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What the actual eff

205 replies

candycrush789 · 02/02/2023 06:41

Me and my daughter was awoken to a LOUD condescending beeping noise. Like duh duh duh duh duh da da da da if that makes sense 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ve checked all the smoke alarms, carbon dioxide detector things and all good. The kids are older now so they don’t have any musical toys. I literally have no explanation. AIBU to move out out 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

in all seriousness has anyone else ever had this?…been living here 2 years this august and hasn’t happened at all before now

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PuppyMonkey · 02/02/2023 08:32

Lightninginabox · 02/02/2023 07:05

Was it beeping like ‘well of course if that’s the best you can do then well done you, not everyone has the same abilities. I mean I find it easy to rewire a nuclear sub, but I appreciate we’re all different.’

Grin
JarByTheDoor · 02/02/2023 08:32

PayPennies · 02/02/2023 07:13

Sorry but I really just want to address “condescending”. WTF? 🤣 😂 How can an alarm be insulting/patronising - which is what condescending means?! What did you think the word means OP? 😂

Wow. That's meta. I hope it was deliberate.

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 02/02/2023 08:33

WuTangGran · 02/02/2023 06:55

You beat me to it.

Chooksnroses · 02/02/2023 08:33

PayPennies · 02/02/2023 07:13

Sorry but I really just want to address “condescending”. WTF? 🤣 😂 How can an alarm be insulting/patronising - which is what condescending means?! What did you think the word means OP? 😂

Are you usually so nasty?

Hunkydory99 · 02/02/2023 08:34

We had something similar - it was a carbon monoxide alarm dying. There was no leak but the non replaceable batteries died.
do You have a burglar alarm? Could be that?

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 02/02/2023 08:37

FangsForTheMemory · 02/02/2023 06:49

I don’t think you mean condescending.

I thought this!

JarByTheDoor · 02/02/2023 08:37

Heysham1 · 02/02/2023 07:07

One early morning recently, I could hear the distant sound of a Christmas carol being played at a slowed down speed (just the sort of thing in a horror film!). I eventually tracked it down to my elderly mother's display cabinet. There was a little christmas angel ornament that hasn't worked for years (and she never moves), that had decided to have a last little sing!
Sorry, no help at all!

That's the creepiest fucking thing I've ever heard. I'd have assumed I'd accidentally invoked the ancient curse of an evil spirit via the medium of bizarre and embarrassing autocorrect errors, and been metaphysically cast out to to some tacky-horror-movie-based parallel universe while I slept. Or something equally plausible.

ferociouslychristmas · 02/02/2023 08:37

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Sparkleshine21 · 02/02/2023 08:40

Chooksnroses · 02/02/2023 08:33

Are you usually so nasty?

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Exactly my thoughts. We all know what she means, there’s no need to be a dick

Iwrotethelyricstoaxlf · 02/02/2023 08:42

Friend had similar. Was an old musical toy in a box in the loft that she didn’t realise she still had.

OllytheCollie · 02/02/2023 08:45

I am enjoying all the people being condescending about your misuse of the word condescending.

When this happened to us it was a VTech toy bought in a charity shop for 50p that I had hidden from a child and then hidden in a bag in the loft. DH had piled something else on top of it and it was still trying to feebly bleat out Yankee Doodle Dandy. He spent a long time in the loft finding that particular 'ghost'. I think we binned it rather than inflict it on anyone else.

viques · 02/02/2023 08:46

containsnuts · 02/02/2023 07:26

Thermostat? I thought ours was mains connected until the display went blank and the repair person said that the betteried had run out lol.

A problem solved! It’s alarms with betteries that sound condescending.

Intrepidescape · 02/02/2023 08:48

ShakespearesBlister · 02/02/2023 08:02

You actually mean Ascending if it gets louder 😉

There's got to be a simple solution to it. Not an old phone alarm?

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@ShakespearesBlister I suspect it is something really obvious. The OP needs to read a book.

JarByTheDoor · 02/02/2023 08:55

My carbon monoxide detector does a genuinely condescending little speech when its battery is low. It's a low-quality recording of a woman (incidentally, with what I think is an Indian English accent, unusually — have never come across that in the UK in any other electronic device), saying something along the lines of "The battery is low — please replace with new batteries, observing the correct polarity," in a slightly patronising tone. She runs out infrequently enough that I forget she talks, and when it does happen, it's a mysterious, muffled, electronically distorted, directionally ambiguous voice sound, that doesn't quite last long enough for me to follow it to the source, and takes long enough to repeat that I convince myself that I imagined it or it was the washing machine pretending to talk again or a pedestrian chatting to pavement furniture outside.

thegreylady · 02/02/2023 08:56

I had this happen and eventually traced it to a landline in the spare room which had been slightly dislodged.

BorisJohnsonsHair · 02/02/2023 08:59

YABVVU for using the word "eff"

Neededanewuserhandle · 02/02/2023 09:00

candycrush789 · 02/02/2023 07:00

@Ponoka7 inside for sure. Sounded like my living room but there’s nothing on in there. We turn off all electrics at night so I’m so confused and have no idea

Could it be something in the collection of stuff you turn off at night?
Some devices have battery backup but only for so long - perhaps after a period without mains power a device is beeping to warn it's running out of power?

AmIreallyBeverly · 02/02/2023 09:00

JarByTheDoor · 02/02/2023 08:32

Wow. That's meta. I hope it was deliberate.

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🤣🤣🤣

starfishmummy · 02/02/2023 09:03

Heysham1 · 02/02/2023 07:07

One early morning recently, I could hear the distant sound of a Christmas carol being played at a slowed down speed (just the sort of thing in a horror film!). I eventually tracked it down to my elderly mother's display cabinet. There was a little christmas angel ornament that hasn't worked for years (and she never moves), that had decided to have a last little sing!
Sorry, no help at all!

It's annoying when things suddenly start working again like that.

DS dropped my electronic kitchen timer behind a radiator, we have never managed to get it out. Years later it started beeping at the same time every afternoon!

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 02/02/2023 09:04

Could it be a warning that something ominous is about to happen? Like in Jaws? Fortunately you don't live near the sea, so one can rule that one out.

Are you anywhere near the set of EastEnders? 😦

Are you in a Motel? If so don't use the shower. 😳

Or is Jack Nicholson typing a novel downstairs... 😱

SpaceMonitor · 02/02/2023 09:05

Nothing worse than a condescending beep.

WinterFoxes · 02/02/2023 09:09

Lightninginabox · 02/02/2023 07:05

Was it beeping like ‘well of course if that’s the best you can do then well done you, not everyone has the same abilities. I mean I find it easy to rewire a nuclear sub, but I appreciate we’re all different.’

LOL

UnctuousUnicorns · 02/02/2023 09:10

Is it wrong that I misinterpreted the OP's (obvious) autocarrot as "crescendoing"? I'm quite disappointed that it's actually as mundane as "descending".

GoodChat · 02/02/2023 09:11

UnctuousUnicorns · 02/02/2023 09:10

Is it wrong that I misinterpreted the OP's (obvious) autocarrot as "crescendoing"? I'm quite disappointed that it's actually as mundane as "descending".

I approve of your autocarrot

WinterFoxes · 02/02/2023 09:12

Everyone who is getting so puzzled about 'condescending' – it's clearly effing autocorrect on a mistype of 'crescendoing'. Happens all the time.