Why do people say "The alarm just went off" when really it just came on?
153069
Or for the same reason relieving yourself is referred to as TAKING a piss. Though I would imagine it has something to do with the alarm having been 'set off', which is a phrase synonymous with 'triggered'.
813730
it's just your natural clock telling you you need to be up (I'm a 3:45 myself)..also horrible to consider, but is it possible that something really bad or scary happened to you when you were very young at that time? If so, you're body knows to be alert for danger at that time.
310431
Many factories and industrial sites use these sirens as a "knock-off" sign. It means its time for the workers to go home, a shift change, or signifies something is about to happen on one of these sites, such as a crane dropping its load. They have them in Japan as well. Scared the hell outta me when i was deployed over there the first time i heard it.
760417
I was in a supermarket a few years back on 11/11, and just before eleven they made the announcement that in a minutes' time it would be 11.00am etc. Come 11, they sounded the 'ding-dong' and everybody - yes EVERYBODY stood still and silent except for one young woman who continued filling her trolley and letting her four year old scream his head off (as usual) all the time. \nCome 11.02, I was the first to have a go - loudly - at the ignorant cow, and she turned out to be an awfully posh woman, and as soon as other customers heard the way she was speaking they all joined in and we had such a really smashing time chastising her that in the end she just fled from the shop!\nI bet she observes AND understands the two minute silence nowadays !\nI'm the last one in to any kind of religion, but I still observe the silence in remembrance of those who fought and those who died on my behalf so that I could be writing this now in the comfort of my home.
1007222
Amber alerts are ALREADY overused. Pretty soon we will see 2 or 3 everyday.We will eventually become desensitized by them and they will be ignored, much like the political corruption,murders,rapes,burglaries,police shootings,etc. that society ALREADY pretty much is (unfortunately) used to.Tragic events happen everyday,and because we "hear" of them constantly,they really don`t mean very much.
674704
Sometimes, it can go wacky for a bit until it goes back to normal. You just switched it off a schedual and it needs to adjust.
332081
I heard about it, but didn't know it was this week. Turning off the TV would keep you from staying informed and entertained. I really don't see the point. Did the people who thought this up mention the computer, the telephone, the cell phone, the iPod, hand-held video games or the movie theater? No, they didn't. So why single-out TV? They said that people should turn off the TV in order to lead a healthier life and read more. What, for one week? If you want to lead a healthier life and read more, you will, TV or not. So I say go ahead and watch TV!
433658
Set numerous alarms to go off two minutes apart.  You'll never have time to fall back asleep, and you'll get out of bed to stop the noise!
528207
Depends on what you yell: "Are you alright?" might be more appropriate than "Hurry up!!" especially because you don't know what's taking so long. The person could be hysterically upset over something (breakup, death of loved one) or violently ill and need you to call 911.
708607
True "o'clock" is short for "of the clock", but you must understand the sense of "of" here.   It might be better to express the ideas as "according to the clock".  \nhttp://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970102\n\nBut even that does not explain the imagery involved in this expression, which we find by the14th century (Chaucer).   \nFor that we need to go back to the origins of the mechanical clock itself and the very word "clock".  \n\n"Clock" comes from Latin 'cloca' meaning "BELL".  It was the term applied to the newer devices in use for measuring time in the thirteenth century.   As the word itself suggests, the key feature of these clocks is the bell that chimed the hours  In fact, these clocks, often set out in public in a tower to make it possible to notify everyone, did not necessarily have hands.       \n\nThe key thing, then, was notifying people of the HOUR of the day (not the minute, and not, at least at first, the quarter or half hour either).  This practice of marking/announcing the hours is echoed by the watchman's call "nine o'clock and all is well."     Thus it is scarcely surprising that this way of expressing the time did not (and still does not, except in certain highly formal uses) state anything BUT the HOUR.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock#A_new_mechanism\n\nSo you may picture the situation around 1300 -- the bell in the 'clock tower' strikes ONE time announcing that the hour is "one of ['according to'] the clock".
585918
Because it knows that you were only expecting 5 more minutes.. so it screws you by letting you sleep 4 more so you dont have time to take a shower\n\nI am convinced snooze buttons were made to screw your day
1042160
Seem the clip before. The one thing that will go on ,and it doesn't just happen in this country,is the government of all countrys will cover up things they don't want the people to really know anything about. So don't say when is american people going to wake up, they are all ready awake. You can't fight something that you have no control over. Same goes for the other countrys that experience the same thing but on a larger scale.
80517
It means you are about to wake up.
823523
On Christmas my brother woke me up around 5am. Since or parents said we couldn't get them up until 6am, we decided to go outside and play in the snow. We got so wrapped up in the exictement, we forgot to turn the alarm off...and our alarm is LOUD. We started screaming and ran off. Our parents thought it was a actual robbery until we came back 5 minutes later. Oops!
1122123
It sounds like a false alarm to me.......oops! I'm sorry, couldn't resist the pun.lol\n\nI would get rid of it and then add it again. \n\nDid it just start doing this or has it been doing it all along?
94346
You can not turn it completely off. It is there for emergency purposes only.
720235
Some people simply just listen to music, it can be quiet and that is how they listen. But there is another type of people who does not like to listen to the music.... they like to be the music... feel that annoying loud bass over their own heartbeat....\nyou can call the police through the "non emergency" phone line... and file a noise complaint.. in a lot of places . you are suppose to be quiet after 10. check and see if your area has a curfew... \nbut i would ask them to stop. and if that doesnt work. file a noise complaint