• davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          31·
          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

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          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

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            I don’t think that there’s any fundamental reason that an induction cooker needs to be doing anything around 20kHz. I’d guess that it’s just the power supply happening to be flipping power on and off at that frequency.

            You could probably just get a different cooker.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            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.

          • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            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.

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        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.

          • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            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.

        • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          The chirping noises from shoes is so annoying. When I watch college basketball it’s with the volume off.

        • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          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_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        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.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Well I definitely can’t anymore. Either that or there’s been several CRT TVs on around me ever since I went to that loud concert…

      • orphiebaby@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I’ve been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I’m not the only one.

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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’ 😂

      • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        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!

        • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          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.

    • Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    3 months ago

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

        • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          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

      • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Also 9/11 on the tv cart and then teacher said, “that’s going to be it for the day, call your parents”

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • InfiniJoule@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

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

    • Narauko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Still have the theme song stuck in my head to this day. Good times. The 90s was a great decade, which was definitely only 10 years ago because the 80s was 20 years ago. No need to check my math on that.

    • dgbbad@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Most teachers have a projector or television mounted in their rooms that are connected to either their computer or iPad.

      • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        we got these things now
        (note that the school didn’t get to decide where the money went so we still have no soap dispensers in some of the bathrooms but now have 30+ $5,000 screens that do the same thing a projector did. Thank you, Federal government)

        • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Is getting into college a guarantee? This seems like a weird thing to congratulate a whole class on… F you if you’re going to trade school or a family business I guess?

          • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            the censor on the left right is my name and my photo holding the acceptance letter, they only show pictures/names of people who get accepted and show it to the school

            • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Ah okay. That makes a bit more sense. I know how worried I was before I got my acceptance letter, so if I didn’t get it and the school then went and rubbed it in, that’s just kinda shitty.

              On a more serious note: Congratulations for real though! I hope you end up finding a subject you enjoy.

        • jdf038@mander.xyzEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          I’m a teacher too and we use short throw projectors at our school which I feel might be more common than these smart board tv things.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    102·
    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?

  • AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io
    7·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • azi@mander.xyzEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

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

      • AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io
        7·
        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!