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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 15:55:56 GMT 11
Have you all seen the ringtone on tv that is apparently so high adults can't hear? It's demonstrated on the ad and I can't hear it! I'm only 14 (nearly my bday!!!) and I can't hear it! Can anyone else?
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Sept 7, 2006 16:53:33 GMT 11
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 17:12:25 GMT 11
But it has the funny lines that indicate a sound...
Cool I can hear it but can my mum?
I'll let you know when she gets home...
And thanks White Fyre!
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Sept 7, 2006 17:14:59 GMT 11
no problems!  If your mum can hear it, she's likely to yell at you for hurting her ears. |
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 17:18:15 GMT 11
Hehe!!!! I'll let you know!
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Post by Swallow on Sept 7, 2006 17:54:39 GMT 11
God, i thought that was a gimmick to get kids to spend large amounts of money on buying a silent ring tone.
But still, how silly. Why not just put your phone on silent? You can hear the buzz if you leave it in your pocket, it's not hard.
Those ads irritate the hell out of me anyway, i just want to throttle whoever invented Jamstar and all those other silly companies with their silly ads.. *continues to grumble away about idiotic ads*
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Post by Rilla on Sept 7, 2006 17:59:30 GMT 11
Lol, I can't hear it  |
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 18:12:55 GMT 11
How old are you then? Or are you just abnormal (in a wonderful way)?
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 18:54:11 GMT 11
Sorry for double posting...but my mum can hear it! Apparently it was on the news and adults weren't meant to hear it and she did! Grrrrrrrrr....
ANd she is way over 30...
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Post by Siryn on Sept 7, 2006 19:00:40 GMT 11
haha, i just love that last little point you made there!
and i agree with you flit! very irritating. i wonder if someone will sue the company over this for just the right amount of money so they are forced to bankrupt.
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 19:03:47 GMT 11
If there was any hope of actually winning I would very quickly oblige...
Especially since my mum has a law degree...
She could sue them for false advertising because she can hear it!
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Post by Dark One on Sept 7, 2006 19:29:39 GMT 11
The theory goes that as you get older you lose the higher end range of your hearing.
However, i can hear it (i'm 31). I can also hear bat 'squeaks' which are on the limit of human hearing.
Its the lower end of my hearing i have trouble with. Usualy its difficult for me to hear a conversation in say a pub above the background noise
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Post by Siryn on Sept 7, 2006 19:33:10 GMT 11
yes! background noise is a b!tch!!
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Sept 7, 2006 19:36:33 GMT 11
I still have all mine! bad side: I'm really sound sensative.
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Post by me on Sept 7, 2006 20:21:11 GMT 11
But it's pointless if some adults can hear it?
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Sept 7, 2006 22:45:36 GMT 11
well...adults aren't supposed to hear it. The idea would sell millions to naive teens that want to text during class, then they find themselves ripped off as soon as they try it. They're selling the idea and false insecurities, not the product.
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Post by Swallow on Sept 8, 2006 0:09:54 GMT 11
I can hear bat squeaks too! I love hearing them at night. there used to be a colony near my old house, and i would hear them at night as i was waiting to sleep. Whenever i'm on camp, i sit outside and listen for them....
But also Dark One, i have such a hard time hearing with background noise. I'm atrocious in food courts and pubs i just can't source the sound.
But that mozzie sound is horrendous, and i don't think it actually sounds like a mozzie. At least not the ones i hear.
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Post by Fuil Dearg on Sept 8, 2006 7:57:24 GMT 11
i like bat sounds too. they sound nice. there are bats living near my house and soemtiems at night they fly near your head. i sortof like seeing and hearing them there at night.
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Post by Roland on Sept 8, 2006 18:44:16 GMT 11
Can you guys hear the kangaroo thingys on the cars? They drive me batty, and I discovered the other day that my med supervisor (who is fifty) can't hear them LOL
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Post by Kaylan-R on Sept 8, 2006 18:58:29 GMT 11
I could hear taht easily. I've got excellent hearing actually and crap eyesight. I can hear through my loud cd's, concentrate on reading a book, and still hear my mum call out to me for dinner. I can hear all the little sounds in the background, like laughs and footsteps.
It's really wierd actually....but I'm used to it.
My mother doesn't have to call me for dinner cause I can hear her preparing it and everything.
It's also good when my siblings are b!tching about me because I can allways get them back lol
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Post by me on Sept 8, 2006 20:35:07 GMT 11
I have sadly never heard bat noises and I don't have very good hearing.
Die, Jamster, Die.
The, Jamster, The.
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Post by Rilla on Sept 8, 2006 20:45:30 GMT 11
How old are you then? Or are you just abnormal (in a wonderful way)? I'm only 15... Well, I can add "bad hearing" to "bad eyesight" now |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Sept 8, 2006 23:53:14 GMT 11
There as also supposed to be this thing they were going to have with really high sounds that they transmit around buildings where teenagers loiter to make them go away but to not annoy the adults.
Of course there is a rather huge problem in that most of the teenagers they would want to use this on probably can't hear it anymore because of the amount of loud music they've been around. Think about the people whose music you can hear from 3 cars away with your doors and windows shut as well as theirs. These are the people who would be loitering, and they're also the ones who can probably only hear people when they scream nowadays anyway.
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Post by Dark One on Sept 9, 2006 1:58:20 GMT 11
Yeah, they tried that in the UK as well. It did seem to work in some places though
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Post by Kaylan-R on Sept 9, 2006 9:59:32 GMT 11
Why not? That seems wierd. Is it just people it effects?
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