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Getting old, begrudgingly
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:15 pm
by Dart Vader
Got to have a hearing aid, maybe two.
Getting fitted next month
Only 40
Bananarama!

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm
by RobTwin
Pardon?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm
by Ivor
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!
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:18 pm
by Trigger_Andy
Sorry???
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:43 pm
by Pete
Gun fire does have that effect - obviously very percussive and hard on the eardrums, especially if you have been doing house clearances.....
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 4:56 pm
by Dave999
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
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 5:14 pm
by Pete
My mother has 2 (it would be strange if she had 3) and they are bloody expensive and very hard on batteries.....
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 5:23 pm
by Ivor
I have an ear trumpet, of course...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 5:35 pm
by Adrian Worman
I think you're probably better off a bit deaf, thats what always springs to mind when the ginge is on one

deaf
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 6:40 pm
by LONGSHOT
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

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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 8:00 pm
by Dart Vader
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
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 8:54 pm
by Pete
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

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 8:58 pm
by TYREMAN
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
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 9:04 pm
by Dart Vader
Got fitted with glasses last August. .....
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 11 9:13 pm
by Pete
Blimey, Justin; failing fast......how's your prostate????
