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Beep, Beep, Beep

  • 07-10-2009 9:09am
    #1
    PrestonDaly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭


    Has anyone noticed how every machine beeps at you these days.

    When my new washing machine is finished it beeps until it is switched off, the dishwasher does the same. My new car beeps if I drive off without a seat belt on, or when I go over 120km. At the dart station everything seems to beep.

    Beep, beep, beep.

    I thought, why is this. Well having done some research I now know the answer. It is all part of "behaviour modification". Such methods will bring in world peace within 30 years.

    Beep, beep.

    http://captology.stanford.edu/index.html


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  • #2
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Beep.


  • #3
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Roadrunner too?


  • #4
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    So you think the machines are talking to you?

    I think you should stay away from Clock Towers.


  • #5
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Even A blind boy is in on it!!!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055703327


  • #6
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,306 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I thought this thread was gonna reverse over me so I jumped out of my seat to avoid getting hit and busted my knee. Thanks a lot OP! :mad:


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    When my new washing machine is finished it beeps until it is switched off, the dishwasher does the same.

    Sounds like you've got some gosh-darned irritating kitchen do-hickeys on your hands there Preston ol' buddy.

    Why don't you go out and get a lil ol' wifey for yourself to do all that washing and a-scrubbing. Then you won't have to be all a-furrowing your brow trying to understand things and you can relax and whittle to your heart's content.


  • #8
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Yup same in my apt. The washing machine, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, toaster all beep. Its bloody annoying but handy at the same time if you havent shut the fridge correctly.


  • #9
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Yea wtf is the craic with this? My alarm clock is ALWAYS at it.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My computer beeps when a shíte thread is created


  • #11
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    My computer beeps when a shíte thread is created
    How about shít posts? :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    PrestonDaly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭PrestonDaly


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    My computer beeps when a shíte thread is created

    What does it do when a thread discussing your favourite superhero is created?


  • #13
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    As someone who has campaigned for right for machines and computers I find your post insensitive and offensive. Machines should have the right to free speech just like any other creature, you work them non stop everyday and then complain when they cry out in pain or let you know when their slave task is completed. Shame on you, shame!


  • #14
    Trankton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Trankton


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    My new car

    Ooh Mr La Di da with your new car!!!!!


  • #15
    PrestonDaly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭PrestonDaly


    Trankton wrote: »
    Ooh Mr La Di da with your new car!!!!!

    new to me, buddy.


  • #16
    Trankton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Trankton


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    new to me, buddy.

    Lol, but how could I possibly resist. BEEP!!!


  • #17
    Seillejet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Seillejet


    I was driving on Saturday morning and a buddy of mine was sitting in the car. He wouldnt put on the seat belt to stop the beeping and started quoting behaviour modification. A sudden step on the brakes soon sorted him out though :D


  • #18
    06621121
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭06621121


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    Has anyone noticed how every machine beeps at you these days.

    When my new washing machine is finished it beeps until it is switched off, the dishwasher does the same. My new car beeps if I drive off without a seat belt on, or when I go over 120km. At the dart station everything seems to beep.

    Beep, beep, beep.

    I thought, why is this. Well having done some research I now know the answer. It is all part of "behaviour modification". Such methods will bring in world peace within 30 years.

    Beep, beep.

    http://captology.stanford.edu/index.html


    I wish my car beeped more. Did you know that if your lights are on and you get out the passenger side door it doesn't beep to tell you your lights are left on??
    When i returned to my car last night at 6pm, my battery was dead.. and it was raining! Thank you UCD staff, and boy in white van! :)
    Sometimes the beeping is good!


  • #19
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    My new car beeps ...

    No recession there. :pac:


  • #20
    PrestonDaly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭PrestonDaly


    19 posts in and no one has even expressed any disgust at the intent of these people. Do you not care that these people are trying in their own words "to modify behaviour".


  • #21
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    19 posts in and no one has even expressed any disgust at the intent of these people. Do you not care that these people are trying in their own words "to modify behaviour".

    Nothing I own beeps. Leave me out of your New World Order.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    PrestonDaly wrote: »
    What does it do when a thread discussing your favourite superhero is created?

    creams all over the keyboard


  • #23
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    I was expecting this to be a thread about a new Black Eyed Peas song.


  • #24
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    My left breast beeps just before it rains outside.


  • #25
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    My left breast beeps just before it rains outside.

    :eek: That is so Awesome.

    A Booberometer.


  • #26
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    :eek: That is so Awesome.
    You like moobs?


  • #27
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    my sons nose beeps when i press it


  • #28
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Kiera wrote: »
    You like moobs?

    Beeping ones apparently..


  • #29
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Beeping ones apparently..
    I think i might have found your perfect match. :D


  • #30
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Jesus lads, i'm a lady! It jingles before snow, but thats a completely different thread.


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  • #31
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    Jesus lads, i'm a lady! It jingles before snow, but thats a completely different thread.
    You sig says different :P


  • #32
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Kiera wrote: »
    Yup same in my apt. The washing machine, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, toaster all beep. Its bloody annoying but handy at the same time if you havent shut the fridge correctly.

    How do you not shut the fridge correctly?

    Surely, its either closed or its open?


  • #33
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Kiera wrote: »
    I think i might have found your perfect match. :D
    Touché

    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    Jesus lads, i'm a lady! It jingles before snow,
    but thats a completely different thread.

    Aha!
    See I'm straight..


    So then we'llallhavetea...
    In the finest traditions of the internet..

    a/s/l?
    I tink dat u r deh sexhiest!1!!!11!!


  • #34
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    How do you not shut the fridge correctly?

    Surely, its either closed or its open?
    There is an inbetween you know! Like its nearly shut but not! ;)

    (ie, it looks shut)


  • #35
    Seillejet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Seillejet


    But does the light really go out when the door shuts??


  • #36
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Seillejet wrote: »
    But does the light really go out when the door shuts??

    We stuck my midget friend Pedro in our freezer one night to find out the answer to that.

    Answer is: We don't know. Pedro won't tell - he hates us now because we forgot about him and he lost two toes to frost bite.


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  • #37
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    Seillejet wrote: »
    But does the light really go out when the door shuts??

    Every time the light in the fridge turns off a fairy dies..


  • #38
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Wazdakka wrote: »
    Every time the light in the fridge turns off a fairy dies..

    But every time it turns on a hooker get's her wings..


  • #39
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    The one that really bugs me is Ulster Bank ATMs. I'll just beep loudly to tell everyone in the vicinity that this person has just withdrawn a wad of cash.

    Down with beeps. Dings are the future.


  • #40
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    MOH wrote: »
    The one that really bugs me is Ulster Bank ATMs. I'll just beep loudly to tell everyone in the vicinity that this person has just withdrawn a wad of cash.

    Down with beeps. Dings are the future.

    But surely anyone at a cash machine is withdrawing cash?

    Does the beep get louder the more you've withdrawn?


  • #41
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Roadrunner too?
    no he meep meep'd


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  • #42
    mudokon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭mudokon


    Overheal wrote: »
    no he meep meep'd

    Maybe Roadrunner had a speech impediment?


  • #43
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    it's all beep beep motherf*ckin' beep


  • #44
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    mudokon wrote: »
    Maybe Roadrunner had a speech impediment?

    He had a stutter..


  • #45
    NedTermo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭NedTermo


    All this stuff about behaviour modification is a load of oul *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep


  • #46
    K-Ren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭K-Ren


    PrestonDaly wrote: »

    My new car beeps if I drive off without a seat belt on, or when I go over 120km.

    Beep beep, beep beep, yeah!


  • #47
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Kiera wrote: »
    You sig says different :P

    you mean.... you dont hump?? :eek:


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