@2many2no@stolicat Yes, back on old vacuum tube powered portable devices. They also had an A battery that wasn’t anything like our AA/AAA/AAAA batteries, and a C battery that is nothing like our C batteries. The B battery was typically very high voltage.
@spacemart@stolicat@tinamarie1974 Really? This forum is full of off color jokes, innuendo and even a “fuck counter”. This is where you draw the line?
I think that we are all adults here and can understand a joke without taking it as encouragement to act out whatever seems to be promoted.
For fuck’s sake!
@mml666@spacemart@stolicat well opinions are like belly buttons, everybody has one! We are a pretty liberal group, but my opinion is that abuse is NEVER a laughing matter and I am entitled to voice my opinion, just like you.
@stolicat@tinamarie1974 its a risky joke to make if the audience is in or been through an abusive situation. I dont mean to trivialize it. I say potentially offensive things because it is very hard to offend me
@spacemart@stolicat Well and for a group this large you don’t really know your audience at that level. I am sad to say, it is a topic that is often trivialized, even by the police that are there to protect victims.
@spacemart@tinamarie1974 Thanks for your reply, @spacemart - I admit I chuckled for a second when I first read it, then what it said sank in - spousal/partner/familiar abuse is still too prevalent in many places, and many of us have something ugly in our past that a comment can bring up. When read, most process it through their experience and the somewhat detached “she” becomes “your mother” or “your daughter”, or just “you”, and it becomes a physical threat.
“Offensive” humor has its place (especially around here), when sarcastically highlighting the cruelty/absurdity/irony of actions, but it can sting when applied to open wounds.
I’m an “Ultrafire” (generic Chinese knockoff brand) 3.7V Lithium; much less actual substance than what’s written on the label, and tend to leak and/or explode on you when taken out of my comfort zone.
I’m that battery that doesn’t conform, and only fits one thing. If it goes dead, you might as well replace the whole thing, because good luck finding a replacement.
@vonart Oh come on – film will come back just like VHS Betamax tapes and 8-track 4-track cartridges! And let’s not forget getting on the internet with a Commodore 64. The 64 means it’s a 64 bit computer, right?
@narfcake@tinamarie1974 Yep, I do. I /also/ have a Bernouli Box, though mine’s in the living room closet, along with a couple of zip and jaz drives, an 8" floppy for a DEC machine (no drive for that one), and a few reels of high speed tape from an old mainframe.
@narfcake@tinamarie1974@ybmuG Just by not throwing stuff out, you too can have a closet full of obsolete technology. There’s a Mac Plus in there too, along with a 2400 baud modem. It’s time to clean some of it out hehe
@narfcake@vonart@ybmuG I do have two VERY old desktop CPU’s sitting in my garage. One is from the mid 90’s. The other maybe early 2000’s. I haven’t tried boot them up in years, but they have moved three times with me over the years. Yes, I have a problem.
@narfcake@tinamarie1974@vonart I recycled about 20 CPUs recently, but still have plenty. I would bet my oldest that I still have is an Atari 800XL, complete with external 5 1/4 floppy drive
I am like an iPhone battery. Glued down to my current role, and not much use elsewhere. And good luck replacing me. (Maybe the new phones are better. The original iPhone then.)
LiPo battery, the kind used in RC drones and planes. Tremendously powerful but only really good for a few niche things that most people don’t care about. Prone to spontaneously ignite if mistreated or for no reason at all. Probably will be replaced by something better in a few years.
Any 9-volts here? Kinda square, hard to find, zaps the shit outta your tongue when ya lick it?
@jsh139 Great minds, running along similar yet different lines.
@jsh139 Try freezing it first before you lick it.
@jsh139 oh I had an uncle talk me onto putting my tongue on a 9 volt when I was a kid. I returned the favor to my younger sibling.
It was electrifying
@mossygreen haha yup!
@Kidsandliz
@jsh139 @Kidsandliz
Like of like that kid in Christmas story?
Oh wait, you meant freeze the battery first…
@jsh139 9Vs are made from 6 AAAA batteries, so you’re basically the battery equivalent of a bunch of toddlers stacked inside of a trench coat.
@ShotgunX or sardines in a can!
I’m mediocre, like a C
/giphy like a C
@2many2no the best flashlights I have use “C”. It’s the perfect power and size point between the AA and the D.
Side question - was there ever a “B”?
@2many2no @stolicat Yes, back on old vacuum tube powered portable devices. They also had an A battery that wasn’t anything like our AA/AAA/AAAA batteries, and a C battery that is nothing like our C batteries. The B battery was typically very high voltage.
@stolicat :
@aetris @stolicat Those must have really dragged on your ears…
I chose the watch battery, but I really feel like I’m more of a 9 volt battery. Also very niche, of extremely limited use in mostly obsolete devices.
@mossygreen
Like smoke detectors?
@DVDBZN Obsolete smoke detectors, yes.
And then there is a certain someone here who is like a fridge because that is where he keeps all his batteries.
@Kidsandliz Finally a question specifically for him, and he’s silent!
@Fuzzalini @Kidsandliz I was at a Bar Mitzvah for a friend of one of my kids all day Saturday, and have been tied up with other stuff all day Sunday.
Being a grown up sometimes sucks and shit…
i’d say normal battery, like only when she really deserves it
@spacemart
/giphy battered women
@fuzzmanmatt @spacemart this whole convo seems super sleepy.
@fuzzmanmatt @spacemart
/image battered fish
@spacemart uuummmm
@spacemart @tinamarie1974 something very wrong here …
@spacemart @stolicat Glad I am not the only one to pick up on that!!
@spacemart @tinamarie1974 it may be a clever play on words, but it’s not funny, and dangerous to trivialize.
@spacemart @stolicat
/giphy well said
@spacemart @stolicat @tinamarie1974 It can be funny and dangerous to trivialize.
@spacemart @stolicat @tinamarie1974 Really? This forum is full of off color jokes, innuendo and even a “fuck counter”. This is where you draw the line?
I think that we are all adults here and can understand a joke without taking it as encouragement to act out whatever seems to be promoted.
For fuck’s sake!
Did you know that @carl669 is the keeper of the count?
@mml666 @spacemart @stolicat well opinions are like belly buttons, everybody has one! We are a pretty liberal group, but my opinion is that abuse is NEVER a laughing matter and I am entitled to voice my opinion, just like you.
@spacemart @stolicat @tinamarie1974 the one I go with is, “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and they all stink.”
@mml666 @spacemart @stolicat well, I was being polite and not calling you an asshole. Guess that went over your head.
@spacemart @stolicat @tinamarie1974 not me, just my opinions.
@stolicat @tinamarie1974 its a risky joke to make if the audience is in or been through an abusive situation. I dont mean to trivialize it. I say potentially offensive things because it is very hard to offend me
@spacemart @stolicat Well and for a group this large you don’t really know your audience at that level. I am sad to say, it is a topic that is often trivialized, even by the police that are there to protect victims.
@spacemart @tinamarie1974 Thanks for your reply, @spacemart - I admit I chuckled for a second when I first read it, then what it said sank in - spousal/partner/familiar abuse is still too prevalent in many places, and many of us have something ugly in our past that a comment can bring up. When read, most process it through their experience and the somewhat detached “she” becomes “your mother” or “your daughter”, or just “you”, and it becomes a physical threat.
“Offensive” humor has its place (especially around here), when sarcastically highlighting the cruelty/absurdity/irony of actions, but it can sting when applied to open wounds.
tl;dr - words matter.
@fuzzmanmatt @spacemart She’s very cute! I want to give her a raspberry on that belly…
Only with her consent, of course.
I’m like an 18650: too large for everyday, but man when you need some high energy stuff for just a little while, I’m your guy.
@fuzzmanmatt
/giphy getting hot in here
I’m like a 9-volt battery. If you put your tongue on me, you’ll regret it.
@UncleVinny well that’s sad!
@UncleVinny thanks for the warning
@UncleVinny, there goes my Sunday evening plans.
@kittykat9180
I’m like a Baghdad Battery – mislabeled and almost assuredly not used how people believe I was used.
@Tin_Foil nice! I’d never heard of that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
I’m a BA5800/U… tall, awkward, and nonstandard.
Probably a #6 “A” Dry Cell Battery.
@daveinwarsh very specific!
A motorcycle battery.
Not super good looking, but it makes the ride a lot better!
I’m an “Ultrafire” (generic Chinese knockoff brand) 3.7V Lithium; much less actual substance than what’s written on the label, and tend to leak and/or explode on you when taken out of my comfort zone.
I don’t hold my charge while on the shelf.
@phendrick You must be a Ni-Cad, like me.
I must be a hearing aid battery because people are always saying “what” when I talk to them.
I’m a 6V lantern battery. Awkward, bigger than I need to be for the job, and no one is really sure what to do with me.
The bad battery in the set, bringing everyone down but must be used to make it work.
I’m that battery that doesn’t conform, and only fits one thing. If it goes dead, you might as well replace the whole thing, because good luck finding a replacement.
Dead
Maybe because I’m up at 2:30 on Meh…
I’m outdated and nobody remembers why I’m around. I’m a size J battery. Behold my rectangle-y 6 volt uselessness.
@vonart J cells were somewhat common for film camera flashes – so yeah, still totally relevant!
@narfcake keyword being “were” hehe. I’ve gone through several myself, but they’re not exactly useful these days
@vonart Oh come on – film will come back just like
VHSBetamax tapes and8-track4-track cartridges! And let’s not forget getting on the internet with a Commodore 64. The 64 means it’s a 64 bit computer, right?@narfcake Well, I did just receive two albums on 5.25" floppy (released this year, no less!), so anything is possible.
@narfcake @vonart do you even have the hardware to access them??
@narfcake @tinamarie1974 @vonart Sadly, I do. I think I even have a Bernoulli Box in the attic somewhere.
@narfcake @tinamarie1974 Yep, I do. I /also/ have a Bernouli Box, though mine’s in the living room closet, along with a couple of zip and jaz drives, an 8" floppy for a DEC machine (no drive for that one), and a few reels of high speed tape from an old mainframe.
@narfcake @vonart @ybmug clearly I need to step up my outdated electronics game. I did just donate my palm pilot.
@narfcake @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Just by not throwing stuff out, you too can have a closet full of obsolete technology. There’s a Mac Plus in there too, along with a 2400 baud modem. It’s time to clean some of it out hehe
@narfcake @vonart @ybmuG I do have two VERY old desktop CPU’s sitting in my garage. One is from the mid 90’s. The other maybe early 2000’s. I haven’t tried boot them up in years, but they have moved three times with me over the years. Yes, I have a problem.
@narfcake @tinamarie1974 @vonart I recycled about 20 CPUs recently, but still have plenty. I would bet my oldest that I still have is an Atari 800XL, complete with external 5 1/4 floppy drive
@narfcake @vonart @ybmuG mine is an HP (I think) and it has a 5 1/4 and a 3 1/2. But an atari, really?!??!
@narfcake @tinamarie1974 @vonart In original boxes!
@narfcake @vonart @ybmuG
@vonart you sure you don’t want my vt-320 terminal for your closet?
Beer w/ fish and chips.
@ZeroCharisma that’s a strange kind of battery
@moonhat @ZeroCharisma Batter … Battery … they’re interchangeable, right?
@moonhat @narfcake @ZeroCharisma Sure, fried fish is…well…battery. That tracks!
C … lights up around old Coleco electronic, handheld arcade games from the 80s.
I am an old Grove cell. Corroded and broken and giving off poisonous nitric oxide fumes.
half-charged
Computer battery. Nobody notices or cares until I’m not doing what they want.
NiCad - get run down just from laying around doing nothing, and the older I get, the less energy I have.
Also, outdated technology.
@ThomasF there we go.
@ThomasF @UncleVinny I want to see these lyrics used in an energizer bunny commercial …
I am like an iPhone battery. Glued down to my current role, and not much use elsewhere. And good luck replacing me. (Maybe the new phones are better. The original iPhone then.)
@InnocuousFarmer The iPhone X has two batteries.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975
@narfcake pssh. I wish I was two batteries.
Definitely self-propelled, not towed.
@rockblossom not as many artillery references in this thread as I expected.
@rockblossom
/giphy well done!
I don’t know but I do know I go through a lot of AAA.
@kittykat9180 I suppose that’s a lot better than going to a lot of AA. Just sayin.
I’m like a potato battery. I’m not really that energetic or useful, but I’m novel.
Where is the "in the refrigerator " option?
@CaptAmehrican Everywhere. Always. Forever and ever. The end.
LiPo battery, the kind used in RC drones and planes. Tremendously powerful but only really good for a few niche things that most people don’t care about. Prone to spontaneously ignite if mistreated or for no reason at all. Probably will be replaced by something better in a few years.