician monitors and maintains the electronic signal without having to listen to the voice like we did in the old days of Analog Systems with copper cables.
“Those ear piercing screeches are unpleasant for humans and dogs.”
We had Verizon install an alarm system. Stupid thing beeps when you arm it, open a door, etc. Our normally calm dog can’t stand the tone of the beeping. All the other alarms and beeps in the house he is fine with. We tried to get him used to it, it won’t even take a treat after hearing the alarm!
Had to discontinue the system. No way to silence the beeps or even to change their tone or loudness.
A lot of manuals appear to be written in Chinese, translated to German, back to Chinese and then to English.
Infuriating is to recognize after replacing a dead battery, it still beeps for a minute or so for the capacitor to discharge. So you don’t know if the sensor has gotten too much dust and just needs to be replaced.
Plus they’re expensive batteries.
I stopped getting the high end $8 replacements and buy a $1 replacement 9V battery from Dollar Store.
“I spent years in phone support”
Wow. That was you? Your accent isn’t even noticeable when you type. ;<)
If there’s a Mystery Beep in my house, it’s usually one of my APC UPS screaming to tell me it’s unplugged or the battery is failing.
This was before all the support went to Canada... then to India.
The APC units have a delightfully endless *almost* ultrasonic, soul shredding squeal.
Apparently we’re among the few in this thread. I actually *like* audio feedback because it keeps me appraised of device operation without me having to look at it.
We can still monitor audio traffic, though. It’s just more complicated to do and you get logged.
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