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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?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt
[–] • 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 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.

[–] • 4 pts

Never seemed to bother me. When I did notice it, I found it rather comforting.

[–] • 2 pts

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

[–] • 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 ?

[–] • 1 pt

good here mane

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

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

[–] • 2 pts

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.

[–] • 1 pt

Man, I wish I knew. I've inherited two of these cursed things, and so far all they do is take up space in my attic.

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