You know what really grinds my gears....

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.