Always wear protection, folks

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  IS THIS FUCKING HEARING

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    WHAT?

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      WHAT ARE YOU GUYS MUTTERING ABOUT?!

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• Wren@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Expensive custom earplugs are a scam. Cheap foam earplugs work better but people need to be trained how to use them.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • PeacefulForest@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve worked in eye care. Simply put, wear your fucking goggles.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It did not even occur to me that reacting to the real hearing loss part was ruining the fun, because it isn’t.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My Bloody Valentine was on tour this year and they continue to require everyone to wear earplugs.

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    • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.”

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a real loss.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Get a CPAP for yourself

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  • Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

    Not just that, but giants of acoustics, like Sennheiser and AKG — don’t remember exactly who — make earplugs for musicians or concert-goers. With which one gets good sound, just quieter.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What kind of treatment did your buddy get after that sudden exposure?

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    • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know specifics. He went to the doctor, they sent him to a hearing specialist, who said he’d be fine but to mind loud environmentsn for the next while (which he told me at a loud bar that night.) He mentioned ADHD and forgetting/not feeling like grabbing his ears on site when he wasn’t around tools, so they figured earbuds he could wear all day long were the best way to protect his dumbass from himself.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …one of the better ones

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  • Observer@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah yeah that’s good! Is that off one of the resident evils?

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I upvoted this. But I’m not happy about it.

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• Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Goddammit…

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• arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I stared at this confused for a few seconds and then though to myself “of course it is”

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• berber@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  damn once you get it…

  gourmet meme

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve gotten good at avoiding being Rick Rolled. But this catches me out way too often.

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• Observer@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What is this? I’m at a loss here.

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• RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve had T for the better part of 3 decades. It’s really fucking loud.

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can hear the blood flowing in your ears.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  WHAT?

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh gdi

  Well played

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• the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get out.

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• Kertyna@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  oooh fuuuck you!

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  • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    audible groan

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    • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had to remove my PPE to hear it

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• cliffracer_cloaka@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to stop seeing Loss though

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here, this will help stop seeing loss

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    • cliffracer_cloaka@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this is wonderful 🥺

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• bystander@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Very nice. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s loss

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• Lazer365@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my wife flew with a mild cold. the pressure changes forced the infection up toward her ears and that’s how she got her tinnitus

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    • Lazer365@feddit.nl ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Man that sucks! Crazy how such small things can have such a big impact.

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• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Too obvious

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My city has a bike week in November. I hate those open header cruisers more than I should. And I take pleasure in knowing the riders will be suffering from tinnitus in the future.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this Garfield Breast Reduction?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    noooo…
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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Loss is a great comic and I love the message too. I wish I would have listened to all of the voices telling me to use proper hearing protection. I tried a little bit, honestly, but stupidity won out a lot of the time. Young folks, listen to traitor Skunk Baxter. Protect your hearing.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    supermarket I was at once that had some “repeller”

    Sounds curiously close to them ‘teenager repellents’ that emit high-pitched noise that older ears can’t hear.

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    • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m excited for when my ears get old enough to not hear those. At 40 years old and I still get a headache from them.

      At least as an adult I can leave when they’re around. My grandparents had one to repel rodents. They were shocked I’d always want to hide away and read instead of being in the room next to the repeller.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably the same thing but with different branding.

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • massacre@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perhaps a bit ironically, William Shattner has really terrible tinnitus and once considered offing himself because of it.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ironically he was more upset about loss

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No idea how this relates to the Loss meme.

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ear cups are in the position of the characters in the comic.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks. I thought maybe it was something like that but couldn’t visualize it before for some reason. I still don’t know why the Loss meme was such a big hit.

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