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[–] • 10 pts

Its like trains, you dont even hear it after awhile.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

I still hear every fucking train that runs near our home. Fucking trains never blend into the background. They're loud as fuck. At least I can fall back asleep within minutes after one of the asshole conductors pulls his horn for a minute to scare off the non-existent cows on the tracks.

[–] • 4 pts

Fucking trains never blend into the background.

They actually do, here.

https://pic8.co/sh/hoZO6f.jpg

https://pic8.co/sh/pIUurp.jpg

[–] • 1 pt

I lived a residential street and two houses away from the tracks, granted horn blowing was 1/4 mile in each direction. After two weeks I was use to it. Hell I live ten miles from the track now and if outside at night can sometimes hear it.

[–] [deleted] • 6 pts

grandpa is deaf...

[–] • 2 pts

WHAT?

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[–] • 1 pt

I don't have my glasses, what does it say?

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts (edited )

Original point was to have a central point of keeping time for the household and it's workers and labor(slaves). Pocket and wrist watches, at that point and time, were still a convenience. Before the gf clock was huge bells still rung on the hour. As @suplex stated, you learn to sleep through. Eventually, the lack of is more jarring than than the sound of because the lack of means that something is wrong.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Almost any chiming clock has got a little switch to disable the chime, even the purely mechanical ones.

[–] • 2 pts

Didn't everyone get the memo? Grandfather clocks stem from a history of slavery.

[–] • 2 pts

Good.

Should keep them around then. Need to go back to enslaving subhumans.

[–] • 0 pt

you are all subhuman slaves as far as the clock is concerned XD

[–] • 2 pts

oh hey chef, how's the restaurant been doing with the chicken shortages lol

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Restaurant is huuuuge! We are very good at finding and catching all kinds of chickens.

How are you @intrinsic?

[–] • 1 pt

good here mane

[–] • 2 pts

If you can't sleep through it you were not very tired.

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I might be misremembering, but I recall my grandparents stopping the clocks' pendulum each night. It is from when we didn't have clocks on every device we could look at. Its great when you are a kid playing and you get distracted and lose track of time easily.

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I have a 70th Anniversary Howard Miller clock. It's technically a "grandmother" clock, being under 8ft tall.

I don't hear it anymore when I sleep, just like I don't hear the turn of the (last) century mantle hour counter I keep in the bedroom. If it does bother you, pretty much all modern movements can be disabled between certain hours, I think mine is 10PM to 7AM or something.

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