The Vent and Rant Thread

[Blossom]

Hubby is home. He removed the battery and now it chirps every 30 seconds. He ran to the store to get a new 9 volt.

I got ear plugs in till it gets fixed. Cats are hiding.


Update:
Blessed silence! New battery cost $6 but it fixed it. Five year warranty.

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[Katsunami]

So the beeping design actually works very well, as you got it fixed ASAP

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

So the beeping design actually works very well, as you got it fixed ASAP

We found out the other detector which isn't electric was dead. So payday we got to get a battery for it.

It works too well if I was single I have to call the landlady or something.

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[wodin]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Lord. ... I refuse to be sucked into the whole gotta-have-a-new-car thing...
Just..a different viewpoint.

Hitch

Oh, but they smell SO good.

[badgoodDeb]

Sometimes smoke detectors beep because the UNIT is too old, tho the battery may be fine. They have a built in expiration, these days ..... I guess the (whatever) that does the detecting can age, and no longer do the proper function.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Lord. I confess, I'm too cheap. My current car is 18, going on 19, and if it lasts another 5 years, good. I refuse to be sucked into the whole gotta-have-a-new-car thing. Buy very good ones to start with, maintain the hell out of 'em, and just...drive 'em until they literally fall apart.

There are Volvos on the road that are part of the Million Mile club. It's a point of pride with Volvo that they build to last, and some really do.

Most cars won't achieve that, but in general, reliability has increased over the decades as manufacturers have learned that customers will pay for quality. Detroit's "planned obsolescence" of the 50's is a thing of the past.

And service on current cars is a much different matter than it once was. The car has a raft of sensors and microprocessors communicating over a local network, and when a service call is required, the mechanic can plug a computer into a diagnostic port, and the car will say what it's problem is.

It's a far cry from the days of the "Gus Wilson's Model Garage" feature in Popular Mechanics magazine, where crafty old mechanic Gus used experience and cute tricks to determine just what the car's problem was before he went in to make a fix.
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Dennis

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by wodin

Oh, but they smell SO good.

Technically, the smell is out gassing, and the volatiles that comprise it are toxic. It might smell nice coming off the lot, but there's a limit to how much of that smell you want to inhale.
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Dennis

[wodin]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Technically, the smell is out gassing, and the volatiles that comprise it are toxic. It might smell nice coming off the lot, but there's a limit to how much of that smell you want to inhale.
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Dennis

Yea, kind of like a good cigar. But I'm still prone to enjoy one occasionally.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Years ago he bought one of the first 3D televisions, officially so people can watch football/soccer and other sport events in his café (not sure why you would need a 3D television for that). It's a huge thing. But he's afraid it get damaged or stolen, so 99,9% it hangs in his livingroom and it takes 3 people to get the thing off the wall and downstairs. Now his building is, at most, 3 meters wide and about 6 meters deep.

The husband of an acquaintance is a senior IT guy at an Internet firm. The firm was acquired a while back, and his bosses were suddenly rich and started buying toys. It became a "My big screen TV is bigger than yours!" competition.

One of them discovered the hard way he couldn't win. The intended location for his newest and biggest model was an attic rec room, but the model he bought would not fit up the stairs, and he had to content himself with a smaller model that could actually be maneuvered into the space.
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Dennis

[wodin]

What? He didn't "Tear down this wall!", in order to fit it in? What kind of nouveau riche would let something like that stop him?

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by wodin

What? He didn't "Tear down this wall!", in order to fit it in? What kind of nouveau riche would let something like that stop him?

It wouldn't have helped. The problem wasn't an inconvenient wall - it was fitting it up the stairs.
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Dennis

[wodin]

Obviously that would call for a new house.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by wodin

Obviously that would call for a new house.

Or something.

I heard a story on those lines years back about a guy who bought a fancy European sports car. He went on vacation, and his friends decided to play with his head. He lived in a multi-story apartment building with balconies and wide French doors opening onto the balconies.

A friend had a key to his apartment, He let himself in, and opened the doors wide. The others had hired a crane, which picked up the car and hoisted it in through the doors. The chap returned from his vacation to find his car sitting in the middle of the floor in his living room...
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Dennis

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Or something.

I heard a story on those lines years back about a guy who bought a fancy European sports car. He went on vacation, and his friends decided to play with his head. He lived in a multi-story apartment building with balconies and wide French doors opening onto the balconies.

A friend had a key to his apartment, He let himself in, and opened the doors wide. The others had hired a crane, which picked up the car and hoisted it in through the doors. The chap returned from his vacation to find his car sitting in the middle of the floor in his living room...

Something similar happened in my dad's neighborhood about 15 years ago.

Someone over there had bought a new, big car. The houses there don't have any garages, except for two on the end of the street. That guy had been blabbering that he was very worried that his big expensive car would be stolen. He talked about that to anyone who would listen. (Including me, even though I'm not interested in cars... driving one with my poor eyesight would probably be a criminal offense.) He drove everybody around crazy with his tales of doom.

One day that guy went on vacation, having himself driven to the airport, because he wouldn't want his car parked at the airport, of course.

His friends and/or family then also hired a crane, and had his car hoisted straight over the house into his back yard.

It goes without saying that this person wasn't too pleased when he came home, as we've heard rants about it around the neighborhood for months afterward

[wodin]

When I was in high school the Principal bought a VW beetle, the old rear engine kind (yes I really am that old). As a prank, the football team carried it to the second floor of the school and deposited it in the hallway outside of his office.

It took the entire faculty (including the football coach) to get it back down.