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Pop a Pill, Save Your Hearing
powlow writes "People who've had their ears damaged by gunfire, jackhammers or punk rock have traditionally had two choices: get hearing aids, or suffer in silence. But a new set of drugs, about to be tested on Marine recruits, is showing promise as a way to protect ears against the din."
Hopefully the mods will take one of these pills before modding my jokes as off-topic.
"Derp de derp."
At the University of Michigan, for example, guinea pigs were blasted for five hours with 115 decibels of sound -- about the equivalent of a chainsaw.
I like that word 'blasted'. Where can I get a job blasting helpless animals like that?
"tested on Marines", I just start to think of superviruses, and stuff like that"
Just wait until Mary Kay discovers that it can do most of its lipstick and eye-shadow testing on platoons of Marines instead of rabbits.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
So basically you put these pills in your ears and that dampens the noise? ;-)
Oh, I do hope someone mods that up. I've got coffee dripping from my nose now.
Soon I'm going to have to take TWO pills to go to clubs...
People who've had their ears damaged by gunfire
I immediately wondered how a pill would protect against being shot in the side of the head.
My checklist for going out just got longer:
Joint...
Fake ID........
Roofie........
Dugout....
Blotter....
Tooter........
Rock.......
Blade......
Mini-mirror...
Housekey.....
Cell phone....
Some cash........
King-sized rubbers.
Glowsticks....
Pacifier......
Waterbottle..........
Nitrous Balloon..
Mini-bong.......
Lighter......
Oh yeah, hearing pill so I can stand next to the towers..............
Rock 'n Roll is here to stay! wooooooohoooooo!
Ya know, this lameness filter is a REAL pain in the ass... first it bitches about me making a list of items - gee, they only have 6.5 characters per line (as if I absolutely give two shits anyway right?), now it's pissed because I have some junk characters.... So let's see if I can get the lameness filter to give up on it's belief that this message is lame... Of course, it is now arguable that this mesage is more lame now that I've added this anti-lameness paragraph here to get around the superbly brilliant lameness filter... But I digress...