The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Satanstoenail]

At the very least you can still enjoy live music though. I still currently use the "musician earplug" variety, and while the dB reduction may not quite be the same as the orange foamies, they are still good enough for me (for now). 16 years, so you developed tinnitus in your 20s (if I remember your age correctly). Was this just too many loud concerts, or something more complicated (if you dont mind me asking)? If it was loud noise, did it just happen to bother you permanently at random? Sorry for the multi-part questions, but I go to way too many concerts not to be concerned myself..

I was 28 and I'd gotten heavily into electronic music. I went to a particularly loud club one night and forgot my earplugs (which I'd started using more as I was concerned about being exposed to too much loud noise). I walked out of there in the morning and found that everything was distorting and my ears were ringing so hard that I could barely hear. They calmed down after a few days but the ringing never went away.
I'm sure all the metal shows and working in loud environments didn't help, but clubbing combined with stupidity was the main culprit. Hours of banging techno with no let up. I've been as careful as possible since then.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

God damn that's awful.

yeah man, big time.

Btw i linked the wrong poster, check out the weekend i missed..

The natural function of the cilia in the lungs is to remove irritants and particles from the lungs, but there is a point in which the chemicals/particles inhaled can cause damage. High intensity noise damaging your ears is definitely comparable to lungs damaged by something like smoking, working in dusty working conditions, or being exposed to irritants/carcinogens. Once you get COPD or emphysema there is no looking back, just like the folks with tinnitus. The cilia in particular are much different physiologically speaking, but the long term damage is similar. Unfortunately something like tinnitus not attributed to loud noise is uncommon to the point where I think even doctors just have to take an educated guess. It is possible that your condition may be reversible in the future if the cilia in your ear arent damaged, but there can be other issues with the nerves that are beyond repair as well. As far as I know there is no cure, but I have read that spikes can last months before going down so there is hope perhaps.

fuck, scary shit. I've been smoking for about 20 years. Quit cigarettes about 10 years ago though. That being said, i wonder if a have single piece of cilia left in my body, lol

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

It's kind of like people can't just smoke some normal weed they have do that spice shit.

some highschool kid smoked some of "that spice shit"
and this is what happened

 

[EternalMetal]

Guess he was smoking some of that K2 shit.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

he looked like a fish out of water. And wtf, did he just say "its sometimes called Kush"? Smh

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Guess he was smoking some of that K2 shit.

yes
K2 is the drug that made this flopping around like a fish event happen

also
you get to right-about-the-30-sec mark and you can clearly see he is surrounded by a huge-ass amount of people, and absolutely no one makes any kind of attempt to help him until past the 2 min mark

 

[CiG]

I miss seeing HP Lovecraft's dumb Xmas avi around the place this time of year.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

can someone please edit in a santa hat on my icon? @Baroque used to do it for us.

 

[CiG]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

thanks!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Any chance you can tilt the hat a little more to match with the rest of his head/face?

 

[CiG]

Here is a higher res so you can crop it however you like.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

perfect .... but for some reason that one doesn't look as clean. As in the picture quality, not your job.

 

[CiG]

Wait, really? Lemme sort that out. Lol I took that shit from Fanart.tv and their scans are usually decent.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Wait, really? Lemme sort that out. Lol I took that shit from Fanart.tv and their scans are usually decent.

just use the same pic i have for my avatar.

 

[CiG]

 

[Einherjar86]

Some light-hearted whining for the holidays. This just happened about fifteen minutes ago.

I go to the post office to mail some presents, and get a phone call from my wife as I'm walking up to the register telling me not to mail them. I've already written on the package, so being the good person that I am I tell the guy behind the desk that I wrote on it, and I'm not sure if they have somewhere they want to throw it away. The following exchange occurs:

Postal Guy: "I have to charge you for it."

Me (not sure if he's kidding): "Haha, oh okay... wait, seriously?"

PG: "Yes."

Me: "But I'm not gonna use it."

PG: "Doesn't matter, I have to charge you."

Me: "But you have a ton of these lying around."

PG: "Yeah but I can't sell that one."

Me: "Well, can you just put a label over it?"

PG: "No, I have to charge you."

Me: "But I don't want it."

PG: "Doesn't matter, I have to charge you."

Me: "What if I leave it here and just walk out?"

PG: *shrugs*

Me (assessing my options): "How much for it?"

PG: "$3.29" (or something close to that)

Me: "Get out. Okay, I'll buy it."

PG: "You want your receipt?"

Me: "You gonna charge me for that too?"

PG: "Nah, this is free."

Me: "Then you keep it. Merry Christmas."

 

[CiG]

And then everybody clapped.

 

[The Ozzman]

One of the worst organizations on the planet

 

[CiG]

Just playing Ein, I've actually had a similar experience except it was a woman and I was less sassy.