Comment on I'm deaf

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A hollow, almost metallic and slightly high pitched doink.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like a motorboat? (I’m deaf)

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I honestly can’t think of anything this ball sounds like other than itself. Kinda like a basketball but weirdly fake sounding with a more synthetic, plastic yet almost metallic and springy impact sound and much more ringing. Inflating them sounded really exaggerated too. The manufacturer must have had some kind of exclusive deal with the school boards because this is the ball that every school had for the kids to play with.

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      • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Repressed memories flooding back. Our school gym didn’t always keep them inflated properly, so the strong, taller guys would really launch them and the flaccid rubber things would splat against our young bodies like lead jellyfish.

        Holy hell dodgeball was a war crime.

        The ‘medics’ were not supposed to be targets… hah, hah. ‘Oops, collateral damage!’ :/ :)

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      • Restaldt@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It sound like

        Bwaathaangggggggĝĝĝĝĝggggĝgggg

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• baldingpudenda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TING!

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also

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    • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ffffPING!

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Whomp

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  • Fern@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The high-pitched sound of the rubbery air filled ball’s sudden contact reverberates off the gym’s echoey walls, followed quickly by the “Ohhhh!” Of your colleagues. The trauma of this is not something you can process in this moment, and it will continue to be that way. It’s all being solidified in your memory by the sudden twinge of seething pain on your nose and forehead, which is somehow intensified by the extreme embarrassment. The stunned look on your face can only last a moment before you hear your gym teacher shout, “You’re out! To the side!”

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• Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kind of like a bell, in a way. There’s the initial ‘slap’ when it hits the ground, or wall, or face of a child. But then there’s this distinct, hollow ringing that lives on until it’s caught or it bounces again.

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• GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PAUNG! PAUNG! PAUNG!

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• MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine holding on to a large, metal pipe (like a hand rail on stairs) and someone on the other end, hitting the pipe with their hand, not a big “clung”, but like they swung past it, and barely nicked the pipe with the tips of their fingers as their arm swung by. Combine that vibration with a breathy, hollowness that kinda warbles as the rubber ball contracts and expands due to the impact. The whole sound only lasts about a second - unless you were the one that got hit in the head, in which case there’s a high pitched ringing in your ears for a bit as well.

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