HEY..HEY, I'M TALKIN' TO YOU!

xoxoxoBruce · 10-08-2005, 10:25 PM

You can't hear me because the headphones are always on your head.
What? You say you don't have them on? That may not matter. The damage has been done.

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Everywhere she turns, Angella Day sees people carrying portable music players, often with the ear buds stuffed firmly in place. "They're very widespread,'' says Day, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University who regularly listens to music on her own iPod while studying or working out. "So addicting.''

What she and others may not realize is that many people their age have already damaged their hearing. And researchers fear that the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the ears -- including cell phones -- is only making it worse.

Let me tell you, I've been wearing hearing aids since 1981 and it's a pain in the ass. They help but it ain't the same by a long shot. Plus they're expensive, very sensitive to moisture and a host of other ills.
Oh, and don't get me started on Tinnitus.

It's a jungle out there and you want to hear the predators

Hobbs · 10-08-2005, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Oh, and don't get me started on Tinnitus.

Between headphones and loud music, Cheap Trick concerts, my lawn blower, and several missed placed shotgun blasts closed to my ears, let the ringing begin. There is something depressing about an affliction that doctors know it exists but say there's nothing we can do to fix the problem. Oh, and by the way, it's prbly going to get worse. Hmmm.

I haven't been to a doc yet, mostly out of fear that this is what he'll say, but i got that "rush/ring" in my ears too.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-08-2005, 11:02 PM

It gets worse when you kill kittens, too.

lumberjim · 10-08-2005, 11:59 PM

really?

elSicomoro · 10-09-2005, 12:10 AM

April is deaf in her left ear...I have to remember to stay on her right side or talk up if I'm on the left side.

I am apparently becoming tone deaf...sometimes, people have to repeat things 3 or 4 times for me to understand them. I haven't had a hearing test in a while...perhaps it's time for one.

Elspode · 10-09-2005, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

really?

Yeah...your ears go blind.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-09-2005, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

really?

Anything that increases blood pressure.

Griff · 10-09-2005, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by sycamore

I am apparently becoming tone deaf...

Dude we knew that from the music thread.

elSicomoro · 10-09-2005, 10:54 AM

Don't make me beat you with your own mandolin, fucker.

jinx · 10-09-2005, 06:00 PM

What?

seakdivers · 10-10-2005, 11:32 PM

Sycamore - I laughed out loud at that!!!

sounds like something I would say.

Iggy · 10-21-2005, 01:46 PM

I have been to too many concerts where I was really close to the speakers... now people think I am ignoring them when really I just can't hear them. What a pain in the arse. I think I need a hearing aid...

Griff · 10-21-2005, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

What?

He's cracking on me and my choice of instruments, but I am rubber and he is glue...

lumberjim · 10-21-2005, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

He's cracking on me and my choice of instruments, but I am rubber and he is glue...

no, you missed the joke, G. That was the obligitory "what?" that happens whenever hearing trouble is brought up in a conversation. Ask wolf.

Griff · 10-21-2005, 10:16 PM

What?

10-08-2005, 11:02 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It gets worse when you kill kittens, too. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-08-2005, 11:59 PM	#4
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	really? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-09-2005, 06:00 PM	#10
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	What? __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

10-21-2005, 01:46 PM	#12
Iggy Back and ready to tart up the place Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 850	I have been to too many concerts where I was really close to the speakers... now people think I am ignoring them when really I just can't hear them. What a pain in the arse. I think I need a hearing aid... __________________ Chock-full of naughty goodness.

10-21-2005, 10:16 PM	#15
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10-09-2005, 12:10 AM	#5
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	April is deaf in her left ear...I have to remember to stay on her right side or talk up if I'm on the left side. I am apparently becoming tone deaf...sometimes, people have to repeat things 3 or 4 times for me to understand them. I haven't had a hearing test in a while...perhaps it's time for one.

10-09-2005, 10:54 AM	#9
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Don't make me beat you with your own mandolin, fucker.

10-10-2005, 11:32 PM	#11
seakdivers Icy Queen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southeast Alaska Posts: 700	Sycamore - I laughed out loud at that!!! sounds like something I would say.

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