Mr Magoo

[EarPlug]

A very good reason to get hearing aids.

Hearing aids may slow onset of dementia and Alzheimer's. Here's why.

Mounting evidence shows how hearing aids and regular counseling from a hearing care specialist can delay the onset of dementia in older adults.

www.healthyhearing.com

 

[cqaigy2]

Yes, the mask wearing made me realize what a lip reader I was getting to be.

I used to think gun fire and being too close to explosions was the reason for my poor hearing and tinnitus but now i'm guessing it's something that happens to a lesser or more extent regardless.

 

[Jstpssng]

I agree that the music in movies drowns out the speech. Could be me.
Had a hearing test years ago. While setting there with my thumb on the button waiting for the tone, I remember thinking it was taking them a long time to get started.
When all of a sudden the technician comes up behind me and pulls off the headphones and screams, you had to have heard those tones because I could hear them in my booth.
Sorry my upper frequencies are gone. Dog whistles have no affect on me.

The first time that I took one was in a “soundproof booth”. I realized after a while that I was raising my finger for the backup alarm of a piece of equipment outside. I wish that I had asked for and saved the results of that test 30 years ago, it would be good for comparison purposes.

 

[ponytug]

The first time that I took one was in a “soundproof booth”. I realized after a while that I was raising my finger for the backup alarm of a piece of equipment outside. I wish that I had asked for and saved the results of that test 30 years ago, it would be good for comparison purposes.

That's funny. I had my first test decades ago. Right next to a busy street with traffic, so the first plot of my hearing looked like a scatter plot. I could not hear most of the tones behind the road noise and distant band practice. The subsequent test in a more soundproof room was a straight line.

That said, I used to hear dog whistles, CRT monitors, ultrasonic burglar alarms, and other supposedly silent items. I always wondered why people called them silent dog whistles. I don't miss hearing those one bit. I remember stores that I couldn't walk into because they left their "silent" alarms on and it was just too painful.

I admit to being compulsive about wearing hearing protection, and when I am doing something loud and sustained like mowing, I will wear ear plugs under over the ear muffs. I have worn ear plugs flying for decades, after I realized I was less fatigued when I did so. Ditto for eye protection.

I guess I am a believer in an ounce of prevention, and I have been lucky enough not to have been exposed to loud noises that much at work.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Another thing many people don't understand... certain "solid state" appliances back in the '80s emitted a high pitched squeal which I could even hear while driving past people's houses. There was a now-defunct department store chain which I couldn't go into because of their sound system. Even now, a local convenience store chain has a very obnoxious door buzzer which feels like somebody running a sword in one ear and out the other. I tried to talk to a manager about it once but she just said "too bad, that's the way it is." She then watched me walk out of the store and drive next door to their competitor, and I haven't set foot in any stores from that chain since- except one, who for dome reason doesn't feel compelled to use the buzzer. I have told them that if they do, I won't be back.

 

[Alan W.]

I was getting ready to take back my second defective code reader. The early cheap ones used tones that you counted. When my wife pulls up and asks what they awful beeping noise was. Turns out the readers werent defective I was.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I worked in huge factories long before osha. I think what really did it for me was..... Neil Young when he toured with Crazy Horse. One time their marketing tag line was....Bone Crushing Volume!

 

[MoKelly]

Most people aren't smiling under their masks. They're squinting trying to read your lips through your mask.

Ha! After over a year I’d hope folks would learn.

My physician friends tend to double mask and hearing them can be a real challenge.

MoKelly