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   victornewman said, 6 months ago

   yuk yuk! I think I had one of those…or was it a calculator watch, small buttons….does anyone from my generation remember the tri-color click pens in school? Did anyone ever use the green or red??
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   Suzanne said, 6 months ago

   @victornewman

   I remember those pens. I’ve even had the 4 colour one with black, blue, red and green.
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   Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

   Gadgets with mysterious functions, even more mysterious controls, and Instruction Manuals (if any) that use undecipherable icons instead of plain English are a pain to many of us. Even some of the gizmos on my car I can use only if have the manual open in front of me, they are so opaque.
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   frumdebang said, 6 months ago

   I’m the only person in my family who speaks “IKEA,” those icon-driven assembly instructions. Thus, I’m the go-to guy whenever anybody buys some Ůblœrkę bookcases.
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   dukedoug said, 6 months ago

   @Suzanne

   We have a bunch of the 4-colour ones at home with the blue run out … My wife used to use ‘em at work but only ever used the blue. When that ran out she’d bring ’em home ….
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   dukedoug said, 6 months ago

   90’s joke … How can you tell if there are no teenagers in the house ? … The clock on the video recorder is flashing 12:00,
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   PICTO said, 6 months ago

   Hit it with a stick.
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   Number Six said, 6 months ago

   I had this problem for two years. I gave up looking for the source of the beep (in the bedroom every 38 secs) and lived with it.
   
   When I rented out the flat 2 months ago, the tenent complained to my letting agent. Some asshole had put a false ceiling over a smoke detector and I was charged £60 for an electrician to remove it!
   
   
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   Matthew Davis said, 6 months ago

   @dukedoug

   You should be able to get refills for those. You can even replace the colors you don’t use with colors you do (or in many cases, a pencil).
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    Puddlesplatt said, 6 months ago

    Just call me fumble fingers, which hand to you use for a tooth brush?
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    DAZZ said, 6 months ago

    I had a mysterious beeping yesterday morning; it was part of the wireless alarm system. I went to the panel for status and it told me the motion detector next to the front door had low battery signal. I took a step ladder over and fixed it before breakfast. Some of the smoke detectors in my house are in really stupid places. One is so far into the top of the stairway that I can’t reach it. I told the electrician who did one of my lighting projects to remove it, but he just removed the cover so it’s even uglier. They are on line power so at least I’ll never have to change the battery and if I have an electrician again I’ll be at home now.
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    msowards said, 6 months ago

    Does anybody really still wear watches? I used to feel naked without mine and I had several from which to choose, but now my cell phone has the exact time all the time even when we switch to or from DST. So why wear a watch?
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    Rista said, 6 months ago

    @msowards

    Yup some of us do. I can even mostly figure out my watches buttons. (Of course I did NOT get a 17 button watch :)
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    briatollah said, 6 months ago

    @victornewman

    I remember it as a four-color Bic. I still have one around.
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    Arkco said, 6 months ago

    I have to look up the pdf file on the computer, which has the instructions, to change anything on my watch….
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