a friend of mine got a CASIO watch with an integrated IR emitter and would always cause havoc when the TV was out
Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL!
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Casio is so chaotic.
Snapz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was your friend
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
We still are!
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those were actually banned at the schools I went to as a kid. Along with 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.de 8 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!
Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org 8 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.ee 8 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.world 8 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.works 8 months ago
Depression the movie™
daddy32@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh my, I shouldn’t have read wiki of the main child voice actress.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I got some of my trama from that TV cart! I watched 9/11 on that thing
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 8 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.world 8 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”
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Shit, dawg. Watched The Secret of Nihm.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My teacher in junior high threw on Jerry Maguire 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.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Science rules!!!
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Inertia is a property of matter
the16bitgamer@programming.dev 8 months ago
Bill Bill Bill Bill
joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
We gonna watch the Salmon episode of Magic School Bus.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Teach these little shits a lesson! the ring girl
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
InfiniJoule@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
When I was a kid, my teachers brought this out when it was time to watch “Voyage of the Mimi.”
Narauko@lemmy.world 8 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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If any young’ns read this, how do they do this nowadays in school?
aeharding@vger.social 8 months ago
shit my teachers streamed yt via projector over a decade ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I haven’t been in school since like 1998.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My teachers started doing this as soon as IT unblocked YouTube. I’m pretty sure they had something to do with it.
dgbbad@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Most teachers have a projector or television mounted in their rooms that are connected to either their computer or iPad.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 8 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)samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s about what I was imagining. Sure beats wheeling in a big-ass CRT!
dog_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Flat screen tv
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
negativenull@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OMG I lived that show! I haven’t thought about that in 25 years at least!
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Why is the image AI-generated? Legit, how difficult is it to find a picture of a TV cart?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I upscaled it.
Treachery4524@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Why though? It looks so weird my first thought was “Don’t feel like posting today so…I used AI to do it for me”.
Clearly this is not what you meant but, still, I agree with the other guy, you couldn’t find a normal picture?
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
French class was Lanananananana fuck that stupid pineapple
azi@mander.xyz 8 months ago
the humanoid puppet pilot was way worse tho
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
How dare you
Anana is a national treasure
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
He was cool, but I still proffered Mr.Wizard.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
potpotato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.
billwashere@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes?
PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We didn’t appreciate Bill Nye enough as kids.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 months ago
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Post for old people
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You’re gonna chant on the offbeats, right?
xilliah@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Taught me so much! I remember watching Gandhi 😊
Aurelius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That VCR looks too modern for this to be accurate
Hyphlosion@donphan.social 8 months ago
OCTOPUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I heard the high pitched sound from two posts up and knew the next half hour was going to be awesome.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody ever believed me when I said I could hear a powered-on CRT from two rooms away
davidgro@lemmy.world 8 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.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 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.
The_v@lemmy.world 8 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.
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 8 months ago
TIL some people couldn’t hear them.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 8 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.