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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? :roll:

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 :lol: :lol:

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 :thumbright:

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

anyway, chin up-could be worse :) ,

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?

:D

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 :thumbright: :thumbright:

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???? :shock: ;)