[SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.

[Jerry Evans]

At 06:00 PM 23/04/2010, you wrote:
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:20:56 -0700
>From: Rob Skinner <rob at rustyiron.com>
>Subject: Re: [SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.
> > Hi List.
> > I see that someone has started a thread on Tinnitus.
>
>Joe,
>I don't know if tinnitius is genetic or an effect of environmental
>conditions.  Perhaps it's both.  But here's something to think about.
>Many enginemen have youngins around when we run engines, run machine
>tools, bust a cap in the groundhogs, etc.  We're doing them harm if we
>do so without supplying them with proper hearing protection.
>
>This is 2010, and we're a lot smarter than we were 50 years ago.  Many
>of the maladies that we suffer today could have been prevented.  Don't
>doom your kids to a life of ringing in their ears.
>
>Rob

Hi Rob,
         You are so right. I think mine came from unclipping the wall 
speakers of my HiFi from the wall and standing them on the carpet, facing 
each other, about 2' apart. My head went between them and Niel Diamond, 
Roger Whittaker and others were played "VERY LOUD". Various adult beverages 
completed the experience.

         There WILL be many people suffering from tinnitus in the future 
with the high powered music players that are fitted to motor cars today. I 
think some of these actually produce more power than the cars engine and 
would propel the car by vibration alone. It's amazing how many times I have 
heard a car in traffic on the highway and thought that it was the car next 
to me only to discover that it was 5 or 6 cars behind me!! (and that's with 
the windows closed). Of course, most of it is "Boom Boom" non-music which 
makes matters worse.

         Now, back to the "Topic" which is "Off Topic" :-)

         Wow, it's good too see that all you guys are still out there. I 
originally started this "Off Topic" thread with the buzz on my telephone. 
The lists were so quiet that I was beginning to think that most of you 
"Yanks" had "gone to that big engine room in the sky" in that cold winter 
you had just experienced or worse, "unsubscribed" (horrors)!!

         Good to see you are still all there even if it took an "off Topic" 
post to get you back :-)

Keep well,


Keep the revs up (or down)
Jerry Evans
Near Johannesburg in Sunny South Africa.
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