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[โ€“] bestusername@aussie.zone 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Timing your family leaving the house so you could watch a "movie" in the loungeroom.

Kids today with their own portable devices in their bedrooms have no idea how risky it was for us.

[โ€“] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe this explains why a lot of us have developed tinitis. Experts point to headphones and loud music as the cause but I theorise that out of shear survival instinct we had to develop super sensitive hearing and the ability to separate the smooth sounds of a saxophone and moaning with the distant sound of a car door or car tires pulling into a gravel driveway