Why are clock radios such a dog?

**vifferman** · 17th April 2009, 10:23

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Some of the green LED clocks they were so bright the wife made hand shadow puppets against the wall.

*s n o r t l e*

**Beemer** · 17th April 2009, 10:42

Originally Posted by xwhatsit

LEDs in general are the plague of modern consumer electronics. They insist on putting them everywhere -- PCMCIA wifi cards in laptops, printers, top of mobile phones while charging, stereo systems, even the frigging vacuum cleaner charging station...

Tell me about it! I bought a new hand-held vacuum cleaner last year and it has a blue light when plugged in that is so bright it's like being in a blue-light disco! If I get up in the night and go into the kitchen I don't need to turn any lights on because it lights up the house like daylight. Pain in the arse, why the hell it needs to be so bright I don't know. Thankfully the new mobile phone doesn't have a light when charging but the other half's does and it's pretty bright too.

**Beemer** · 17th April 2009, 10:46

Originally Posted by Spyke

Dude the Worst thing is the LED Screen on the cd player in the car!!! oh but I guess you don't want to be hearing that on a bike site

I hear you! That Porsche Cayenne we had the use of a few weekends ago was incredible - at night there were 23 lights on the door alone, not to mention the ones on the steering wheel (controls for damned near everything) and the CD player. Honestly, it felt like being on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise!

Our cheap stereo at home is a pain as it has some sort of game on it that comes on when the power supply is interrupted and it has flashing lights that scroll up and down the front. You have to set the clock to stop it - I can't wait for it to die so we can buy something that doesn't look at home in a casino!

**Brian d marge** · 17th April 2009, 14:27

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

With a Mobile you can't tell what the time is until the alarm goes off unless you grab the damn thing. Plus I don't want to know if some prick texts me in the middle of the night. It lives in the kitchen till I wake.

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Does it still have a black LCD screen, my wife's phone has a soft pink clock ( ooorr err becareful how you type that one ,,) on the outside the numbers are about a centimetre high and a cm long approx ..and it it on slient for emails and phone and a stupid pop song for alarm ,,,,

Mine is switched off as I dont like any light , but wakes me up with a gentle harp playing ,,,very nice

Stephen

**bungbung** · 17th April 2009, 14:29

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

Mine... wakes me up with a gentle harp playing ,,,very nice

does not compute

**Usarka** · 17th April 2009, 15:07

Stick this up your arse.

Up to the desired time, lie on your stomach and light. And don't fart.

**F5 Dave** · 17th April 2009, 18:32

Originally Posted by Usarka

. . . And don't fart.

does not compute

anyway enough of your homoerotic fantasies

**Str8 Jacket** · 17th April 2009, 18:38

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**Usarka** · 17th April 2009, 20:23

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

does not compute

anyway enough of your homoerotic fantasies

It'll put the flame out?

You know what they say about people who automatically associate arses with homosexuality.....

**Ixion** · 17th April 2009, 20:25

No. What do they say ?

**McJim** · 17th April 2009, 20:26

Get laid, have children.

Mine are 5 and 3 years old and wake up at 5:55am every morning.

**Ixion** · 17th April 2009, 20:31

All well and good. But the great advantage of MY alarm clock is that when it vexatious awakens me I can throw it out the window (retrieving it from the shrubbery on my way to werk). Though I have lost a few that way over the years.

You can't do that with yours.

**McJim** · 17th April 2009, 20:33

Originally Posted by Ixion

All well and good. But the great advantage of MY alarm clock is that when it vexatious awakens me I can throw it out the window (retrieving it from the shrubbery on my way to werk). Though I have lost a few that way over the years.

You can't do that with yours.

You haven't seen my shrubbery.....