In their home : "Don't you want to stop that beeping?" - "What beeping?" In the senate : "Don't you want to do something about the crimes?" - "What crimes?"
@@BrodyLuv2 Except to the beeper, it was a past different beeper that pulled the fire alarm. Every beeper exists in a perpetual 'now' and is thus cognitively disconnected from his or her actions and the consequences thereof as those actions are always the doing of this 'past beeper.'
@@randacnam7321 Very based. This is why beepers always say they didn’t do nuffin, because to them they *didn’t* do nothin, it was some other past beeper that did the thing.
This is a chilling foretaste of future America: young people surrounded by broken-down technology and infrastructure with absolutely no idea how any of it works.
@@dh510Exactly. You can see it in real life. There was a European couple that rode their bicycles thru Africa and put it here on UA-cam and you can see them ride by and comment on rusting oil and natural gas infrastructure and nobody obviously knew how to maintain and use it.
Reminds me of that statue of the strong little black girl facing down the bull on Wall Street. Isn't a "Bull Market" a good thing? The very centre of the establishment is already demonstrating a superficial "cargo cult" understanding of what is actually around them. I bet the first generation after whatever is generally accepted as the Roman Empire's collapse were still surrounded by enough functioning remenants that they didn't consider it to have collapsed. I wonder if the future will say the same about us? Was 9/11 and the draconnian laws that followed in many countries our own "sacked by vandals" moment?
This is apparently a legitimate issue Zoomers have: they're about as tech-literate as Boomers. Somehow, only Gen-X and Millenials actually know our way around technology.
I remember I was in a discord call with a dude and a few others, and we kept telling him to check his fire alarm batteries cause we could hear the chirp and eventually he said: "Oooh, no that's not the fire alarm, that's the carbon monoxide detector." We proceeded to inform him calmly and professionally, that was worse
After my ex defrauded me my mothers will and my morgage and ran away with my little girl abandoning my son me and my son were temp housed in a flat on a samarlian inly estste 1000s of them we were the only whites in a temp flat all of the fire alarms and gas detectors were chirping away it was hell and they were man’s ran😂😂 be night smoking weed the gas alarm went off and I had 10 fire fighters in my temp home doing all kinds of tests to find out why
My favorite mostly accurate racial stereotype is that black people are scared of dogs. I've worked in a kennel for 10 years, we've only had a few black employees during that time, and only a handful of our regular customers are black. I'll actually joke about it with the rare black employees, they all laugh their ass off because it's true, they'll tell me how their whole family is terrified of dogs, and think they're crazy for working with dogs.
@@diggman88small dogs can be reactive. I'm more wary of toy dogs in the same way I am of bully or working breeds because some people don't think they need to be trained because they are small.
When I worked retail, I had a black customer ask me about different dog meds he needed, then suddenly busted out with "black people usually are afraid of dogs" entirely unprompted. It was genuinely hilarious
@@diggman88 my best running theory is that pets are a luxury, people who grow up poor usually don't have any. So even if you grow up poor and end up doing ok, you probably won't get a dog or any other pet, just because you've never been around them.
Anyway, the best theory I've heard is that this is a physical manifestation of learned helplessness. Which says something very disturbing about what's happened to society.
I think of it like the marshmallow test for adults. Would you put up with some discomfort now (dealing with replacing a battery) in exchange for future gain (a home without nuisance beeping)? You can predict a lot about someone's life trajectory based on how long it takes them to change the battery.
Man, back during HALO 2, this was still a thing. microphone quality made it sound like everyone was drowning in marinara sauce, but you could hear the smoke alarms PERFECTLY because of the frequency.
The chirping has an entry on urban dictionary called the "ghetto cricket" anybody who played old school COD or any multi-player fps game knows the sound.
I have no idea how people can live with the low battery chirp. The battery in my hallway smoke detector went low about a year ago, I was able to tolerate it for a whole ten minutes before it drove me insane.
After my last apartment check, the fire alarm started chirping. It sent my timid cat into a panic. Found him curled up, shaking in the closet. He'd probably worry himself to death if I didn't change it that day.
Honestly, it’s like an ice pick to my eardrums. It’s not like it’s a quiet chirp it’s loud and piercing. And it’s right outside my bedroom in my house so I’m not having it. I wonder though if the chirps get a bit quieter and less obnoxious as those poor batteries clinging to life slowly fade 😂
This was actually called out by Adam Carolla on LoveLine with Dr Drew back when it was still a radio show in the late 90's. It happened so often he got good enough that he could tell the brand by the duration between beeps. He would literally stop/interrupt the call to count the seconds as a running gag for years. So much so it even carried over to the TV show on MTV. Definitely the original source of the meme, pre memeing being a thing as it predates most of the modern internet.
@@a.j.b.8658lmao yeah, y’all do that. my coworkers girl, called his ass in a huff about how she couldn’t figure out where the beep came from and he had to walk her through how to use a ladder and change it.
I once worked in an auto repair shop in a major city. This smoke detector battery chirping is just another aspect of neglect. Vehicles are neglected as a part of their culture. There is a certain demographic who will spend unlimited sums of money on weaves, tattoos, and fancy clithing but won't spend a thin dime on preventative maintenance on their vehicle. These people drive their cars until they just break. There should be a Carfax column to determine if these folks previously owned the car you are looking at.
I'm 45. I play video games. Have done since 1985. Anyone who calls me a "gamer" will receive a gratuitous five knuckle receipt. I'm not a "gamer". I'm a middle-aged bloke who plays video games. "Gamer" suggests it defines you. Nope. I'm 5,000 other things before I'm ever a so-called gamer. To me, that's an insult like incel and such.
@@AnOldEnglishBloke Weird lol first time I've heard this one, but i respect it. I'm in my 30s n im a proud gamer, among many other things too, but I'll always claim gamer.
I just listened to an interview with the father of a college football player I follow. Let's just say the stereotype was preserved...chirp....chirp....chirp
The tone of the chirp could be easily edited out of a recording with an EQ. The fact that it’s present in music speaks to how shoddily put together said music is.
@@AnOldEnglishBloke lmao, true, average sub Saharan is around 60, so American blacks are probably around 75 at most on average thanks to the invention of White education
"This noise is annoying, maybe I should figure out how to make it stop" - average to high IQ. "This noise is annoying, I guess this is my life now" - low IQ.
I installed home alarms for 7 years. I would carry bulk 9v batteries with me to swap out on beeping smoke detectors. Folks would have the alarm system installed and then refuse to pay because it’s “broken”, citing their existing home smoke detectors chirping ever since we put it in.
I was just typing a joke about Grenfell tower and then I remembered that I’m British and I could get raided by the cops and much worse… found guilty by social media bitches, where there is no redemption. Ever.
@@redactedanticretinSo we have more internet freedom to say things over here in Serbia? Damn that's sad. We don't have smoke detectors though, I don't think I have seen one in my life till I bought one a month ago.
My favorite part of that Kevin Samuels clip is how she didn't even perceive the words "smoke detector", it's like the entire concept of the thing has been blocked out from her mind like Ditchwater Sal in Stardust
People of low education but high self-esteem go through life accepting the fact that they won't understand every single word said to them and in time start ignoring words they don't understand (either in a specific context or just out-right) semi-subconsciously.
It never ceases to amaze me how lazy some people are. I've literally gone to the store at 3am before to get a battery to stop my smoke detector from chirping.
I've met people from Eastern Europe who didn't know what smoke alarms were. They went around in their apartment here in Sweden, wondering what kept beeping before they asked their landlord about it.
@@NitroNinja324 I'm going to guess brick and/or stone. My family visited Poland and some of their homes literally last for centuries; while some American houses start falling apart a few decades after they're built.
@zxyatiywariii8 Guess the difference is that Europe has been densely populated for thousands of years, while North America was a lot more untouched. Lots of people here needed housing quickly, and seeing how there was an abundance of trees and wire nails became mass produceable in the 19th century, frame housing was the simplest, least expensive, and most effective solution for the most people.
speaking of ignorance, needing only an insignificant amount of studios behaviour to uncover, I worked in a youth shelter back in the 90's. One of the tasks of each youth worker was to check the smoke alarms on shift. I noticed burn marks around the smoke detectors and asked my changeover person what had happened... she looked at me cock eyed and said authoritatively "testing the fire alarms". I asked just how they did that & she showed me as it was needed for me to check the alarms on my shift anyway. She took out a lighter and stood on a chair... holding the lighter underneath the alarm... I pointed to the little red button on the side of the alarm...
@@Tangentbordsblues yes... BUT it is the TEST that is offered on the device. Your test requires what? please explain. I'd suppose you are speaking of a definitive scientific test... not the button they supply. & if you say putting a flame under the unit... I pity you.
I have experienced something similar: growing up, my family had a grandfather clock that would chime every hour. I was absolutely numb to it, but every time I had friends over, they would jump when it chimed.
It's not the same thing at all, because you knew what it was and why it was chiming. Also a clock's chime is made to be a pleasant sound. Surely your friends didn't jump the second time it chimed. It's not about getting used to a sound, it's about never being inquisitive.
So many of us have noticed it for years. (I noticed back in like 2017 when I followed a few certain black creators on YT.) I’m glad we finally started talking about it. *Chirp.* I genuinely wonder if black ppl are more likely to die in house fires because they never change the batteries in their smoke detectors. It’s an actual concern, not a joke.
There's a similar theory that hood fashion choices cause police to shoot more black people. The waistband is a common place to hide a gun. So if you are chased by the cops and cornered, when the police tell you to put your hands up but instead you reach to pull your pants up, there is a reasonable belief that you are reaching for a gun. Pull your pants up and wear a belt kiddos.
A quote from a study on the matter "Even though Black Americans represented only 13 percent of the overall population, they represented 24 percent of all home fire deaths and 27 percent of all home fire injuries."
I found one of these behind a bookshelf ... I had to move the bookshelf, and even though I could figure out where, I had to set a 17 minute timer to give me time to prepare to stand around the room to find it, because it was so faint. 3 months. Productive Friday... but had to move everything out of the bookshelf once I narrowed it down, and It was still going off. It didn't occur that it had been put behind the shelf and the wall.
It's true in Canada as well. I called the landlord to change another renter's battery, because it was driving me crazy. The renter didn't notice that it was chirping. I don't understand how people can get used to the sound.
I'm from a poor place up north that used to be very industrial...all my family worked hard to get by. I inherited nothing when my parents died. It is really heart breaking to think of all of the poor people in the country who at least have some common sense and a good work ethic, it's sad to think other people are being brought here and are being helped and subsidised to replace us. The people who are being brought in cannot be compared to even the poorest or lowest class of us original people. It is racist towards us that we have to 'share' the world our ancestors built when their ancestors essentially built NOTHING!!
indeed. look at the stats -- white people built everything, invented everything, gained all engineering and scientific knowledge, philosophized about everything, learned to understand how subatomic particles work, made the best art in the world in architecture, paintings, drawings, music. on average we have higher IQ, longer life expectancy, greater height -- and now we're being persecuted for our very existence with the things we invented and gave to the other races.
The fact that if your alarm is found to have a depleted battery, you lose your contents insurance, even if you’re not there, should probably be explained to people. In a rental, that can actually qualify you for eviction too…
The woman I've rented from off and on for decades now is the prefect example of the "5 year old thinking" when things break or go wrong. She has always left beeping smoke alarms go for months on end, has jury-rigged the washing machine until it literally smoked and died before finally buying a new one, and her vehicles always have a Christmas tree of lights flashing on her dashboard. I'm sure it's just a "coincidence" that she was a raging "birthing person who is strong and empowered" back in the 70s/80s and "didn't need a man" until she retired and lost all her money and property due to poor spending and saving habits.
A man could fix all her problems, but her precious pride would take a hit. I don't know what her pride is going to do for her when she falls & breaks a hip, but hopefully it won't lead to her cats eating her corpse before a man finds her.
My far left sister in law couldn't figure out why her break lights wouldn't turn off on her car, even when the car was off. Apparently she had been driving like this and jump starting her battery every morning. The problem was quite obvious, and the solution was a 2 dollar piece of rubber on the break pedal arm. I was tempted to see how long she would go before bothering to Google the issue, but as it was a safety issue and I was worried she would hurt a non-lefty, I fixed it for her. But i guarantee she would have driven like that for years.
@@eloquentsarcasmPoor dogs, if she falls someday and dies before anyone finds her, they'd starve; whereas many cats would avail themselves of the unexpected supersize meal.
I genuinely believe it’s an indication of what kind of man you are. It’s the kind of man that lives with a problem instead of fixing something as soon as you see it. It’s the kind of man that spends money on luxury items but not a handful of dollars and minimal effort and brainpower to fix something you see and hear everyday. They’d rather live with it than care one bit. I distance myself from people like that and it legitimately makes my life a lot better.
I think your explanation gets right to the heart of it. It shows a passivity to problem solving and improving your own environment, which explains a lot.
Not going to say it, but have fun guessing 😆 Reminded me - one of my fraternity brothers (not sure which one, but only ~10% were Black) threw a chirping smoke detector in our dumpster *shortly after September 11, 2001* at a major US university. *Bomb squad, streets shut down, news, etc.*
Feminism and the belief that women are equal is unconscious and completely adapted conditioning in 95% of Western men including the Lotus Eaters and their audience.
I wonder this all the time. I just found a slot in my car near the wheel, no clue what it’s for, but I literally only even noticed it for the first time last week but it’s been there the whole time right next to a button I use frequently 🥲 And something that happens to me when watching movies, especially older ones I’ve seen a LOT, I will out of nowhere notice something happening in the background or something a background character says that I somehow never until then noticed. I think because I’m so focused on the primary scene and soaking in my favorite moments I’m not paying attention to anything outside of that. Like if you’re watching Indiana Jones and the scene where he shoots the guy with the swords, are you focusing on the people in the crowd around him or on Indie being a cool badass? Your focus is on him. I’ll just be watching a movie I’ve probably seen a 100 times and out of nowhere it’s like how have I never once noticed that before!? 😭
So fun fact. The ceiling birds are generally wired in to the mains power. The backup power is from the battery, in case the fire causes or is caused by a power outage. What this means is that THE CIRPING WILL LITERALLY NEVER STOP
I’m a white guy married to a black girl. The chirping was at her parents house for years. It drove me nuts. One day I bought a couple 9v batteries and changed it myself. Her dad got angry about it because it was so quiet he had a hard time sleeping.
I was 16 and dating a black girl and noticed this as soon as I visited her mom's house. Mom thought I was fucking with her when I asked about the chirp.
As someone who manages apartments/townhomes in the US, there is a sizeable proportion of people who are just completely ignorant of the fact that smoke detectors even have batteries. Usually this is due to them only growing up/living in rental properties, where most repairs/maintenance, such as replacing batteries in the smoke detector when it starts chirping, are handled by their landlord.
What makes the chirping? I know they have batteries and I know they need changing but do they have wiring that runs to the detectors ? Or not? How do they chirp if the batteries are dead and there is no wiring running to the detector ? (I just want to know for reference when I’m a future homeowner tbh. Thankfully nothing is chirping currently, but im also just a college student who doesn’t know home maintenance yet.)
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se They chirp from the built in alarm speaker, to warn you the battery is about to run out. Of course if the battery goes totally flat, they got no power to sound the alarm with. They can do this chirp for a long time before it does eventually run out.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se The chirping noise is almost always indicative of a battery needing to be changed due to low charge, regardless of whether the smoke detector is wired, with a battery backup, or a purely battery powered smoke detector. On a wired one the chirping will just go on indefinitely unless the home loses power, though a pure battery powered one will eventually lose all charge and the chirping will stop at that point.
Wait, are you serious? They don't hear them? Smoke alarm BEEPS are one of the loudest most disruptive noises I know of. Literally, I have to yank them off the ceiling almost immediately because it drives me insane, even when I don't have batteries. I must take them down and throw the battery out. Sometimes this results in it not being changed in weeks and endangering the house, but that's not the point.
Smoke detectors and batteries for them are free in my city - you just ask the fire department and they send them to you, especially if you're a tenant and not a homeowner.
@@erikhermansen3431 yes. I work for a company that makes things for the government, and everything is so compartmentalized to a fault that we get blueprints with no dimensions because "theyre not critical".
Other random discoveries only possible from the Internet: asmr, people who can't imagine visually, people who can't imagine in colour, people who can't hear voices when they think. None of these were known to scientists until people started talking on the Internet. I'm sure there are loads more
I learned about the imagining things years ago. I had a friend who couldn't picture in his mind the front of his own house. I think my brain shorted out trying to sort that out.
How high is the resolution of your mind's eye supposed to be anyway? Mine's at the level of my peripheral vision. Blurry mess that is only technically colored.
I think a new one we'll see coming up is people fully able ti understand english, but barely able to speak it. I dont mean immigrants, i mean born and raised. How many kids these days pick up all of their primary language from shit like video games where they dont develop this information verbally. I myself think in text after being raised like this
This is the strangest phenomenon. When one of my detectors starts chirping I have it off the ceiling after one of two beeps not matter what time of day it is. I don't understand how people can live with that sound. It's not a poverty thing either. I remember Opie & Anthony doing a phone interview with the guy who played Omar on The Wire, which I still haven't watched, and he had the chirp too.
The fun part about the chirp is that most fire alarms in America are actually wired to house so that if the fire alarm dies it can actually chirp for as long as the house has power. It still requires a battery. It's just wired up so that you leave the house for a week or month you'll know that the battery is dead.
So.. A couple of years ago my smoke-detector started chirping. The apartments where I live have the detectors locked, so people won't remove them if this happens, then forget to replace the battery and put them up again. A pain to have to call someone, but seeing as you're possibly putting the other tenants at risk.....fine, I guess.. Since this was covid times though, our maintenance guy only showed up for emergencies (water, electricity, freezer/fridge or oven/stove issues, etc.). So I had to live with that crap for two months. Now, I get the whole "you get used to it" argument. I grew up on the country-side, and every year all the fields around town had to be covered in maneur. Horrid for one, maybe two days, then no-one could smell it. I can honestly say, this is not true for the f-ing chirp. After a day I wanted to cry, after a week I was ready tare it down with my bare hands, after a month it felt like literal torture where I was both physically and mentally worn down with no energy, always angry and anxious, etc. After the battery was finally swapped I still had at least a month of my entire body non-stop being tense in anticipation of a chirp that wouldnt come. It would take years to "get used to it", imagine letting yourself live in quite literal torture for years willingly because your what.. that lazy? That cheap? After living it I genuinely can't fathom it unless you were born into it. But in that case, what about your parents? Not every generation in both your bloodlines can have been born into it. How? Literally how, when even this video sent me straight back to friggin' Vietnam?! PTSD-rant over. 😤
Our secretary is so lazy that her's has been beeping for the last 3 years, I believe. Every once in a while she'll ask to work from home for a day if that time of the month is extra bad. I let her remote in to do work, but if I call her to take care of something I hear that damn beep. At one point I said we could have one of our technicians come over and put batteries in. Nope...3 years later still happens.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Sometime in the future she won't even be working at work. Just too many errors, really slow to pick stuff up. We've been patient, but it just seems never ending. Right now too busy to find a new one and train, but in the future that will have to happen.
I think it goes even deeper than this. Remember back in the school gym, your sneakers made the same chirping sound when it hit the floor in a certain way o.O
Or when the bottom of your shoe is wet on wood/ linoleum floors... I hated morning assembly in the gym at school on wet days. You would always get that one kid that drags their feet.
Over ten years ago I and my friends were interrupted by a fire alarm chirping. Cutting off our tabletop gaming. Before that beep reached the "ep" six geeky White dudes rose as one and began searching for batteries and locate which alarm was crying for help. Less than 10 min and we were back to rolling dice.
Theres also the fact that smoke detectors themselves need replacement after a decade. If you replace the battery in one, it still chirps because the Americium or whatever decayed or something. Ive had that problem but now I'm aware and wont ever have it again
@zxyatiywariii8 nah, not in this case, all radioactive elements have a half life and some decay faster than others. Smoke and carbon monoxide detractors use radioactive elements to function
There are new style of smoke detector that uses optics and non-radioactive source and in my experience they're too sensitive / false alarm way too much. I'd much rather have the radioisotope style of detector. Sucks being woken up in the middle of the night because the non-radioactive one decides to trip.
I had a smoke alarm that started chirping and I couldn't the change the batteries myself (wouldn't open and I wasn't allowed to break it open because I was renting), and it took six whole weeks and several reports before someone finally came to sort it. I never tuned it out in that time, it drove me crazy.
I had the chirp start going off at 4am once, this was in a place I rented, the battery case wouldn't open, and I had no batteries to replace it anyway, so I turned off the mains, got up on a chair and removed the smoke alarm, cutting the wire. I couldn't even get the battery out after I'd removed it from the ceiling, it was like someone had superglued it shut, so I called the landlord and said it needed replacing, he was very understanding.
Generic battery smoke alarms can be safely kicked off the wall or ceiling with extreme rage and replaced with a similar looking one. Since they're all pretty much identical to some degree unless your landlord is some Mensa graduate they won't even notice.
In our home we have four smoke detectors and three carbon monoxide detectors. If any of them start beeping I am on a quest. You can buy the cheaper brand batteries, then you have an entire pack in case this happens. My house has never been on fire, but I've been in situations where a smoke detector saved lives. Also keep several fire extinguishers on different floors just in case. Our family practices fire alarm drills. What to do, where to go, who to call and so on. Westernkind is a rather safe than sorry type of people.
I remember growing up my parents always kept the smoke alarms in fresh batteries. It wasn't until I went to college and had to manage that myself that I realized that smoke alarms start complaining when their battery gets low. It was so annoying, I went to the drugstore right away and grabbed some batteries.
Around 2014 or so I became fascinated with a channel where a guy was rehabbing houses in the metro Detroit area. EVERY house he went into, no matter if someone was living there or not, had a smoke detector beeping. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. This trend was immediately apparent to me ever since then. It has only recently occurred to me that most of those people have also never bought a smoke detector. The fire departments in many of those areas (including in my home town) literally go door-to-door once a year and install smoked detectors for them. They have no idea, awareness, or concern about what they are or why to own one. I'd bet money that it will soon become a point of pride to have a chirping smoke detector in certain homes. Just like wearing clothing that is 6 sizes too big used to be because all you could afford were hand-me-downs from bigger relatives or donations, then it became fashion. 🙄
@@mo.ka.9661literally hundreds of videos of it my dude. You gotta clean yo chicken to get rid of the germs. Because that's not what the cooking does lol😂. They are are so low iq they can't understand the basics of cooking meat.
I discovered that the stereotype that states they won't enter a graveyard is true in college. My two best friends up there were black, and this was a sleepy little private college, so there was NOTHING to do up there that didn't involve a lot of walking, and a lot of smoking. The fellas and I just weren't into disk golf, what can I say. The one path they refused to take, even if we didn't spark up until we reached the other side, was the one that lead directly through the graveyard. Campus police never patrolled the far side of the graveyard, and there was only ever 1 non-campus patrol unit, so not taking that path was the source of a few arguments. It was the one thing they'd never budge on.
It annoys the hell out of me. Actually got chewed out by maintenance at an apartment I used to live in because I would just change it myself even though it's Thier job. Finally told them if they didn't want me changing it they needed to get their ass over and change it within two days of me putting in the work order.
My smoke alarm was low on batteries. It got in 2 chirps before I was able to run downstairs to my cache of batteries and replace it. The look on my cats faces... Poor little furballs. Imagine them having to deal with that for months...
Ikr, as annoying as this is for my ears, I can imagine how much worse it would be for cats and dogs. There was a bird at our local animal shelter who had learned to make a beeping sound just like a smoke detector, though, because he'd come from a home where that was just regular ambient noise.
Sensitivity to noise is g correlated. If your brain works better, it's simply better at interpreting and reacting to **any** stimuli. Everyone knows that dumb people are loud and violent and smart people are quiet and reserved. This is because dumb people need more stimuli for literally anything to happen inside their brain. This is why psychomotor stimulants can improve performance in school, they literally just crank the volume inside the brain to get *something* to happen. The smoke alarm chirp was calibrated to alert the average person many decades ago, but thanks to a combination of selective breeding and low training, we are plumbing new depths in this country.
@@eitantal726 No no, it's plumbing. You plumb depths. It's an idiom (a 'saying' as some people call it). By this the OP meant that we are reaching new lows in terms of low intelligence and lack of general knowledge. In short, OP says that we've never been this moronic before!
I truly remember when Gunna released his new album this year, one of his songs P Angels literally had this sound integrated into the beat. That shit was hilarious
As a musical choice / sample or as an "error" in the recording? Like how you can hear the telephone ringing during Led Zeppelin's The Ocean (during the guitar solo) or squeak of drum stool in the beginning of Black Sabbath's 'Lord Of This World'. One last one is Lincoln Park's 'In The End' there is a stutter in the recording at one point.
A friend of mines sister noticed her smoke alarm was beeping so she took it down from the ceiling and noticed the 'air' light was also turning on and off So she thought "Oh it wants air" and took the smoke alarm outside and put it in her garden for fresh air XD
Years ago when we lived in our old house, my single mother never changed the damn battery. The one outside my bedroom would just chirp every 30 seconds or so. In the end, she got a chair, got on it and unscrewed it from the roof and cut the wires to stop it. When the new house one did it, and I was older, I explained to her "Mum the battery is dead. You need to change it." Her face was like the black womans at 9:00, just 0_0
Big fan of now being able to perma-purchase Premium Content, as I'm not one for this new normalised Subscription economy - will certainly be looking into making some purchases.
It's not just in the USA but also in all of South America and Mexico you just can't hear it over the tornado in hispanic homes. It's quite impressive really
@@BellBeakerBlokeI can accept Sowell's line of reasoning for the favoring of gang allegiances and other such things, but that idea is not even close to explaining the ceiling birds.
@@BellBeakerBloke I mean, you can be pretentious and say 'oh yes, it's clearly specifically X person from Y time period's philosophy' all you want, while making a point to insult people to elevate yourself in the process. But it's simple pattern recognition at the end of the day. Simmer.
Smoke alarms kinda sound like fresh J's sliding across a basketball court so it makes sense why certain Black folk are desensitized to it and tend to die during housefires. They hear the beeping and just assume someone in their house is watching an NBA game at high volume.
People around me can't seem to notice even car noise or notification bells, let alone an once-in-30s beep. This is like when people have TVs on but can't answer if you ask what the show is about. You need to have something that noise disrupts to notice the disruption.
In their home : "Don't you want to stop that beeping?" - "What beeping?"
In the senate : "Don't you want to do something about the crimes?" - "What crimes?"
LMAOOO
...pulls fire alarm to open door
@@BrodyLuv2 did it chirped before?
@@BrodyLuv2 Except to the beeper, it was a past different beeper that pulled the fire alarm. Every beeper exists in a perpetual 'now' and is thus cognitively disconnected from his or her actions and the consequences thereof as those actions are always the doing of this 'past beeper.'
@@randacnam7321 Very based. This is why beepers always say they didn’t do nuffin, because to them they *didn’t* do nothin, it was some other past beeper that did the thing.
A lot of gamers have started calling it the “Hood Cricket” and this meme is funny asf
That's even funnier than the ceiling bird 🤣
They can't hear it because they're acclimated to sneakers on a court. LOL
@@VndNvwYvvSvvLOL!!!
I'm gonna start using that. Thanks.
How are these things chirping for so long if the batteries are low and running out?
This is a chilling foretaste of future America: young people surrounded by broken-down technology and infrastructure with absolutely no idea how any of it works.
Logan's run (70's version) predicted this.
It's Idiocracy
@@dh510Exactly. You can see it in real life. There was a European couple that rode their bicycles thru Africa and put it here on UA-cam and you can see them ride by and comment on rusting oil and natural gas infrastructure and nobody obviously knew how to maintain and use it.
Reminds me of that statue of the strong little black girl facing down the bull on Wall Street. Isn't a "Bull Market" a good thing? The very centre of the establishment is already demonstrating a superficial "cargo cult" understanding of what is actually around them.
I bet the first generation after whatever is generally accepted as the Roman Empire's collapse were still surrounded by enough functioning remenants that they didn't consider it to have collapsed. I wonder if the future will say the same about us? Was 9/11 and the draconnian laws that followed in many countries our own "sacked by vandals" moment?
This is apparently a legitimate issue Zoomers have: they're about as tech-literate as Boomers. Somehow, only Gen-X and Millenials actually know our way around technology.
Fun fact: Your smoke alarm battery will only ever become low enough to start the chirping between 1am and 3am. Every. Damn. Time.
Mine literally fell silent during the day and started up again at night.
Please, I beg of you, make some more World of Batshit videos. You're hilarious man.
@@milesarcher.A World of Batshit just for smoke detectors, maybe? I'm already scripting that in my head.
Admittedly, the few times it actually did chirp, it did start beeping during the night or ridiculously early.
@@rey_nemaattori Lower temperatures affect batteries (typical of nighttime). The more you know 🌠
The chirp is actually ancient knowledge that people working phone tech support have known for decades.
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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Here is your friendly daily reminder.
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Been there, constantly heard it...
I remember I was in a discord call with a dude and a few others, and we kept telling him to check his fire alarm batteries cause we could hear the chirp and eventually he said:
"Oooh, no that's not the fire alarm, that's the carbon monoxide detector."
We proceeded to inform him calmly and professionally, that was worse
ever heard of charles darwin? nature will find a way ...
@@redactedanticretinnatural selection
Then what happened?
After my ex defrauded me my mothers will and my morgage and ran away with my little girl abandoning my son me and my son were temp housed in a flat on a samarlian inly estste 1000s of them we were the only whites in a temp flat all of the fire alarms and gas detectors were chirping away it was hell and they were man’s ran😂😂 be night smoking weed the gas alarm went off and I had 10 fire fighters in my temp home doing all kinds of tests to find out why
@@audie-cashstack-uk4881 ah the joy of relationships with "modern" western woman...
My favorite mostly accurate racial stereotype is that black people are scared of dogs. I've worked in a kennel for 10 years, we've only had a few black employees during that time, and only a handful of our regular customers are black. I'll actually joke about it with the rare black employees, they all laugh their ass off because it's true, they'll tell me how their whole family is terrified of dogs, and think they're crazy for working with dogs.
I've had neighbors be scared of my shih tzus. I can't really imagine being scared of the quintessential chill lap dog.
@@diggman88small dogs can be reactive. I'm more wary of toy dogs in the same way I am of bully or working breeds because some people don't think they need to be trained because they are small.
@@aposematicayu yep, I was gonna say the same thing. I've been bitten by far more little yappers than big scary monster dogs.
When I worked retail, I had a black customer ask me about different dog meds he needed, then suddenly busted out with "black people usually are afraid of dogs" entirely unprompted. It was genuinely hilarious
@@diggman88 my best running theory is that pets are a luxury, people who grow up poor usually don't have any. So even if you grow up poor and end up doing ok, you probably won't get a dog or any other pet, just because you've never been around them.
Anyway, the best theory I've heard is that this is a physical manifestation of learned helplessness. Which says something very disturbing about what's happened to society.
Spot on
I think of it like the marshmallow test for adults. Would you put up with some discomfort now (dealing with replacing a battery) in exchange for future gain (a home without nuisance beeping)? You can predict a lot about someone's life trajectory based on how long it takes them to change the battery.
Bro it ain't that deep. Deyz just dum
It's a combination of an IQ too low to understand the problem with a work ethic too low to fix it.
@@bitty_beastly47 If it was just intelligence you'd see it over a wider distribution.
Man, back during HALO 2, this was still a thing. microphone quality made it sound like everyone was drowning in marinara sauce, but you could hear the smoke alarms PERFECTLY because of the frequency.
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Damn that makes me feel old.
welcome to being old. It's not so bad. :)@@Bronasaxon
Omg I miss that time period.
The chirping has an entry on urban dictionary called the "ghetto cricket" anybody who played old school COD or any multi-player fps game knows the sound.
False
@@mitsuracer87?
Ghetto cricket , that made me laugh.
I work in a town of 70k and enter just about every residence and business. No stereotype is more true than this.
Bro wtf line of work puts you in everyone’s house you get around son you get around!
@@SageofCancer I think he means every type of residence
@@SageofCancermaybe pest control?
@@Rebrn-bk5em meater reader I'd guess
@@turtleflipper9935 my bet is burglar ;)
It's funny that dogs always notice the ceiling bird.
Maybe the dog freaking out "for no reason" is part of the fear of dogs
I’ve seen many comments for videos about this topic wondering if there’s a correlation between the chirps and pitbulls that love children.
@@vidcas1711it's piquing my interest now, too
Be careful good thinkers are singled out vaya con Dios
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
My dog perks up at the slightest ring or bell from a video on my phone - surely, they'd be annoyed by a constant blare from a smoke alarm.
Ah yes, smoke alarms. The thing every gamer has heard at least once over VOIP.
That and a racial slur or two that's probably not accurate to your race/ethnicity.
Welcome to the DMZ *CHIRP* Alpha one, a squad mate is down *CHIRP* you are taking effective fire *CHIRP*
CoD lobbies. Where chirps and the nword goes hand in hand.
And sexual relations with one's mother.
@@alecstewart2612 Everyone is a basketball American online at least once.
I have no idea how people can live with the low battery chirp. The battery in my hallway smoke detector went low about a year ago, I was able to tolerate it for a whole ten minutes before it drove me insane.
Have you ever lived next door to a parrot? Compared to that, a squeaky chirp every few minutes is a doddle.
After my last apartment check, the fire alarm started chirping. It sent my timid cat into a panic. Found him curled up, shaking in the closet. He'd probably worry himself to death if I didn't change it that day.
So... Where did you bury your parents?
Honestly, it’s like an ice pick to my eardrums. It’s not like it’s a quiet chirp it’s loud and piercing. And it’s right outside my bedroom in my house so I’m not having it.
I wonder though if the chirps get a bit quieter and less obnoxious as those poor batteries clinging to life slowly fade 😂
I agree. But it's nowhere near as annoying as the carbon monoxide alarm. Every time that beeps I get a really bad headache.
This was actually called out by Adam Carolla on LoveLine with Dr Drew back when it was still a radio show in the late 90's.
It happened so often he got good enough that he could tell the brand by the duration between beeps. He would literally stop/interrupt the call to count the seconds as a running gag for years. So much so it even carried over to the TV show on MTV.
Definitely the original source of the meme, pre memeing being a thing as it predates most of the modern internet.
Dude! I IMMEDIATELY thought of Adam.😅
Memeing very much predates the Internet, what do you think a hieroglyphic is =P
@@kaizokujimbei143 Bot...
2:54 KnowYourMeme credits Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla as the origin.
As IQ decreases, one's ability to notice disarray decreases too.
Along with the ability to cause it.
Edit: But not the ability to cause it.
Mama mia
Conscientiousness correlates well with overall intelligence
@@taffwobnoon. Their ability to cause it INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY
IQ tests are mostly pattern recognition.
Years as a delivery driver taught me to fear that noise.
The area didn't warn you first?
@@johna2008They'll give a house to anyone, these days.
Fkin right man. Right there with "step in and ill go grab your tip"
@@ThirtytwoJ You have to explain that for those of us who are ignorant! D=
@@ThirtytwoJ Sounds hot.
Everyone knew about the fire alarm thing but no one ever really considered how ridiculous it is.
Mine has been chirping recently. Though it goes through me like a bolt of lightning, I've left it because I'm a woman 💪🤣
It’s time to change the battery
@@a.j.b.8658lmao yeah, y’all do that. my coworkers girl, called his ass in a huff about how she couldn’t figure out where the beep came from and he had to walk her through how to use a ladder and change it.
I've never noticed it. I don't know how anyone could manage having an annoying alarm sound going off.
Yeah basically. We never really thought too deeply about it and didn't realize the scale of it.
I once worked in an auto repair shop in a major city.
This smoke detector battery chirping is just another aspect of neglect. Vehicles are neglected as a part of their culture.
There is a certain demographic who will spend unlimited sums of money on weaves, tattoos, and fancy clithing but won't spend a thin dime on preventative maintenance on their vehicle.
These people drive their cars until they just break.
There should be a Carfax column to determine if these folks previously owned the car you are looking at.
I work as a service technician inside people's homes and can absolutely confirm the meme is reality. True to life 100% 😂
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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Here is your friendly daily reminder.
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*I'm a gamer. Beeping means you're about to die.*
Imagine being a gamer
@@tonywilthshire308how old are you If possible?
I'm 45. I play video games. Have done since 1985. Anyone who calls me a "gamer" will receive a gratuitous five knuckle receipt.
I'm not a "gamer". I'm a middle-aged bloke who plays video games. "Gamer" suggests it defines you. Nope. I'm 5,000 other things before I'm ever a so-called gamer.
To me, that's an insult like incel and such.
@@AnOldEnglishBloke Weird lol first time I've heard this one, but i respect it. I'm in my 30s n im a proud gamer, among many other things too, but I'll always claim gamer.
@@tonywilthshire308 Imagine NOT being a gamer...
I just listened to an interview with the father of a college football player I follow. Let's just say the stereotype was preserved...chirp....chirp....chirp
Watching Dan face-palm, struggling to keep his power levels hidden 😂
There was even a double facepalm of Dan and Sargon
The tone of the chirp could be easily edited out of a recording with an EQ. The fact that it’s present in music speaks to how shoddily put together said music is.
Can we please go back to the days of "Blazing Saddles" where everyone laughed together and was offended by nothing....
80 IQ behaviour folks
That's generous...
@@AnOldEnglishBloke lmao, true, average sub Saharan is around 60, so American blacks are probably around 75 at most on average thanks to the invention of White education
"This noise is annoying, maybe I should figure out how to make it stop" - average to high IQ.
"This noise is annoying, I guess this is my life now" - low IQ.
No, it's up to 91 now.
68
I installed home alarms for 7 years. I would carry bulk 9v batteries with me to swap out on beeping smoke detectors. Folks would have the alarm system installed and then refuse to pay because it’s “broken”, citing their existing home smoke detectors chirping ever since we put it in.
What...the.....frig.... My god....
It's like voting for a mayor who believes in defunding your police department. Oops, a certain mindset just got identified...
I must know more
My neighbours one has been chirping for a year, makes you wonder, how can the batteries need changing if it can chiro for a year without problems?
@@Solidsnake0208 It's probably hard-wired to electricity. The failing/failed battery is there as a backup.
I was just typing a joke about Grenfell tower and then I remembered that I’m British and I could get raided by the cops and much worse… found guilty by social media bitches, where there is no redemption. Ever.
I was going to write a funny reply, but I also live in the UK.
@@macoooos9204i dont even live in the uk but german thought police still would raid my ass "did yu kommit a zhought crime ?"
I now disavow my own thoughts and self identify as a mainstream media news believer. I’m just off to get my jabs n shit.
@@GlenAldcroft-dh1vs as a good citizen should good boy heres ya bug flavored cookie
@@redactedanticretinSo we have more internet freedom to say things over here in Serbia? Damn that's sad. We don't have smoke detectors though, I don't think I have seen one in my life till I bought one a month ago.
My favorite part of that Kevin Samuels clip is how she didn't even perceive the words "smoke detector", it's like the entire concept of the thing has been blocked out from her mind like Ditchwater Sal in Stardust
People of low education but high self-esteem go through life accepting the fact that they won't understand every single word said to them and in time start ignoring words they don't understand (either in a specific context or just out-right) semi-subconsciously.
It never ceases to amaze me how lazy some people are. I've literally gone to the store at 3am before to get a battery to stop my smoke detector from chirping.
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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Oooor. Could take the battery out wait til morning. 😂
@@tristanbackup2536Same. I don't care if I die in a fire as long as my sleep was uninterrupted.
Its a "Culture" thing.
Hi
Thang
Lazy as F and tight with it. A new battery costs like £3
Only kangs would understand
The song of the ceiling bird.
Mating call.
I've met people from Eastern Europe who didn't know what smoke alarms were. They went around in their apartment here in Sweden, wondering what kept beeping before they asked their landlord about it.
I'm Polish. We've never had smoke detectors. Then again, my house isn't made out of cardboard.
It’s good they at least asked their landlords about it instead of ignoring it forever
@@pirig-galUnless we're talking about the 4th forgotten piggy, I don't think anyone does. What _is_ your house made of, if I may ask?
@@NitroNinja324 I'm going to guess brick and/or stone. My family visited Poland and some of their homes literally last for centuries; while some American houses start falling apart a few decades after they're built.
@zxyatiywariii8 Guess the difference is that Europe has been densely populated for thousands of years, while North America was a lot more untouched. Lots of people here needed housing quickly, and seeing how there was an abundance of trees and wire nails became mass produceable in the 19th century, frame housing was the simplest, least expensive, and most effective solution for the most people.
A lot of Kevin Samuels' callers had smoke detectors beeping in the background when they called to, "put him in his place."
Oh damn, you noticed that too.
He called it “the single woman tell”
speaking of ignorance, needing only an insignificant amount of studios behaviour to uncover, I worked in a youth shelter back in the 90's. One of the tasks of each youth worker was to check the smoke alarms on shift. I noticed burn marks around the smoke detectors and asked my changeover person what had happened... she looked at me cock eyed and said authoritatively "testing the fire alarms". I asked just how they did that & she showed me as it was needed for me to check the alarms on my shift anyway. She took out a lighter and stood on a chair... holding the lighter underneath the alarm... I pointed to the little red button on the side of the alarm...
Lmfao
That is not how you test an alarm, it tests the sound not the functionality
@@Tangentbordsblues yes... BUT it is the TEST that is offered on the device. Your test requires what? please explain. I'd suppose you are speaking of a definitive scientific test... not the button they supply. & if you say putting a flame under the unit... I pity you.
I have experienced something similar: growing up, my family had a grandfather clock that would chime every hour. I was absolutely numb to it, but every time I had friends over, they would jump when it chimed.
Same with the cuckoo clock.
Yeah, but it was supposed to. 😂
That's actually a nice sound though. We had one as a kid too, and I was just used to it but if I had one of them as an adult it'd be too much for me
Nice
It's not the same thing at all, because you knew what it was and why it was chiming. Also a clock's chime is made to be a pleasant sound. Surely your friends didn't jump the second time it chimed. It's not about getting used to a sound, it's about never being inquisitive.
So many of us have noticed it for years. (I noticed back in like 2017 when I followed a few certain black creators on YT.) I’m glad we finally started talking about it. *Chirp.* I genuinely wonder if black ppl are more likely to die in house fires because they never change the batteries in their smoke detectors. It’s an actual concern, not a joke.
There's a similar theory that hood fashion choices cause police to shoot more black people. The waistband is a common place to hide a gun. So if you are chased by the cops and cornered, when the police tell you to put your hands up but instead you reach to pull your pants up, there is a reasonable belief that you are reaching for a gun. Pull your pants up and wear a belt kiddos.
dxouble the ammount
A quote from a study on the matter "Even though Black Americans represented only 13 percent of the overall population, they represented 24 percent of all home fire deaths and 27 percent of all home fire injuries."
quadruple it@@TheKlink
That's just darwinism let it play out
Those prank chirpers that have a 3-year battery and are easy to hide are worth every penny if you don't like someone.
Only if that someone is the kind of person who even notices the chirps.
Reminds me of the Always Sunny episode where Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs.
Cool thine beans, Satan.
I found one of these behind a bookshelf ... I had to move the bookshelf, and even though I could figure out where, I had to set a 17 minute timer to give me time to prepare to stand around the room to find it, because it was so faint. 3 months.
Productive Friday... but had to move everything out of the bookshelf once I narrowed it down, and It was still going off.
It didn't occur that it had been put behind the shelf and the wall.
@@Toliman.Did you run over someone’s dog? 😂
It's true in Canada as well. I called the landlord to change another renter's battery, because it was driving me crazy. The renter didn't notice that it was chirping. I don't understand how people can get used to the sound.
I'm from a poor place up north that used to be very industrial...all my family worked hard to get by. I inherited nothing when my parents died. It is really heart breaking to think of all of the poor people in the country who at least have some common sense and a good work ethic, it's sad to think other people are being brought here and are being helped and subsidised to replace us. The people who are being brought in cannot be compared to even the poorest or lowest class of us original people. It is racist towards us that we have to 'share' the world our ancestors built when their ancestors essentially built NOTHING!!
indeed. look at the stats -- white people built everything, invented everything, gained all engineering and scientific knowledge, philosophized about everything, learned to understand how subatomic particles work, made the best art in the world in architecture, paintings, drawings, music. on average we have higher IQ, longer life expectancy, greater height -- and now we're being persecuted for our very existence with the things we invented and gave to the other races.
The fact that if your alarm is found to have a depleted battery, you lose your contents insurance, even if you’re not there, should probably be explained to people.
In a rental, that can actually qualify you for eviction too…
@@kaizokujimbei143 Bot...
For $20 you can get 10 extra long life 9v designed for detectors. They last 9-12 years.
Why would they sell such a thing in large packs?
Or a small bag of weed
@@PutkisenSetä They sell them in single packs for $2 each.
Probably can't buy it with EBT 😂
The woman I've rented from off and on for decades now is the prefect example of the "5 year old thinking" when things break or go wrong. She has always left beeping smoke alarms go for months on end, has jury-rigged the washing machine until it literally smoked and died before finally buying a new one, and her vehicles always have a Christmas tree of lights flashing on her dashboard. I'm sure it's just a "coincidence" that she was a raging "birthing person who is strong and empowered" back in the 70s/80s and "didn't need a man" until she retired and lost all her money and property due to poor spending and saving habits.
A man could fix all her problems, but her precious pride would take a hit. I don't know what her pride is going to do for her when she falls & breaks a hip, but hopefully it won't lead to her cats eating her corpse before a man finds her.
My far left sister in law couldn't figure out why her break lights wouldn't turn off on her car, even when the car was off. Apparently she had been driving like this and jump starting her battery every morning.
The problem was quite obvious, and the solution was a 2 dollar piece of rubber on the break pedal arm.
I was tempted to see how long she would go before bothering to Google the issue, but as it was a safety issue and I was worried she would hurt a non-lefty, I fixed it for her.
But i guarantee she would have driven like that for years.
@@gabrielboorom2683 She's always had dogs, cats are too independent and would simply leave but canines tend to be more dependable for her, lol.
@@eloquentsarcasmPoor dogs, if she falls someday and dies before anyone finds her, they'd starve; whereas many cats would avail themselves of the unexpected supersize meal.
"jury-rigged"??! You mean "jerry-rigged", right?
The ceiling bird 💀😂
This is the what the internet was made for 👍 good show
I genuinely believe it’s an indication of what kind of man you are. It’s the kind of man that lives with a problem instead of fixing something as soon as you see it. It’s the kind of man that spends money on luxury items but not a handful of dollars and minimal effort and brainpower to fix something you see and hear everyday. They’d rather live with it than care one bit. I distance myself from people like that and it legitimately makes my life a lot better.
I think your explanation gets right to the heart of it. It shows a passivity to problem solving and improving your own environment, which explains a lot.
*My friends and I (especially Black friends) have been joking about this since the 90s*
I can't even type out what they used to call it 🤣
Write it out in an anagram
Not going to say it, but have fun guessing 😆
Reminded me - one of my fraternity brothers (not sure which one, but only ~10% were Black) threw a chirping smoke detector in our dumpster *shortly after September 11, 2001* at a major US university.
*Bomb squad, streets shut down, news, etc.*
Ninja beep
Makes you wonder how much of our reality is already conditioned to be invisible or silent to us.
Make an off colour comment on UA-cam and your computer chirps at you.
The reality your born and develop in becomes your natural world, your natural state of being
"""Noticing patterns """" is a uniquely "European " ability.
Feminism and the belief that women are equal is unconscious and completely adapted conditioning in 95% of Western men including the Lotus Eaters and their audience.
I wonder this all the time. I just found a slot in my car near the wheel, no clue what it’s for, but I literally only even noticed it for the first time last week but it’s been there the whole time right next to a button I use frequently 🥲
And something that happens to me when watching movies, especially older ones I’ve seen a LOT, I will out of nowhere notice something happening in the background or something a background character says that I somehow never until then noticed.
I think because I’m so focused on the primary scene and soaking in my favorite moments I’m not paying attention to anything outside of that. Like if you’re watching Indiana Jones and the scene where he shoots the guy with the swords, are you focusing on the people in the crowd around him or on Indie being a cool badass? Your focus is on him. I’ll just be watching a movie I’ve probably seen a 100 times and out of nowhere it’s like how have I never once noticed that before!? 😭
Thank you Lotus Eaters for this public service announcement, I was prompted to test my alarm and it turns out it was switched off!
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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@@kaizokujimbei143 Robot...
So fun fact. The ceiling birds are generally wired in to the mains power. The backup power is from the battery, in case the fire causes or is caused by a power outage.
What this means is that THE CIRPING WILL LITERALLY NEVER STOP
Hmmm. Not in my house. It's completely battery run.
I’m a white guy married to a black girl. The chirping was at her parents house for years. It drove me nuts. One day I bought a couple 9v batteries and changed it myself. Her dad got angry about it because it was so quiet he had a hard time sleeping.
I was 16 and dating a black girl and noticed this as soon as I visited her mom's house. Mom thought I was fucking with her when I asked about the chirp.
Ew
@@Sluhrmz Uh, anti-miscegenation and racism has been out of style for decades, bud.
@@randomuserame it's working out great
@@Sluhrmz Well, we can't all be nazis. So you do you ig
As someone who manages apartments/townhomes in the US, there is a sizeable proportion of people who are just completely ignorant of the fact that smoke detectors even have batteries. Usually this is due to them only growing up/living in rental properties, where most repairs/maintenance, such as replacing batteries in the smoke detector when it starts chirping, are handled by their landlord.
What makes the chirping? I know they have batteries and I know they need changing but do they have wiring that runs to the detectors ? Or not? How do they chirp if the batteries are dead and there is no wiring running to the detector ? (I just want to know for reference when I’m a future homeowner tbh. Thankfully nothing is chirping currently, but im also just a college student who doesn’t know home maintenance yet.)
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se They chirp from the built in alarm speaker, to warn you the battery is about to run out. Of course if the battery goes totally flat, they got no power to sound the alarm with. They can do this chirp for a long time before it does eventually run out.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se The chirping noise is almost always indicative of a battery needing to be changed due to low charge, regardless of whether the smoke detector is wired, with a battery backup, or a purely battery powered smoke detector. On a wired one the chirping will just go on indefinitely unless the home loses power, though a pure battery powered one will eventually lose all charge and the chirping will stop at that point.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8sedetectors run on 9volt battery power alone.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8seplease get some books on home maintenance
Wait, are you serious? They don't hear them? Smoke alarm BEEPS are one of the loudest most disruptive noises I know of. Literally, I have to yank them off the ceiling almost immediately because it drives me insane, even when I don't have batteries. I must take them down and throw the battery out. Sometimes this results in it not being changed in weeks and endangering the house, but that's not the point.
Smoke detectors and batteries for them are free in my city - you just ask the fire department and they send them to you, especially if you're a tenant and not a homeowner.
In the Netherlands, smoke detectors are mandatory for renters.
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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@@kaizokujimbei143 Don't be a spamming robot, think for yourself my friend...
Don't say free, it mutualized. You all pay for a service.
It was originally discovered on Loceline with dr. Drew and Adam Corolla. It was single women predominantly
Dan trying to rationalize how someone could just not ask questions is how i feel almost every day.
Is it really?
@@erikhermansen3431 yes. I work for a company that makes things for the government, and everything is so compartmentalized to a fault that we get blueprints with no dimensions because "theyre not critical".
Other random discoveries only possible from the Internet: asmr, people who can't imagine visually, people who can't imagine in colour, people who can't hear voices when they think. None of these were known to scientists until people started talking on the Internet. I'm sure there are loads more
I learned about the imagining things years ago. I had a friend who couldn't picture in his mind the front of his own house. I think my brain shorted out trying to sort that out.
How high is the resolution of your mind's eye supposed to be anyway? Mine's at the level of my peripheral vision. Blurry mess that is only technically colored.
I think a new one we'll see coming up is people fully able ti understand english, but barely able to speak it. I dont mean immigrants, i mean born and raised. How many kids these days pick up all of their primary language from shit like video games where they dont develop this information verbally. I myself think in text after being raised like this
@@jackhazardous4008That’s just autism.
@@PutkisenSetä
I guess its a spectrum.
Mine is nearly completely realistic, but then I draw as a hobby.
This is the strangest phenomenon. When one of my detectors starts chirping I have it off the ceiling after one of two beeps not matter what time of day it is. I don't understand how people can live with that sound.
It's not a poverty thing either. I remember Opie & Anthony doing a phone interview with the guy who played Omar on The Wire, which I still haven't watched, and he had the chirp too.
No, it's an IQ thing.
Welcome back Sargon
The fun part about the chirp is that most fire alarms in America are actually wired to house so that if the fire alarm dies it can actually chirp for as long as the house has power. It still requires a battery. It's just wired up so that you leave the house for a week or month you'll know that the battery is dead.
So.. A couple of years ago my smoke-detector started chirping. The apartments where I live have the detectors locked, so people won't remove them if this happens, then forget to replace the battery and put them up again. A pain to have to call someone, but seeing as you're possibly putting the other tenants at risk.....fine, I guess.. Since this was covid times though, our maintenance guy only showed up for emergencies (water, electricity, freezer/fridge or oven/stove issues, etc.). So I had to live with that crap for two months. Now, I get the whole "you get used to it" argument. I grew up on the country-side, and every year all the fields around town had to be covered in maneur. Horrid for one, maybe two days, then no-one could smell it. I can honestly say, this is not true for the f-ing chirp. After a day I wanted to cry, after a week I was ready tare it down with my bare hands, after a month it felt like literal torture where I was both physically and mentally worn down with no energy, always angry and anxious, etc. After the battery was finally swapped I still had at least a month of my entire body non-stop being tense in anticipation of a chirp that wouldnt come. It would take years to "get used to it", imagine letting yourself live in quite literal torture for years willingly because your what.. that lazy? That cheap? After living it I genuinely can't fathom it unless you were born into it. But in that case, what about your parents? Not every generation in both your bloodlines can have been born into it. How? Literally how, when even this video sent me straight back to friggin' Vietnam?! PTSD-rant over. 😤
Our secretary is so lazy that her's has been beeping for the last 3 years, I believe.
Every once in a while she'll ask to work from home for a day if that time of the month is extra bad. I let her remote in to do work, but if I call her to take care of something I hear that damn beep.
At one point I said we could have one of our technicians come over and put batteries in. Nope...3 years later still happens.
It sounds like you shouldnt let her work from home since shes incapable of maintaining a suitable work environment.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Sometime in the future she won't even be working at work. Just too many errors, really slow to pick stuff up. We've been patient, but it just seems never ending.
Right now too busy to find a new one and train, but in the future that will have to happen.
It's the sound of lazy negligence and disregard for future considerations. In other words, those that typically practice R type mating strategy.
I think it goes even deeper than this.
Remember back in the school gym, your sneakers made the same chirping sound when it hit the floor in a certain way o.O
It goes resemble squeaky sneakers on linoleum.
@@Svoorhout85 Exactly =]
Or when the bottom of your shoe is wet on wood/ linoleum floors... I hated morning assembly in the gym at school on wet days. You would always get that one kid that drags their feet.
Over ten years ago I and my friends were interrupted by a fire alarm chirping. Cutting off our tabletop gaming. Before that beep reached the "ep" six geeky White dudes rose as one and began searching for batteries and locate which alarm was crying for help. Less than 10 min and we were back to rolling dice.
Those geeks are successful now and you’re a “cool” loser
Yup, checks out. It's not your house, but it's a place your gonna spend some time. So you help out. (also, you know, the sound stopping is bliss.)
White ppl be like....
The ceiling birds at my mom's house are probably chirping again too. But I visit next week and will see that they are fed.
Theres also the fact that smoke detectors themselves need replacement after a decade. If you replace the battery in one, it still chirps because the Americium or whatever decayed or something. Ive had that problem but now I'm aware and wont ever have it again
Planned obsolescence, it's really annoying.
@zxyatiywariii8 nah, not in this case, all radioactive elements have a half life and some decay faster than others. Smoke and carbon monoxide detractors use radioactive elements to function
There are new style of smoke detector that uses optics and non-radioactive source and in my experience they're too sensitive / false alarm way too much. I'd much rather have the radioisotope style of detector. Sucks being woken up in the middle of the night because the non-radioactive one decides to trip.
As someone who’s been playing online games since 2004. This is something I noticed a very long time ago.
I had a smoke alarm that started chirping and I couldn't the change the batteries myself (wouldn't open and I wasn't allowed to break it open because I was renting), and it took six whole weeks and several reports before someone finally came to sort it.
I never tuned it out in that time, it drove me crazy.
Sometimes arson is the correct answer.
I had the chirp start going off at 4am once, this was in a place I rented, the battery case wouldn't open, and I had no batteries to replace it anyway, so I turned off the mains, got up on a chair and removed the smoke alarm, cutting the wire. I couldn't even get the battery out after I'd removed it from the ceiling, it was like someone had superglued it shut, so I called the landlord and said it needed replacing, he was very understanding.
I think some models are specifically designed so that changing the battery is impossible so you are forced to buy a new detector.
Generic battery smoke alarms can be safely kicked off the wall or ceiling with extreme rage and replaced with a similar looking one. Since they're all pretty much identical to some degree unless your landlord is some Mensa graduate they won't even notice.
@@nxxynx5039 Unfortunately this one was wired into some overall system for the building and probably would've triggered something had I done so.
In our home we have four smoke detectors and three carbon monoxide detectors. If any of them start beeping I am on a quest. You can buy the cheaper brand batteries, then you have an entire pack in case this happens.
My house has never been on fire, but I've been in situations where a smoke detector saved lives.
Also keep several fire extinguishers on different floors just in case.
Our family practices fire alarm drills. What to do, where to go, who to call and so on.
Westernkind is a rather safe than sorry type of people.
Just started watching this, confused, and my alarm chipped twice in a row lol.
I remember growing up my parents always kept the smoke alarms in fresh batteries.
It wasn't until I went to college and had to manage that myself that I realized that smoke alarms start complaining when their battery gets low.
It was so annoying, I went to the drugstore right away and grabbed some batteries.
How can you expect them to fix their smoke alarms while theyre busy washing their chicken.
Feed Chirpy Ceiling Bird a Lithium Battery and it shuts up for a helluva looong time!!!😂
Around 2014 or so I became fascinated with a channel where a guy was rehabbing houses in the metro Detroit area. EVERY house he went into, no matter if someone was living there or not, had a smoke detector beeping. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. This trend was immediately apparent to me ever since then.
It has only recently occurred to me that most of those people have also never bought a smoke detector. The fire departments in many of those areas (including in my home town) literally go door-to-door once a year and install smoked detectors for them. They have no idea, awareness, or concern about what they are or why to own one. I'd bet money that it will soon become a point of pride to have a chirping smoke detector in certain homes. Just like wearing clothing that is 6 sizes too big used to be because all you could afford were hand-me-downs from bigger relatives or donations, then it became fashion. 🙄
From washing chicken with soap to living your life with constant chirping in the background, they really are a different animal.
Washing chicken with soap? Wtf? Well there goes my afternoon. I must learn about this lunacy.
@@erikhermansen3431 Oh yes they wash raw chicken with dish soap, truly bizarre.
@@matthewhopkins666And then there's the lunatics who use bleach.
@matthewhopkins666 i have never heard of this in my life, you're getting bad information
@@mo.ka.9661literally hundreds of videos of it my dude. You gotta clean yo chicken to get rid of the germs. Because that's not what the cooking does lol😂. They are are so low iq they can't understand the basics of cooking meat.
I think the longest I left the chirp was overnight because I was completely spent and had been awake for about 30 hours and then got home.
I'd have an easier time sleeping with a machine shop in the next room than that fucking infernal chirping noise.
The chirping reminds black people of the great African plains.
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@@kaizokujimbei143 Don't be a spamming robot, think for yourself my friend...
I get up in the middle of the night of needed.
Ha! Kevin Samuels used to say this sound was part of the single woman’s starter kit 😂
Sky Bird took Kevin out for daring to suggest such a thing
How would you feel if it didn't chirp?
But it do chirp.
But I did eat breakfa- oh shit my bad, different question
Hahaha
Hahaha
I noticed the chirp commonality in certain households many years ago while watching episodes of The First 48.
Dude, I had the same realization while watching the First 48 as well!
I discovered that the stereotype that states they won't enter a graveyard is true in college. My two best friends up there were black, and this was a sleepy little private college, so there was NOTHING to do up there that didn't involve a lot of walking, and a lot of smoking. The fellas and I just weren't into disk golf, what can I say. The one path they refused to take, even if we didn't spark up until we reached the other side, was the one that lead directly through the graveyard. Campus police never patrolled the far side of the graveyard, and there was only ever 1 non-campus patrol unit, so not taking that path was the source of a few arguments. It was the one thing they'd never budge on.
Whitewash Jones was a documentary.
It annoys the hell out of me. Actually got chewed out by maintenance at an apartment I used to live in because I would just change it myself even though it's Thier job. Finally told them if they didn't want me changing it they needed to get their ass over and change it within two days of me putting in the work order.
I don't think I could ever wait that long. If I have to wait for someone to fix it, then they better be there within the hour.
2 days of beeping? Fuck that, I'd lose my mind.
There needs to be a woke detector to inform us that there is wokeness within the vicinity
It's been chirping this whole time. We just need to put in a new Mccarthy panel.
It's called a carbon monoxide detector, whenever you visit the home and the batteries are flat or removed, you know that there's some brain damage
@seandelap8587 A loud high pitched whining noise, you mean?
They already do it for us with the social uniforms they proudly display.
dont need a dedicated detector for that. its plain as day
My smoke alarm was low on batteries. It got in 2 chirps before I was able to run downstairs to my cache of batteries and replace it. The look on my cats faces... Poor little furballs. Imagine them having to deal with that for months...
Makes me wonder about dogs in households like this.
Ikr, as annoying as this is for my ears, I can imagine how much worse it would be for cats and dogs. There was a bird at our local animal shelter who had learned to make a beeping sound just like a smoke detector, though, because he'd come from a home where that was just regular ambient noise.
Keeping spare batteries is white privilege.
Sensitivity to noise is g correlated. If your brain works better, it's simply better at interpreting and reacting to **any** stimuli. Everyone knows that dumb people are loud and violent and smart people are quiet and reserved. This is because dumb people need more stimuli for literally anything to happen inside their brain. This is why psychomotor stimulants can improve performance in school, they literally just crank the volume inside the brain to get *something* to happen.
The smoke alarm chirp was calibrated to alert the average person many decades ago, but thanks to a combination of selective breeding and low training, we are plumbing new depths in this country.
you mean plummeting, not plumbing
@@eitantal726 No, I mean plumbing new depths. You're on the internet already, you can search for it.
@@eitantal726 Hello Mr. Dunning-Kruger, nice of you to join us.
@@eitantal726 No no, it's plumbing. You plumb depths. It's an idiom (a 'saying' as some people call it). By this the OP meant that we are reaching new lows in terms of low intelligence and lack of general knowledge.
In short, OP says that we've never been this moronic before!
DASS DA HALLWAY, IT ALWAYS MAKE DAT NOISE
A very nice thumbnail choice. I too love fictional situations
I truly remember when Gunna released his new album this year, one of his songs P Angels literally had this sound integrated into the beat. That shit was hilarious
As a musical choice / sample or as an "error" in the recording? Like how you can hear the telephone ringing during Led Zeppelin's The Ocean (during the guitar solo) or squeak of drum stool in the beginning of Black Sabbath's 'Lord Of This World'. One last one is Lincoln Park's 'In The End' there is a stutter in the recording at one point.
A friend of mines sister noticed her smoke alarm was beeping so she took it down from the ceiling and noticed the 'air' light was also turning on and off
So she thought "Oh it wants air" and took the smoke alarm outside and put it in her garden for fresh air XD
The psychic backlash from simply hearing of this hurts a lot.
Nice story bro, especially since it didn’t happen.
@@RexPopulis No? You know better?
@@ryanstewart3640 How would you feel if you didn’t know better?
@@RexPopulis Stupid if I was caught trying to pretend that I did
"I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn't realize what the impact would be."
I work in a majority black area and I’ve walked by employees taking a call on break and heard the chirp from the person on the other line.
Years ago when we lived in our old house, my single mother never changed the damn battery. The one outside my bedroom would just chirp every 30 seconds or so. In the end, she got a chair, got on it and unscrewed it from the roof and cut the wires to stop it. When the new house one did it, and I was older, I explained to her "Mum the battery is dead. You need to change it." Her face was like the black womans at 9:00, just 0_0
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This is the most I’ve laughed in a long time. Thank you.
It's not just in the USA but also in all of South America and Mexico you just can't hear it over the tornado in hispanic homes. It's quite impressive really
Changed the batteries and it still beeps.
Ended up just replacing the damn thing.
There's one with Pharrell showing off some million dollar diamond crusted Gucci bag then...*chirp* 😂
Also known as 'how to spot a single black woman/man raised by a single black woman'
Statistically not a difficult occurrence. Just point at a crowd in detroit
No need to include “single” into this metric, it’s literally just blacks
@@BellBeakerBlokeI used to think that was a legitimate line of reason, but why's homie gotta drag my Ulster-Scott Kinfolk?? 🙄🙄🤦🏼♂️
@@BellBeakerBlokeI can accept Sowell's line of reasoning for the favoring of gang allegiances and other such things, but that idea is not even close to explaining the ceiling birds.
@@BellBeakerBloke I mean, you can be pretentious and say 'oh yes, it's clearly specifically X person from Y time period's philosophy' all you want, while making a point to insult people to elevate yourself in the process. But it's simple pattern recognition at the end of the day. Simmer.
Smoke alarms kinda sound like fresh J's sliding across a basketball court so it makes sense why certain Black folk are desensitized to it and tend to die during housefires. They hear the beeping and just assume someone in their house is watching an NBA game at high volume.
That sound is culturally rooted in our time at the basketball courts.
People around me can't seem to notice even car noise or notification bells, let alone an once-in-30s beep. This is like when people have TVs on but can't answer if you ask what the show is about. You need to have something that noise disrupts to notice the disruption.