I love these kinds of comments. Either top satire or bottom IQ.
Because one implies ignorance and the other knowingness. One person can’t be both.
So, one got the reference to the meme and i’m the bottom…
Bless your soul
Btw, i’m not your bud, pal
Guys it just does that
My grandma thought that there was a very intelligent mouse living in her hallway once. It would occasionally do a little squeak at her but never be found. She was a bit cross when she learned the truth about her mousy friend.
I also know of an older couple that was convinced the noise came from an earwig queen(!?!) that lived inside their living room table. Much more concerning story, both if true or false.
I sometimes hear a sound reminiscent of a rodent scratching in my room. Probably pressure shenanigans in the freezer.
You know they call them earwigs because they be doing something to your ears
We used to have a fancy ass fire alarm system in the 90s and early 2000s. At a couple of points in the house there were detectors, each with a battery, power connected and connected to each other. If one of them detected smoke or heat, they would all start beeping. They would flash every 10 secs to let you know it is in sync, but they would also emit a small beep every 10 mins or so. They never ran out of power since they were connected to mains voltage with a battery backup. The battery was rated to be replaced every 10 years, but I think it was one of those that basically went on forever.
I got used to it after a while, but every now and again I would start noticing the beeps and could not stop noticing them. My dad was proud of them, he paid a lot of money to get them and get them installed.
I’ve lived in a place with a fire alarm system like that, but the beep is because the backup battery is flat or the unit needs to be replaced.
Most smoke detectors are essentially a small radioactive lump with a Geiger counter next to it; if smoke gets in between it blocks the radiation and if the number of radiation “hits” falls below a threshold in a set time period the alarm goes off. So, as radioactive things have a half life, there’s a point where the radiation emitted falls below the original threshold and you need to replace it. We fucked around with the batteries in ours for ages assuming one of them was low, but eventually replaced the detector itself and the beeping stopped.
Nope these ones did it from the get go. We asked about it when they got installed, it was a feature to let you know they were operating properly. I really to this day don’t know why it was like that.
It wasn’t a loud beep, when the TV was on, you couldn’t even hear it. I only heard it when it was quiet in the house, especially when I wanted to sleep.
I lived near a highway and it was so weird when you started hearing it randomly and it wouldn’t go away for 10 minutes. Cars going fast are actually insanely loud.
I recently learned that it’s not the engines or whatever that’s loud. It’s the sound of the tires on the pavement that makes the most of the noise (save for some douche that intentionally made their mufflers loud, obvs)
Yes, that’s why the virtual engine noise generator of EVs only runs until 30kph/20mph before turning off. At that speed the tyres are already loud enough to be audible to pedestrians
My parents have a smoke detector which blinks a red LED every ten minutes or so. It’s also placed in the hallway between my room and the toilet. Because that hallway is quite short and a little bit of light still came out of my room, I eventually started just not turning on the lights in the hallway, to kind of preserve the sleepiness.
Well, eventually I walked down that hallway in darkness and was right in front of the smoke detector when it decided to blink, shortly tinting everything around me faintly red. Fucking hell, that spooked me…
Why do short flashes like that work so well in movies or shows? Like imagine an anime where they can create such an eerie moment by flsshing a few frames of something fucked up on a normal moment. I think jujutsu kaisen did it and its so cool. Instead of just showing a demon in plane sight you do it like that. Add some creepy music and youre set for a great scene.
That mean the smoke detector need to be tested. Push the button for testing and the light, after, will be a hard green, no flashling.
Not if it is a photoelectric smoke detector, which is the only type you should have unless you got a good reason for ionisation smoke detector.
The blinking is the smoke detector checking for smoke particles.
photoelectric detectors use infrared LEDs. and they are inside the detector, shielded so stray light will not cause any problems.
Any red LED you see on a smoke detector is for statuses, not detecting