At some point there must have been a meeting at the smoke detector factory where they discussed the best way to deal with battery back ups to the detectors. Someone came up with the idea that using a type of battery that no one keeps in the house would be good and that it would be a good idea to have an insistent loud beep to warn people that the battery had died would also be a splendid idea. Someone probably asked "what happens if the beep starts going off every ten seconds at 1am when the owner has no spare battery and doesn't want it to wake up the kids?" "Fuck em" said Bright Ideas Boy and they all went off to an early lunch at the pub.
It was only later that Bright Ideas Boy worried that people might, by chance, have a battery and decided that the best way to deal with this was to only allow an alarm reset if the test button was pushed after battery replacement. He was proud of that one. His hatred of mankind could really be set free in this company. Later that night though he worried what might happen if someone simply detached the alarm from the mains and removed the battery. Surely that would make it silent and allow them to return to bed? Best to sneak in some kind of extra power backup that allowed it to bleep loudly even when disconnected from all power supplies because that's exactly what people need to remind them that they've just disconnected an alarm manually, and just to demonstrate his true contempt for people getting a good night's sleep he programmed a delay in the dead alarm beeping to let people get back upstairs before it went off. I would like to meet Bright Ideas Boy one day. I would like to shake his hand and complement him on his genius before seeing how far inside him an alarm needs to be inserted before it can no longer be heard.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Best to sneak in some kind of extra power backup that allowed it to bleep loudly even when disconnected from all power supplies because that's exactly what people need to remind them that they've just disconnected an alarm
We found - at 3am - that putting the offending item in an insulated box in the shed at the end of the garden sorted that problem. I think it might still be there.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I saw Boris on the TV this morning (maybe part of a conference interview - who knows) saying that it had been the imported foreign drivers who had kept the wages and conditions within the HGV sector low - and that the gov wanted to increase pay and conditions by recruiting from within the UK. This follows on from a gov spokesman on Radio 4 during the week saying that Brexit was nothing to do with the HGV shortage.
Talk about spin. So now it was a gov plan - they saw the plight of the poor British HGV drivers and actively decided to send all the EU drivers home to force the employers into paying more and improving conditions. It was all a cunning plan, not the f-up it appeared to be.
We pay £5.99 for Netflix, @NorthernJoe We don't do any other subscriptions (older daughter has Spotify) but £1.50 a week is OK for what we get. Currently rewatching Downton as younger daughter has got hooked. Actually subscribed in the first place for Stranger Things.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I saw Boris on the TV this morning (maybe part of a conference interview - who knows) saying that it had been the imported foreign drivers who had kept the wages and conditions within the HGV sector low - and that the gov wanted to increase pay and conditions by recruiting from within the UK.
His lies (not spin - that ostensibly has some basis in truth) make me more curmudgeonly than anything else.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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The bloke's response is brilliant.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oops, cross posted. That was in response to WE
I baled out of the other one - all too much for me now.#
I think you can use that emoji for my post too @CharlotteF
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It makes you wonder just how much is thrown away on this kind of rubbish every year.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We don't do any other subscriptions (older daughter has Spotify) but £1.50 a week is OK for what we get. Currently rewatching Downton as younger daughter has got hooked. Actually subscribed in the first place for Stranger Things.