IS THIS FUCKING HEARING
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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WHAT?
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS MUTTERING ABOUT?!
HE SAID HIS DUCK NEEDS NEW BEARINGS!
No, HE SAID HE HAS A BUCKET OF HERRING!
DAFUQ DID YOU DO TO LARRY‽
THEY'RE DOING IT BEFORE THEY MARRY??
NO, I DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE FOR BEING HAIRY!
THATS GROSS THEY SHOULD REALLY SHAVE THOSE BERRIES OFF
Jokes aside, I'm gonna ruin the fun here.
This is real. I had a buddy temporarily loose partial hearing in one ear when scaffolding shifted next to him, the crack was so loud it hurt. He left work to get it checked out, extremely anxious because he was only 25 and a musician - and good thing he did.
My dad, who worked on airplanes his whole life —one of those man's men who doesn't need things like gloves and goggles, well, he's mostly deaf now and it took three years for the military to clear his doctor's appointments and get him hearing aids. We can't talk on the phone anymore.
You can get custom fitted earplugs for specific decibel ranges now, which is what my construction buddy got. I have a pair myself for raves and concerts, and I can hear people next to me just fine.
Protect your hearing, you won't get it back.
I'm a lefty in a very red state. Everytime I go to the gun range, there is some idiot without ear pro. Now I took care of my hearing, even going so far as to wear earplugs at concerts(which invited a ton of teasing). Even then I have had short bouts of tinnitus and it fucking sucks!
The one pleasure I draw from this is knowing their unpleasant future.
My Bloody Valentine was on tour this year and they continue to require everyone to wear earplugs.
Holy crap that's a name I haven't heard in a long time!
And good for them! Those Irish bands tend to be on the ball it seems.
I bet they don't wear ear pro at the range because they're already deaf. Even at the most red-necking shooting parties, hurling skeets in the quarry, we're stringent on safety and covering our damn ears. One friend of a friend refused and I was like "You either put on the ears or I will lovingly hold your head while you shoot, you pick."
I go to a metal workplace to work on projects. There's a guy there, he's so "cool", he doesn't wear ear protection even when hitting metal with a hammer or while grinding, and he doesn't wear a welding helmet. "I'm not a pussy". He's actively blinding and deafening himself, because he thinks it's cool. What a dumb idiot.
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I bought my wife noise cancelling ear plugs for sleeping because I (in her words) snore like a pig. She has several recordings to back that up. So I bought her these noise cancelling earplugs (Soundcore A20 in case anyone is interested) in the hopes it will allow her to sleep. I will eventually get surgery done for it, because I also have apnea. She hasn't put them to the test yet because it's not always that she can't sleep, but I hope they will serve her well.
Get a CPAP for yourself. If you have apnea then it'll improve your quality of sleep immensely.
Hear, hear! It's amazing how much a CPAP helps with apnea.
And if that doesn't scare them enough... Tinnitus
You go do some loud crap, concerts and such, don't really care. One day, you're sitting there and notice a ringing tone. It's not necessarily loud, but constant like someone has a high speed fan running the background. Whatever frequency level your dammage is in, your brain fills in the gaps with a constant sound. Nothing and nowhere are ever quiet again. When you're in a noisy situation where the noise is in the range of what remaining hearing frequencies you can still work with, you can't hear anyone over. and as things progress, you can lose more ranges and the ringing can get louder and in different frequencies.
I work is a loud environment, and didn’t take it as seriously as I should've, and just wore regular earbuds because I wanted to be able to listen to music over the noise of the machinery. I don't have it as bad as either of those cases you mentioned, but definitely noticed that I couldn't hear as well by my mid 20s, and it takes very little background noise to prevent me from being able to following a conversation.
Now I am pretty good about wearing earplugs, and have bone conduction headphones that I can use with them, and the sound comes through clear even at low volume with the ear pro in. I would highly recommend them if that is part of anyones hangup around wearing ear pro.
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Goddammit...
I stared at this confused for a few seconds and then thought to myself "of course it is"
damn once you get it...
gourmet meme
I've gotten good at avoiding being Rick Rolled. But this catches me out way too often.
What is this? I'm at a loss here.
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I upvoted this. But I'm not happy about it.
Very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's loss
WHAT?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Group fitness classes also play their music way too loud. Had to get some ear plugs when going to them. I am concerned for the trainers and regulars.
Yes! For 10 years I was addicted to those fitness classes and YES I eventually started wearing ear plugs because the music volume was ridiculous.
Always? OK, I guess. It's probably going to make teaching hard, though.
Oh shit, this is that stupid fucking comic again, isn't it?
I'm always careful with loud noises, and yet... I've had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There's always been this high pitched whine whenever I'm in dead silence, and it's always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.
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Oh gdi
Well played
Get out.
Foam earplugs on motorcycles, folks!
In city at low speeds? That's ok, you may not need them.
Anything on the highway? Earplugs, the wooshing will eventually woosh your ability to hear away.
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I wanted to get a noise meter for a long time now, but they're expensive. A lot of daily things just sound... potentially dangerously loud. Public transit, for example.
I want something that can go a least up to 20kHz, most do just up to 8kHz. There's one supermarket I was at once that had some "repeller" which felt painfully loud. It kept changing frequencies, lowest at 15.5kHz when I checked with my phone. I was considering throwing a rock/brick at it while waiting there, but hiding behind a corner seems fine enough with higher frequencies.
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Well I always wore hearing protection when going to concerts, festivals and clubs. Guess what? I got an ear infection which gave me such bad hearing damage that I need hearing aids now. Don’t get ear infections folks!
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I keep a pair of ear defenders and a large pack of ear plugs in my car, just incase I decide to go planespotting, then I can also help friends who forgot to bring theirs.
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