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In the summer of 1997 I was living in the dorms at college. My parents bought me one of those little tabletop stereos because space was limited. It is a Panasonic. It's been through a really really tough life, what with several wild roomates, many different houses, and a lot of heavilly drunken abuse. Anyhow, the batteries in the remote still work! They're the Panasonic batteries that came in the shrinkwrap along with the remote, and they still work. I almost cannot believe it, and I thought I would share it with my xlt friends. FIN |
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P.S. They are standard double A batteries. |
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The batteries I got in the remote control for my first VCR (in early 1991) still work fine. I haven't used it much since mid 2004 but up till then... all the time. |
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Does anyone else out there have any exciting battery-related stories? Why not write in and tell us? |
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*batteries not included* |
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when i was around 5 or 6 the batteries in my brother's casio keyboard had a leak and the fluid looked like caramel or chocolate syrup. I licked them, and lemme tell you it gives you a very strange and painful sensation, possibly because it was acid.. |
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hahaha shouldnt laugh at ur discomfort BUT lolerskates! |
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i am time after time in awe of the sheer power contained in a single DURACEL PLUS battery. I find these to be MUCH better than the 'ULTRA' variety which is much more expensive. With a set of these PLUS babies, i won't even remember how long i've had them in my beloved Philips discman. Highly recommended! Also, my rechargeable 2300mAh Duracel batteries are fantastic, but i only use those for my awesome powershot s1 digital camera. One last word of advice: despite the fact that batteries will often remain operative after long periods of neglection (in most cases found in a lost remote or outdated walkman you no longer use), it is ALWAYS better to take batteries out of their host-application, to prevent leaking battery acid and such. A battery that has both poles connected, will ALWAYS lose SOME power. The same goes for any charging devices that are plugged in, whilst NOT charging any battery/batteries. |
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i meant duraceLL of course. look at their awesome ! |
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When I was a young boy I had a remote-controlled car and everytime the batteries would get weak I put them on the oven for about 10mins and squeeze 3-4 more drive-time out of them. The batteries on the remote for my cd-player lasted 10 years. In the end I got so sick of waiting for them to die that I retired them before their time. |
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waiting for batteries to expire is one of my favorite passtimes. |
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I would probably still be waiting... |
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this is truly fascinating. |
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new levels of dorkdom, mr. Shope. you should have your own tv-programme. |
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No. if you really think about it and i mean hard. This is a break through finding. Certain batteries on certain products get switched. My TV remote has had the same batteries for i would guess over 5 years. I love how i dont have to think twice about it |
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so this says more about remote controls and fuck all about batteries? |
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it would seem my dorkdom knows no bounds. |
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I certainly wouldn't mind being a citizen of your dorkdom, Your Royal Highness. |
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I don't use batteries |
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you use the power of your mind. |
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this is the reason why i'm addicted to xltronic. eternal batteries. |
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Vibrator batteries run out well quickly AND at the worst moment. |
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i had this cd player that would kill a fresh pair of batteries before i could finish listening to a cd. i sold it for $20. |
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I was just going to say that the batteries in my ex-girlfriends vibrator were the same set she had when she met me. |
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that must've been one hell of an efficient vibrator! |
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It was('nt needed), she just use my anal stimulizers I had shipped from America...they had more of a kick. |
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yes.. always did think you would be the one for anal stimulizers from America. |
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yes.. it is a personality trait that exists in my family ever since the colonization (sic) of America by the Europeans. |
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-i will now tell this story in reverse, because i'm bored.- True story. So, I took the frog out of my windshield wiper, trying to be as careful as possible because he had already been through quite a lot. It was cold and rainy. Driving to the store, Nick noticed that the frog was still alive, and moving. When I pulled up to his house, I got out and looked and it wasn't a clump of feathers at all, it was a fucking frog! It must've been carrying it when I hit it. And, somehow it got lodged in my windshield wiper. The next day, I was driving back over to his place, and I didn't see any sign of it on the side of the road, which I'm hoping means he eventually regained his senses and flew off. But, I did notice a clump of wet feathers in my wiper. I couldn't believe it, it was an owl, and it was standing beside the road, obviously dazed, but still alive. Driving home after leaving Nick's I took the same road and drove slowly, looking in the light created by my headlights for any sign of him. Pretty much my whole night was ruined because I felt so bad for hitting something, especially something as cool as an owl or a hawk. Ok, so I'm driving over to a friends house on friday night, in the freezing rain, going fairly slow because the conditions were shitty. When, something flies right in front of me, and I hit it with my windshield, or something, I couldn't really tell because I jumped and it was dark, but from the color it looked like either a hawk, or an owl. |
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haha! |
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haha! |
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come to asheville with joey tuesday night akumi: dollar sake/ pomme de terre mout hunger |
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that sounds awesome. we just upgraded our webservers, and i'll probably be working my teets off this week trying to migrate everything over... i want to do it though. i'll see what work's gonna be like. |
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lovely! |
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I wish I could come too. |
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if you book a flight quickly, you can make it! |
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I know, I know, if I really want to.. oh and if I had more than 200 euro's. :( |
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aww... that's just a lame excuse if i ever heard one. anyways, pomme told me he would loan you the money. |
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ha ha! good ol' Jason (not you, the loan-one, although I think you're also a good ol' Jason, I mean the Shope one OH CHRIST |
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duracel can ALMOST be rearranged into dracula! |
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i think the word "eternal" in the thread title caused me to make this connection |
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if you stick two 9v batteries together you get fluid then maybe a fire! |
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I've found that using rechargable batteries that you put into a charger, which accepts triple or double a, is the cheapest way (especially since I qualify for poverty electricity rates). You only need 2 sets of batteries, alternating which ones are plugged in when current ones wear out so you always have new ones. I think I read that stacking batteries on top of eachother rather than side by side increases their power and I always wanted to stack like 500 batteries up and see what interesting things I could do, even though I'd be too retarded to make anything interesting happen. Maybe with 500 batteries your own body would provide enough conductivity if you touched both ends but you'd need really long arms. |
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I wear batteries down quite quickly ;op |
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You're a writer for Viz, right? ;-) |
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i bought a pack of 64 batterys for £1. i thought i was getting such a bargian, and laughed at the suckers paying £5 for four batterys. then i got home and tried them out, it turns out the life of each battery is 30 seconds. |
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