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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.
Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
OMFG they were so insanely heavy!
In college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year.
It was fucking baller for the time, though
HEHE I am sure it weighed more than 500 pounds! I had a 24 inch or so TV around that time and holy hell it was nuts how heavy that thing was.
CRT "screens" are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah
there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
happy it didn't implode. they could have been a bomb...
acktually... I now have to double check if they implode at all...
Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I'm having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM
It is kind of hard to see what is going on, but found this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9_Pez2btt0&list=PLkpFupEMkI3uOPaU9NQ45paO7286JVYUH
It does not implode as I thought, I was wrong. Also that was the chilliest dude to ever smash a tv with a fire extinguisher,