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How ’bout a snooze button?
Maybe a radio installed as well.
Tuned to the elevator music station.
*listens to hold calls station*
We wouldn’t like to be bother, right?
* kicks “ed” into lol’s post *
and who ever heard of a snoozing horse?
Actually, I have one in the kitchen with that feature and it is kind of like a snooze button. You push a button after the alarm goes off, and it just sends out a single chirp every 30-60 seconds to remind you it’s been “silenced,” but it only lasts for a few minutes.
It’s quite handy if the idiot previous homeowner installed the darn thing directly over the stove so it goes off EVERY TIME you preheat the oven or sautee anything.
I kill you!
Fires are feared by puppet regimes.
*double checks weapons and adds silencers*
You are all a bunch of bananas!
Dude, are you on sudameth??? It’s like Friday where you are…
if he only had a brain
What are you, vice from the McCarthy era?
If it wasn’t for the church, this flag would be flying at the U.N right now.
With the thoughts you be thinkin’
you could be another Lincoln
(meanwhile, my head I be scratchin’ while
my thoughts are busy hatchin’
commie plotz)
To quote a monkey called donkeykong:
Uuhhh Banana!
Whats so bad about bananas?
What’s wrong with bananas? :O
u gonna die 1§
And this helps how????
Is releases smoke signs.
Ah, that explains it.
It puts a smile on your face.
mustn’t wake the chickens before you finish frying the eggs.
Your ruining my fun!
Uhm, you’re getting unrealistically mad. Last I checked, nobody directly harmed you due to their misconception.
OK, ptb, whassup? I never had to “Log In” before. And what happened to the fail that was just there?
You’re confuzzling me!!!
I never have logged in. I have no idea what to tell you.
Judy is a lumberjack?
And she’s okay!
Wishes she was a girlie.
just like her dear mama
She loves to press wild flowers.
She puts on womens clothing, and hangs around in bars!
Not a Fail — hasn’t anyone had a “steak alarm” go off needlessly for many minutes? As long as it isn’t self-silencing, it’s probably OK.
Food’s not done until the smoke alarm goes off?
I had to take mine down. The steam from the shower set it off.
Flame thrower testing area is near my unliving quarters.
Also, the neighbors call 9-1-1 when you are beating on your ceiling with a broom handle.
simple solution, moioci… move it out of the kitchen.
Indeed! I agree. If you cook the wrong thing, run the shower, or gosh forbid, smoke cigarettes, you’re in deep with the smoke detector. Nice to have it have a button to push to shut if off if it goes off when the house ISN’T on fire.
I’ve been saying for years someone should add this feature. Good on First Alert for doing so. Bad on Failblog for missing the point.
I thought all smoke alarms had that feature now? First alert has it, so does Kidde. I find the Kidde ones to give off fewer false alarms in addition to that, and they suck down the batteries less.
Shouldn’t that be Third Alert?
The silence feature only works twice.
But that is not the first time.
concurrently with the postman?
What did you guys do with “Private: Coaching Fail”???
Somebody tell me I didn’t just !magine it, ‘k??
I saw it too somewhere.
I somehow missed that one. Grrrrr!
They probably figured out it was a badly shopped.
its on the rss feed
awesome! now those pesky alarms wont be a bother anymore
i actualy have smoke alarms like that, but then again they are also interconnected so if one goes off they all do, and even the ‘silence’ button still chirps periodically once you push it
“New And Improved! The Arsonist’s dream!… Smoke Alarm with SILENCER BUTTON!”
ht tp://www.valuesphere.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ValueSphere&Product_Code=FirstAlert_Smoke_Alarm_3Pack
googled it and this is what I found.
my mom died in a fire last week… and we did’nt have an alarm with silent feature….
This is an epic fail at finding a fail…
Smoke alarms WITHOUT a silence-feature are the worst–especially when my sister is cooking (burns things).
The “silence feature” provides an easy way to shut the dang thing up when there is no actual fire to deal with. To get close enough to push “silence” you are definitely alert enough to investigate if there is in fact a fire. It resets itself after some time, so you’d better deal with the cause or the auditory assault will recur.
It’s social engineering. It will keep people from removing the battery and then forgetting to put the battery back in, making things worse than before.
I concur with above statement.
*headdesk*
WE KNOW!!!
*slips pillow under Avis’s forehead*
There now, all nice a floofy
I see that pillow comes with a handy silence feature.
In his spare time domerdaver likes to bust into the birthday parties of young children and blow out the candles.
Wonder if he/she is related to Debbie Downer?
Well, yes, I do blow out those candles. Birthday parties are no place for candles, incense or any of that other hippie-dippie, new age stuff, what with all the oxygen tanks and other accelerants about. And since when is this a party? A birthday should be a private affair between a woman and her anaesthaetist.
Exactly. It’s not a fail, it’s a reasonable feature. You might even want it in case of a real fire. Many years ago my father-in-law forgot something on the stove and we were all outside talking to the neighbors. The food cooked totally dry and actually caught fire and set off the alarms. I put the fire out very quickly with some water (it was only in the pan) but it was 15 minutes before the alarms would shut up.
geuss its for the deff
Perhaps for the illiterate?
After all, holding up a sign to the window reading “Hlep Frie” would just be confusing to that off-duty fireman who happened to be wandering by.
not sure what the fail is here. If you have a fire alarm in the kitchen, you sometimes need the silence feature when making toast. Or near the bathroom door, if the steam from the shower sets it off (that’s exactly why I recently purchased a new smoke alarm with the silence feature). Obviously it only silences it for a few minutes. When do the real fails come back?
…comes with every smoke alarms – why is this on the main page, my “vage card” picture was way better and never made it on this page….
Actually its not really fail. Lets say your moron friends decided to smoke inside your house and this thing goes of. You know there is no fire so you silence it until all room is clear of smoke.
Wouldn’t you then be better off with a moron detector with handy silence feature, or is this the same thing?
♫People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.♪
Hello, Darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to speak with you again…
????
the words of the PROFITS
Fools.
No, the words of Simon and Garfunkle. Not sure if they’d be considered prophets….
And the bloggers bowed and prayed.
In restless dreams I walked alone…
…And touched the sound of silence.
And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains…
In the words that we were typing.
I turned my power to the cold and damp…
Well my eyes have sagged
So by the flash of a TV light
I’ll split the night
and make the sound of snoring. . .
*Squeezes good night*
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest …
So I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Agree with gripers above. I think this is at least the second time for this stupid non-fail. Do the failblog people live in their mother’s basement where they’re not allowed to play with matches or use the oven? Anybody in the real world knows that a smoke alarm that can’t be shut off will get stuffed in a sock drawer with its batteries removed.
Please refer to the Vote page for a better understanding of how this site works.
Like the silence feature on your cell phone, this will shake the building off it’s foundations, collapsing it and thereby putting out the fire.
You, dear madame, win.at.life.
*feels a rant coming on*
*was hung up on by her aunt*
Those of you on FB2 will know why that rant is coming.
*squeeze*
Poor Avis, only family knows how to torture one properly.
*Squeeze*
*squeeze*
Getting along with frightened, confused people can be difficult. Disheartening, even.
?????!!!!!
I’m sorry Avis. I misunderstood. I hope things settle down for you and your aunt.
Oh, it’ll end up okay I guess. In the long run. Maybe. One of these days.
This is the aunt that I have long butted heads with. We don’t agree on much. ~Why should we agree on my health?~
We seem to be typing at the same speed tonight.
If any one else gave us that much of a hard time we would kick them to the curb, but *big sigh* family is family.
She’s not frightened, confused I’ll grant you, she’s BRAINWASHED. And she pisses me off. She apparently doesn’t care that members of her FLESH AND BLOOD suffer.
*ahem*
Yes, I will try to contain my ire. I just don’t understand how she can be soooo heartless when it comes to one of her family members.
Oh boy. In that case, I withdraw my 8:39 statement and add “It hurts more because we expect them to treat us like we would treat them.” to my 8:37 statement.
You REALLY need to come to FaceBook!! There is MUCH to this backstory!
I’ve tried that tack with them. It does not work. They believe what they believe and everyone else is WRONG. It just really grates sometimes.
I know, I know. I’m trying to work my way up to it.
My father was like that and very good at arguing you over to his way of thinking. I like to think I’m better at catching myself when I do it.
*SQUEEZE* I’ve never seen an example of you doing that. And for that, I thank you.
Snork! Tell that to my kids.
*Squeeze*
You get to press your ideals on your kids, you made them!
They’re just like their mother.
Sometimes family just sucks.
Yeah, sometimes they really really do.
I wish I didn’t understand what you mean. I do think fear is at the root of a lot of our human problems, no matter how it is expressed, but I don’t know your aunt, so you’re a better judge.
*squeezes*
Living well is the best revenge. — George Herbert
Again, you guys are AWESOME! And I thank you for the opportunity to rant. I needed that.
For when you want someone else to die in the fire
Dude….. I didn’t think this was gonna make it on the front page….. kick ass!
playing devils advocate here but It may just be that it send an alert to the Fire Department when it goes off for more than a minute…I highly doubt it but I can pretend.
Silencers: This illegal after market item is mounted to a flame thrower thus making the assassin completely stealthy as he burns your ass.
It sends signals to your brain telling you to wake up.This isn’t a fail, it is a win(sarcasm intended)
Yeah, there’s no fail in this product. It’s great being able to shut the thing up when there’s not an actual fire. It continues making a little noise every so often so you know it’s disabled, and reactivates after a few minutes. Much safer than pulling the battery out.
Silent but deadly.
Makes sense if you’ve burned something in the kitchen and need to silence the alarm while you get the smoke cleared
Chief, I request the cone of silence.
They don’t actually sell smoke alarms anymore that don’t have a silence feature. Is the Cheezburger Network too lazy to cook?
Ummmm, my fire alarm has a silence feature. It’s actually pretty awesome. So when something burns in the kitchen I don’t have to stand under the damn thing waving a towel. And it still gives off a beep to let you know that it’s still detecting smoke even though it’s not sounding off.
I recommend these to anyone. KAKOW!
Silence!!!
Eye keel you!
It’s ironic that you would mention “paradox” because there’s a site that is friendly to such postings, but ironically, the name escapes me.
friendsofirony.com?
This post is just trying too hard. It’s pretty obvious what that means.
Usually smoke alarms go off continuously upon the presence of smoke. This one is meant for kitchen use, since it is frustrating for the alarm to go off while cooking takes place.
It’s no different than the people who take the batteries out because they need them somewhere else. Then us firefighters can go in later to recover the bodies after we the fire out
I’d rather be burnt to a crisp than have to endure 1 second of that annoying alarm.
@ Terry Parks… Um. yeah. That sorta sucks for them.
this isnt a fail. it means if you burn something while cooking or smoke, you can press the silence button which turns it off for about 10 mins. FAIL for missfailing!
Im not seeing a fail, it means that if its a false alarm you can silence it.
DOOOH!
yeah that should help us indeed..
I know what you mean.