RacoonRider wrote on 2020-08-05, 07:13:I though I would free the colors from the TV into the room.
That's actually quite endearing. You've made a child-hating cynic smile 😁
I thought IBM was born with the world
RacoonRider wrote on 2020-08-05, 07:13:At the age of three I destroyed our TV. It was on, I pulled the lid from the back and saw some colored wires. I wanted them. I though I would free the colors from the TV into the room. So I grabbed a handful and pulled with all my weight. The colors left the TV with some magic smoke and a loud crack, but never made it into the room.
The TV was never completely repaired, a few masters came and only one of them managed to get at least some picture in shades of green and gray. This happened during a very serious economical and political crysis here in Russia, just after the downfall of USSR. A working TV was a real treasure and I ruined it. Still, my parents were more worried about me miraculously escaping electric shock rather then anything else. We watched everything in 50 shades of green and gray for a few years until we could afford a better TV.
Nice.... I didn't quite do that much damage when I was 3. I only climbed up onto the top of the refrigerator to get to a wrist-watch my dad was working on and proceeded to pull the spring out of it. I don't remember it at all.
I do remember around the age of 6 or 7, my dad brought home an old coffee maker for me to take apart. I took it apart and rewired it and then plugged it in. All the lights started to pulse on/off in our trailer and my mom freaked out.
DosFreak wrote on 2020-07-31, 21:17:Yet another reason I don't have kids.
The importance of material possessions is hugely overblown.
Computers make better kids anyway.
