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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:18:39 +0100, John wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:11:50 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:55:40 +1100, Peter Jason wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:28:57 +0100, "whizz" wrote: Hi, I have tinnitus, it's like a high frequency noise that disturbs concentration and sleep. I suffer from this disease for 10 years long. It probably seems *much* longer. You have my sympathies. Tinnitus is a horrible thing and often incurable and untreatable. Many doctors used to think it was all in your head, imaginary, not real, but that is an out-moded position. Today, they do try to treat it, though with little success in many patients. There is a temporary phenomenon that sounds much like what tinnitus sufferers hear constantly, it is the whine as air escapes from the inner ear to equalise pressure. This lasts a few seconds in most people and is rare. In tinnitus, it often lasts all day, every day and it can be very much louder than that whining hiss. Some tinnitus sufferers wander about wearing headphones and listening to loud music. Rock is best, though some Classical can help and ballads in foreign languages are exceedingly distracting. For others, this strategy just makes it worse as the music slowly damages the ears. Is this related with Windows 8? Yes, it is. You must never go within 500 metres or 20,000 feet of anything computerised for the rest of your life. If you do the tinnitus will get louder and cover more frequencies and you will break out in clusters of little red spots. Trust me, I am not a lawyer. But my medical advice is, on this one occasion, a tad strange, alternative, weird and unorthodox. Not "wrong", per se, just off the beaten track. So far off that I couldn't find the beaten track from my advice with the aid of a map, two hunting dogs and a radio telescope. STOP IT! Or you'll go blind! I see. When I lived in Buffalo, NY, the other students told me that if I wore rubbers (slip-on overshoes to keep shoes & feet dry) indoors, I'd go blind. "Oh-kayyyyy." He says, slowly and dubiously. "So what the hell was the logic, if such a word applies, behind this myth?" I'm quite curious about this as I can see little or no connection. Maybe something like static charge build-up due to the rubber being an insulator? But how would that affect *eyesight*? And why *only* eyesight? Because eyesight has the most delicate ROM, RAM and other circuitry of all cerebral sub-systems? Sorry but I find this myth slightly baffling. I laughed at them and ignored the advice. Unless there is a causal path, a defined failure mode, included in the advice it is probably wise to. I can still see. Can you? Really? Do you know for *certain* that what you are doing is what the rest of us call "seeing" and not some substitute like Daredevil's "radar"? Maybe you swapped imperceptibly from one to the other while the overshoes were doing their damage? J. As for your comment about baffling, and quoting from a reply I just posted to winston: "To tell the truth, I could never get any idea where their idea came from." -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:25:19 +0100, Randy wrote:
Could be tinnitus related with mosquito alarm? That might not explain why Bedrich Smetana famously suffered from it in the 19th century. Or why today's sufferers are affected by it far from any commercial - or even residential - sites. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:50:02 -0700, ...winston‫ wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:55:40 +1100, Peter Jason wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:28:57 +0100, "whizz" wrote: Hi, I have tinnitus, it's like a high frequency noise that disturbs concentration and sleep. I suffer from this disease for 10 years long. Is this related with Windows 8? STOP IT! Or you'll go blind! When I lived in Buffalo, NY, the other students told me that if I wore rubbers (slip-on overshoes to keep shoes & feet dry) indoors, I'd go blind. I laughed at them and ignored the advice. I can still see. Maybe those students were confused or misinterpreted the information they received....who knows maybe the covered risk was due to 'Trojans' You let the cat out of the bag :-) And you made me laugh. You also proved I was right to disambiguate the word with my parenthetical remark :-) To tell the truth, I could never get any idea where their idea came from. Maybe it did relate to the product that was sold for the prevention of disease only. BTW, I don't recall what the kids in Buffalo called those products - I do know that various slang words, especially for things relating to sex, varied in the different cities I grew up in. Well I remember purchasing my first one. After seeing all the versions in the drug store I was totally confused. The lady probably mid-30's (why couldn't it have been a man) behind the counter noticed me, approached me and asked if I needed help. Embarrassing! She informed me that two types were available lambskin and latex. Well, having worked in my younger years helping out on Saturday's at my uncle Carmen's Italian deli I knew that lambskin casings were used for certain types but not all homemade 'sausages'. Trying to control my surprise at the terminology she used, my naive horror just couldn't imagine using the same 'skin' that the deli used for my extracurricular activities. -- ....winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:25:19 +0100, Randy wrote: Could be tinnitus related with mosquito alarm? "Gene E. Bloch" escreveu na mensagem ... Or why today's sufferers are affected by it far from any commercial - or even residential - sites. --- It's strange that there are cases when more than one person can hear the noise supposedly comming from a sufferer's inside brain. Sound waves have long ranges, as we can listen to radio music comming from long distances. |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:37:06 +0100, Randy wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:25:19 +0100, Randy wrote: Could be tinnitus related with mosquito alarm? "Gene E. Bloch" escreveu na mensagem ... Or why today's sufferers are affected by it far from any commercial - or even residential - sites. --- It's strange that there are cases when more than one person can hear the noise supposedly comming from a sufferer's inside brain. Sound waves have long ranges, as we can listen to radio music comming from long distances. Nobody but me has ever heard my tinnitus. What you are talking about is external noise...which is just *not* the same thing. Your quoting style continues to be a mess. Good old Windows Live Mail. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:25:17 +0100, John wrote:
Your quoting style continues to be a mess. Good old Windows Live Mail. It has been mentioned. He ignores the rebukes. Basically, he's inconsiderate and a bit of a prat at times. You're kidding, right? No - *I* am :-) I like your question (unquoted) about the possibility of a microphone in the outer ear picking up such noises. I can make noises in my ear which might be audible that way. They are rumbles, which I finally figured out[1] are due either to the Eustachian tube muscles or the protective muscles that tense the middle ear against loud noises. [1] In this context, replace that by "guessed"... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:29:26 +0100, John wrote:
That is a pity. I don't suppose you feel like tracking down one of the little buggers and *asking* him? Assuming that's possible, assuming you remember any of them and assuming *they* remember the myth, that is. No chance - too much time and space involved, sorry. Fact is I don't even recall if I actually *did* ask them why at the time. I may have simply expressed disbelief. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:09:12 +0100, John wrote:
I can make noises in my ear which might be audible that way. They are rumbles, which I finally figured out[1] are due either to the Eustachian tube muscles or the protective muscles that tense the middle ear against loud noises. I can move my ears backwards, like a cat flattening them to ready itself for fighting only mine don't go so far as theirs. When I do this there is a "train-in-a-tunnel" like noise. Is that what you mean? Probably not. It really is a rumble, so I don't think it sounds like a train in a tunnel. More like a highly attenuated form of thunder. I'm jealous: my ears are fixed. No, not repaired, just immobile :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:22:13 +0100, John wrote:
Still, it could be vaguely interesting as an intellectual exercise to discover what their fates were. I do know none of them ever became celebrities of any sort as I'm fairly confident that the names would have resonated. Maybe not. My thoughts along those lines seem to relate mainly to what were then girls that I would like to relate to now :-) It's a form of regretting the non-relating of yore. Typo left in for humorous intent. It worked as designed :-) BTW, I'm being lazy, so I snipped heavily, instead of addressing your other interesting comments. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:09:12 +0100, John wrote: I can make noises in my ear which might be audible that way. They are rumbles, which I finally figured out[1] are due either to the Eustachian tube muscles or the protective muscles that tense the middle ear against loud noises. I can move my ears backwards, like a cat flattening them to ready itself for fighting only mine don't go so far as theirs. When I do this there is a "train-in-a-tunnel" like noise. Is that what you mean? Probably not. It really is a rumble, so I don't think it sounds like a train in a tunnel. More like a highly attenuated form of thunder. I'm jealous: my ears are fixed. No, not repaired, just immobile :-) I've played guitar for decades. The G-string occasionally is the hardest for me to tune by ear when plucking the string and forcing me to rely on striking a common harmonic note on that string and an adjacent string. When the string finally hits the correct pitch as the corresponding string harmonic, a very distinct and brighter and vibratory tone results and audible to the ear. Unfortunately, now when ever I see a g-string my ears ring and stand to attention! g -- ....winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On 23/10/2014 8:05 AM, ...winston‫ wrote:
Unfortunately, now when ever I see a g-string my ears ring and stand to attention! g It's not usually the ears that stand to attention when most men see a g-string. Still - whatever floats your boat :-))) -- Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK Wife - a woman who has ceased to be your girlfriend but resents anyone trying to fill the vacancy. |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:45:08 +0100, John wrote:
One thing (among many) I can't do is raise an eyebrow in isolation. I would like to learn how to do this one. I can raise my left eyebrow alone, but not the other one; I can raise both simultaneously. I can sneer on the left side of my mouth, but not the right side. Why is this subthread happening? :-) When I'm conscious, my prosthetic lenses are assumed to be part of my eyes and I'm quite protective of my eyes. When not quite conscious, I am always aware of their position - the lenses not the eyes When I plan to leave the computer, I will replace the computer glasses by the regular ones, but if I then spend a moment doing something else (such as, oh, replying to you), I will somehow manage to swap my glasses again, only to realize I can't see properly. It's amazing what I do to entertain myself... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:25:04 +0100, John wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:39:49 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:45:08 +0100, John wrote: One thing (among many) I can't do is raise an eyebrow in isolation. I would like to learn how to do this one. I can raise my left eyebrow alone, but not the other one; I can raise both simultaneously. I can sneer on the left side of my mouth, but not the right side. Why is this subthread happening? :-) Usually me. Sorry. Well, I'm having a modicum of fun, so don't be sorry on my account. When I'm conscious, my prosthetic lenses are assumed to be part of my eyes and I'm quite protective of my eyes. When not quite conscious, I am always aware of their position - the lenses not the eyes When I plan to leave the computer, I will replace the computer glasses by the regular ones, but if I then spend a moment doing something else (such as, oh, replying to you), Probably best to avoid that, it can cause things. True. Maybe I should be more careful :-) I will somehow manage to swap my glasses again, only to realize I can't see properly. Try varifocals? They are cool when you move your attention from close to far but keep the line of sight through the lenses. Everything swims and bubbles and warps for a few microns. Then the brain sorts it all out and flattens the world. I hate them. Also, the computer specs are single focus, so I don't have to tilt my head to look in the corner of the screen. Actually, for me, bifocals would sort of work, except my screen viewing distance is not the same as my reading distance. It's amazing what I do to entertain myself... I do *NOT* want to know. J. Well, it's not too drastic, at least on this occasion. I was referring (possibly facetiously) to the inadvertent spectacle swap. And yes, it *does* occur to me that you didn't even want to know that :-) I just heard on the radio a couple of days ago, by no means for the first time, that "facetiously" is a word in which the English vowels appear once each in alphabetical order (in the English version of the alphabet, of course). -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:28:59 +0100, John wrote:
My thoughts along those lines seem to relate mainly to what were then girls that I would like to relate to now :-) Anyone I was at school with could not be described, now, as a "girl". Old Age Pensioner, perhaps. If any survive, which is statistically unlikely. I was careful to say "what were then girls"... To call them girls today would be rather euphemistic, but maybe not as ugly as saying "n years young" for values of n = 63. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:44:50 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote: I just heard on the radio a couple of days ago, by no means for the first time, that "facetiously" is a word in which the English vowels appear once each in alphabetical order (in the English version of the alphabet, of course). Nah, you probably heard that about "facetious," not "facetiously." g |
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