Are you an old fart?

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:42 am

Or maybe your hearing is just going gimpy?

This ring tone is supposed to be inaudible to older people. I can still hear it, though, and I'm going to be 40 this year. I guess avoiding rock concerts wasn't such a bad thing

(If you can hear it, you'll know it. It's a nasty high pitched whine)

JohnnyTwoEyes · Post by **JohnnyTwoEyes** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:48 am

I'm in my twenties, and I can't hear it so much as feel it. It gives me that feeling of changing altitude, right before your ears pop.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:16 am

can hear it just fine.

Aquastorm · Post by **Aquastorm** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:18 am

I'm ...under 20 and I hear that annoying sound just fine.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:43 am

I'm half deaf and I can hear it.

Lictor · Post by **Lictor** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:14 am

26 and can hear it just fine.

Last test I done with a speaker and a signal generator revealed my hearing levelled off at 16Khz. Blasted speaker testing

Awkwardschoolgirl · Post by **Awkwardschoolgirl** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:48 am

I can only barely hear it and I'm 16... Probably all the loud screaming music I listen to and the concerts I go to.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:57 am

Loud an clear for me! Nearly painful.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:45 pm

It is painful to me. Erk!

Imperial_Magician · Post by **Imperial_Magician** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:01 pm

ACK! mine precious ears!

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:09 pm

Nineteen. I can hear it and it's annoying, but it wasn't enough to make me clap my hands over my ears or anything.
On a semi-related note, I complained to my mother once that there was this weird noise, a lot like that one, happening somewhere in the family room. She said, "I don't hear anything, your ears must be ringing for some reason." I said that I didn't hear anything when I plugged my ears, so the sound must be external. She still seemed to think I was hallucinating or something.
Later that day the TV wouldn't work and the noise got a lot worse. She believed me then.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:56 pm

Indigo Violent wrote:Nineteen. I can hear it and it's annoying, but it wasn't enough to make me clap my hands over my ears or anything.
On a semi-related note, I complained to my mother once that there was this weird noise, a lot like that one, happening somewhere in the family room. She said, "I don't hear anything, your ears must be ringing for some reason." I said that I didn't hear anything when I plugged my ears, so the sound must be external. She still seemed to think I was hallucinating or something.
Later that day the TV wouldn't work and the noise got a lot worse. She believed me then.

Yeah that shit used to happen to me all the time in elementary school. I went to the doctors for a check up one time, and I found out that I have some kind of superior hearing, that I can head higher and lower frequencies than normal. I guess that's kharma making up for my horrible vision or something.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:12 pm

I used to be able to hear the squeal from the flyback transformer in TVs and monitors. One that was a little out of whack would drive me nuts. Can't do it anymore.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:31 pm

I have bad vision and bad hearing, but extremely good taste, smell, and touch.

I can taste everything I smell, a bit unpleasant in the bathroom.

Ce6 · Post by **Ce6** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:39 pm

I've been seeing stories about this ringtone in the news all day, and yes, I can hear it (just turned 28 last month, too)
It reminds me of the whine some TV's, computer monitors and bad flourescent lighting can put out, all of which tend to drive me nuts.

LindaH · Post by **LindaH** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:08 am

can hardly hear it.

Prime · Post by **Prime** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:27 am

I can hear that perfectly fine, it's painful and irritating.

It might not be audible to the very elderly, but it's guaranteed to get anyone else to beat you to a bloody pulp.

Nithos · Post by **Nithos** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:33 am

I can hear it fine, which is reassuring since I've been getting paranoid about hearing loss after forgeting to put my earplugs in once on a rifle range, going to an insanely loud concert, and having tenitus for days after both of those incidents. That and daily wear and tear on the ear drums from being in bands since middle school; trumpets, trombones, drums, cymbals, piccolos, it's all potentially damaging, and I kind of like my good hearing. Hell, I've got to have something, my vision and sense of smell suck, and I really don't know how I'd know if my sense of touch is above or below average.

Halo299 · Post by **Halo299** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:15 am

yeah i heard it.

now my question is...why would you want THAT as your ringtone? hearing it once was bad enough.

-halo

Lowky · Post by **Lowky** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:39 am

Ack I am old

36 and can't hear a bloody thing, but then again, i tend to have a low level tinitus much of the time esp when my fucking allergies are worse, like they are this morning.