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I heard the high pitched sound from two posts up and knew the next half hour was going to be awesome.
Nobody ever believed me when I said I could hear a powered-on CRT from two rooms away
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.
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
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.
Some kids at my high school tried that on their phones, but it never worked because all the other kids in the room would cuss them out for basically inflicting the entire room with mosquito-in-ear noises.
Which induction cooktops?
I wish I knew. It was in the cafeterias at work, and I would be the only person in a room of a hundred who was standing there plugging my ears and cringing from the pain.
I love those things lol. I’m your age and can’t hear shit above 13 KHz.
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.
Wait, most people don’t hear that?
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.
Maybe the rest of your family is just so used to it they ignore it.
The chirping noises from shoes is so annoying. When I watch college basketball it’s with the volume off.
Most people don’t actually pay attention to their senses - I think the brain happily filters it all it out.
I think as I’m getting older, I’m either more aware or it’s getting worse
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.
TIL some people couldn’t hear them.
I’ve been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I’m not the only one.
a friend of mine got a CASIO watch with an integrated IR emitter and would always cause havoc when the TV was out
Casio is so chaotic.
I was your friend
We still are!
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’ 😂
I think they also eventually caught on with the technology and banned them in my school… And that quote with the calculator in your pocket sounds also familiar xD
I’m currently doing landscaping work around the house and I use the voice assistant all the time to calculate surfaces and volumes, it’s so nice compared to pressing buttons or a touchscreen with dirty gloves. My younger self would be so excited!
While I’m not fundamentally opposed to kids learning basic math, even at that time it was used (think 1990-1996) it was a bullshit argument to ban them. After all, they were already cheap enough that a kid could have one on their wrist!
Heck, you can now buy them for less than a dollar on Aliexpress. But why would you, since literally every smartphone has one built in. It was silly to ban them.
Had a different version of that Casio. Loved it. Let my friend use it in 8th grade and got it confiscated until the end of the year. Was bummed. Haven’t used it in years. Bet it still works on a good number of TVs
How is that legal?
Teachers can only confiscate childrens items until the end of the school day and in some cases until the parents come to school. Anytime longer would be theft.
“Hey, second-graders, it’s time to watch All Dogs Go To Heaven! Just in case your parents forgot to traumatize you.”
Depression the movie™
Oh my, I shouldn’t have read wiki of the main child voice actress.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i read it :( and i grew up watching land before time on VHS :(
"Judith Eva Barsi (June 6, 1978 – July 25, 1988) was an American child actress. She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television series, as well as the 1987 film Jaws: The Revenge. She also provided the voices of Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven, both released after her death. She and her mother, Maria, were killed in July 1988 in a double murder–suicide committed in their home by her father, József Barsi.[1] " --from wikipedia
I got some of my trama from the TV cart! I watched 9/11 on that thing
Same. I’m so glad we somehow had cable on these things, because my class watched it happen live, right after wheeling this cart in to watch a history documentary. Lots of other teachers turned it off because tons of kids in my school had parents working in those buildings, but my teacher knew it was an important thing for us to see.
Also 9/11 on the tv cart and then teacher said, “that’s going to be it for the day, call your parents”
Shit, dawg. Watched The Secret of Nihm.
My teacher in junior high threw on Jerry Maguire briefly because we all remember it as a cute romcom with fun catch phrases. We all forget it starts with Tom Cruise going to pound town.
Science rules!!!
Inertia is a property of matter
Bill Bill Bill Bill
We gonna watch the Salmon episode of Magic School Bus.
Teach these little shits a lesson!
If any young’ns read this, how do they do this nowadays in school?
Flat screen tv
French class was Lanananananana fuck that stupid pineapple
the humanoid puppet pilot was way worse tho
How dare you
Anana is a national treasure
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.
He was cool, but I still proffered Mr.Wizard.
*bonus: my man, putting kids in their place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iD4TUhwAhw
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?
Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.
We didn’t appreciate Bill Nye enough as kids.
Yes?
You’re gonna chant on the offbeats, right?
Taught me so much! I remember watching Gandhi 😊
