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[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I heard the high pitched sound from two posts up and knew the next half hour was going to be awesome.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Nobody ever believed me when I said I could hear a powered-on CRT from two rooms away

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm in my 40s and still can hear that frequency just fine. Probably not as loud.

One of my least favorite types of thing are those "teenager repellent" devices.

Also certain induction cooktops.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Also the "kid repeller" devices (because yes, it also includes younger people such as infants, and also older people), is that it just makes the world a hostile place for young people, and then later people turn around and complain how "nobody goes outside anymore"

In addition, this severely affects animals too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We don't have a range, and I use portable 110v induction cookers. I love them so much, but I must have music or YouTube or something playing while cooking, or I want to stab a fork into my own ears

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They put those “teenager repellent” devices in malls. And what do you know, malls are dying.

My favorite use of those was teenagers using that as their ringtone so the teachers couldn't hear it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I hear the chirping of shoes on televised basketball games. No one believes it until you meet someone else who can hear it too. Some people can just hear higher pitch sounds.

Edit: and yeah, I can hear when a CRT tv is on.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, most people don't hear that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know. I thought everyone could too. Until it turned into an argument at like thanksgiving or something. I don’t watch sports but the rest of my family does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Maybe the rest of your family is just so used to it they ignore it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The whine on larger the TV's were so damn loud. My neighbor's had one of those massive beasts of a CRT. I could hear it 100 feet away.

My first migraines where triggered in the computer lab from 40 CRT monitors being on. It was so loud and annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (5 children)

a friend of mine got a CASIO watch with an integrated IR emitter and would always cause havoc when the TV was out

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Casio is so chaotic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was your friend

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

We still are!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Those remote control watches were actually banned at the schools I went to as a kid. Along with other calculator watches, couldn’t have one of those either. ‘Because you need to know math and won’t always have a calculator on you when you grow up’ 😂

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

“Hey, second-graders, it’s time to watch All Dogs Go To Heaven! Just in case your parents forgot to traumatize you.”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depression the movie™

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh my, I shouldn't have read wiki of the main child voice actress.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That was depressing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just don't understand the 80s and before... So many different people knew she was in trouble, but no one cared? Fuck the producer, the psychologist, CPS, and fuck the police.

God damn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh they cared... about the paycheck they were making off her.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I got some of my trama from the TV cart! I watched 9/11 on that thing

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Science rules!!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Inertia is a property of matter

[–] the16bitgamer 12 points 3 months ago

Bill Bill Bill Bill

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

We gonna watch the Salmon episode of Magic School Bus.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Teach these little shits a lesson! the ring girl

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

When I was a kid, my teachers brought this out when it was time to watch Voyage of the Mimi.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

French class was Lanananananana fuck that stupid pineapple

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

If any young'ns read this, how do they do this nowadays in school?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

shit my teachers streamed yt via projector over a decade ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I haven't been in school since like 1998.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

oh god, not another class watching contact

I swear I watched that movie 9 times one year.

why build one when you can have two for just twice the price?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Always in the last week before Summer break. Bob L'Éponge in French class, Mr Bean in English class, Staplerfahrer Klaus occasionally (don't google that one if gore isn't your thing) and throughout the year, of course, documentaries.

I didn't realize just how often we've used these.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mr Bean for English class is so fucking funny. "Surely the show with next to no dialogue will teach them English"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

My English teacher's excuse was always that learning about culture was important, too. And now I know that three-wheeled cars are very dangerous to drive in the vicinity of Mini Coopers!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yes?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For me, this cart always had MathNet.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He was cool, but I still proffered Mr.Wizard.

*bonus: my man, putting kids in their place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iD4TUhwAhw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Beakman's World!

I remember being annoyed by an episode of Mr.Wizard where he showed chemical reaction, but wouldn't explain it. Like, why even bother doing that on a science show?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.

https://archive.org/details/beakmans-world/Beakman's+World+-+Season+2/Beakman's+World+-+S02E10+-+Video+Games%2C+Beakmania+%26+Teeth.avi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I remember when I was 8ish the daycare I went to wheeled out the TV to put in some cartoon so the workers go fuck off and smoke crack or whatever. The cartoon they picked was Water Ship Down. It was wild too because everytime they came Iback to check on us nothing fucked up was going on so we saw the whole movie. A girl said the movie was scary and that was the only feed back they got.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

We didn't appreciate Bill Nye enough as kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Taught me so much! I remember watching Gandhi 😊

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

You're gonna chant on the offbeats, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

you may remember...

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