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    1 year ago

    The place I’m staying at has Alexa whatever things all over the house. I have given in and used them for timers and alarm clocks so I can reduce use of my phone especially first thing in the morning. It helps that I have to actually use my voice if I want to silence the alarm. So of course I blearily told it to stop for 3 separate alarms this morning - 7, 7:15 and 7:30.

    Eventually woke up at 8ish and asked it what the time was and it said "The time is 8:05 am. Happy Friday! 😇 "

    Is it possible to ask Alexa to be more of a curmudgeonly bitch?

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      People that say ‘happy Friday’ should be given 50 lashes in the public square.

      People that say ‘happy ****day’ for any other of the week, should be removed from society via catapult or trebuchet

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        The contrary side of me is really tempted to update the bot to put a “happy ****day” message in the DT post 🤣

        What is the appropriate punishment for using “FriYay!!”?

      • Llabyrinthine
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        Oh well, that’s me drawn and quartered for my serial offending.

      • CEOofmyhouse56
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        I think the only exceptions are happy birthday/easter/mother’s day/father’s day. That’s it. People shouldn’t over complicate things.

        • MeanElevator
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          Special occasions are fine. They’re special. Regular days aren’t and so shall they remain.

      • Duenan
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        On my god, if only I could action out this punishment to people at work!

      • just_kitten
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        That was fucking hilarious, thank you 😂 I guess I better start getting creative

        • bull⚡
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          There are so many things you can do it with! I should warn you though… all of the things you ask it get logged and the owner of the devices can see a list of what you’ve said to it in their Alexa app. I can’t remember if it actually saves the audio of you asking or not too.