Spyke

Y'all forget to use the whole child? Tears and sweat are free salt that's just thrown away.

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Shhh you cant give away the secret that the money trea runs on the bones of children under 7, then we might either get cancled or people will want their own money tree, and I am not sure what is worse

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sh.itjust.works

It should display the time too, because people might not know. And every business on the avenue will have a sign showing the same information. What a weird fad in hindsight.

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sopuli.xyz

I loved how when I was a kid, the clocks weren't in sync. They were up to 5 minutes off between them.

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kooks_onlyreply
lemmy.ca

I hated that as a kid.

Also, my local pool has 3 clocks. The spinny cross one, actual time with seconds, and another one that counts down from 60 minutes, but it’s 5 mins off from the actual time with seconds, and the + spinny clock is also off between the two of them. Drives me insane.

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In Denmark we had a service called "Miss Time" (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/

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CaptDustreply
sh.itjust.works

Phone companies used to employ somebody to sit and answer those calls!

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And they probably made enough to support a family of 4 with a house.

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lemmy.world

There was a time when the Internet didn't exist and not everyone wore a wristwatch.

Having time on every other corner was useful for your bus stop.

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lemmy.world

Temperature on the side of any building is such a flex

Never see that in the UK because we just need to always assume it'll rain and maybe go a little over room temperature if we're lucky

Except that one week a year where the immense cost of adding AC to our Victorian houses becomes worryingly appealing

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Zanzreply
lemmy.ml

You guys have clock towers with tiny clocks on the top instead.

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Well how else will we know when it's time for breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper or midnight snack time?

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I'm in the UK and my local pharmacy has one! It's fun to guess what it will be as I'm going past.

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I've seen it a few times in the UK, there's an ex CPC building in Preston that shows the temperature.

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My country has largely shut down physical bank locations and has gone all in on online banking.

I guess the one silver lining is that they are always open.

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