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Things that go bleep
Bob Gone for good read the jornal Posted Aug 9, 2001
fogitten the name oif the machene but t is in a hospital, actully take your pick they all make an anoying bleeping sound at some point but some of them I am shure of it are programend to go off just when you are about to go to sleep so it wakes you up againe
Things that go bleep
Treasure Posted Aug 9, 2001
More bleepers...
This stupid ing computer.
Radio 4
ing annoying adverts on the tv for mobile ringtones
The "door closing" warnings on the train
And believe it or not, yesterday I had lunch with a friend who was complaining that her digital watch no longer ed whenever she pressed a button. Evolution, what evolution?
Things that go bleep
gj101 Posted Aug 9, 2001
Some more things that go bleep:
My car radio if I stop the car and open the door without removing the radio. It emits three quite bleeps.
My car if I stop and open the door with the lights on.
My car when the fuel gague goes into the red (quite a nice sort of poiggn sound).
My microwave when I press any of the buttons on it (to warn me that the buttons are being pressed I suppose).
Those mats inside small corner shops to alert the owner that they have a customer.
gj101
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Peregrin Posted Aug 9, 2001
Oooh yes hospitals - that reminds me;
When I last spent a night in hospital they had one of those inflatable things around my arm to measure my blood pressure, and a clothes peg type gadget on my finger to measure my pulse. The pulse one would go bleep quietly every heartbeat, but as it was regular I got used to it. But the pressure thing would inflate itself every half an hour to record changes in my blood pressure. Whenever I started to doze off, this damn thing would inflate and wake me up again. Eventually I got sick of the thing and took it off, and it inflated like a balloon and caused the machine to start panicking, and went off in a string of alarming bleeps. Nobody took any notice though - I guess they were used to it.
Things that go bleep
gj101 Posted Aug 10, 2001
Those metal detector doors that you have to walk through in airports.
The bing-bong tone that preceeds announcements on planes (and in lost of other places)
Cash registers
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gj101 Posted Aug 13, 2001
Fire Engines
Police Cars
Ambulances
"Merchandise control systems" in shops
Bar-code readers
Tesco checkout scanners
Things that go bleep
Peregrin Posted Aug 15, 2001
Oooh how about those security wotnots that are springing up in all shop entrances, and are meant to go if you nick something, but tend to go whenever you walk through with a personal stereo, digital watch, compass, shoe, anything.
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Jools Posted Sep 5, 2001
To digress a minute, more annoying than a garbage truck that bleeps when reversing is one that goes 'Bleeoop... This Vehicle... Is... Reversing!' whenever you put the thing in reverse. It was funny the first morning I heard it, but not for the sixty-odd mornings since, and I see no chance of it becoming funnier with time.
Things that go bleep
Peregrin Posted Sep 5, 2001
Yup, not to mention completely confusing anyone who doesn't speak English. I can just imagine some Japanese tourist standing there wondering what the h**l that strange mechanical voice is saying, just before being flattened.
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Franacropan Posted Sep 7, 2001
I had noticed that if I logged on to read my e-mails before tea time, my Yahoo Messenger would make the sound that alerts you to an incoming instant message. Of course I would eagerly click it, only to find it in its no message mode, crushing dissapointment. This would happen over and over until this evening I heard the sound when the machine wasn't even switched on. It would appear that the TV programme my daughter watches (Card catchers I think) is punctuated throughout with this sound.
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T´mershi Duween Posted Sep 25, 2001
Re:posting 19.
Yeah! I´m a cabdriver and a month ago my regular car was stolen so I had to use another for awhile.First time I went on the freeway and hit
120km/Hour this loud appeared twice a second.It scared the s**t out of me and my passengers since this is not usual in cabs in Denmark.Turned out it could b removed in 15 minutes at the garage, the boss just hadnt got around to ít (the car was 5 months old, but I guess boss´es are ingly busy)and noone had bothered to tell me about it.So I told him the ing truth about a car that goes of with loud at 120 on the freeway and the safety involved.I was ing mad!!!
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Kaz Posted Jan 16, 2002
I don't think I can beat that,(!) but I have a phone that makes a sort of purring noise when I get a text message. Trouble is, if I recieve more than one in one go, it goes twice, very fast, and is as a result, twice as irritating! I wish I could turn the damn thing off.
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- 22: Treasure (Aug 9, 2001)
- 23: gj101 (Aug 9, 2001)
- 24: Peregrin (Aug 9, 2001)
- 25: gj101 (Aug 10, 2001)
- 26: gj101 (Aug 13, 2001)
- 27: Peregrin (Aug 15, 2001)
- 28: Jools (Sep 5, 2001)
- 29: Peregrin (Sep 5, 2001)
- 30: Franacropan (Sep 7, 2001)
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- 32: Kaz (Jan 16, 2002)
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