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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:03:55 -0700, The Horny Goat wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:41:44 +1200, YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Of course, it you're around 20 years old, then you've got a bass speaker   
   >>and the bass turned up so loud that all you hear is "boom, boom, boom"   
   >>anyway .. and by the time you're old enough to actually want to hear the   
   >>music, you'll be deaf as a post.   
   >   
   > And if you're 57 years old and in my position you may have 40% in your   
   > left ear and 80% in your right. The doc insists it's genetic not the   
   > result of anything I may have done in younger years which is amazing to   
   > me but he was quite insistent on that point.   
      
   Unless you grew up as part of a tribe of hunter-gatherers somewhere in   
   the jungle, you have probably been exposed to amplified music and/or   
   machine noise loud enough to cause some hearing loss.   
      
   --   
   John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com   
   "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot   
   drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
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