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I cialis what ya did there.We've reached maximum peeve….
Please shift to grinding gears.
What Grinds Your Gears?
I'll start with people inside the car parked and on a cellphone laughing, at the same time leaving "Headlights ON" while blinding someone in the other end. Possibly a family having a sit down dinner at a restaurant with a big spotlight.www.northwestfirearms.com
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It's still the same (the "cool kids" on TV pronouncing "st" as "sht"). But now it's worse with this new war because I have to hear about all the "shtrikes" and the "shtrength" of the US "shtrategy." But it's even worse than that because the cool kids are now pronouncing "ext" as "exsht" so I have to hear about the "exshtreme" measures being taken. Every once in a while they slip up tho; they still say "stealth" and not "shtealth," so I know it's not a speach impediment. It's just a desire to be one of the cool kids. IT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS! 
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Pow! To the moon.
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Deafness is a spectrum
being deaf doesn't mean I don't need ear protection, or that I wouldn't benefit from owning suppressors/silencers. It just means the differences are not as significant as me being fully hearing. My hearing threshold is only 90-100 decibels. Meaning things have to get that loud before I start hearing unassisted. Unsilenced gunshots can register as low as 140 decibels for .22LR, to 170 decibels for many centerfire rifles.
Interestingly, health care groups State "safe hearing level" for hearing people to be anything at or below 70 decibels. Meaning exposure to sounds louder than 70 DB can damage your hearing.
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT...???
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Funny you use this emoji. It's a pretty close rendition to my avatar for 20+ years on a climbing board. It's still there...
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I'm sorry for laughing man. But damit, I thought it was funny. I was lucky enough to know a deaf kid that was in our circle of friends when I was 13-16 probably, maybe longer. You just learned you need to look at Allen, and Allen needed see you when you conversed.When people find out I'm deaf, they say "oh, I'm sorry..". What. No. Being deaf is just a condition, not a curse, not an illness, not the fault of y'all. Nothing to apologize for, just something to recognize.
Worst response? "I'll pray for Jesus to heal you"
No. Deaf is just how my body is. Nothing can change that, nothing currently can develop my brain's neural connections so that I could understand every word, note, sound.
You know what really pets my gears? When people don't know that three "wow, that's crazy" in a conversation was me politely saying "wrap this story up" yet they continue having diarrhea of the mouth.
And they call me a jerk when I exit like an Irish
And they call me a jerk when I exit like an Irish
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What the hell thing did I get dragged into? I had to read like two pages of banter just to figure out what was going on.
@CamoDeafie, I can sympathize, but for opposite reasons if that makes any sense.
I can hear really well as long as the environment is quiet. My problem is not hardware, it is software. My brain does not filter out background noise, so when there is a lot going on the primary conversation just gets lost. I basically cannot hold a conversation in a bar or restaurant because I cannot parse the words from the rest of the conversations that are happening. I went in to try and get some hearing aides but the doctors said those only fix hardware issues, not the software side of things. I can hear a mouse fart from 100 yards in a quiet woods, but I cannot hear my wife conversing with me in the car if all the windows are down.
Given how much of normal life happens in noisy environments most people just wind up assuming I am partially deaf. I am constantly recommended "fixes" and I have to decide if it is worth explaining the problem or just nod and say "yeah I'll look into that." I appreciate the sentiment, but really, I am not the normal kind of deaf. At least my kids recognizes the pattern. He figured out he needs to be a certain level above the background noise to reliably get my attention. Sometimes this manifests in less than optimal ways. . . "HEY DAD! CAN I. . . !!!"
@CamoDeafie, I can sympathize, but for opposite reasons if that makes any sense.
I can hear really well as long as the environment is quiet. My problem is not hardware, it is software. My brain does not filter out background noise, so when there is a lot going on the primary conversation just gets lost. I basically cannot hold a conversation in a bar or restaurant because I cannot parse the words from the rest of the conversations that are happening. I went in to try and get some hearing aides but the doctors said those only fix hardware issues, not the software side of things. I can hear a mouse fart from 100 yards in a quiet woods, but I cannot hear my wife conversing with me in the car if all the windows are down.
Given how much of normal life happens in noisy environments most people just wind up assuming I am partially deaf. I am constantly recommended "fixes" and I have to decide if it is worth explaining the problem or just nod and say "yeah I'll look into that." I appreciate the sentiment, but really, I am not the normal kind of deaf. At least my kids recognizes the pattern. He figured out he needs to be a certain level above the background noise to reliably get my attention. Sometimes this manifests in less than optimal ways. . . "HEY DAD! CAN I. . . !!!"
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Where I "work" , one of the machine operators is stone deaf. Like campletely deaf, mute etc. Nice guy, great sense of humor. Its enlighteneing watching him talk to his friends on the cell phone in sign language. In any case he is required to wear hearing protection on the job.Deafness is a spectrum
My hearing threshold is only 90-100 decibels. Meaning things have to get that loud before I start hearing unassisted. Unsilenced gunshots can register as low as 140 decibels for .22LR, to 170 decibels for many centerfire rifles.
Interestingly, health care groups State "safe hearing level" for hearing people to be anything at or below 70 decibels. Meaning exposure to sounds louder than 70 DB can damage your hearing.
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Can't they still get acute pain from really loud noises? Like ruptured eardrums?
Have you tried super beets heart chews?
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Yes. If sounds are above their hearing threshold, it can further damage stuff. Can also cause tinnitus (I have that every once a while.. it is frigging aggravating)
That said, it is likely OHSA regulations that required everyone to wear hearing protection, regardless of actual need
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Another one. When people ask "don't medical science have the tech now to help deaf people hear better and understand things?" (Referring to advanced digital hearing aids, and cochlear implants).... ..
Yes, but to make full use of that, their brains have to have had full language comprehension. They work for those who have been hearing most all of their lives, whose brains have already developed the necessary connections and understanding what specific sounds means ..
For those who have been deaf since infancy, and young ages (myself, deaf since almost 3 years of age)... It is just... Noise.
It is easier to teach hearing people sign language, than it is to make people who have been deaf for most all their lives, hear and understand sounds.
Yes, but to make full use of that, their brains have to have had full language comprehension. They work for those who have been hearing most all of their lives, whose brains have already developed the necessary connections and understanding what specific sounds means ..
For those who have been deaf since infancy, and young ages (myself, deaf since almost 3 years of age)... It is just... Noise.
It is easier to teach hearing people sign language, than it is to make people who have been deaf for most all their lives, hear and understand sounds.
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I always wondered about that, if you never heard words and such from the beginning, then how do you learn to speak! I had a buddy in grade school who was born deaf, he could speak, but it never sounded "Right" one day, a fellow classmate asked how he could speak having not ever heard words, his answer was not what anyone expected, he first learned sign language, being able to read and write along with signing allowed him to learn to speak through trial and error, getting the sounds close enough that they made sense to listeners! The hardest part for him was volume control, having no audio frame of reference, he was always the loudest guy in the room, it made for some embarrassing moments, but folks just learned to work with it!
I joke ( not really) about a visit to a Starbucks that hosted the local Deaf school just around the corner, for a bunch of people that couldn't hear, it was by far the loudest place I had ever been in, I seriously had to shout at the barista to place my order, she just smiled and yelled back that it was completely normal, and that such a public place was good practice for the students to learn the real world!
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