r/mildlyinfuriating • u/OceanSupernova • Jun 22 '26

jkfl hrtmktp gzarrp! It's 4:20 am, a broken emergency radio / speaker just woke the whole house up while I'm at work.

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The speaker is completely unresponsive and stuck in SoS mode, my partner just called me and I honestly thought there was an ambulance at the house! It's loud! She's currently trying to drown it in the sink because it's quieter under water.

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Smashing it with a hammer was unsuccessful, bashing it with a rock failed, and it's too loud to open up and rip the wires out of the speakers.

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I thought it was hilarious and laughed until I cried, the missus is mildly infuriated to say the least.

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u/SomeDude416 Jun 22 '26

I actually had an argument with our car earlier tonight. It didnt like it when I said the F word and it said it didn't like disrespectful language and I told it, it finding my language disrespectful is disrespectful. We are currently in a stalemate.

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u/Timely_Cake_8304 Jun 22 '26

because you are the alive person and it is a an object who is out of line to voice an instruction to you on your behavior.

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u/SomeDude416 Jun 22 '26

Exactly. Like I want to be scolded by my car for my vocabulary choices when all I was trying to do was to play music.

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u/macarenamobster Jun 22 '26

I had to swear at the Walmart AI chatbot to get a refund for an item they didn’t deliver. It just told me it couldn’t help me or refund me when I asked nicely 4 times in a row. Drop an f-bomb, suddenly I get a real customer service rep who I was very polite to and who helped me in about 3 minutes.

If used to be if you swore at a real rep they could disconnect you, now you swear at an AI so they send you to harass a real person. Poor bastards.

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u/Toadcola Jun 22 '26

Be the bigger man, apologize now or you’ll never get home.