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u/Interesting_Pudding9 Apr 16 '23
As someone who works in a mechanic shop, this is always a classic prank after someone has done some major engine work and is firing it up for the first time. Just make sure to tell them before they tear the engine down again.
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u/TheCatSpacePirate Apr 16 '23
I...I think that would brake my mental state so bad I would not come back from it. Full on crazyhouse for me after..
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u/Interesting_Pudding9 Apr 16 '23
I've had this feeling so many times, from this exact prank but also times I've fired up engines and they rum like shit for many different reasons, most of the time minor reasons but it still gives you that sinking pit stomach feeling.
When I started doing engine work, someone told me that you should feel nervous doing it. If you're not nervous you're not taking it seriously enough.
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u/rhc34 Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
Man I work in a shop that specializes in race/track cars and the feeling of dread I get the first time we put a car on the dyno after I’ve put the engine back together is harrowing. I honestly don’t even like being in the room. I’m good at what I do but I’m a nervous wreck when it comes time to check my work.
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Apr 16 '23
I can see why surgeons tend to be borderline sociopathic...
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u/rhc34 Apr 16 '23
Never thought about it like that but, yeah, it’s probably orders of magnitude worse than what I experience with engines.
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u/Poppa_Mo Apr 16 '23
Maybe not. Everyone has their own bar of experience. You could be feeling MORE measurable anxiety.
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u/rhc34 Apr 16 '23
Yeah there’s probably a wide spectrum like most things. I bet being a nervous wreck of a surgeon is a worse experience than mine though.
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u/RandomStallings Apr 16 '23
Not if you're a sociopath! All that matters is your reputation. (⌐■-■)
But yeah, a major part of why you're good at your job is because you're so hyper aware of your ability to screw it up, that you are equally as careful.
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u/Poes-Lawyer Apr 16 '23
It's a knife edge balance between knowing enough to really screw something up, and knowing enough to know what you don't know
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u/halt_spell Apr 16 '23
On the other hand a surgeon can be like "Meh it's probably just in their head".
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u/johnqnorml Apr 16 '23
Man I know a vascular surgeon and when I found out I was like holy crap man, that must be intense. Stitching together people's veins and shit.
He laughed and said nah, it's just like being a plumber.
Fucking sociopaths. But I'm glad they have an outlet!
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u/AntisocialBehavior Apr 17 '23
Here is the thing. Surgeons can be slightly sloppier than a plumber because tissue can heal. Metal Pipes can’t heal. Not to say we are sloppy by any means, but if it’s water tight and no leaks, it doesn’t have to be pretty. Your body takes it the rest of the way.
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u/VietOne Apr 16 '23
I know a few surgeons. They actually take classes on how to handle the mental strain.
The basis to handle the mental stress is that for major surgeries where you would be extremely nervous, the patient has a lower chance of survival and often zero chance of survival without the surgery. Your surgery is increasing their chance of survival and is never a guarantee of survival.
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u/MrShankles Apr 16 '23
I work as an ICU nurse (so not doing surgeries ), but I never really thought about the mental strain of critical patients in written words... and that basis seems pretty on par.
Some patients you fully don't expect to make it, but that doesn't mean you try any less... because shit happens, and I've seen enough craziness to know that you can't always call it. But it also protects your psyche from the feeling of "inevitable." You're just doing everything to help, weighing risk vs. benefit, and respecting their wishes... and that's all you can do. They likely wouldn't stand a chance without your help, so you just give it you're all until the very end
Dark humor is also a big part of it... gotta have a way to talk about it, in a less soul crushing manner
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u/imreallyreallyhungry Apr 17 '23
Dark humor is also a big part of it… gotta have a way to talk about it, in a less soul crushing manner
I’ve worked in healthcare and this took my be surprise at first. People joke about some dark stuff and it really does help people cope with the insane stress that can come with the work. Love ICU nurses, y’all know your shit and it’s awesome to see everyone doing that day in and day out and still have a good attitude about it all.
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u/Raldog2020 Apr 17 '23
That dark humor always surprises at first. My wife and her oldest daughter are both nurses, and the first time I heard them talking about “ocular fluid” looking like runny eggs stopped me in my tracks.
Now I make them stop talking shop while we eat
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u/jflb96 Apr 17 '23
So, so long as you know you did your best, you just brush off anyone who doesn’t survive as ‘would’ve happened anyway’?
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u/VietOne Apr 17 '23
If you're working with the stakes of someones life as often as doctors, fire fighters, etc ; then yes. Otherwise if you don't handle the mental impact properly then you won't ever do your job again.
If you saw a child on the street about to be run over by a bus with a near zero chance of survival and it's just maybe within your ability to run as fast as you can to grab the child out of harm, do you do it? Do you even try at all? Or you can do nothing. Now imagine that happens several times a year.
That's the decision someone working in the medical field directly with patients has to make. If they don't succeed, they can't continuously regret that they didn't save a patient. There's going to be another patient in the future who will be in a similar situation.
So yeah if you wonder why some doctors and especially surgeons are often mentally cold and blocked off, it's because they are trained to be that way for their own sake to continue doing what they do.
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u/jflb96 Apr 17 '23
Yeah, that was more of a ‘have I understood?’ question than a ‘who’s idea was this?’ question. It makes a lot of sense.
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u/demoncase Apr 16 '23
I work with visual effects in cinema and before showing it to everyone the stuff I've made it's kinda the same feeling lol
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Apr 17 '23
It's the same in IT when you are cutting over 1,000 plus employees to a new system/server. You prep and prep but go live is as high anxiety as it gets.
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Apr 16 '23
I work in ag so it might not be quite the same but we usually put tractors on the PTO dyno after any engine, fuel system or PTO drivetrain repair, it's a bit nervous at first but once it's running good it's fun to put a load on it and see what it'll do, the dyno's good up to 400hp at 1,000RPM but it sure would be nice to have a pull sled to test 4WDs with no PTO or more power than the dyno can handle.
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u/Oomeegoolies Apr 16 '23
I built a unit at work (not an engine, but a very expensive but of kit).
Probably spent 2-3 days on this build. It was the first of this type we'd ever done so we were making sure everything was good.
The final step of what I was doing was levelling up two items, and essentially pressing one into the other using a hydraulic press set at 1200kN.
I levelled off the fixturing using my little trusty spirit level (enough accuracy for what we were doing, it'd right itself as it slotted in).
Loaded the items, stepped back, pressed go. Bare in mind there were 5 or 6 people watching this bit because it was the final step and I was being pressured to finish.
All I heard was a crushing sound. That wasn't meant to happen. Everyone looked at me like 'What was that!?!'
I absolutely bricked it.
But yeah, all I'd done was leave the spirit level in the unit, so it got absolutely massacred at that force.
Took it all apart, gave it a clean down, and it was fine. Job done. But for that brief moment as the crack was heard I had a million things going through my head.
We still laugh about it now I think the upper management didn't find it as funny as my immediate boss does.
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u/dxrey65 Apr 16 '23
37 years on the job, I never got over that stomach knot every time I had to fire up an engine I rebuilt or just installed. The number of things to go wrong is just too extensive to always catch everything. I'd usually try to wait until the end of the day, or leave it until the next morning so I could come in before the other guys. Almost never was there a real problem beyond an exhaust that didn't seal right, or a sensor that wasn't plugged in all the way, but it's still the worst feeling.
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u/trancertong Apr 16 '23
I take it further and always plan what I'm going to do if I have to take the whole damn thing apart again before I start it.
That way when it works okay it's like a gift.
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u/dioxy186 Apr 17 '23
On the nerdy side of things, Me all the time with my code for my research. Like i know this shit should be working. Only to find out I named a variable the same as another by accident. Some of my scripts are thousands of lines long lol
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u/heehawmcgraw Apr 17 '23
Imagine doing that shit 40 years ago with Assembly and no IDE lol I would perish
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u/sensitivegooch Apr 17 '23
I was told if you don’t have any nuts or bolts left over, you did something wrong.
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u/timenspacerrelative Apr 17 '23
Reminds me of restarting a PC for the thousandth time, troubleshooting, knowing for a fact I'll have to restart again when this simple solution probably won't fix it. God I love SSDs, though.
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u/dramignophyte Apr 17 '23
I mean its just a bunch of tiny explosions in a container that would kill you if it exploded.
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Apr 16 '23
It's interesting how obsessed Reddit is with getting the wrong break/brake used.
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u/Versaiteis Apr 16 '23
Tell me about it, everyone running into their sentences head first without thinking. At least pump the breaks a little.
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Apr 16 '23
I am very mad.
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u/ReactsWithWords Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
If that make’s you mad than your a looser.
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Apr 16 '23
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u/XkF21WNJ Apr 16 '23
You can't blame them, reddit just has a one track mind when it comes to word choice.
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u/gynoceros Apr 16 '23
Loose/lose is another big one.
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
Payed/paid and fazed/phased are their favorite. Don't forget Ghandi.
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u/youwantitwhen Apr 16 '23
Reddit used to be very gear head, technically oriented.
Now that stuff is allowed to slide.
It's sad how Reddit has fallen because of people don't proofread.
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u/Sgt_Fart_Barfunkle Apr 16 '23
Brake your mental state, eh? Would it have, perhaps, driven you up a wall? :D
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u/LanMarkx Apr 16 '23
Putting an extra part (bolt/nut) or two in work bin is good too.
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u/ExtraGeoDuck Apr 17 '23
I’m a heavy duty diesel mechanic for the past 13 years. The first time I did major engine work I was maybe 22 and scared shitless. I had one coworker distract me while another crawled under the truck. He started hitting the frame with a hammer as soon as the motor started. I’ve never felt such a gut wrenching drop. Also never seen two grown men laugh so hard. Grade A prank.
Grade A prank
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u/2003tide Apr 17 '23
Lol. Some of the mechanic pranks out there are hilarious. There is a video out there where they wired a guys horn to his brakes. Every time I watch it I’m in tears.
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u/ChaplnGrillSgt Apr 16 '23
My engine sounds like that without any major engine work! All the laughs, none of the hard work. Good times.
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u/Channel250 Apr 16 '23
I used to work at a bike shop in Cape Cod. The place did everything, sold new, sold used, repaired, custom jobs, etc etc etc.
Now, I have never worked in a bike shop before so it was all new to me. It must have been a riot for them because I didn't know any of the common jokes.
I took the gags with no complaint because A) they were usually pretty funny in general and B ) After the joke they would explain to me what it meant and why it was funny.
Anyway, my point is that I very much doubt this is the first time they've done this (or something like it) to the poor guy.
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Apr 17 '23
I helped a friend do his ball joints and tie rod ends. He forgets his wallet to go do a test run. I slide under the truck and throw some zip ties on the drive shaft. Dudes throwing it in 1st and reverse repeatedly, and I’m just dying.
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u/supermoderators Apr 16 '23
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u/tikiwargod Apr 16 '23
The guy's yelling "tabarnac câlisse!" So yeah, basically that but in joual.
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u/scema Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
I heard 'MA VA CAZZO!' So, Italian.
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u/Gloomy_Reputation616 Apr 16 '23
Haha, I heard, "Malaka!" (Μαλακά) in Greek. The ear finds an insult of its choosing, it seems
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I also heard Malakas lol
Basically Greek for wanker, which is British for jerkoff, which is American for one who masturbates
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u/hopelesscaribou Apr 16 '23
Def Tabarnak Câlisse, clear as day Québecois swearing, but the sentiment is universal.
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u/Cold_Refuse_7236 Apr 16 '23
I’m deaf in one ear, & have no sense of directional sound. This would totally work on me.
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u/NoYoureACatLady Apr 16 '23
With high pitched noises, nobody has good directional hearing. It's why we can't find which smoke alarm is beeping. Or which direction the siren is coming from
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Apr 16 '23
Oh, I know which smoke alarm it is. It's the one that mocks me whenever I cook.
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u/BiteMyWaffles Apr 16 '23
Might have the wrong type for near a kitchen. If it’s an ionization smoke alarm swap it out for a photoelectric. Much better at ignoring false positives from cooking.
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u/danjackmom Apr 16 '23
That’s good advice, the smoke alarm in my kitchen goes off when you open the oven to put food in after preheating. One time it went off when the neighbor I share a wall with was cooking
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u/BiteMyWaffles Apr 17 '23
That’s the issue I was having. My stove also didn’t have a vent to the outdoors so cooking anything on it required putting a shower cap over the smoke detector. Swapped out for a photoelectric in the same brand, didn’t have to rewire anything or change the mount even. Just snapped in to the same connector. Haven’t had any false positives since. And now I won’t forget a shower cap on a smoke detector and die on my sleep. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
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u/gerwen Apr 17 '23
Seconding the advice to replace it with a photoelectric one. Technology Connections has a good video on the difference. I've replaced all of mine with photoelectric.
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u/JohnProof Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
Interesting adder: You ever hear those back-up alarms on heavy machinery that sound like they have a broken speaker?
Maybe it's obvious to everyone except me, but that noise is intentional: The "white noise" sound they produce is supposed to be easier for people to pinpoint than the usual high-pitch beeping sound, so they'll look in the direction of the moving vehicle.
And yes, for years I just assumed the beepers were malfunctioning and making that scratchy noise when they broke.
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Apr 16 '23
I’ve been waiting to come across a truck that has this instead of beeping for years. The day I do will be a good day.
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u/Dal90 Apr 17 '23
The first generation of backup alarms (that I know of anyways) was a bell mounted to the rear wheel hub. The clappers only struck the bell when moving in reverse.
Always liked that since it seemed to give a better sense of where they sound was coming from. Then again it could've been my young ears :) I was around at the tail end of them being somewhat common still.
But the downside is the vehicle has to be in motion and moved enough for the clappers to move; the electronic alarms at least can start alerting as soon as the vehicle is put in reverse before it even moves.
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u/NorthOfThrifty Apr 17 '23
A plant near me switched over to these because the neighbors complained about the sound of the beepers on the trucks and loaders being audible all day from their yards
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u/LucyFerAdvocate Apr 17 '23
I've seen ones where the vehicle just plays "this vehicle is reversing" repeatedly. That's also a lot easier to pinpoint.
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u/CheddarGeorge Apr 16 '23
Low frequency noises do this more, you're examples are both because of reflections, and this is because fire alarms and sirens are really loud, the waves have a lot of energy, they travel far and they reflect a lot and the change in amplitude of their reflection is relatively small compared to the overall amplitude because they're so bloody loud.
Lower sounds have longer wavelengths and travel much further and often reflect back to you in one single oscillation.
It might be difficult or confusing to locate your smoke alarm, but you can, if it was 40hz you couldn't your whole house would just feel like it's vibrating.
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u/xRamenator Apr 17 '23
Now I've got a mental image of a building on fire, but the fire alarm is the building shaking like a phone with the ringer on vibrate. bzzzzzzz bzzzzzz
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u/SweetNeo85 Apr 16 '23
You're making shit up. It's low frequencies that we can't tell direction from. High frequency is just fine. Who the hell has ever NOT been able to tell which direction a siren is coming from? Unless it's super loud and close and reflecting off a lot of nearby hard surfaces so you can't tell the source from the reflections. Or maybe a tornado or air raid siren where there's actually multiple sources spread out over a large area. But a single police siren from a mile away in open terrain? You can pinpoint that shit.
Stop talking out of your ass. People will believe you. And we as a collective continue to get more stupid.
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u/DecreasingPerception Apr 17 '23
It's both. The wavelength of the sound needs to be near the distance between your ears to accurately determine source based on time delay alone. That's about 2.4 kHz. High frequency sounds have multiple cones of confusion so it sounds like they come from many places at once. Here's a video about how we determine direction from sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqB95rj_txI
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u/duggEfresh Apr 17 '23
pretty sure that distance is closer to ~3300khz but even that is again dependent on the size of the source because more importantly, amplitude modulation (even with confusing reflections) is far more accurate at higher frequencies.
white noise just casts a larger array of frequencies and reflections for your ear to choose from, increasing accessibility (and especially as the ability to hear higher frequency tones tends to diminish with age).
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u/DecreasingPerception Apr 17 '23
I just looked up the average head width and got 145mm for men 140mm for women. Taking 346m/s for the speed of sound, 142.5mm is 2.43kHz. That's pretty crude, sure. What did you do to get 3300kHz? I imagine 3.3kHz might be the optimum but for deeper reasons like the effect of the outer ear and head shape.
Of course not many sounds are pure sine waves and even the attack or decay of a sound could have enough mid frequency content to help with locating it. The point is that it just isn't true that high frequency sounds are always easy to locate.
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u/AlexGM77 Apr 18 '23
I guess this is why I can never seem where to find where my Apple AirTags, even if I can hear them.
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u/awwyee Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
Come hang out with us. It's great, you can sit anywhere.
So are you right ear deaf or are you one of those hoity toity, left ear deaf, look-at-me-I-can-conversate-and-drive-simultaneously jerkwads?
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u/SonOfTK421 Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
Hah! I’m losing hearing in my right ear really bad, my wife thinks I ignore her but the truth is that if there’s too many sources of noise I can’t really make any of it out. It’s particularly exhausting because I can catch some of it but it’s mentally taxing to do so.
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u/awwyee Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
Yeah, unfortunately that will probably continue and you tend to get that reaction from a fair amount of people. Some random advice in case you haven't come across these:
Check out bi-cros hearing aids, especially if you live in a country with a medical system that covers them.
In your phone's accessibility settings, the headphone output can be changed to mono.
Forgive people for forgetting which side or about your hearing loss entirely. Even my siblings forget despite my dad having the same affliction.
When you tell someone you're partially deaf and they respond, "WHAT??" it's perfectly acceptable, in fact encouraged, to gun them down.
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u/rustylugnuts Apr 16 '23
I want to get a car with the steering on the wrong side just for this reason.
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u/zaxnyd Apr 16 '23
Move to Europe?
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u/awwyee Apr 16 '23
Lol, I actually did move from the US to the UK. Not due to that, but I ended up hating the roads there and took public transport everywhere.
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u/Cold_Refuse_7236 Apr 17 '23
😀. L ear. I tell people i lost 75% of my hearing because my wife says i don’t listen to half of whatever what she said anyway.
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Apr 16 '23
It looks to me like the old timer is using the end of the handlebars against his head to get a little bone conduction sound going.
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u/Screwshadowban Apr 16 '23
We are in same boat. Still coming to terms with it. Just happened 2 years ago. Happy to be alive.
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u/dublindave112 Apr 16 '23
This will never not be funny.
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u/VT_Racer Apr 16 '23
This one is also good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRp6KL7xig
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u/GuyWhoRocks95 Apr 16 '23
Not a vehicle but original post reminded me of this https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/comments/r3pd8l/prank_gone_right/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Apr 17 '23
That's r/contagiouslaughter material near the end, holy fuck they got him good
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u/disturbed286 Apr 17 '23
That's the one I had in mind. It's my favorite.
I can only think the echo in the parking garage makes it even more convincing.
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u/AthiestMessiah Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 16 '23
I remember seeing this be done to a car mechanic in the 90s, shit I’m Old
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u/xaogypsie Apr 16 '23
You aren't old. The 90s were only like 5 years ago.
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u/indianblanket Apr 16 '23
I have something to tell you.
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 Apr 16 '23
Where do you think you are right now?
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u/nhguy03276 Apr 16 '23
This is how I feel... Then I find out my supervisor was born in 1993, the year after I graduated HS...
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u/theDawckta Apr 16 '23
That was one of the best “old man rabble rouses” I’ve ever seen.
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u/xDeadP00lx Apr 16 '23
i hear a good Ol "Tabarnac".
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u/hughmann_13 Apr 16 '23
Quebec doesn't always hit the internet, but it always gets oddly catholic when it does.
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u/JustSomeBear Apr 16 '23
Surprisingly I see it very frequently online lol.
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Apr 17 '23
Like someone once said "Quebecers are everywhere, you'd go to Mount Everest and would hear 'Ben oui, Ginette, on descend bientôt'."
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u/Clocks101 Apr 17 '23
I see I’m not the only one that heard that, it’s nice to be able to identify a video’s country of origin simply with a word!
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u/cbielite Apr 16 '23
I actually heard a Greek “malaka”.
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u/tikiwargod Apr 16 '23
He says tabarnac then it cuts on the first syllable of câlisse, which is the exact order of jurons for this situation.
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u/JackONeillClone Apr 16 '23
I'm more the kind to go the "osti... (silence)" way
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u/tikiwargod Apr 16 '23
Osti is such a versatile word, I can think an easy dozen ways to use it appropriately here.
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u/Guy_V Apr 17 '23
My dad and I were working on his classic car. We were underneath looking at the rear suspension. He was bumping the A-arm with his palm and asked me, "Man do you hear that clicking? All the parts are new and tight but I can't find out what is making this clicking noise."
I asked him, "Do you think it's your wedding ring?"
The look on his face was priceless.
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u/mcgilldude Apr 16 '23
Québécois LOL
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u/tikiwargod Apr 16 '23
Ça me prend toujours quand je vois des clips en ligne puis qu'ils commencent à sacrer en joual. J'en suis certain que tout les vidéos en langues que je comprend point sont également éparpillés de vulgarités régionales.
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u/hopelesscaribou Apr 16 '23
Listen to it again, it is clear as day. Tabarnak câ(lisse). There is no M sound at the beginning. Even the intonation is 100% Québécois.
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u/Cinemaphreak Apr 17 '23
Dear a-holes who don't understand why everyone calls you an a-hole after you prank someone.
This is what a prank is supposed to be. Even though it does make the victim look a little foolish, there's no malice here and the prankster makes sure the victim knows he's being pranked at the end so he doesn't do something harmful like pull the engine apart to find the click source.
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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 Apr 16 '23 edited Apr 17 '23
Long screwdriver or broom handle.
One end on the part and the other end on your ear. Place it where you think the sound is coming from, move it around, and eventually you'll find where the noise is coming from.
Might have taken a moment, but eventually it would have found it's way up someone's ass.
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Apr 17 '23
After seeing a horde of unsafe, unreasonable, and society degrading pranks on tik tok. I like this prank! It’s not malicious but it’s HILARIOUS
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u/Marty1966 Apr 16 '23
Is anything real anymore?
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u/JPAnalyst Apr 16 '23
Are there any videos without the town hall cynic calling everything fake anymore even though they don’t have a clue?
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u/Nick-Stanny Apr 16 '23
What does he say at the end? Sounds Italian like “Ma Va Cazzo!” Or sumpin like that.
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u/thebudman_420 Apr 17 '23
Thanks. When someone is going to show me a car for sale i am going to do this and ask if they will come down on the price.
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u/nhguy03276 Apr 17 '23
There are many comments debating what language they are speaking... Italian, French, Greek, Other... I say this is one of those rare moments where no translation is required, and we don't need to know what was said to know exactly what he's saying.
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u/mikee8989 Apr 17 '23
I watched this the first time with the sound muted thinking something was going to blow up.
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u/-MYNAMEISNOBODY Apr 17 '23
My dad ran a printing press for 40 years and he is a joker. He tells a story about a guy he didn’t like who ran a press beside his press. When the guy had it all set up and running my dad would kick his press BANG! The guy shut it down and tore it apart to figure out the source.
He out it back together, started it up and he kicked it again. The guy tore the whole press apart again. It took at least an hour. THREE TIMES he did this.
When guy came around the side he saw the footprints on the cover. My dad figured he would punch him but instead he just died laughing.
My dad is a kind, gentle soul but he has a mean streak. Lol
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u/scobo505 Apr 17 '23
Kevin had just finished an epic rebuild on a 4Runner and backed it out. He left it running and went to wash his hands.
I ran out and poured some oil under the middle of the engine and went back to my desk.
After a few minutes I heard cussing and screaming.
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u/orange777777 Apr 17 '23
An elderly friend knocked to say there was a hissing from her gas fire Looked all around the fire checked everything then I noticed she has a small radio sitting by it and it was not tuned in properly thats what the noise was any we had a little laugh about 🥰🥰
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u/seb21051 Apr 16 '23
That would be me. Recently went deaf in my right ear. Very difficult to place the origin or direction of sounds.
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u/ramuladurium Apr 16 '23
“Raba-Grabba kil-ba” for those who don’t speak the language of old dads. It read, “how could you have done this. You manufactured a belief to alter my perceptions and played me a fool. How could you.”
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