Off topic, but my Dad told me a story about his entrance physical in the Army. He said at one point the doctor said, "read the writing on the chart." My Dad said, "what chart?" The doctor made a check mark on the form and said, "hearing okay."
In sci.electronics.repair, on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:06:29 -0700 (PDT), Tim
R <timothy42bach@gmail.com> wrote:
Off topic, but my Dad told me a story about his entrance physical in the Army. He said at one point the doctor said, "read the writing on the chart." My Dad said, "what chart?" The doctor made a check mark on the form and said, "hearing okay."
That's a good one.
On 9/26/2023 6:32 PM, micky wrote:
In sci.electronics.repair, on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:06:29 -0700 (PDT), Tim
R <timothy42bach@gmail.com> wrote:
Off topic, but my Dad told me a story about his entrance physical in the Army. He said at one point the doctor said, "read the writing on the chart." My Dad said, "what chart?" The doctor made a check mark on the form and said, "hearing okay."
That's a good one.
The one I remember from my pre draft physical - "turn around, bend over,
and spread your cheeks" to a room of naked men.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:09:37 -0700, Bob F wrote:
On 9/26/2023 6:32 PM, micky wrote:
In sci.electronics.repair, on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:06:29 -0700 (PDT), Tim >>> R <timothy42bach@gmail.com> wrote:
Off topic, but my Dad told me a story about his entrance physical in the Army. He said at one point the doctor said, "read the writing on the chart." My Dad said, "what chart?" The doctor made a check mark on the form and said, "hearing okay."
That's a good one.
The one I remember from my pre draft physical - "turn around, bend over,
and spread your cheeks" to a room of naked men.
And, one of the fellas in my group stuck his 2 index fingers in his
mouth and pulled them apart.
On 9/26/2023 6:32 PM, micky wrote:
In sci.electronics.repair, on Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:06:29 -0700 (PDT), Tim
R <timothy42bach@gmail.com> wrote:
Off topic, but my Dad told me a story about his entrance physical in the Army. He said at one point the doctor said, "read the writing on the chart." My Dad said, "what chart?" The doctor made a check mark on the form and said, "hearing okay."
That's a good one.
The one I remember from my pre draft physical - "turn around, bend over,
and spread your cheeks" to a room of naked men.
What a fun job?
On 9/26/2023 11:56 AM, micky wrote:
It's also strange, IMO, that voices only get a little louder but other noises get far louder, like even the tapping of the keyboard keys or the rustling of paper. Maybe it's that logarithmic thing about sound, or
maybe the little noises don't really get more louder but they surpass
some level of loudness at which my mind doesn't ignore them anymore.
Maybe we learn to ignore little noises below a certain level.
This is often because of microphone placement issues within a device and absence of hi-tech filtration both in items such as your yoke device and
in lower tech hearing aids. You end up with essentially omnidirectional non-selective amplification of all sound in the environment. The higher
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