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In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bonus points if there's a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In my circles it was just ants but seeing all the mentions of snow makes me think of the book Snow Crash which more or less refers to just that :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Snow flakes

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