Advice?

[Mongoose]

Reccomendations :  Prayer, Mr Saavik.  The Klingons don't take prisoners.

I never understand why she was called "Mr." in ST2. Was it some military thing? I don't remember women officers being called "Mr" in the shows, but then, I don't remember what I had for breakfast (did I even eat?)

  I spent 4 years in the RA as a 19Kilo.  Female enlisted and commisioned are reffered to by rank, Warrant officers are reffered to as "Miss".

[Mongoose]

  Can a few people give me their advice,(Share the knowledge, damnit) on  *Site Deleted* in reference to how that fit into the MMO scene?.  They have a gaming area, just wanted to know if any of you associate that website with MMO insight?

You really are just a googlebot trying to increase site rankings for these sites you mention in passing in your posts, aren't you?

  Not at all, I had sent them the article as well, and recieved a positive response as to maybe doing some articles in the future, as I have never heard of the website before, I thought I would look into it a little before sending a reply.

[Mongoose]

Ok, clearing this one up because it's obviously going to be a joke that'll run and run.  3 Years ago, starting losing hearing.  Last year was diagnosed with High Frequency hearing loss, which means sitting in a room together, we can have a great conversation (Unless you're Broughden, in which case I'm probably stabbing you).  However, once background noise of any kind gets introduced, it gets hazy.  Think of Grissom in the 4th season.  Got it ?

So, I go to the hearing clinic (a private one because the NHS are like shit and would have you wear something akin to a Cyberman) and drop 3.5k on total in channel digital hearing aids.  Yeah, that's right, because as I may already have mentioned, I'm rich as fuck.  Now I hear perfectly fine and no-one can tell unless they're actively looking down my fucking lughole.  However, when I'm in the house relaxing or, drumroll, watching Star Trek 2, I will sit with the words on and rest my fucking ears which, due to old age, are failing me at the ripe and tender of 31.

  Besides being permantly disabled, I also have about 60% hearing loss in my left ear only.

[Broughden]

Hours instead of days, now we have minutes instead of hours.


No, seriously, like Predator, I can, in fact, quote the entire film word for word and, since my deafness arrived, take great pleasure at throwing things at the screen when the subtitle people get it wrong.

Don't start me.

What? I cant hear you!

No, seriously, that's some funny shit.  Never heard that one before.

I would rather have my disability than yours. 

Thinning hair? 

[schild]

Heh.

[Broughden]

Ok, clearing this one up because it's obviously going to be a joke that'll run and run.  3 Years ago, starting losing hearing.  Last year was diagnosed with High Frequency hearing loss, which means sitting in a room together, we can have a great conversation (Unless you're Broughden, in which case I'm probably stabbing you).  However, once background noise of any kind gets introduced, it gets hazy.  Think of Grissom in the 4th season.  Got it ?

So, I go to the hearing clinic (a private one because the NHS are like shit and would have you wear something akin to a Cyberman) and drop 3.5k on total in channel digital hearing aids.  Yeah, that's right, because as I may already have mentioned, I'm rich as fuck.  Now I hear perfectly fine and no-one can tell unless they're actively looking down my fucking lughole.  However, when I'm in the house relaxing or, drumroll, watching Star Trek 2, I will sit with the words on and rest my fucking ears which, due to old age, are failing me at the ripe and tender of 31.

Meantime, I make one offhand comment about this on a random thread and ALLLLL the little fuckholes come out to play, each bearing their own little nugget of humour.  Which they found in their butt.

You know, buttnuggets of humour.

In conclusion, fuck all y'all.

:)

Ironwood,

I didnt realize you were actually sensitive about the topic so I apologize at my attempt at humor at your expense.
However if it makes you feel better:
a) Im older than you.
b) I have significant (75%+) high frequency hearing loss with in certain frequency ranges due to my time in the military and lots of gunshots.
c) I really do have thinning hair.  
d) My jump shot sucks.
e) I suck at golf

...having typed this list, excuse me while I go search for a bottle of pills or a razor blade.

[Broughden]

Ironwood,

When you mentioned "stabbing me" you meant....

plunging your meat dagger into me before we ran off to Massachusetts together and looked into adopting as a couple...

right?

[schild]

Errrr.

[Signe]

I have poor hearing, also, due to working in artist management for a number of years and having to be backstage during some really, really loud shows and not taking the appropriate precautions because I'm a idjit.     This is why I hate musicians.  (except Sky, we love our little Sky to bits)

PS  Just realised it would probably be easier for Ironwood if we used a bigger font. 

[Ironwood]

 

 


 

 :-D

[Broughden]

 


 

 :-D

Holy shit! Poor poor Ironwood! Now not only is he deaf but he's mute as well!

[Cyrrex]

In the Broughden spirit of 1-upping (or 1-downing as the case may be), I too will make a list:

1) I am older than some people.  Strangely, I am also younger than more than a few.  It means absolutely fuckall and nobody cares.  This is the Internet, and I can pretend to be whatever I want.  Judging by the relative life experience you claim to have and your (Google) knowledge on all subjects under the sun, I am guessing that you are 482 years old.
2) I pretend to have 76% high and low frequency hearing loss when my wife is speaking.  At other times, I can hear a pin drop from 100 paces.  She hasn't noticed the inconsistency.  I was in the military too, and it had no impact whatsoever on my fake hearing loss.  They gave me FUCKING EARPLUGS and made me wear them in a little case as part of my uniform.  Were you too stupid to use them?  Or too hardcore?
3) I have thinning hair too.  In other places, it is thickening, a fact that I am quite proud of.  I think I have a net hair gain.
4) My jump shot is wicked good.  Occasionally, I can even get it to fall through the hoop with a definitive clang sound.  If you and I were playing one on one, I might accidentally elbow you in the teeth on my way to the hole.
5) I am good enough at golf to be dangerous.   If you and I were out golfing, I might accidentally beat you across the head and shoulders with my sand wedge.

Don't change, Broughden.  I would miss the entertainment.

[schild]

You know, elbowing in the teeth is solid physical comedy.

[Miasma]

I like my comedy physical too.

[Soln]

and now, kittens

[Broughden]

In the Broughden spirit of 1-upping (or 1-downing as the case may be), I too will make a list:

1) I am older than some people.  Strangely, I am also younger than more than a few.  It means absolutely fuckall and nobody cares.  This is the Internet, and I can pretend to be whatever I want.  Judging by the relative life experience you claim to have and your (Google) knowledge on all subjects under the sun, I am guessing that you are 482 years old.
2) I pretend to have 76% high and low frequency hearing loss when my wife is speaking.  At other times, I can hear a pin drop from 100 paces.  She hasn't noticed the inconsistency.  I was in the military too, and it had no impact whatsoever on my fake hearing loss.  They gave me FUCKING EARPLUGS and made me wear them in a little case as part of my uniform.  Were you too stupid to use them?  Or too hardcore?
3) I have thinning hair too.  In other places, it is thickening, a fact that I am quite proud of.  I think I have a net hair gain.
4) My jump shot is wicked good.  Occasionally, I can even get it to fall through the hoop with a definitive clang sound.  If you and I were playing one on one, I might accidentally elbow you in the teeth on my way to the hole.
5) I am good enough at golf to be dangerous.   If you and I were out golfing, I might accidentally beat you across the head and shoulders with my sand wedge.

Don't change, Broughden.  I would miss the entertainment.

You know everyone was in here, laughing, getting along, and making some light hearted jokes at Ironwood's expense. Then some jack ass with a chip on his shoulder has to come along and fuck it all up. Waving his e-peen around about how in "real life" he would supposedly kick my ass. Anonymous threats on the intarweb FTW!

In answer to your question...

They gave me FUCKING EARPLUGS and made me wear them in a little case as part of my uniform. Were you too stupid to use them?  Or too hardcore?

When you go to actual combat, you dont get spiffy little hearing protection ear plugs to wear. Especially when one ear has an ear phone for your commo gear in it, with the other one you are listening to orders being yelled, and doing this all while trying to keep from getting your ass shot off. 

I mean do you think you do actual combat patrols through a jungle or urban environment with fucking hearing protection in?  "Gee Bob Im sorry you got shot. I guess I would have heard the enemy stomping around ahead of us if I hadnt had these hearing plugs in."

[Ironwood]

You know everyone was in here, laughing, getting along, and making some light hearted jokes at Ironwood's expense.

Ah, Yes, Good Times.

Shame someone came in and spoiled that by joking at your expense.

 

[Broughden]

You know everyone was in here, laughing, getting along, and making some light hearted jokes at Ironwood's expense.

Ah, Yes, Good Times.

Shame someone came in and spoiled that by joking at your expense.

 

I think the jokes we were having with you Ironwood were a tad different (and funnier...again in a light hearted way) than some Neanderthal posting, "Dude I'd so beat your ass with a golf club IRL!!!11! I r teh leet!!1"

And once again if you were REALLY offended I did offer an apology to you and even commiserated with your hearing loss since I suffer from it as well.

[Signe]

2)  They gave me FUCKING EARPLUGS and made me wear them in a little case as part of my uniform. 

How did you fit into the little case? 

Just askin'....

[Ironwood]

See ?  She's Funny.

[Ironwood]

I think the jokes we were having with you Ironwood were a tad different (and funnier...again in a light hearted way) than some Neanderthal posting, "Dude I'd so beat your ass with a golf club IRL!!!11! I r teh leet!!1"

And once again if you were REALLY offended I did offer an apology to you and even commiserated with your hearing loss since I suffer from it as well.

My point, ironically is :  Sauce for the Goose, Mr Saavik, the odds will be even.

[Broughden]

See ?  She's Funny.

Yep. I  her.


as for your second post I will openly admit my stupidity and lack of understanding into its meaning.  :-D

[Cyrrex]

Yes, yes, Ironwood thinks you're a hoot.  I think he has made that perfectly clear.

I will not outright lie and say that I was anywhere near a combat situation.  I have been in simulated situations exactly like you described (with the radio on one ear and the order yeller standing beside me).  Sometimes, I was wearing earplugs.  I could not hear great with them in, but well enough to get by - their purpose is not to cut off all sound, but to muffle the high frequency shit that damages your ears.  There were also times when I didn't wear them, but somehow managed to avoid the tragic hearing loss.  Then again, it is entirely possible that you have just been in an absolute fuckton of live combat situations.

You see, there are so many thinly veiled boasts coming from you, that I tend to think that perhaps a few of them have been just ever-so-slightly exaggerated.  I am just going with the odds and picking on your non-earplug, actual combat, high frequency hearing loss thingy.  For no reason whatsoever, I just don't believe it.

Also, I just wanted to make a list.

[edlavallee]

On an absolute entertainment basis, I thought Cyrrex's post was hysterical and it actually made me laugh out loud... not the internet pretend-y LOL (or lol) kinda laugh, but a real, verbal, heard over the cube wall kinda laugh out loud.

So, I thought it was funny... funny in a exaggerated stereotypical Hollywood fashion that makes Adam Sandler movies a hoot. But then again, I don't have the personal investment some people do to this subject matter.

I need kittens.

[Viin]

The first image for a google of 'sex kittens'? See here:

[Merusk]

My dad spent a full tour in Vietnam, saw enough combat to earn 2 silvers with cluster and 2 bronze with cluster as well as a few purple hearts, and about a year of training prior to that. (his logic being, do all the training classes you could so you didn't get sent over and maybe it'll go away by then; this was '67)  He suffered no hearing loss from the exposure to small arms and large caliber tank rounds. (Tank commander)

  All I can divine from this is Broug has genetically inferior ears.

[edlavallee]

The first image for a google of 'sex kittens'? See here:

I could go to jail for what I was just thinking, so I sanitized the graphic for those with corporate firewalls.


PEEPS!!

[Viin]

Since they are of legal age, I *really* don't what to know what you are thinking! Unless you were thinking sex with two of-age women at the same time was illegal!?

[Cheddar]

I suffered hearing loss during Iraqi freedom as well.  Headshot during Medal of Honor + headphones turned all the way up = bad idea.

I also was put in for a purple heart when I received a papercut during the campaign...

[Big Gulp]

will sit with the words on and rest my fucking ears which, due to old age, are failing me at the ripe and tender of 31.

I see your old age tale of woe and raise you...

It's kind of embarassing, but at the tender age of 32 I have a partial upper denture.  It's a combination of bad/non-existent dental care in childhood and early-20's fights.  Partial dentures aren't so bad, but eventually I'd like to get permanent denture implants up there.

And thus I've revealed my secret shame.

[Strazos]

You should just say you played some AHL hockey for a season or two.

[Mongoose]

  Although I do have hearing loss, this has nothing to do with my time in the Army.  Since being a gunner on an M1, we had CVC's, so we never needed ear plugs.  My hearing loss came at a later date, due basically to my stupidity.

[schild]

Shock. Awe.

[Signe]

My hearing loss came at a later date, due basically to my stupidity.

So what did you do, then?

[schild]

I'm going to assume he jammed pencils in his ears when people were trying to give him constructive feedback.

Why someone would do that when they're reading text on the internet, I don't know. But stupider things have happened.