Do you like... silence?
Well... :wink:
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So I cherish peace & quiet whenever I can, and it's probably why I rarely listen to music anymore these days. I like music, but more than that I like giving my ears (and mind) a rest every now and then. Headphones & listen to quiet music doesn't do it because it feels like 'shutting out'. Which I also don't like - I prefer to be aware of my surroundings, what's going on around me.
Yes I could move to a quiet spot in the countryside but that brings its own set of drawbacks... :(
Bloke at work for instance. He clears his throat/coughs on average around about once every two minutes - all day. It got on my tits once so much that I recorded into a database the datetime of every occurrence; one particularly bad hour was 86 times :-o. I know it sounds like I'm being really petty but it's constant throughout the day and is incredibly off-putting, and I have a job where a break in concentration really screws you up.
I'm tempted to leave a bottle of cough syrup on his desk, but there's only the two of us and I don't want to create tension.
Hate to break it to you bud, but it's already there :wink:
LOL! Yeah you're correct. I should also have mentioned he's my supervisor. If it was someone equal or under me, I would have said something by now!
i think that how 'the mutiny on the bounty' went down, captain bligh kept hacking all over the place. :-D
There are certain types of music that I like but I use headphones or listen to it when no one's around. I call it "consideration".
And no, I'm not upset...
I do the same at the office, because I have a permanent problem in my throat and the air conditioned in the office here in Germany is horribly high...I do it because I have to do it, Im sorry for the people if they are annoyed but I cant do anything else, since nobody is going to turn the AC off...
Writing this I hear loud kids playing outside... okay, now they are silent.
I thought if you could 'ignore' tinnitus then you basically shouldn't have it in the first place because it's purely a psychological thing about not being able to ignore it that creates the problem? at least that's what I've gathered from someone I know who suffers...
i hate it, always gotta have music on, or the telly lol
Yes i like silence but not all the time. I like it quiet when i come home from work after a bad day, sometimes outside can get too noisy especially during the summer.
Its already been invented, it's called a hammer! (there edited that for you!):grin:
Do that in a hot summer in Spain and you'll probably be lynched! ;-)
:-D
Not being able to ignore it will cause problems (such as not being able to sleep) but the actual cause of the percieved noise can be quite varied. There are forms of tinitus where the doctor can actually hear something when doing the diagnosis (so it has some physical cause), there are types caused by auditory nerves being autostimulated for reasons unknown - so the nerve is active as if there actually is a sound that's stimulating it, except no actual sound is doing the stimulation, thought to be caused by damage to the receptors in the inner ear, sort of a bit like leaving a pin on a CMOS chip floating. I suspect it might be hearing damage to that particular frequency band, ever since it started up I've no longer been able to hear a TV's flyback (although it's possible that the sound of the TV flyback is just being drowned out by the tinitus). Or it might just be the whole getting older thing. But I suspect I'm stuck with it forever.
I can ignore real sounds, too, usually to the frustrations of my work colleagues when I'm busy writing code.
I like Mortal Kombat as well but I prefer Sub-Zero...
I don't mind background noise but I particularly hate people who make excessive noise because they feel they have some sort of right to do so.
Unfortunately, the only way I reckon I'll get the quiet I crave is to buy a detached house in the country...and I reckon I'll have retired before I can afford that!
the irony of making music , is that you need silence to record stuff :) well as flat a room as you can make so you don't set sound reflections.. so I like BOTH at the same time..
out of london I work on lots more music, in london I have idiot noisey neighbours.