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Showerthoughts

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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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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OMFG they were so insanely heavy!

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

CRT "screens" are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

happy it didn't implode. they could have been a bomb...

acktually... I now have to double check if they implode at all...

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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,