Mom sent me this

Nov 5, 2022 3:09 AM

meatsmokertx

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Mom ain't usually decent at military funny but this was dope

Glad I only have extra strength tinnitus. Brown noise helps though (lower pitch version of white noise that kinda sounds like a waterfall)

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Mine's only industrial grade, but it's frustrating I'm not so much deaf at certain ranges as I can't pick out different sounds anymore.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sometimes I hear other stuff. Like music blasting through old cheap headphones under the bed. But then I look and nothing is there.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Two decades as an aircrewman fucked my hearing. Thank the gods for subtitles.

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Yep.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

FYI: Hearing aids "cured" my tinnitus. When I wear them, I don't hear the ringing. Brain's trying to fill in what it knows it SHOULD hear.

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I hate the trend in games of simulating tinnitus. I don't need help with it. All it does is aggravate it and makes me talk louder.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I gets so fuckin bad when I have sinus problems and that is always...

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

You probably have a deviated septum or something.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I tried reaching the tinnitus hotline yesterday…. But it just kept ringing

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just have regular grade tinnitus. Most of the time I tune it out but every now and then I get reminded.

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Mine sounds like an acapella men's choir at times. Sing along if you know the words.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The thought of getting tinnitus frightens the hell out of me!

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As long as it doesn't ring a bell

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ba-dum-tish!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

EEEeeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee

3 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 0

I’m commenting up top so @op knows this is a top tier meme. +1

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mine is more like: Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The best part of my service induced tinnitus is that I don't hear coil whine of GPU's. So I have that going for me, which is nice.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't remember what loud ass piece of machinery I was working on but basically had the hypnotized soundtrack playing in my head all night

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

box fans. best sleep you'll get these days

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Lights on. But maybe that's just me

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

light doesn't phase me anymore (pun intended)

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Found the dad lol

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sometimes fans, white noise, sound generators of rain/waves....just add more noise.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Between the punk concerts and sitting in front of the trumpets in jazz bands, I’ve given up.

3 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

Bone brother??

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Next stop Pottersville?

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As a trumpet player, I'm so sorry. You aren't alone tho ?.

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

No worries. We just took out our frustrations on the saxophone section in front of us ;)

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Heh heh heh heh heh

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As a former sax player I gotta say...sorry I didn't quite catch all that, something about the front of the bus?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Just murdering eardrums, nothing special

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Mawp.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Doctors of Audiology say both pronunciations are correct, but what do they know?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

v

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Waaaamp Waaaamp Waaaaamp

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have candy flip tinnitus

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just have industrial grade tinnitus. It goes eeeee and ooooo simultaneously with a backing wub wub track.

3 years ago | Likes 163 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just have the background "eeeeee". Sorry it's that way for you mate. Hope you sleep well.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's called dubstep

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

DeargodNOOOOOOO

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I got a clicking tinnitus from loud repetitive percussive industrial noises.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Stamping plants! ? So glad I'm already HoH, I can barely hear those damn machines but everyone hangs up the call when I go inside.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No clicks on my end, never heard of a clicking tinnitus, just a two toned rave with only a bass drum.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ouch man, mine is just "eeeee" when quiet around me. Hope you can get some good nights sleep. Peace.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its actually sort of musical.

3 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

... too bad it's the same goddamn song it's been playing for the last decade.

3 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Yeebooyeebooyeebooyeebooyeeboo

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh fuck you've heard it? Terrible song, terrible.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Air Force sent me to the rifle range with no hearing protection. Only took once, and now I've had it 24/7 for 54 years.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had some ear pro fall out when I was swatting a fly. Good thing the Paladin next to me got a fire mission right at that moment.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Usmc here. Torrey l they wouldn't let us touch dirt without ear pro. Fml

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same here. I worked on F15s on the flight line for 6 years. Ive got my VA compensation review in 2 weeks.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get it !

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

CBT can help

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's not as funny

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cognitive behaviour therapy

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ask your doctor if CBT is right for you.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have become familiar with sleeping with a fan (No military service, just lots of gunfire)

3 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

So you went to school in America then?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Fans make mine worse AND give me a headache. But it's only when I sleep. They don't bother me when I'm awake.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Noise maker is the best. Otherwise I full alert on innocuous noises.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So OnlyFans can help you sleep?

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Detroit?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have looped songs sung by female artists that more pleasantly covers my frequencies

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Have a playlist?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Largely just a few artists one new I quite taken a like too is broods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQD8e60ja4

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Male female harmony with female lead works best, but I like Ms Mr, phantogram, bitter::sweet, metric, meg myers, oh wonder, florence + m

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

TV/ Fans.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fans are always good

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Fan and a wave machine and stand up comedy in one ear bud so I can sleep. It’s been my normal off and on for 35 years.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Wave machine?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A device that makes ocean sounds; waves landing on a beach..

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

3 years ago | Likes 328 Dislikes 1

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

WHAT???

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Mwaaap

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mine's more like ᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉ.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can hear that... oh wait.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Don't forget the random pitch change for no reason.

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

and sometimes it does a phaser effect too. stereo hearing for the win!

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I quite wish people would stop mentioning tinnitus, because then I think about it and start hearing mine again...

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why I listen to stuff all the time.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the reminder… i can hear it yet again.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sorry. Can't hear you over my bottle of ibuprofen

3 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

Have you tried wearing clean socks?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

let me turn this fan off real quick lol

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

?

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The wind gently brushed the tree outside. Your words just became a mumble.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

i'm sorry, what'd you say?

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What?

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ibuprofen helps against tinnitus? Or just the following head ache?

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ibuprofen is the military/vet clinic panacea for all that ails you. What's that? Knee pain? A severed limb? Ibuprofen!

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This is what my doc gave me when they ripped my tooth out on deployment. It's all Motrin.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That and lozenges for a cough/ flu/ lung cancer/ nose whistle.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ah

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0