Ear infection reminds me of my hell on earth experience. Being in an airplane with infected ear, it's real pain. Well the flight itself was bearable but takeoff and landing.. omg.
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Ear infection reminds me of my hell on earth experience. Being in an airplane with infected ear, it's real pain. Well the flight itself was bearable but takeoff and landing.. omg.
Well keep using the spray and take all antibiotics till the course is finished.
I've suffered so many of these since childhood, then stupidly working with bands and huge PA system in my 20's.
I've been lucky not being a lot worse than I am now, but that's only because I followed advice.
60-70% of hearing loss is from ear infections.
It's rare that you would lose your hearing totally and all at once, but certain frequencies [10khz] will be lost and make it hard to understand speech for example, and it will worsen as you get older and gradually lose more frequencies one by one.
Same thing with headphone use.
It's not so much the volume, it's how long your subjected to it that does the damage.
The EU want to put volume limiters on personal sound devices so they can't go louder than 85db.
They reckon the rate of hearing loss among the current youth is through the roof,and they expect that because of the hearing damage they are receiving now most of them will be deaf by 50.
Losing your hearing even partially is the pit's, working with somebody who can't hear you is draining if not infuriating.
As for living with somebody who is going deaf......:bomb
Yeldar - I thought about using Shazam, but I always hear the song when there's some other background noise going on - dunno if the program would recognise the song?
Woopzilla - I know exactly how it feels mate, ear infections are a real killer. I really started having problems with my ears from when I was about 15. It used to happen around every 6 months and I have no idea why, as I wasn't in any unusual conditions to prompt infection. I've been fortunate in that it seems to be ok now, and I haven't had any problems for about a year now (knocks on wood)
In a plane? Wow, that makes my ear hurt more just thinking about it. :S
And yea, I'll make sure to continue using them as orderd. I had already noticed that I have trouble understanding some more soft spoken people... ever since I went to that rock concert (for Metallica) but which also featured Slipknot. Was no where near the stage and wow... painfully loud.
This is my first ever infection too... never knew it was this bad to have one. I think I got this by having water randomly stuck in my ear after a shower.
Yeah, I had an ear infection too few years ago, I can assure you it`s too bloody painful!, that`s why I cannot wear my hearing aid for a few weeks. But now, everytime, I want to listen music which sometimes gives me a sore head, that`s why, I don`t play music in my car and I rarely uses it. Also, I always switch my hearing aid off while I`m driving albeit, just myself.
Sounds wise, that`s a different ball game altogether, took me nearly two years to get my own sound the way I used too but not much.
So yes ear infection is a killer alright and I`m bloody deaf which makes it`s worse!:frown:
stevie:cold
Youth hostels where we are are the youngest people by at least 35 years :eek
Where's the youth of today?
...youth hostels with 23 other people in the room, all of whom are snoring; there's one chap in particular who could move mountains with his rumblings.
No beauty sleep for me tonight -_-
People who call special effects "graphics", and people who prefer the Star Wars prequels to the original trilogy on the basis of said special effects. As in: "Episode III is better than Episode V because it has better graphics."
Three people have said that to me. :brickwall
speaking of airplane horrors, i went to berlin 2 years ago. and upon the landing i got a mind numbing pain in my right ear. the next 2-3 days i was completely deaf on that ear and in continuous pain. to say the least not a good way to start your vacation.
that really grinded my gears
-groups of people on MMORPGs who will keep instulting me just because im new to the game ><
n00b^^
oi!! cheaky :p
Idiot drunks knocking over bins on sunday night on a long weekend, buggered if im picking the crap up this time.
^^ Ditto ^^ ... This happens a lot where I live, stupid drunks (always from Thursday nights til Sunday nights) think bins are urinals, or objects that are obstructions (even though the bins are in someones driveway/garden) - how the hell do they end up on the floor?
I see what you mean about picking up the bins, but its yer neighbourhood mate. Sometimes having yer gears grinded is just the way to go, :paperbag
-when the neighbours but fertilizer on their garden and i have to put up with the smell :(
Meeting a pretty girl at a party, then finding out that we have no common interests and can't really talk about anything.
I am generally a fairly laid back chap but nothing quite grinds my gears than coming within 2 seconds of collecting my Wipeout platinum only to have it snatched away in a blink of an eye. Yes thats right 2 fricking seconds!! of course im talking about Zone zues... I am thankful to have a place to vent my frustration somewhere where i am certain others may have had similar experiences. I have been zoning alot in the last week or so trying to practice and improve as i wasnt getting anywhere close to zone 75 i was averaging somewhere between zone 50 and 55. subsonic was literally F'ing me in the A on both Anulpha Pass and Syncopia. I decided to pick one track and stick to it rather than working on two so i chose Anulpha as i found it easier to get perfect laps at higher zones. I also decided to try using the d-pad rather than the stick as i feel it registers my inputs much more accurately even tho i find it much less comfortable and less natural in my hands. i also took advice to try without any music. My zone level since doing so has noticably improved. I am now averaging zone 70 on pretty much each attempt with my best being 74... Problem is I always seem to have one killer lap, its usually around zone 60, i loose about half my ship energy totally unneccesarily after getting there with typically between 75-100%. it is then a case of trying my hardest not to pinball my way to 75 with naff all energy and i feel my heart start racing when i hear Zone 70 clear and i try to hold it together and just when i think im gonna make it i end up messing up the jump onto the overpass and..... back to zone 1!! Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Let me have my trophy you damn evil machine i have suffered enough!!
My uncle and his quite blatantly racist dinner time conversation that comes out of nowhere. What relevance does it have that you can't tell that someone on the radio is "coloured" and has a "funny name" because they, surprisingly, according to his tone of voice are able to speak perfect English in a brummy accent. "If they're born here they just pick it up don't they?" Of course they do you stupid man, in exactly the same way you and I did. :bomb He does my head in. Add to that the fact that any time you try and disagree with him and make him realise he's a tool, he just spouts crap more adamantly and in a louder tone of voice, as if that makes it more true. Gaaah! Needless to say I was out of there as soon as that turkey was in my belly.:bomb
Hahaha that's hilarious! I love Brummy accents ;)
He sounds exactly like 80% of the regular clientele at my local pub. Really dicks me off.
I've also just realised that I hate Mosquitos. Got woken up about 6x last night thanks to them and a cock that started crowing at 02:30. :brickwall
I hate mosquitoes too. People seem to think we don't get them in the UK, but we do, as well as other similar things I presume. You don't hear them until you go to bed because of the background noise, but then there'll be one buzzing round the room in the dead of night and it's almost impossible to find. You'll turn the light on and get out of bed to find it and it'll stop buzzing. Then as soon as the light's out it'll start again. Probably throwing a tantrum because someone stole its heat source. Stupid bugs. I hate summer because of them. They totally ruin it. :(
A mosquito flew up my nose last night. Ugh.
-people who get angry when attentions on them even though they put the effot into how they dress.
This happend a few days ago, i was in the shop i work and out side two girls walked past (at max they were 17 years old) wearing low cut tops and mini skirts. One turns to the other looking and sounding realy angry and says "IM GOING TO SLAP THE NEXT GUY WHO LOOKS AT MY TITS!!!". That just grinds my gears to no end :bomb, why dress like that if you didnt want guys looking at you. I was tempted to go up to the window staring with my jaw dropped just to piss her off :P
I agree to some extent, but would take that on a case by case basis. There's also a difference between noticing, looking and staring. In this case I'd agree though. If they make that kind of comment then they're probably looking purely for the attention.
what really grinds my gears is... printers. i want to print a text file yay only black ink needed... but noooooo, because i have run out of magenta apparently i cant print black. ARGH :bomb
Haha! That reminds me of IH8YOU trying to get his bloody printer to work. "Its going to go out the window!" :lol
By god i have had time trying to get my old shiitter printer to work. i ended up ripping the paper through the useless rollers, then putting my fist through the roof of the print scanner combo and creating one lovely big mess. Glass everywhere! now its on the side of the road. No one has picked it up yet too! been there for a few weeks now.
go all 'office space' on that bad boy :D
Haha. You should of seen what my mate did with his old crappy printer when it wasnt working on him. He dropped it off the 8th story of the library roof, on the unpopulated side of the building of course, lol. damn that thing went into billions of piece. was funny seeing it fall from such a great height. Surely hit the ground with an almighty bang as well too!
Just got over my flu. Now I got back pains from lifting things at funnny angles... without warming up first. Grinded but its self inflicted so it dont count I guess :paperbag
OK - here are a few I really hate:
1 - People (ASBO's) who go around saying things like "Bombaklaat, Blaartklaart, etc" like wtf? dude - say that again, and I'll call the police - say you got a bomb and have you fukkin arrested you prick!
2 - People (ASBO's again) who stare at you like you are their enemy, then spit on the floor as you walk past them... last week I had to roundhouse some fool - caught him square under his armpit and think I heard a crack - didnt hang around though - just ran home thinking "Schitt - I can't get arrested again"
3 - People (ASBO's again) who wear their jeans by their ankles, showing off their boney lil asses, holding onto their crutch like they got MAN PROBLEMS, and generally being abnoxious bastards in my local area - the other day a kid comes up behing me, pokes me in the back with something and says "boy you breaking for me now" - like WTF does that mean... so I turned around and said "Yeah, sorry - take what you want" and he tried to put his hand down my pocket. I had a flu so took full advantage of it and let off a cough that would make Hitlers gas look lame. The guy stepped back and I told him "all I got is the flu man, you can have it if ya want" he didn't like that and thought I was a fool, but I surprised him with a back hand grab and jumped with my knee poking into his nose - NICELY done too - not kidding, but it was in the alleyway on my road and me mam saw me hit this fool... then I had to go home and shoulder the lecture which inevitabnly followed... Now if that aint having your gears grinded, I don't know what is...
Lifting things at funny angles? Did you by any chance supplex someone? :g
My gears are being grinded by websites that don't use monitor space well. Google is such a huge and popular site, yet search results are only displayed on the left hand side of my screen (the site is only optimized for 1280x1024?). 60% of my screen is just blank. In contrast, this site uses all the space. If you resize the window, it resizes/moves everything that is displayed... nothing being wasted unlike one of the biggest most popular site in the internet.
And another thing: Change for the sake of change. Youtube constantly changing and 'fixing' (read breaking) things that don't need fixing. I still haven't figured how to watch playlists outside of someone's channel other than copy pasting 'http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=' into the address bar and then copy pasting the playlist code (which we're thankfully still given). I saved that url in a notepad from the days that youtube actually worked alright.
i was...thing is, I was lifting a very large piece of 3mm hardboard - wasn't heavey, just awkward to manage - and a big gusto of wind kinda wanted to take it from me... the battle was epic in proportion. Me against the force of nature... nature won out. I ended up with back pain :lol
Argh; this. Google needlessly removes random features in the name of "simplicity" - because we all know that simplicity is an end in its own right, and definitely not a means to improve usability.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woopzilla
The idiots. I should be able to watch an uploader's other videos by clicking a link, not by having to go to their profile, wade through menus, and then click a link to take me to a video that isn't even on its own page. They also broke the rating and comment systems, especially the latter.
On Youtube next to the uploader's name should be a box that says "# videos", click that and you'll get a list of that user's other videos and a link to that user's video page. Is that what you're looking for?
Agree about comments and ratings of course. And what videos show up in the ginormous "similar videos" sidebar seems hilariously arbitrary sometimes. :dizzy
Was about to say. What the hell has happened to youtube? Everything on there, the display, the button locations have all changed. Hate it. Im scrolling all over the screen to find something that isnt where it use to be. and the stars thingy has gone as well.
Yeah, in theory. What actually happens is that the menu doesn't open and I get the same worthless "This video is unavailable." pop-up that plagues the comments. No, you retards. It's right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by concrete_d
Getting back the car after 2 weeks. Discovering the entire sound system is completely ****ed!
Going to have to pull it apart this weekend, the floor panels, the doors, the center console. One of the RCA cables are either been damage, or a fuse could of blown.
Cant trust anyone with my car. Whenever i get it back something is stuffed with it. Dont people take duty of care anymore when handling other peoples belongings?
Yea, it's amazing. I'm baffled how people can manage to be so careless.
I remember lending a game to a someone when I was back at school... once it was returned it had a cracked box, a few scratches on the disk and a torn out page from the manual. Wow, how did they manage that?
I've never lent anyone anything I cared about since then.
The thing that i'm about to post that grinds my gears will most probably grind everyone's gears;
Telemarketers.
For a while now, we've had no calls from telemarketers at my house, probably due to the advent of the Do Not Call Register they set-up in Australia a few years back, which means if telemarketers call a number on that register, there might be a fine involved. A big one.
Well, one company has found out that my mobile (be buggered if I knew how) isn't/wasn't on that register. (It is now, though) I keep getting calls from random 02-numbers (I think it's Sydney's state code) since I happened to answer one and was greeted by a all-too-friendly Phillipino lady trying to get me to join another mobile plan I didn't want-or care about. Since then I've had about 5 calls in 2 days. **** pisses me right off.
I`d thought, they can`t get access through your mob phone, cos, your phone is private. That did surprised me!
What F****** grinds me, cos, my golf game are there but I just can`t F****** score!!!! and I`m approaching up to 2!!!!:-
stevie:(
Ive got a private land line number. But somehow the fukwits still seem to get through. They called at a mates house. Some stupid tosser. So i got a porno tape a played it a max through the phone while is was on speaker phone. I think that telemarketer would of got a deaf ear for me doing that. lol. The guy wasnt too happy after that, lol, he pranked a few times after that, lol. Wasnt my house. I get them at home a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harvai
Best result for them to bugger " no im busy mate, now call me in five, then pull the phone out for the rest of the day ".
What grinds my gear...
Banks who pretend to be Banks
Paypal
run through Ebay
But they also are a systemized bank that can be used for selling products and making money for their customers. like if u went to your regualar "Bank of America" or Capital One or Wachovia now going to be known as Wells Fargo.
Paypal
when u got a dispute inside paypal. that has to do with ACH Automated check system payment ( don't ask its called something else ). When the dispute clears and it is found in your favor. you look on the paypal screen and see that the payment by echeck is reversed and sent back to your account.
NO... not true. actually that ACH or echeck is not sent back to the origin where the funds were being taken out. actually the check is placed in a hold spot and then in another few days. it is sent again. By paypal. When u call paypal to curse them the hell out. All their departments say the same thing. "sorry but we can not stop a check or payment being processed"
hmmm
Well my Wachovia. Sure as Hell did. stop payment on 12 stupid azz things that were not suppose to go through my savings account. Causing a negative balance and a Federal Problem!
FEDERAL!
My real bank sure did fix the problem. Paypal sure as hell didn't.
Buyer Protection System
Give me a damn break!
I lost two things in the mail
181.80
and
originally it cost me 54.50
instead when it went through my mastercard
55.90
for an unknown foreign charge. That didn't go through paypal. but went right to my credit card.
the buyer protection system
is set up to protect the buyer of bad sellers, theft, missing or damaged items.
Missing or Damaged!
both the amounted items never made it to my address. I checked the sellers tracking information. I checked my post office. Hell I am on a first name basis with my postal delivery persons.
Nothing.
I filed a dispute with both companies.
Denied
because the seller provide a tracking information. their was no more proof to the dispute, they said.
**** what!
I sent it to my credit card company, did the police report.
my credit card company had to deny my case the first time. because of re-represented evidence.
the presented evidence was the same damn tracking information and then a list of policys that the companies say they have to protect them.
under it listed. missing or damaged items.
they said they were responsible. Well CCGGaming.com and MTGMintCard.com
FU!
The Buyer Protection plan.
Load of Bullshit!
When it comes to making a dispute when i buy stuff or anything on ebay.
i go directly to my bank and credit card companies. They resolve problems 10 times better then these sorry Mutha F.... Paypal and Ebay.
Hell my case with two seller who sold me fraudulent cards.
you damn my bank went on that case quickly and jumped on it.
Paypal is still taking their sweet azz time reviewing the info and more.
I'm done. talking about Sorry, Fake, and Ridiculous Banks