I know that we went Off Topic a long time ago but I think we covered the pros and cons of hurting the ears of young people in the first couple of pages. I quite like threads that meander backwards and forwards rather than being tied rigidly to the original subject. I have been on a very strictly moderated forum and only lasted a few days because I felt like I was being suffocated. (I suppose the fact that I seem to suffer from an attention disorder didn't help *** ... I have never been officially diagnosed but everybody I know points it out me. Sometimes I change subject in mid-sentence and don't even realise that I have done it.)
I can hear my phone vibrating on silent ring in the other room ...
I can't hear my mobile or landline phone ring from any other room, but I discovered recently that I can hear the mobile vibrate from 2 floors away if it is resting on something solid. I'd left it up in the attic room on a desk and was down in the kitchen when someone rang me.
I don't know what the connection was, but when I was in hospital with blood clots my tinnitus was horrible. Fortunately, it has now receded into the background again and I can usually ignore it.
*** There you go ... straight from phones on vibrate to tinnitus!