I was 4 years old, listening to a record on headphones connected to this rig. Leaned too far back, and caught the 1/4 inch input jack on the headphones right in my fucking eyeball.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I have some bad news for you, your Dad didn’t want you watching those cartoons…

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      So that explains all the getting up at 5am to milk cows, feed calves and steers and pigs, (my sisters fed the chickens, ducks and geese), shoveling shit, picking rocks, and pulling weeds…

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Vacuum tubes hate that, so that’s probably why they lost their vacuum on Fridays like clockwork…

          • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Then the vacuum tubes failing on Friday evenings is truly a miracle of the modern age.