I’ve heard this phrase so many times in my life I dont even think about it, but the more I dwell on it, I dont really get it

  • jjagaimo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The don’t sit too close part was because kids with bad eyesight would sit closer to the TV, so parents started associating it but reversed cause and effect; they believed that sitting too close made their eyesight worse, which it didn’t

    I mean the 50s ones probably did but everything in the 50s was harmful