#fire alarm

[todays-xkcd]

FYI: The 'drop, cover, and hold on' advice only applies to earthquakes. If you encounter a mountain lion, you should absolutely not drop to the ground, crawl under it, and hold on to one of its legs.

What to Do [Explained]

Transcript Under Cut

[The comic is laid out like a grid, with situations down the left-hand side (mountain lion / lightning / fire alarm / bleeding) and the solutions across the top (stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away / run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle / calmly exit the building / apply firm pressure ). The grid illustrates the "match-ups", with a green square denoting a "correct" match-up and a red square denoting a bad idea.] [From the top left corner, going from left to right, top to bottom, with each first item being on its own line in the grid, the squares are as follows:] [Green square, a mountain lion (drawn as a large cat) sits on the left, on a perch. Cueball and Megan have their arms raised and are speaking to it.] Cueball: HEY. STOP. Megan: SHOO.

stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> mountain lion

[Red square, Cueball and Megan are being chased by a mountain lion, and are running towards a building to their right.]

run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> mountain lion

[Red square, Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach a mountain lion.] Megan: Hello.

calmly exit the building -> mountain lion

[Red square, Cueball is putting his hands firmly on a mountain lion.]

apply firm pressure -> mountain lion

[Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball is standing outside, with his arms raised, yelling at the lightning .] BOOM. Cueball: NO!

stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> lightning

[Green square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan run toward a building to their right.] BOOM.

run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> lightning

[Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM.

calmly exit the building -> lightning

[Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball pushes on the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM.

apply firm pressure -> lightning

[Red square, a fire alarm is beeping. Cueball yells at the alarm, with his arms raised.] BEEP BEEP BEEP! Cueball: HEY.

stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> fire alarm

[Red square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a building with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan run toward the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP!

run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> fire alarm

[Green square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a house with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan are exiting the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP!

calmly exit the building -> fire alarm

[Red square, a fire alarm is beeping, and Cueball is trying to "suppress" the beeping sound. Behind him are flames.] BEEP BEEP BE-eep eep eep...

apply firm pressure -> fire alarm

[Red square, Cueball is bleeding from his right arm, and holds it. Megan to his right yells at him with her arms raised.] Megan: HEY! Megan: STOP IT!

stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> bleeding

[Red square, Megan, holding a first aid kit in one hand and a bandage in the other, runs with a bleeding Cueball towards a building to their right.]

run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> bleeding

[Red square, Megan holds a bandage, and to the ground in front of her is a first aid kit. Cueball is walking to the right of the panel, with an injured and bloody left arm raised.] Cueball: Bye!

calmly exit the building -> bleeding

[Green square, Cueball sits in a chair and Megan is treating him by putting her hands on his injured limb. Behind her on the ground is a first aid kit.]

apply firm pressure -> bleeding

#xkcd #xkcd 2813 #what to do #mountain lion #lightning #fire alarm #fire #bleeding #thunderstorm

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

#hackers #macintosh #cyber security #prank #funny pranks #school hacks #fire alarm #cyberpunk #cyberpunk movies #gifs #gifset #umbrella #cybersecurity #cyberspace #macos #mac os #retro computing #apple mac #hypercard

[pabuthefirecat]

Annually Fire Alarmed 2023

Is noise done? Yes?

Hunter, go check

#hunter #pabu #fire alarm #cute #kitty #cat #neko #bffs #black cat #orange cat #ginger cat #orange #ginger #tabby

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in high school (I was in the 4th grade when I had the dream) and I pressed a button on my friend’s keyboard that just said “alarm” in big red letters and the fire alarms went off.

Bonnie and Chica from Five Nights at Freddy's came and stuffed me in a locker and my corpse rotted but nobody noticed the smell.

#dream #text #May 1st 2023 #Five Nights at Freddy's #high school #school #friend #keyboard #fire alarm #fire tw #bonnie #chica #fnaf #murder tw #death tw #horror #body horror tw #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[goshyesvintageads]

Nintendo Co Ltd, 1998

#Game Boy #ad #1998 #retro #gameboy #advertisement #fire alarm #1990s #advertising #hand held #video game #game boy pocket #games

[autism-polls]

Poll submitted anonymously on April 3, 2024

#actually autistic #actually disabled #autism #autism acceptance #autism acceptance month #autism awareness #autism awareness month #autism poll #autism spectrum disorder #autistic #autism positivity #tumblr polls #poll #fire alarm #sounds #sensory #anonymous #submission #anon #ask

[manybackflips]

Me: Dang, they’re out of asiago bagels at my favorite bagel place! What will I do now!

Sol Badguy, the sleep deprivation hallucination: Pull the fire alarm to show them a real bandit bringer!

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #ggst #sol breast guy #sol badguy #fire alarm #asiago bagels 10/10 #you got it Mr. Badguy!

[jacky93sims]

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[labellenouvelle]

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#antiques #magazine street #new orleans #interior design #interior decor #interiors #collectibles #oddities #lighting #automatic #fire alarm #wall sconce #one of a kind

[chubby-aphrodite]

#fae talks #polls #poll #fire alarm #fire truck #emergencies

[go-learn-esperanto]

If Wilbur and Grian don't mention the fire alarm I will be disappointed beyond belief.

I personally think starting a conversation with "Do you rember that time we all thought you were gonna die?" is valid, totally normal and even healthy!

#The fire alarm is my favourite MCC Pride 21 paid actor. 💜 #/j #mcyt #mcc #mcc 25 #wilbur soot #grian #socket duo #mccp 21 #fire alarm

[danineedshelp]

THE FUCKING FIRE ALARM

so like the fire alarm just gave me and my mom a heart attack💀

It started beeping for no reason and here's the kick there was no smoke or fire....I'm still jumpy writing this

#help #fire alarm #no smoke or fire? #heart attack #😭😭😭 #what did i do to deserve this #💀💀💀

[felixthetherian]

Fire alarm 🚨 🥺🐾

#therian #theriotype #therian community #alterhuman #therian things #therianthopy #fox therian #fox theriotype #canine therian #coyote therian #therian blog #school #fire alarm

[literarynerd]

The most ridiculous thing happened to me last night. I was sitting watching a passable Christmas romcom when suddenly the fire alarms started going off. I live in a town house, and I have two that are linked and they talk, because they also do carbon monoxide detection.

So it started saying “FIRE FEU” [bilingual due to being Canadian] while the alarm was going off. So my mom and I jump up and run around to see where the fire is and we can’t find anything, we also can’t smell anything, and it eventually stopped. But then it goes off again and we wonder if the backup batteries are dying and that is why it’s going off. So I frantically change the batteries while my eardrums are being tortured with shrieking and “FIRE FEU”. And they stop going off and I think that it solved the problem. But then the alarm upstairs starts saying “BATTERY BATTERY BATTERY” and I have put that one in backwards. So I fix it.

Then it dawns on me that if it was the battery issue it would have been yelling “BATTERY BATTERY BATTERY” at me. And it starts going off again, this time I try just pressing the test button and the only difference is that it starts screaming “CARBON MONOXIDE CARBON MONOXIDE” and then I’m again freaking out because you can’t smell carbon monoxide. So we open some doors.

Then I decide to try looking outside to see if my neighbours have a fire and somehow our alarm is noticing it before we are, and there is nothing but the alarm has also stopped.

So I look up “fire alarm going off for no reason” and I find out that they can get dusty so I decide to vacuum them, while still attached to the ceiling, and every time I try something new I have to lug the ladder up and down the stairs, just to paint an accurate picture.

The alarm seems to have stopped and it is quiet for about twenty minutes, and I have been lulled into a false sense of security. It goes off again and I am just about at the end of my rope, and I find an article suggesting using canned air, like the kind you use to clean a keyboard. And thankfully we do have some.

So I get back on the damn ladder and spray the shit out both alarms and I notice that one has a solid green light but one has an intermittently blinking green light. More internet searching tells me that means that is the alarm that is detecting the mystery smoke. And I need to reset it, which sets the alarm off again to do the test. My eardrums are crying, I am pissed, but I think I solved the problem.

I go back downstairs, have another twenty minutes of peace and then “FIRE FEU FIRE FEU” and I am furiously swearing at the smoke detector, I drag the ladder back upstairs, I remove it from the ceiling and unplug the main power line. I am going to get the dust out of the smoke detector or I am going to burn the house down, if it wants smoke, it will get smoke.

I take the can of air, my mom is standing in solidarity with me and the can, and I spray it from every angle possible. And then. With the last puff, out pops a very small white spider, we all gasp (probably including the spider, who’s reign of terror is as about to end) and he falls on the floor, and is immediately crushed by a Birkenstock sandal.

And the ordeal is not over because getting that fucking alarm back on the ceiling took me seventeen tries, but no more “FIRE” no more “FEU”, no more “CARBON MONOXIDE” and no more fire alarm.

So if your fire alarm even goes off for seemingly no reason, it could be that the spirit of Puck has possessed a small spider and he is trying to build a web right in front of the smoke sensor.

#delinquent spiders #spirit of puck #fire alarm #I have never wanted to punch a fire alarm and/or spider more #fire #mildly infuriating #or just plain old infuriating

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got chased through a boarding school by a bear that pulled the fire alarm so it was just us two in the building left. It ended with Pedro Pascal at the top of a staircase ridiculing me as I got mauled to death.

#dream #text #March 17th 2023 #boarding school #chase #bear #fire alarm #pedro pascal #horror #nightmare #violence tw #death tw #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

[i-am-an-arson-enthusiast]

so an update to my day: i’m walking up the hill to school and have my noise canceling headphones on bc audhd and i see a fire truck go by. pretty normal and uh then it goes to the top of the hill so now i’m standing outside a very not on fire school building while the worst, fluctuating alarms go off. not the most fun start to my day.

#school #headphones #flame #fire alarm #audhd #adhd #autism