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- livet0ski, on 08/17/2009, -1/+109maybe thats why he never pays for AAA
- garble7, on 10/12/2007, -10/+44the story is about AA batteries
- savingadvice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32It's actually about AA batteries - the original post was made late at night and I initially wrote AAA - then went back a couple hours later and realized I had made a mistake and changed it to the correct AA - it seems the mirror has the original before I edited and the person the submitted it did so before I edited it. Not their fault in the least - totally mine. My apologies for that...
edit - this was actually for the comment below... - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I thought you made a typo with "lips get burned with old used battery acid", but since you're talking about a woman with a leaky thing on her lap, i can't be too sure now.
- Crossmenjeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21or a giant meteor hits the earth and wipes us all out. if we're generating scenarios that play on every bad thing that can happen. Even new batteries could do that, and the consumer would never know.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19so they hooked it up to their boobs?
- topato, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18HALO I LIEK TO KEEP MY WEBSIGHT IN MY CIGNATURE.
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WWW.SPAMFAGS.ORG - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11He must be running the website with AAAs because I can't load it.
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14It's not hard to take the film out yourself and keep the camera. The film can be submitted for developing just like film from a non-disposable camera. There are other useful parts in the camera besides the battery. I used one of the lenses for extreme closeups with my webcam, and there are useful electronic components in the flash section.
- Metatron197, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11http://duggmirror.com
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Since the link isn't working.....(Unnecessary ellipses)......
MERRY CHRISTMAS (And here's something useful, too http://duggmirror.com/hardware/Why_I_Never_Pay_For_AAA_Batteries ) diggers - overaction, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10"I used one of the lenses for extreme closeups with my webcam"
.... uhhhhhhh....... - invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"[...] in my signture."
The thing is that digg comments don't have signatures. You typed or pasted that in your comment.
Because what you put in the last part of your comment was completely irrelevant to the topic, your comment should be buried.
Because you are advertising -- or more accurately in this case: spamming -- in your comment, you deserve to have the "Block/Report this User" button next to your user name clicked. Digg comments are not advertising space. Go find a forum that has 'signatures' and advertise there. - xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The websites batteries must've run out...
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12enthralling.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@TNHitokiri:
i don't believe he's using disposable cameras all the time, he's just going to film development places that frequently develop disposable cameras, then asking that they keep all the batteries from the cameras. then he goes and collects whatever batteries were accumulated. simple concept, really, just most people are too uncomfortable asking for such a service. - Terc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@elnerdo
Nope, it's about AA batteries from disposable cameras - rushoffailure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's funny, maybe I should write a story called "why I never pay for disposable cameras".
- DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Never use a disposable camera...it captures the models soul, then you throw it away, the birds eat it at the garbage dump, then ***** it out, and it lands in the ocean, the ocean then turns into rain, the rain then lands on large amounts of land, and your soul and essence is devoured by thousands of undeserving people.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you must be one of those lawyers with the commercials that run on local tv late at night.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7like the battery for the flashbulb? good *cough*taser buddy with a taserglove*cough* times.
- ectocooler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5this is so stupid. what a cheap moron. this isn't news.
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@rimco
Yeah, dude. He's pimpin the other 8 year olds at them birthday parties. - ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is one of the dumbest diggs I've seen make it to the front page. It boils down to "go around and beg for them".
- Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5See that will teach you to go touching other peoples boobs.
- xobecide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Whenever I see a disposable camera, I think of Kevin Rose's dark tip a loooong time ago about rigging the battery and extraneous parts to a glove and giving people heavy shocks. My friends didn't hook it up to a glove, but they do make great booby-traps.
- OpCzar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7This is a long personal story about a guy who found out that you can extract AAA batteries from a disposable camera. This doesn't apply to the majority of digg users because most of use are using digital cameras these days...
- cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Which procedure is that? Am I running off AA batteries?! OH GOD!
- person, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Excellent way to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.... Give those batteries a second life before retiring them. We've gone to film places to get film containers. It's really handy.
- Rooker156, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this really isnt news. i work in a photo lab and frankly if someone asked me for batteries, i would say no, because its not worth the trouble or breaking apart a disposable camera for 10 cents worth of crappy batteries. also, the film is on one side, that breaks easily, and the battery is on the other,and its a lot harder to get out. thats why we just throw the whole thing in the camera recycling bin.
- alceria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to work at a photo lab in college. The batteries are always removed and sent in for recycling. But usually the employees can grab big stacks of them. I always had a huge box full of them. The original post is a bit off though, 99% of the batteries in disposable camera are AA not AAA. The AAA ones are few and far between, but generally AA is more useful anyway.
FYI, when you advance film on a disposable camera you are actually rewinding it back into the canister. So you can easily take a screwdriver to your camera when you are done with it and remove the film yourself, and pop out the battery. On occasion, you will give yourself a nice shock though, so watch out for the capacitor.
The batteries are usually some weird foreign brand with funny names like "Golden Power", but they lasted pretty good in my portable cd player and other electronics. - reiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We keep a decent stock of batteries out of the cameras but they are only for use in the store electronics (e.g. wall clocks, labelers). We're not going to give away items that we also sell (for profit).
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Favorite quote: "With these circumstances, it makes sense for us to get free batteries."
I'm going to try that next time I go to a bar "With these circumstances, it makes sense for me to get free beer." - XTheEliminator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This guy is aware that you can buy bulk lots of 5,000 dry cells from china for about 10c a cell, right? Digging them out of disposible cameras is quite simply ludicrous.
- nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8merry christmas novaneil, ikak, and all of digg
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2another late night savingadvice?
- habitat2050, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5yeah, if Ive learned anything from visiting digg its how bandwidth works
- Ebeniz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes you did... RTFA
- AeroSquid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work in a drugstore and the camera guy always has a bagful of AA batteries he keeps from the disposables. I doubt he would give any to the public but I grab them from time to time. Some are better than others charge wise.
- MBison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you know, you could probably get an old digital camera for less than a disposable one on ebay.
- BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Umm, wtf? Stop freaking advertising ***** in your post... Rechargable batteries can be found in many places, very cheap... $15 or so for 16AA/AAA if you look in the right places...
- savingadvice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Believe me, it wasn't a paid-for digg article...if I thought it was digg worthy I would have submitted it myself. I also know my current server can't handle digg (something that I'm changing in the new year) so I had no desire to have an article hit the front page of digg. It was simply an article about how to get free batteries if you happen to need a lot of them...nothing more. nothing less.
- colonelpanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually tried that dark tip out. Works well. However it can be painful and ive even been able to make a very small crude weld with it.
- belfastbiker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It's not hard to take the film out yourself and keep the camera."
As someone who's well familiar with a darkroom bag for many years, and also well familiar with the electric shock it's all to easy for a nood to get off a naked disposable camera, are you seriously suggesting it's easy for a normal user to get at the film without accidental exposure or shock? - DelSolMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. I always resist going and adding "this is the lamest story" in the comment section but this one is pushing it.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still use AA batteries in all sorts of stuff:
remote controls (though these get the "dead" batteries from other stuff.)
wireless mouse & keyboard
flashlights
portable game systems
old electronic games that I collect
alarm clock
"disposable" digital cameras I've hacked for re-use
CD and MD players (and don't iPod haters fault its enclosed battery versus the AA that theirs use?) - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My cousin's wife is a dentist and now & then she gives us a bag of trial size floss samples. ok, it's not exactly batteries, but I suppose it could've been a bag of teeth... wait... what?...
- dark_ryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Inaccurate Title, it's supposed to be Why I never pay for AA batteries
- blowhole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My mom works at a hospital. She once explained to me that for liability reasons they swap in fresh batteries for each procedure. Don't want the equipment failing in the middle of a surgery, right? Dunno what is 'officially' supposed to happen to the old batteries, but every once in a while she comes home with hell of batteries is all I'm saying.
- rouslan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another way to get longer life out of batteries is to recharge non-rechargeable batteries (yes, you heard it correctly). This is possible if the battery is only partially depleted, but is risky since there is a risk of explosion. I have done it a few times when I ran out of batteries, nothing bad happened.
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