Radio 4 Pride!

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One post-graduate student who complained of ringing in his ears after four years of heavy gig-going and Walkman-abuse was told by his university doctor he wasn't surprised - they were the biggest group of new cases of tinnitus he had seen in the past decade.

"Bin the headphones and listen to gentle things like BBC Radio Four," he was told.

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I might actually watch the Oscars this year.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Teehee, I like the second one.

The attention threshold of people probably isn't helped by growing up with cartoons where everyone sounds like they're yelling, like in Dora the Explorer.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I think you are right!

I haven't watched Dora the Explorer, but I did used to watch a lot of Saturday morning cartoons until about two years ago when most of them seemed to be getting loud as you say... almost like they equate people shouting with being funny.