Getting old, begrudgingly

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:15 pm

Got to have a hearing aid, maybe two.

Getting fitted next month

Only 40

Bananarama!

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm

Pardon?

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm

eh?

Sorry couldn't resist that, been there and done that when I was a nipper, but my hearing has actually improved with age but I think it may have peaked!

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm

Sorry???

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:43 pm

Gun fire does have that effect - obviously very percussive and hard on the eardrums, especially if you have been doing house clearances.....

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Mon Feb 28, 11 4:56 pm

my auntie has 2 and has done for 4 years

i never knew

so small these days....

not the old whistling things they used to be

hers basically boost the frequencies she is missing so she can have a conversation in a pub or other place infested with background noise

Dave

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Feb 28, 11 5:14 pm

My mother has 2 (it would be strange if she had 3) and they are bloody expensive and very hard on batteries.....

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Mon Feb 28, 11 5:23 pm

I have an ear trumpet, of course...

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Mon Feb 28, 11 5:35 pm

I think you're probably better off a bit deaf, thats what always springs to mind when the ginge is on one

LONGSHOT · Post by **LONGSHOT** » Mon Feb 28, 11 6:40 pm

my wife and kids are constantly telling me i am deaf.......

i tell them its been diagnosed as selective hearing

i remember forty and stuff does start to go wrong...bit like most of our cars.

anyway, chin up-could be worse

,

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Mon Feb 28, 11 8:00 pm

Dave and Pete

I must admit I didn't come across your mothers or aunties in Iraq, what unit were they in? Are they now doing Gadaffi's protection?

It is percussive damage, exactly the reasons Pete said. Little barrelled weapons, big rounds, big noise. Yellow ear defenders don't cut a dash when you are trying to blend in with the local towel tops.

Good thing is that I can't hear you drunken gits snoring in the tents at the nats !!!

Hey ho, whats next to drop off....libido.......is that right Pete?

J

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Feb 28, 11 8:54 pm

No, it's the eyesight at around 45 next; unavoidable fact of nature......other more important capabilities are still functioning as well as they ever did

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Mon Feb 28, 11 8:58 pm

Ivor wrote:I have an ear trumpet, of course...

Class!!

That's what i want when i get old along with the Monocle and pocket watch

Dart Vader · Post by **Dart Vader** » Mon Feb 28, 11 9:04 pm

Got fitted with glasses last August. .....

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Feb 28, 11 9:13 pm

Blimey, Justin; failing fast......how's your prostate????