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I can't stand it sometimes!! (Rant and Venting)


I'm here at work listening to "North C Radio" from the WS website (a bunch of DP, WS and CP songs that Coverdale has downloaded for free to his site for our listening pleasure) and I accidentally turned the volume up in my headphones without realizing it.

While listening to the music, one of my co-workers walks near my cubicle and looks at me funny, which makes me take off my head phones, and my co-worker says to me, "loud enough?"

So I apologize and say "gee, sorry, didn't know it was so loud" and turn the volume down.

My co-worker replies "you know, you're not going to be able to hear when you are an old man."

So I said, "I'll worry about it then."

My co-worker replied, "oh that's good planning."

SHEESH when do people take the plunge and become nerds? I love how they speculate that I will lose my hearing simply because I listen to loud music!

Did this ever happen to anyone else at work??!!
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Re: I can't stand it sometimes!! (Rant and Venting)


It happens all the time. I think it has to do with people who are not really into music. They love to have a radio on in the background and as soon as they recognize a melody they hum along with a few bars and that's it.

I remember an episode with a girl who was only with us for a short time a couple of years ago.
I don't remembere what it was I was playing -it could have been Lazy from MIJ. I know it was something where Jon made some noise, and this girl gave me a look I will never forget.
She stopped for a few moments and looked absolutely terrified. She hadn't heard anything like it before.
Then she rushed to the record player and tried to find the button to turn it off.
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Re: I can't stand it sometimes!! (Rant and Venting)


She rushed to turn the radio off when she heard Jon's playing in Lazy?

She had no sophistication! emoticon
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Last year when studying a girl kept telling me to turn the volume of for eer... about a year =)) but i'm sure she was no normal person as she was complaining about any movement going on in the classroom. well we ended up sending her to some other class.. what I can't understand is, sometimes i get to be in the situation where i hear music from others' headphones, and it does not annoy me. the music might be something i like or not, but it doesn't matter if i listen to it or not, but it doesn't bother me anyway. it should be something like, you know all human beings are different and bla bla... emoticon
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He did sound like a nerd, but listening to loud music via headphones can damage your hearing. My left ear can make a crackeling noise when I hear noises of a certain volume and frequency now... and I'm only 19 emoticon
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This is part of a bigger problem. It's not something one realises most of the time, but there are very few places left where music isn't playing. Far too few. I mean, I love music but could well live without any background, or 'elevator' as it's known (not just in elevators) music. In the supermarket I normally go, they used to have the same bloody cd playing every day: classic tracks by the Beatles, Stones, Steivie Wonder, YouNameIt played on a lead saxophone!

Anyway, I think a telling sign of the music is everywhere, whether you like it or not -problem is the large number of people walking around with a portable cd player (or a bloody mp3 player...): they use their preferred 'noise' to block out the 'noise' they can't control.
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