Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[FishFright]

Why do people feel the need for noise?

Yesterday the manager tried to persuade me to have a radio in the workshop. She said she'd been there before I arrived ant that there was a "tense atmosphere" because it was so quiet, and wanted to know why I didn't want a radio there.

I said that it's for three main reasons: I'm trying to get clients to work exactly, which involves listening for problems they can't necessarily see. Things like brakes rubbing on a wheel. I want them to learn to hear a gear clicking faintly but enough to cause a problem, and how to adjust gears by ear so the problem is solved quickly and without my intervention or a test ride. Music blocks this sound.

I find it hard to isolate voices when there is other noise in the background, which is annoying for everyone because I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves. As there are at least three native non-German languages represented in the team, trying to understand each other is hard enough as it is.

Finally, I find background music generally irritating noise. I'm always glad to get away from the constant barrage in the rest of the shop.

The counter argument was that we should give priority to our client's feelings and comfort over our own. Now, I've been working with these clients for several months, and they keep coming, so they clearly are happy with the environment. I haven't felt any tension in the air and I'm very sensitive to such things.

I suspect my manager was projecting her dislike of quietness onto my clients; It's strange to me that people find a lack of noise so bothersome.

I find some type of background sound essential to help my tinnitus not drive me up the wall.

 

[Gwylan]

Some people are uncomfortable with silence. I work with a few in the office who always want the radio on. My partner always works at home with some sort of background noise (TV or Radio). I guess they prefer intentional noise to slightly-more-than-silence

Annoys me too. Just go to a different room.

The prize for overall nuisance value goes to Ms W Robinson of Radio 4

 

[Andy in Germany]

I find some type of background sound essential to help my tinnitus not drive me up the wall.

This I understand. What I found strange was the managers assumption that silence = tense working environment.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I find some type of background sound essential to help my tinnitus not drive me up the wall.

Having had it all of my life, it is a calm, reassuring noise. I don't need anything else.

Also, it is your brain making the noise due to damaged pathways/nerves and so on, so go easy on it... That's what your brain and possible head injury sounds like! 😆

I was reading something about people getting depressed and suicidal about it. I know one is meant to take these things seriously, but I was bemused.

 

[Venod]

Where did the Rolling Stones get 3,500 butterfly's from to release at the 1969 Hyde Park concert, its been bothering me a while.

 

[FishFright]

Thus I understand. WHat I found strange was the managers assumption that silence = tense working environment.

I suppose that depends on where

Having had it all of my life, it is a calm, reassuring noise. I don't need anything else.

Also, it is your brain making the noise due to damaged pathways/nerves and so on, so go easy on it... That's what your brain and possible head injury sounds like! 😆

I was reading something about people getting depressed and suicidal about it. I know one is meant to take these things seriously, but I was bemused at best.

Mine is from a mix of hearing loss and damage from two ear infections. I have four noises that combine in many ways - High frequency white noise and 2 whistles at 6 and 8 khz plus a lower one that warbles occasionally.

 

[gavroche]

Did the Romans used to count the years backward ie: 57 BC and then, when they got to 0 , counting forward again although 0 did not exist in the Roman Empire.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I suppose that depends on where


Mine is from a mix of hearing loss and damage from two ear infections. I have four noises that combine in many ways - High frequency white noise and 2 whistles at 6 and 8 khz plus a lower one that warbles occasionally.

Brain damage as a baby here.

Mine usually hisses like high pressure air, sometimes quite loudly although I have never had it measured. That is the main one, but it also hums, pulses, squeaks and sometimes a slight ringing sound too.

I am just so used to it that it has never bothered me.

 

[FishFright]

Brain damage as a baby here.

Mine usually hisses like high pressure air, sometimes quite loudly although I have never had it measured. That is the main one, but it also hums, pulses, squeaks and sometimes a slight ringing sound too.

I am just so used to it that it has never bothered me.

I'm learning to live with mine , not much else I can do really.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I just assumed everyone heard the same until I was 7 😆

I say mine squeaks, but it is more of a high pitched screech or whine, if anything.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Did the Romans used to count the years backward ie: 57 BC and then, when they got to 0 , counting forward again although 0 did not exist in the Roman Empire.

Yes.
Zero was (is) Anno Dominii

 

[classic33]

Yes.
Zero was (is) Anno Dominii

How did they know when we were going to reach year zero, to allow them to count down/backwards to it?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Where did the Rolling Stones get 3,500 butterfly's from to release at the 1969 Hyde Park concert, its been bothering me a while.

A Butterfly Farm?

People breed these things for use in hothouses and so on, so it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility, after all, just get enough eggs to cultivate and...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How did they know when we were going to reach year zero, to allow them to count down/backwards to it?

They didn't, this was a later invention, so the idea that people counted years backwards is surely a load of bollox... Unless there was actually another reason at the time.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

How did they know when we were going to reach year zero, to allow them to count down/backwards to it?

They didn't, this was a later invention, so the idea that people counted years backwards is surely a load of bollox... Unless there was actually another reason at the time.

The Romans before Christ didn't, it's the Romans after the birth of Christ that counted backwards
Still nowadays, in a certain context (like academical for example), one would say "the year 1000 AC or BC"
But then you all knew that