The Retirement Thread

[BoldonLad]

The correct response was to say “ I do, every time I look at you darling “ that would have been bonus points !

OK... what I actually said, but, was too embarrassed to admit was: "Never, darling, why would I, with a beautiful wife like you?" ....

Trouble is, after 30+ years, Mrs @BoldonLad has heard most of my "one liners'

 

[gavroche]

Back home in Wales. You can tell it is all getting back to normal as going through Birmingham on the M6 was slooooooow and very busy.
It is not raining here either..................yet.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Someone was talking to me about how much they were enjoying the sound of some birds twittering nearby. I hadn't a sound from them!


I know some people whose voices I struggle to understand. Other people talking at about the same intensity are fine. I have certain pitches that I am almost completely deaf at, but either side is fine. That would correspond to the cells in the ear corresponding to the frequencies in question being damaged or dead.

I just had an idea, but a quick search revealed that it has already been done - frequency-shifting hearing aids. Old types just made sounds louder, which is not much use if they are at frequencies that you can't hear at all. These fancy new hearing aids can shift the pitch of sounds down to frequencies that you CAN hear. Clever!

I've got mild tinnitus, apart from that my hearing is fine, where I struggle is understanding what the sound is, if I'm talking to someone I'll often ask for them to repeat what they said, not because I've not heard it, I have, but I haven't understood what the sound is.

 

[Lee_M]

I've got mild tinnitus, apart from that my hearing is fine, where I struggle is understanding what the sound is, if I'm talking to someone I'll often ask for them to repeat what they said, not because I've not heard it, I have, but I haven't understood what the sound is.

I have tinnitus in both ears, not a surprise I guess since I have played the drums for 40 years, but luckily I only hear it when there's no other sounds.

Have noticed my right ear is showing some deafness now, but that only annoys me because I have to alter the balance on the hifi

 

[ColinJ]

I've got mild tinnitus, apart from that my hearing is fine, where I struggle is understanding what the sound is, if I'm talking to someone I'll often ask for them to repeat what they said, not because I've not heard it, I have, but I haven't understood what the sound is.

I know a few 'mumblers' and I often can't tell what they have said. I tell them but then they just mumble more loudly!

What I need is for them to stop mumbling and speak at a sensible intensity.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I know a few 'mumblers' and I often can't tell what they have said. I tell them but then they just mumble more loudly!

What I need is for them to stop mumbling and speak at a sensible intensity.

They're loud enough, I can hear them no problem, just my brain sometimes doesn't understand what the sound is, I just hear a noise not a word.

 

[ColinJ]

They're loud enough, I can hear them no problem, just my brain sometimes doesn't understand what the sound is, I just hear a noise not a word.

Similar to how I experience it, but probably for different reasons. I don't want them mm%um$mb££blinnng, MM%UM$MB££BLINNG, or SHOUTING... I just want them speaking clearly.

 

[Dirk]

I've noticed that other people seem to be mumbling more these days.

 

[oldwheels]

Someone was talking to me about how much they were enjoying the sound of some birds twittering nearby. I hadn't a sound from them!


I know some people whose voices I struggle to understand. Other people talking at about the same intensity are fine. I have certain pitches that I am almost completely deaf at, but either side is fine. That would correspond to the cells in the ear tuned to those frequencies being damaged or dead.

I just had an idea, but a quick search revealed that it has already been done - frequency-shifting hearing aids. Old types just made sounds louder, which is not much use if they are at frequencies that you can't hear at all. These fancy new hearing aids can shift the pitch of sounds down to frequencies that you CAN hear. Clever!

Certainly something to do with pitch I think. I had occasion to phone the SSE call centre which appears to be in India. It took 3 goes before I got somebody I could understand.
Accents are fine as I had a lot of business dealings in the past with a variety of people from both India and Pakistan and we had no problem communicating so I think pitch was the problem in SSE case.

 

[12boy]

I once attended an inservice lecture for people who work with the deaf and the Dr lecturing said there are many types of deafness above a loss of volume. There is deafness to certain pitches, the inabilty to distinguish one noise among many, garbled noise which cannot translate the noise into something recognizable as examples. The three I mentioned don't necessarily mean the noise has to be louder, and in fact can make it worse. For myself, clearly hearing one voice with a lot of background noise is very hard. Unfortunately, getting a hearing aid that just amplifies noise can't help with these problems.
I have a similar vision problem in that given time to focus on something I can see it clearly, but focusing when I or the object I am looking at is moving is not so good.
Be safe and well...

 

[ColinJ]

Certainly something to do with pitch I think. I had occasion to phone the SSE call centre which appears to be in India. It took 3 goes before I got somebody I could understand.

I find that some Indian accents can be tricky to understand. I can understand people with all sorts of accents but often struggle with Indian call centres. There is something in the 'sing-song' quality in the voice which I struggle with. The person can sound perfectly well-educated and articulate but I have difficulty understanding what is being said. To be fair, that also applies to Geordies and Glaswegians. Geordies and Glaswegians of Indian descent are the trickiest of all!

 

[Mo1959]

Got a walk in while it was still nice. Just had a really heavy thundery shower just now though.

After thinking I hadn’t done any damage falling this morning, the middle finger and knuckle on my right hand has got sore and stiff now and feels a bit warm. Why do we stop bouncing when we get older!

 

[oldwheels]

I find that some Indian accents can be tricky to understand. I can understand people with all sorts of accents but often struggle with Indian call centres. There is something in the 'sing-song' quality in the voice which I struggle with. The person can sound perfectly well-educated and articulate but I have difficulty understanding what is being said. To be fair, that also applies to Geordies and Glaswegians. Geordies and Glaswegians of Indian descent are the trickiest of all!

A lot of the Indian and Pakistani people I met were in fact born in Glasgow but in most cases had also spent time in their parent's country of origin.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I find that some Indian accents can be tricky to understand. I can understand people with all sorts of accents but often struggle with Indian call centres. There is something in the 'sing-song' quality in the voice which I struggle with. The person can sound perfectly well-educated and articulate but I have difficulty understanding what is being said. To be fair, that also applies to Geordies and Glaswegians. Geordies and Glaswegians of Indian descent are the trickiest of all!

I’m probably guilty of mumbling ( according to Mrs Tenkaykev) . I’m not aware of it as, of course, I know what I want to say and it all seems perfectly clear ( to me ) as I’m saying it. The issue is enunciation, I’ve become more aware of it as the German language learning app that I use has a section that says a word or phrase which you have to repeat back, it compares your voice pattern with a reference and if it’s not close it will ask you to try again.

 

[Dave7]

OK... what I actually said, but, was too embarrassed to admit was: "Never, darling, why would I, with a beautiful wife like you?" ....

Trouble is, after 30+ years, Mrs @BoldonLad has heard most of my "one liners'

My poor hearing gets me in trouble. eg today's conversation was......
Me.....yes darling.
Wife..... hey? I've not said anything!!
Me.... oh, I thought you said "does my arse look big in this".

Sometimes I just can't win