Comments on: No cause for alarm

By: Random

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:21:10 +0000

my smoke alarm has a built in “feature” that lets you test it with ANY remote control.. or wireless mouse/keyboard.. or a psp’s IR port.. you see where i’m going. the poor thing spends a lot of time on my floor.

By: Ms Em

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:44:19 +0000

On re-telling it is a great story, but having our washing machine sat in the middle of the kitchen for 3 months was rather tiresome.

Oh and, just for your info, in the UK not that many people have dishwashers at all. Only large families tend to have them, although they are becoming more popular and less of a luxury.

I’ve always thought them a rather unnecessary item myself……

By: justine

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:28:43 +0000

wow, thats um…thats quite the story. you are so fabulously strange.

By: Novembrance

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:52:57 +0000

Perhaps a more ‘assertive’ smoke alarm is in order; your dead one sounds like it was far too polite. Ours is so loud that there is no mistaking what it is–not by us, not by any of the neighbors.

By: Adam

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:57:23 +0000

Yup, ’tis true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dork

And ‘Dude’ is the camel equivalent.

By: Roo

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:55:30 +0000

Dork = whale genitalia? I think I missed the memo on that one…

By: Adam

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:47:07 +0000

The wrist is fine now, bones heal but smoke detectors require superglue.

and I don’t really mind the lack of a dishwasher… I think that I must be in the 5% of the population that enjoys doing the washing up by hand. It’s where I think of the ideas behind most of these strips.

As for calling me a dork, bygones, there are worse things than whale genitalia…

By: Seraphine

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:44:32 +0000

Offering my condolences for your broken
wrist and lack of a dishwasher, and my
apologies for calling you a dork. Hugs!

By: Roo

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:22:17 +0000

Oh. Well I’ll be. How strange.

By: Adam

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:14:29 +0000

Nope, as a Brit, living in a rented house with not much room, it is a clothes washer in my kitchen… I wish I had a dishwasher, but alas I don’t.

Actually, it’s quite common in the UK to have your clothes-bashed washing machine in your kitchen.

By: tia

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:52:09 +0000

i think i have some distant relatives who were like that

By: Roo

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:21:29 +0000

Hahaha! Wow Adam: that’s a story. “Save yourselves, flammable humans!”

Seraphine, I did the same thing, assuming he was talking about a clothes washer. And wondering why it was in the kitchen.

Joseph H., I’ve heard the term Collyer Brothers’ Syndrome before, but never knew what it referred to. And now I know. Thank you much!

By: Seraphine

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:35:44 +0000

OK Geek guy. That isn’t a clothes washer
built into your kitchen counter. Dork.
It’s called a dishwasher.
Your glasses should come out spotless,
which is a different result than what
happens to your ewwwwww shorts.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:57:54 +0000

Having your own deathtrap sounds cool. Well, unless you die in it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:07:26 +0000

I don’t have a smoke alarm because my place is a deathtrap. DEATHTRAP I SAY!

By: Thad

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:06:26 +0000

I once had a smoke alarm go off in a hotel room after taking a shower. I just couldn’t figure out how to turn that thing off. It didn’t come off the wall like all the ones I had been forced to deal with before.

Moments later I learned how awkward it can be to check out with the sound of a smoke alarm in the distance.

By: Ben

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:00:25 +0000

Haha, As I read this, one of my remaining smoke alarms is dying from a flat battery.
The other died cos it decided to go off when ever I showered.

By: Adam

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:41:36 +0000

I do find that the fire provides all the warning light I need.

It is fixed now though, well, not really… I don’t think it can be. Replaced, yes, fixed, no.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:37:24 +0000

You should really get that smoke alarm fixed. Not just for safety reasons, but… poor smoke alarm.

I believe you can get a smoke alarm which includes a light. That would make it easier to tell that it’s the smoke alarm beeping and not something else. Of course that probably wouldn’t be much use in the case of an actual fire.