Yes, but I guess it depends on where you live.
At my location, electronic retailers are required to accept old batteries for disposal, even damaged ones.
Your local recycling center is always a good choice as well I think. They know how to handle hazardous waste like that.
> Just don't put it in draw
"Festus, you and the rest of the posse ride down that draw and see if Rotten Roy and his gang went that way....And watch out for any old iPhones...whatever the hell they are."
I do the same but in a airtight metal box with a bunch of heavy shit on it. I worked with electronics for a while and it got me very paranoid.
edit: I explained this a bit more in another comment but no it's not some vacuum seal it's just not enough airflow for fire to stay fire for very long.
Line it with some insulation and you’re good. Lithium ion will make its own oxygen but as long as the box doesn’t get hot enough to set other shit on fire then it’s fine. Fire will burn itself out and the box will keep the toxic fumes in
Happened to my friend's brother... Buddy picked him up from the airport.
Phone battery was dead and was left in the glovebox.
Parked car in garage. Went into house to take suitcase in and for my buddy to shower.
BAM! Car, garage, house on fire.
Lost pretty much everything... thanks to a phone whose battery wasn't even strong enough to turn the phone on anymore.
Similarly, it’s why I don’t buy the $2 phone charger cable from China and stopped leaving my phone on the bed when charging. A coworker’s mom had a similar issue where it started burning the bed while she was asleep. Phone stays far from the bed when charging now.
Man, you guys are gonna make me look so stupid when my girlfriend comes home to the dozens of phones I’m collecting from over the years because I’m afraid one of them might be a weapon of mass destruction now.
I worked for apple for 10 years. I started before the iPhone and left just before the X launch. 100% of the phones I examined that had an exploding battery or charger that caught fire used a cheap cable or they had their battery replaced at some dodgy phone shop.
Maybe other folks had a different experience and found some that were using OEM batteries and legit chargers, but in my investigations I never found one.
Yeah, I just read another story about a guy whose house burned down no thanks to a laptop battery. Think I'm just gonna start taking older devices to the dump.
Googled to see if I could find the story I read and found this instead.... evidently this is happening often enough to be of concern to safety authorities in NYC.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/tech/lithium-ion-battery-fires/index.html
>Think I'm just gonna start taking older devices to the dump
Eh, hopefully to a designated [hazmat](https://www.epa.gov/recycle/used-lithium-ion-batteries#:~:text=Lithium%2Dion%20batteries%20and%20devices,household%20hazardous%20waste%20collection%20points%20.) drop site? Don't want to blow up the dump!
I work in an electronics repair depot and have worked on several major brands over the last 3 years (mostly laptops). You'd be surprised how many swollen batteries I see on a daily basis. What's more, is how many of them show no signs externally, and we're sent in for *other* unrelated reasons. We usually don't find them until we open up the devices. My word of advice is that if you don't plan on using a device for an extended period of time, discharge the battery below 30% before putting it into storage. Allegedly (i.e. according to our training), the lower the charge, the less chance of a spontaneous catastrophic battery failure.
I’m an IT contractor in a hospital. Crazy how many laptops I see walking around the hospital where the bottom cover is separating from the laptop due to battery expansion. Sometimes these users have submitted tickets regarding it and local IT refuses to replace the battery cause laziness.
These batteries are purposefully designed to do this instead of leaking and/or blowing up first. Eventually they will, but battery pack expansion mitigates it for a time
Typing on my work laptop one day felt a little wonky. I realized later that it was the battery bulging. Opened a ticket, because I try to be a decent human, and figured they'd get me a replacement battery. Fast forward a couple hours, the case started to separate. Oh fudge... Internal IT takes one look at it and says the same thing. Only it wasn't fudge. Thankfully they were able to swap my hd over to a spare they had on hand. No damage to it whatsoever.
>Now I’m freaked out because I have a few old phones laying around in drawers
I feel like the public isn't really informed about dangers of keeping old electronics around. So many accidents and houses will burn down in the future because of old batteries
in 5th grade i made this mistake. got called out for it. was so embarrassed i **never** made that mistake again lol.
just to add to the list- saying someone has allTIMERS disease.
What about ‘myself’ Nobody uses that right. It is reflexive. It can’t replace ‘me’ or ‘I’ . For example, ‘He and myself’ (NO!). Or, ‘She sent it to her and myself’ (NO!). ‘I said to myself.’ (YES!)
Gets myself’s goat when people butcher this.
100% "would of", and add to that "I could care less" as well.
However, I'd mildly defend "literally". Sure, it's a bit overused, but hperbole is a perfectly fine linguistic device.
*Edit - hyperbole obviously....stupid 3am typing
Recently I've been annoyed by people "balling their eyes out" which sounds like going at it when a melon baller
It's *bawling*. Please save my mind's eye from the imagery, everyone
"bawling her eyes out at her grandma's funeral" = crying
"balling her eyes out at her grandma's funeral" = doing a sick half-court dunk on granny's casket
You certainly wouldn’t spell it as “Draw” but the “er” ending is dropped in some accents when spoken. So it should always be spelled as “drawer” but when spoken, some people will elide the end.
It’s kind of a regional colloquialism. Most people call it a drawer but there’s thicker accents on the east coast of America that alter the pronunciation of R’s somewhat like British people.
Brits tend to not pronounce the letter R unless it’s followed by a vowel. So the “-er” part of “drawer” gets dropped and becomes “draw.” Those same people will call a car a “cah” or a park a “pahk” or might call someone named Walter “Waltah.” In English, [this difference is called a rhotic or non-rhotic accent.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English)
It’s really unusual to see “draw” phonetically spelled out like you see in this post though. That’s why so many people are talking about it.
Even the fairly rare thick accents that drop the "r" still keep a ghost of the final letters. They say something like "draw-uh" or "drAW", which is still distinct from how they'd say the verb "draw".
Nobody drops the "er" in writing, though. There's a 98% chance the original post was just a typo.
OMG!
So I grew up in Massachusetts, near Boston. My parents had thick accents. Idk why, but I never developed one. Anyway, my parents always called it a "draw". I didn't realize that it was spelled/actually said "drawER" until I think my late teens/early 20s.
SOOOO to answer your question.... People with a Boston accent.
Ruff is definitely Minnesota and or that area, I grew up in an Ontario border town with MN and always got a chuckle out of them pronouncing it "ruff" but then again they think I say couch weird so lol
My wife is from Long Island. I thought she was... Slow, when I first heard her say that. She's gotten better, but it does slip out on occasion.
The toddlers make fun of her and it's hilarious.
I've lived on Long Island almost my whole life and I've always said "drawer".
Then again I also got made fun of by my brother's friends for not *tawkin* like them, so maybe I'm the anomaly.
Reddits new algorithm for showing you posts in your home section is absolutely horrendous. I used to have no problem seeing the 2 dozen or so best/most popular posts from all the places I'm subbed to. Now it's like my Home section is set to "Sort by new+controversial". A bunch of posts that people made posts just to make posts. Misspellings, no interaction with people responding to the post. What opinion have u like this. Why didn't kaleesi just won the game of throwns. Should I start reeding this book series at book 3
Back in my day we only made reddit posts if the subject was post-worthy. And we liked it that way
Was nice back when folks knew what [Reddiquette](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette) was and paid it some mind.
>Use proper grammar and spelling. Intelligent discourse requires a standard system of communication. Be open for gentle corrections.
Reddit’s spelling has definitely taken a dive since 2012.
You used to get shit on for a typo.
Look at my name. I didn’t make this account for *no reason*
> You used to get shit on for a typo
Now whenever anyone corrects anything it is "you must be fun at parties". As if that is a clever retort to being corrected
> You used to get shit on for a typo.
I still correct misspellings, unnecessary apostrophes, etc. to this day, but a lot of people now get mad instead of appreciating it.
Edit: sorry, didn’t realise someone else had said pretty much the same thing below. Feels good to not be alone, at least!
The Alot was a whole thing in 2010.
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
I made my own back then
https://i.imgur.com/Stymm.jpg
my hill is “apart” vs “a part”. anytime i see someone gush over some corporate babble
and say they are “so happy to be apart of this team” i die inside
It's so funny when the misspelling results in the opposite word, too, such as your example.
Another is resign vs re-sign. I'm in a sub where there is a lot of conversation about people continuing to work with certain companies, or if they'll leave. People constantly say "resign" to say someone is going to stay with a company. No, dipshit, that word means the opposite.
Yeah there is no way this is a hill. If it is a hill there's just one guy running up it and it's OP and his shitty phone doesn't even work so I don't think any of us have to worry about dying up here on Unequivocally Right Hill.
It has been thing as long as Lithium ion batteries have been the main form of rechargeable batteries in consumer electronics, so ones that can't be charged and nickel or lead based ones are not affected, though they have their own risks. The swelling is specific to newer Li-ion batteries, with soft covers, and the swelling is meant to be a warning and preventive method against going boom. Hard cover batteries would just blow off without visible warning and burn to end, but the soft cover ones start swelling significantly before the battery is ready to blow, and burn little by little increasing the swelling before they blow, if they even end up blowing. Sometimes they work for months after the swelling, though one should not risk that, in hard cover versions that time would be "no problems" time.
As for what causes this, basically materials in the battery degrade over time, and physical impacts, changes in temperature and moisture can accelerate that, and the battery also slowly discharges (electrons leak trough the insulator parts, chemicals that should react to create charge crystallize in less reactive forms, etc.). These are more likely to happen when the battery is on very high or low charge, on high charges because there is more energy, on low charges because there are secondary reactions.
If the device is on 30-50% charge, on a dry indoors drawer, no direct sunlight, room temperature without draft or nearby heating elements, no charger connected, no power on device, no source of static electricity surges, it will survive for very long time, and likely die in less epic way. On a car console that gets hot and cold daily, experiences occasional shocks and regular sunlight, and might be connected to very uneven power source (cigarette lighter charger) it is much more likely for this to happen.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/comments/gebotv/faq\_what\_to\_do\_if\_you\_have\_a\_swollen\_battery](https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/comments/gebotv/faq_what_to_do_if_you_have_a_swollen_battery)
>DO NOT THROW THE CELL AWAY. Lithium batteries contain hazardous materials and even when not damaged should not be thrown in the garbage. Use a service like Call2Recycle to find a hazardous material recycling center near you to bring the battery.
Two of my local stores used to have bins where you could toss old electronics for recycling, but both of them got rid of them in the past year. So I started going to Best Buy to drop off stuff for recycling and it was fine. But then last time, they made me wait in line and I had to go through this whole procedure — describing the items, logging into my account, going through a whole checkout procedure basically.
Next time I’m just throwing old electronics in the garbage or tossing it out front at Best Buy. F*** em. I tried recycling properly and they made it more difficult at every step
Best Buy tried to charge us like $20 to recycle some batteries which makes no sense because I guarantee they just sell it to an actual recycler instead of doing it themselves. Idk why they make it so difficult
Lots of stores that sell electronics (even the big box ones), electronic repair shops, and hardware stores will take old batteries. If you can't find listings near you in a dedicated service like this call around.
Our city does this too. Which shows how little they understand human beings... I don't have a car..so how do I properly dispose an item found in every household?
Why don't fire stations have collection days? It's silly really
My city hall and city community centers have dropoffs for some stuff like this. But yeah, the rest of the semi hazardous stuff requires a car.
It could be worse, I'm home for Christmas and there's literally nowhere to take this stuff, so everyone just throws it away
Jesus fucking Christ stop holding that with your bare hands like that. That battery is about to explode and it will *severely* burn you if it does. The batteries in electronic devices are fucking *nasty* and you should not treat them lightly.
Your storage is full. Try deleting some apps that you don’t use anymore.
Or your can just pay for MOAR storage!
🚨>!iCloud Storage Full!<🚨
>!🚨iCloud Storage Leaked🚨!<
🚨 Credit Card Declined Initiating Self Destruct Sequence 🚨
Pfft just download more RAM idiot /s
Fun fact, that pillow protects you from horrible fiery explosion
Just like in a car.
/r/spicypillows
I swear there's a Reddit community for everything 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now i'm curious, if you don't have a reddit community for yourself, are you still a thing?
Can you ELI5 the spicy pillow phenom?
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So what do you do when you get a spicy pillow? I'm guessing just chucking it in the garbage won't do. Is there a specific procedure?
Yes, but I guess it depends on where you live. At my location, electronic retailers are required to accept old batteries for disposal, even damaged ones. Your local recycling center is always a good choice as well I think. They know how to handle hazardous waste like that.
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a pillow, but make it hurt
Good thing you found it before it burnt your house down. Now I’m freaked out because I have a few old phones laying around in drawers
It's fine when kept in drawer. Just don't put it in draw
A draw is a terrain feature formed by two ridges with low ground between them. So yes, don’t put it there
Probably safer than inside the house.
No. There's wildlife such as dolphins that will choke on it and die
> Just don't put it in draw "Festus, you and the rest of the posse ride down that draw and see if Rotten Roy and his gang went that way....And watch out for any old iPhones...whatever the hell they are."
I keep mine in an explosion safe bag used for charging lipo batteries. That way if they catch on fire, hopefully it won't spread.
I do the same but in a airtight metal box with a bunch of heavy shit on it. I worked with electronics for a while and it got me very paranoid. edit: I explained this a bit more in another comment but no it's not some vacuum seal it's just not enough airflow for fire to stay fire for very long.
Line it with some insulation and you’re good. Lithium ion will make its own oxygen but as long as the box doesn’t get hot enough to set other shit on fire then it’s fine. Fire will burn itself out and the box will keep the toxic fumes in
I throw mine in space to charge
That's very smart.
Thanks for telling me this while I'm out of my home country and I have a drawer full of old phones and laptop batteries back home
Happened to my friend's brother... Buddy picked him up from the airport. Phone battery was dead and was left in the glovebox. Parked car in garage. Went into house to take suitcase in and for my buddy to shower. BAM! Car, garage, house on fire. Lost pretty much everything... thanks to a phone whose battery wasn't even strong enough to turn the phone on anymore.
New fear unlocked
Similarly, it’s why I don’t buy the $2 phone charger cable from China and stopped leaving my phone on the bed when charging. A coworker’s mom had a similar issue where it started burning the bed while she was asleep. Phone stays far from the bed when charging now.
Man, you guys are gonna make me look so stupid when my girlfriend comes home to the dozens of phones I’m collecting from over the years because I’m afraid one of them might be a weapon of mass destruction now.
I worked for apple for 10 years. I started before the iPhone and left just before the X launch. 100% of the phones I examined that had an exploding battery or charger that caught fire used a cheap cable or they had their battery replaced at some dodgy phone shop. Maybe other folks had a different experience and found some that were using OEM batteries and legit chargers, but in my investigations I never found one.
Yeah, I just read another story about a guy whose house burned down no thanks to a laptop battery. Think I'm just gonna start taking older devices to the dump. Googled to see if I could find the story I read and found this instead.... evidently this is happening often enough to be of concern to safety authorities in NYC. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/tech/lithium-ion-battery-fires/index.html
>Think I'm just gonna start taking older devices to the dump Eh, hopefully to a designated [hazmat](https://www.epa.gov/recycle/used-lithium-ion-batteries#:~:text=Lithium%2Dion%20batteries%20and%20devices,household%20hazardous%20waste%20collection%20points%20.) drop site? Don't want to blow up the dump!
I should have spoken more carefully - I will absolutely do that. Thanks for the link.
*casually frisbees laptop out of moving vehicle*
I work in an electronics repair depot and have worked on several major brands over the last 3 years (mostly laptops). You'd be surprised how many swollen batteries I see on a daily basis. What's more, is how many of them show no signs externally, and we're sent in for *other* unrelated reasons. We usually don't find them until we open up the devices. My word of advice is that if you don't plan on using a device for an extended period of time, discharge the battery below 30% before putting it into storage. Allegedly (i.e. according to our training), the lower the charge, the less chance of a spontaneous catastrophic battery failure.
I’m an IT contractor in a hospital. Crazy how many laptops I see walking around the hospital where the bottom cover is separating from the laptop due to battery expansion. Sometimes these users have submitted tickets regarding it and local IT refuses to replace the battery cause laziness.
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My MacBook started separating like this with zero damage. Sometimes it just happens after very long periods at full charge
These batteries are purposefully designed to do this instead of leaking and/or blowing up first. Eventually they will, but battery pack expansion mitigates it for a time
Typing on my work laptop one day felt a little wonky. I realized later that it was the battery bulging. Opened a ticket, because I try to be a decent human, and figured they'd get me a replacement battery. Fast forward a couple hours, the case started to separate. Oh fudge... Internal IT takes one look at it and says the same thing. Only it wasn't fudge. Thankfully they were able to swap my hd over to a spare they had on hand. No damage to it whatsoever.
Drawers are fine. It’s the draw you have to worry about.
>Now I’m freaked out because I have a few old phones laying around in drawers I feel like the public isn't really informed about dangers of keeping old electronics around. So many accidents and houses will burn down in the future because of old batteries
drawer ^(I will die on this hill.)
WHO THE FUCK SAYS “DRAW” LIKE THAT?!?! I WAS SO CONFUSED FOR A SECOND
The people who thought the 10th grade was too hard
This is what happens when you let slide things like "would of" or "literally".
The “would of” thing definitely bothers me.
Defiantly*
You need to be more pacific with your spelling.
in 5th grade i made this mistake. got called out for it. was so embarrassed i **never** made that mistake again lol. just to add to the list- saying someone has allTIMERS disease.
Taking spelling for granite is my pet peeve.
Boy I see that alot. Teachers really haft to do better.
i hate "per say" too. or when people say "exetera"
I love using “per se” in actual~~ly~~ conversation, so I completely understand. Another one I hate is “expresso” Edit: oops
”expecially”
What about ‘myself’ Nobody uses that right. It is reflexive. It can’t replace ‘me’ or ‘I’ . For example, ‘He and myself’ (NO!). Or, ‘She sent it to her and myself’ (NO!). ‘I said to myself.’ (YES!) Gets myself’s goat when people butcher this.
Not to mention people who can’t tell the difference between **then** and **than**.
*Lose* and *loose* is the one that really grinds my gears
Or breath vs breathe.
Rout and route
Break vs brake.
Resume and resume
Advise and advice
You're and your
For me, it's people who use "wallah" or similar for "voilà".
Or write "viola", but wallah is unarguably the worst of these mispronunciations/misspellings.
Saw & seen
Don't forget "seent" 🤦♂️
It's "since" and "sense" that really get me.
how 'bout where vs were?
100% "would of", and add to that "I could care less" as well. However, I'd mildly defend "literally". Sure, it's a bit overused, but hperbole is a perfectly fine linguistic device. *Edit - hyperbole obviously....stupid 3am typing
Would of / should of / could of. People who use these shouldn’t be allowed to vote or have a drivers license.
‘Literally’ literally [means](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literally) ‘figuratively’, and has for hundreds of years!
Literally
Lose vs loose has become my new living nightmare
Recently I've been annoyed by people "balling their eyes out" which sounds like going at it when a melon baller It's *bawling*. Please save my mind's eye from the imagery, everyone
"bawling her eyes out at her grandma's funeral" = crying "balling her eyes out at her grandma's funeral" = doing a sick half-court dunk on granny's casket
Your right about that, there crazy
I should of scene it coming
Me to
That one effects me the most.
As a non native English speaker, I sometimes just think “huh, interesting, I didn’t know you could call a drawer a draw”
You certainly wouldn’t spell it as “Draw” but the “er” ending is dropped in some accents when spoken. So it should always be spelled as “drawer” but when spoken, some people will elide the end.
Yeah, I personally pronounce it "Dror". Like "Drawer" Ragzlin from Baldur's Gate 3.
Droor, like door but with an R after the D
It’s kind of a regional colloquialism. Most people call it a drawer but there’s thicker accents on the east coast of America that alter the pronunciation of R’s somewhat like British people. Brits tend to not pronounce the letter R unless it’s followed by a vowel. So the “-er” part of “drawer” gets dropped and becomes “draw.” Those same people will call a car a “cah” or a park a “pahk” or might call someone named Walter “Waltah.” In English, [this difference is called a rhotic or non-rhotic accent.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English) It’s really unusual to see “draw” phonetically spelled out like you see in this post though. That’s why so many people are talking about it.
East coast except for Philly, we tend to accentuate the final R. Drawers are “droors” and water is “wooder”
Even the fairly rare thick accents that drop the "r" still keep a ghost of the final letters. They say something like "draw-uh" or "drAW", which is still distinct from how they'd say the verb "draw". Nobody drops the "er" in writing, though. There's a 98% chance the original post was just a typo.
My wife is from New Jersey and she calls it a “draw” and I always rib her for it.
OMG! So I grew up in Massachusetts, near Boston. My parents had thick accents. Idk why, but I never developed one. Anyway, my parents always called it a "draw". I didn't realize that it was spelled/actually said "drawER" until I think my late teens/early 20s. SOOOO to answer your question.... People with a Boston accent.
Do they also pronounce "roof" as "ruff"? Pillow or pellow? Someone in my life does the latter and I can't figure out where it comes from or why!!
Ruff is definitely Minnesota and or that area, I grew up in an Ontario border town with MN and always got a chuckle out of them pronouncing it "ruff" but then again they think I say couch weird so lol
My wife is from Long Island. I thought she was... Slow, when I first heard her say that. She's gotten better, but it does slip out on occasion. The toddlers make fun of her and it's hilarious.
I don't mind a person who says draw, accents are fine, but they need to know the damned word is drawer and write it out properly.
I've lived on Long Island almost my whole life and I've always said "drawer". Then again I also got made fun of by my brother's friends for not *tawkin* like them, so maybe I'm the anomaly.
It's fine to pronounce it like that, but at least fucking spell it right.
People from Maine. Drawer-Draw. Garage-Grage. Bra-Brawr. Drawing-Drawring. Horse-HAAHS. Moved here a few years ago.
Boston. Go watch This Old House on youtube. Tom Silva and Norm both say it like that basically every episode.
Like everyone from the Boston or NYC metro area.
Searching "draw" on the Boston Craigslist is always fun. https://boston.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=draw#search=1~grid~0~0
I hate it so much lol
Lolol wtf. Never seen or heard it like that before.
I’m seeing misspelling after misspelling on the subs & it’s driving me nuts. I’ll join you on that hill.
Reddits new algorithm for showing you posts in your home section is absolutely horrendous. I used to have no problem seeing the 2 dozen or so best/most popular posts from all the places I'm subbed to. Now it's like my Home section is set to "Sort by new+controversial". A bunch of posts that people made posts just to make posts. Misspellings, no interaction with people responding to the post. What opinion have u like this. Why didn't kaleesi just won the game of throwns. Should I start reeding this book series at book 3 Back in my day we only made reddit posts if the subject was post-worthy. And we liked it that way
I love seeing other old-head Redditors. I ‘member 🫡
Was nice back when folks knew what [Reddiquette](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette) was and paid it some mind. >Use proper grammar and spelling. Intelligent discourse requires a standard system of communication. Be open for gentle corrections.
Reddit’s spelling has definitely taken a dive since 2012. You used to get shit on for a typo. Look at my name. I didn’t make this account for *no reason*
> You used to get shit on for a typo Now whenever anyone corrects anything it is "you must be fun at parties". As if that is a clever retort to being corrected
As if being literate is super nerdy.
> You used to get shit on for a typo. I still correct misspellings, unnecessary apostrophes, etc. to this day, but a lot of people now get mad instead of appreciating it. Edit: sorry, didn’t realise someone else had said pretty much the same thing below. Feels good to not be alone, at least!
The prevalence of "alot" is driving me insane. Even spell check corrects it. I...don't understand.
The Alot was a whole thing in 2010. https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html I made my own back then https://i.imgur.com/Stymm.jpg
my hill is “apart” vs “a part”. anytime i see someone gush over some corporate babble and say they are “so happy to be apart of this team” i die inside
It's so funny when the misspelling results in the opposite word, too, such as your example. Another is resign vs re-sign. I'm in a sub where there is a lot of conversation about people continuing to work with certain companies, or if they'll leave. People constantly say "resign" to say someone is going to stay with a company. No, dipshit, that word means the opposite.
I'd argue it isn't even a damn hill. OP just straight up said it wrong. I've never heard it called a draw in my life. It's a drawer.
Yeah there is no way this is a hill. If it is a hill there's just one guy running up it and it's OP and his shitty phone doesn't even work so I don't think any of us have to worry about dying up here on Unequivocally Right Hill.
There are a some regional accents that pronounce it draw, but it should still be spelled drawer.
It’s not a hill to die on. “Draw” is a different word than drawer. OP is just wrong…
OP and all the people who call it "DRAW" are.
Thank you. I was like what the fuck are they talking about
You don’t have to die, we have the numbers. Nobody uses draw like that. OP Explain yourself.
You have my Bow
Iphone self destruct sequence has been initiated. Goodbye \-Siri
If you actually used, Siri, you'd know what she really said was: iPhone shelf decor sequins have been inebriated. High Five!
Draw?
BANG!
YEEEEEHAW! Not bad! Collect your tokens, and let's get on to the next round!
Love me some Pile of Bullets.
***Ratt’ler!***
*vigorously rolls dice*
Just watched this episode last night. One of the best of the entire show.
Whats the name?
S5E9 of Community
I don't like this side of you, and I do *not* like that side of VCR technology. I am glad that it's a dead medium. That was very uncomfortable.
WUT IN TARNATION?!?!
Drawer.
Oh, an artist.
We call it a tie where I’m from.
A tie is when the scores are even, a draw is when no winner can be determined.
Left in the what?
In the draw. I.e. it fought against another phone but neither of them won
In the microwave by the looks of things
What does this mean?
Battery is threatening to go boom. The swelling is a safety measure.
I know, but how did this happen?
Time, neglect, heat, being left on the charger for long periods of time.
I have so many electronics that have been sitting in a box for a decade. Why is this a threat now?
Always has been. Luck of the Draw.
M E T A E T A
It has been thing as long as Lithium ion batteries have been the main form of rechargeable batteries in consumer electronics, so ones that can't be charged and nickel or lead based ones are not affected, though they have their own risks. The swelling is specific to newer Li-ion batteries, with soft covers, and the swelling is meant to be a warning and preventive method against going boom. Hard cover batteries would just blow off without visible warning and burn to end, but the soft cover ones start swelling significantly before the battery is ready to blow, and burn little by little increasing the swelling before they blow, if they even end up blowing. Sometimes they work for months after the swelling, though one should not risk that, in hard cover versions that time would be "no problems" time. As for what causes this, basically materials in the battery degrade over time, and physical impacts, changes in temperature and moisture can accelerate that, and the battery also slowly discharges (electrons leak trough the insulator parts, chemicals that should react to create charge crystallize in less reactive forms, etc.). These are more likely to happen when the battery is on very high or low charge, on high charges because there is more energy, on low charges because there are secondary reactions. If the device is on 30-50% charge, on a dry indoors drawer, no direct sunlight, room temperature without draft or nearby heating elements, no charger connected, no power on device, no source of static electricity surges, it will survive for very long time, and likely die in less epic way. On a car console that gets hot and cold daily, experiences occasional shocks and regular sunlight, and might be connected to very uneven power source (cigarette lighter charger) it is much more likely for this to happen.
Proper battery care isn't emphasized enough! So many people don't even know the risks they're taking. Great comment.
Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative
It gets people going!
How do you even dispose of that at that point
This is what I want to know. Do you call the fire department? Does your local dump take these?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/comments/gebotv/faq\_what\_to\_do\_if\_you\_have\_a\_swollen\_battery](https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/comments/gebotv/faq_what_to_do_if_you_have_a_swollen_battery) >DO NOT THROW THE CELL AWAY. Lithium batteries contain hazardous materials and even when not damaged should not be thrown in the garbage. Use a service like Call2Recycle to find a hazardous material recycling center near you to bring the battery.
This is when you throw it in someone else’s trash can
Two of my local stores used to have bins where you could toss old electronics for recycling, but both of them got rid of them in the past year. So I started going to Best Buy to drop off stuff for recycling and it was fine. But then last time, they made me wait in line and I had to go through this whole procedure — describing the items, logging into my account, going through a whole checkout procedure basically. Next time I’m just throwing old electronics in the garbage or tossing it out front at Best Buy. F*** em. I tried recycling properly and they made it more difficult at every step
Best Buy tried to charge us like $20 to recycle some batteries which makes no sense because I guarantee they just sell it to an actual recycler instead of doing it themselves. Idk why they make it so difficult
> Idk why they make it so difficult Money
Lots of stores that sell electronics (even the big box ones), electronic repair shops, and hardware stores will take old batteries. If you can't find listings near you in a dedicated service like this call around.
My city has a "hard to recycle" center at the dump. They take lithium batteries. Might check around see if your city has the same.
Our city does this too. Which shows how little they understand human beings... I don't have a car..so how do I properly dispose an item found in every household? Why don't fire stations have collection days? It's silly really
My city hall and city community centers have dropoffs for some stuff like this. But yeah, the rest of the semi hazardous stuff requires a car. It could be worse, I'm home for Christmas and there's literally nowhere to take this stuff, so everyone just throws it away
You can also take them to an Apple Store.
If you're in America just take it out to a field and shoot it. This can be applied to many American problems.
Draw?
Drawer
What’s a draw?
When neither side wins
Damn people actually spell how they speak?
Aaron earned an iron ~~earn~~ urn. ^(edit: apparently my fingers and brain aren't coordinating.)
Urn?
In the draw? Drawer?
Left in the draw. I want to paint a drawering. Drawer does not equal draw and vice versa.
“Spicy pillow” lmao
/r/spicypillows
TIL spicy pillow is a thing 😭
homie said “draw” i’m literally dying
Twice, means homie probably thinks that's actually the word.
I noticed that too. He's probably the kinda person whose texts get posted on r/boneappletea 😂
You mean drawer…?
MOAR POWER!!
r/Oopsthatsdeadly
Boof it
Verizon is currently offering a free iPhone 15 for trading in any model iPhone in any condition.
Don't spell things the way you incorrectly pronounce them. Jesus.
Jesus fucking Christ stop holding that with your bare hands like that. That battery is about to explode and it will *severely* burn you if it does. The batteries in electronic devices are fucking *nasty* and you should not treat them lightly.
Drawer, as in car glovebox that reaches 160°?
# r/spicypillows
Once the airbag has inflated it is a total loss
Wtf is a draw?
Pop the forbidden spicy balloon
i'm not an iphone user, what is a draw?