View Full Version : What consumer electronics do you find annoying ?
Professor Tom
03-18-2008, 01:14 AM
What consumer electronics do you find reall annoying ?
For me it's cellphone rings.
Actually I posted this because there were no other thread here and I felt sorry for the mods having nothing to read.
denvertrakker
03-18-2008, 12:23 PM
That dumb animated groundhog that plays the theme from "Caddyshack".
Blamalam
03-19-2008, 03:19 PM
The singing trout.
Cellphone ring tones x2
In-car GPS systems
BLUETOOF
blackpig
04-20-2008, 06:08 PM
People walking around with those things in their ears that make them look like Cylon troopers.
Cogwulf
04-21-2008, 04:05 AM
lack of user-friendliness and downright anti-intuitiveness.
give us something thats easy to use dam it!
groutt
04-23-2008, 11:38 AM
Anything without a real power switch.
Old way: Turn the power switch off, it goes off. It's off.
New way: Ask it to go into "standby" mode. If it feels like it, it goes into "standby" and turns on the "standby light" to let you know it's in "standby". It's not off.
Vbrook
04-23-2008, 06:01 PM
What's not to like about it? :-)
kim kardashian's ass
Most annoying are At&t's mobile phones. Rubbish menus, killed-off or disabled features. Junk.
STFU NOOB!
06-19-2008, 03:44 PM
Anything without a real power switch.
Old way: Turn the power switch off, it goes off. It's off.
New way: Ask it to go into "standby" mode. If it feels like it, it goes into "standby" and turns on the "standby light" to let you know it's in "standby". It's not off.
+1 they say by 2010 more than a quarter of the power used in the USA will be powering things that are in standby mode.
nice keetee
06-20-2008, 10:44 PM
+1 they say by 2010 more than a quarter of the power used in the USA will be powering things that are in standby mode.
funny/scary
nice keetee
06-21-2008, 12:33 AM
more electricity, more
kevinnem
06-21-2008, 06:20 PM
+1 they say by 2010 more than a quarter of the power used in the USA will be powering things that are in standby mode.
who is they.. that just seems retarded to me.
it is possible however, that the use of electricy will good down. - hence the % of used power to stand by thing goes up. That is more a function of higher effeceny lighting, then vampire electronics.
freetime
06-21-2008, 06:33 PM
phones, automobiles, airplanes
Oyaji
06-21-2008, 11:40 PM
My VCR/DVD combo.
It was obviously made with a moron in mind who cannot be trusted to do anything for himself. So what happens is if I put a videotape in, it will start playing by itself, will rewind by itself at the end of the movie, and eject itself once rewound.
Not so bad except sometimes tapes get a little sticky. So what happens is the damned thing thinks the tape has ended and so it automatically starts rewinding the damned movie!!!!! Ive often taken a leak to find the movie I was watching is now ready to be placed back in its case. grrrr
oh, and of course it has turned itself off!!!!
Voltan
06-22-2008, 09:14 AM
any goddamned thing that "beeps" incessantly... cell phone beeps for low battery, unanswered message, missed call... who the fuck cares? beep once and shut up! microwave... the ramen noodles are done, yeah i can still tell time all by myself, just shut the fuck off... washer,dryer, watches, car door alarms, seat belt alarms, STOP THE GODDAMNED BEEPING!!!!!!!!
nice keetee
06-24-2008, 11:11 PM
any goddamned thing that "beeps" incessantly... cell phone beeps for low battery, unanswered message, missed call... who the fuck cares? beep once and shut up! microwave... the ramen noodles are done, yeah i can still tell time all by myself, just shut the fuck off... washer,dryer, watches, car door alarms, seat belt alarms, STOP THE GODDAMNED BEEPING!!!!!!!!
Praise Be! I put a cup of water into the microwave shazam it's boiling and watch out for the superheated water when you drop a teaspoon of instant coffee it overflows your kitchen counter. Fast forward it was a dream and forgot to take the water out 2 years ago but since the grid was on forever... it was a dream and forgot to take the water out 2 hours ago but...Food is ready spake the m wave. If you're so smart why don't you say cup of water? Smart Appliances shut the fuck up.. Is this an option on the menu for the digital cooler/collar? just keep the food cool, cooler
RG450
06-25-2008, 02:34 PM
my "Tickle Me Voltan" doll.
It marches around my bedroom flinging poo, displays its erection at inopportune times, and goes to work naked.
I've checked the good/evil switch three times, and it's set to "good." I may have to return it. :idk:
Voltan
06-25-2008, 07:34 PM
my "Tickle Me Voltan" doll.
It marches around my bedroom flinging poo, displays its erection at inopportune times, and goes to work naked.
I've checked the good/evil switch three times, and it's set to "good." I may have to return it. :idk:
if you set the switch to "evil" just make sure you put duct tape over the cats ass... oh, and dont leave the battery charger anywhere near the jumper cables...
thanks Voltan ltd LLC inc.
nice keetee
06-27-2008, 12:15 AM
duct/duck tape is very handy to have around the merry go round fer crine o' loude
nice keetee
06-27-2008, 12:17 AM
most of dem
Voltan
06-27-2008, 10:31 AM
it muffles the crine o' loude....
nice keetee
06-28-2008, 09:51 PM
most consumer electronics find me annoying most try to do too much instead of 1 thing well enuf remind me of old all in 1 stereos if record player broke the entire console went into the shop heavy at least modern stuff is lighter and smaller most of the time
nice keetee
06-28-2008, 09:54 PM
it muffles the crine o' loude....
what does this mean? crine o' loude hopefully not a shiploude of convicts paupers and fustilarian flap eared knaves
Voltan
06-30-2008, 01:39 AM
what does this mean? crine o' loude hopefully not a shiploude of convicts paupers and fustilarian flap eared knaves
it's apelled "rine o'loude" but it's pronounced "team tartar of the baskervillian misanthropes" quite different actually yet surprisingly scimitar...
bluebearddub
07-06-2008, 12:46 PM
id love a huge emp pulse generator, id set it off every friday morning at about 10am, :)
Voltan
07-07-2008, 11:46 AM
you may have one or possibly two at your earliest convenience..
wordlinkz
07-08-2008, 11:35 AM
hmm for me its cell phone vibrating in my pocket
nice keetee
07-08-2008, 10:07 PM
hmm for me its cell phone vibrating in my pocket
turn off the vibrator vibrating in your pocket?
ask00
09-25-2008, 08:34 AM
Wall Clock tick tick at pin silent night. Boy that sound is like hammering. They came at continue interval so that makes them more horrifying. Every night I thought that I will replace them and in the morning I forget.
sandy00
09-28-2008, 05:28 AM
Wall Clock tick tick at pin silent night. Boy that sound is like hammering. They came at continue interval so that makes them more horrifying. Every night I thought that I will replace them and in the morning I forget.
Have you changed your watch. This one is already two days. I just want to help you and want to remind you.
I simply hate when my RAM showing problem and starts beeping beeping ...
kurfu
10-08-2008, 01:11 PM
Anything without a real power switch.
Old way: Turn the power switch off, it goes off. It's off.
New way: Ask it to go into "standby" mode. If it feels like it, it goes into "standby" and turns on the "standby light" to let you know it's in "standby". It's not off.
Just plug those devices into one of these, problem solved:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/US-power-strip-rotated.jpg
nice keetee
10-08-2008, 08:18 PM
power strips saith the power providers
The Real MC
10-10-2008, 03:36 PM
Clocks that do not retain their time during a power blackout.
I have several devices that I do not bother setting clocks anymore.
Even more annoying are devices that nag you to set their clock by flashing "12:00" all the time.
nice keetee
10-10-2008, 09:16 PM
phantom loads which draw 120 watts 24/7/365 adds to the bill
nice keetee
10-14-2008, 09:59 PM
Backpacking I even shut off cell...if it works anyway...
henzy
10-23-2008, 10:03 PM
When my massage chair start crying when I seat on that. That is really annoying as I need a good massage to relax my self and that one is not working.
Miskatonic
10-30-2008, 10:11 PM
That dumb animated groundhog that plays the theme from "Caddyshack".
The Caddyshack theme song is even worse.
My desktop RAM sound whenever I moved my CPU to some other place and start RAM start crying and this one is really annoying sound. Sometime in front of friends this one is really embarassing as well.
ALLOY ENCLOSURE
02-13-2009, 01:21 PM
Bluetooth headsets!!!:mad:!!!
nice keetee
02-13-2009, 10:43 PM
Bluetooth headsets!!!:mad:!!!
Are those the devices which look like Borg beginnings or ...surgically implanted?
brookethom
02-20-2009, 10:21 AM
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Thanks,
Have a good day!!
Another Brick
02-21-2009, 06:37 AM
Car stereo software.
johnkline
06-06-2009, 06:08 PM
Just cellphones and text messaging in general. I'm not a phone person to begin with, but seeing people rather text than just dial the number...:facepalm:
I thought about just getting rid of our phones and my wife say's she would be lost without one. What happened to the last 30 years you didn't use one?:facepalm:
theheaven
06-10-2009, 11:23 PM
for me, it's the windows start music...
dionysusolympus
06-19-2009, 11:47 AM
wireless earpieces for cellphones and the people who constantly use it. i understand the car, but the street...c'mon, dude.
Voltan
06-19-2009, 02:01 PM
my "Tickle Me Voltan" doll.
It marches around my bedroom flinging poo, displays its erection at inopportune times, and goes to work naked.
I've checked the good/evil switch three times, and it's set to "good." I may have to return it. :idk:
did you try the "evil" setting yet?
wokeye
07-21-2009, 04:31 AM
Laptops. Just because my experiences with the reliablity of these things has really pissed me off. Not sure I will ever buy another, if I do it needs a long warranty :mad:
Voltan
07-23-2009, 02:02 PM
Laptops. Just because my experiences with the reliablity of these things has really pissed me off. Not sure I will ever buy another, if I do it needs a long warranty :mad:
your preference is length over girth?
interesting... :love: