Quieter bars

[scottish-guy]

Christian is right - if I'm going to what we oldies call a Disco and others call a Club then I know its going to be ear-splittingly loud - so many years ago I invested in special earplugs which dont simply block my ears and make me feel as if I'm underwater, they clip the overall volume and bring it to an acceptable level whilst maintaining an ability to converse. If anybody wants details then PM me.

When going to a bar, I've never encountered one where I could not take the noise level, and I think the people complaining of such need to accept that it's possibly their problem:

• Hearing Loss often results in a reduced dynamic range (the range between sounds being audible and being uncomfortably loud) - so you don't hear soft sounds so well (as you'd expect) but loud sounds become uncomfortably loud (which you might not expect)
  
  
• Tinnitus often gives rise to a condition called Hyperacusis - where loud sounds actually become unbearable

So if you have either Hearing Loss or Tinnitus then you're going to have problems in noise and if you have both Hearing Loss and Tinnitus then you're probably going to have very considerable difficulty in noisy environments - even to the extent where you simply have to avoid or remove yourself from the situation.

[Patanawet]

For me a club is a place you have to be a member of.
A bar, gogo bar or disco is not a club -- it is a bar, gogo bar or disco.

PS to be an even more pedantic old git -- a 'scooter' is a Vespa or a Lambretta (other brands are available).

[francois]

PS to be an even more pedantic old git -- a 'scooter' is a Vespa or a Lambretta (other brands are available).

To be even more pedantic, Patanawet, a Vespa or Lambretta are scooters.

[scottish-guy]

Well, I never had a Vespa or a Lambretta but I had this rather snazzy moped when i was 16 (before the UK nanny state "speed limited" mopeds)

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[Patanawet]

To be even more pedantic, Patanawet, a Vespa or Lambretta are scooters.

Ha ha -- or vespaS or LambrettaS are scooters. Oh, I become CFC.

[francois]

Cfc = ?

[Patanawet]

Cfc = ?

Sorry I meant to write C.pfc, a self appointed member of the grammar and spelling police who makes nearly as many mistakes as the contributors he tries to humiliate for making minor mistakes in messages.
Really sorry for wandering off from the original subject of the thread.

[mahjongguy]

" loud sounds become uncomfortably loud (which you might not expect) "

Yes, it's true, and quite unexpected. Only when you become stone deaf can you walk blissfully around the noisy canyons of Silom Road. Then you get run over by a scooter.

With that segue, let me add my two cents' worth: a scooter is any motorbike with a step-through design.

[francois]

Well,maybe not quite mahjongguy! Technically a scooter has a flat platform for the feet while motorbikes most often do not have that feature, not to be pedantic. 5555

I suppose you could say that all scooters are motorbikes, but not all motorbikes are scooters?

I had to look up that word segue; never saw it used before.Good word.

Segue - to make a transition without interruption from one activity, topic, scene, or part to another <segued smoothly into the next story>

[francois]

Sorry I meant to write C.pfc, a self appointed member of the grammar and spelling police who makes nearly as many mistakes as the contributors he tries to humiliate for making minor mistakes in messages.
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Now I understand, C.pfc = ChristianPFC