The old lefty Bob Russel asked the Department of Trade and Industry if they would "bring forward proposals for a statutory warning to be published on the external packaging of personal audio equipment to inform consumers about risks to their hearing". In a rare moment of sanity from Margaret Hodge (bizarre huh?) she said that,
"It is already widely understood that playing personal audio equipment too loud can damage your hearing. This is usually mentioned as a safety warning in the product instructions. It is not clear what would be achieved by repeating the message on the external packaging."At last, a statement by the Government that accepts that there is no need to legislate for the bleeding obvious.
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Aw: nanny lets us down.
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Sanity from the Barking MP for BNP. But please tell her I'm a bit deaf, may sue as she should have warned me, and that I cannot hear her dog whistles any longer.
Too many people nowadays think that anything they use is built safely -- they assume that the gadget won't harm them. Most of the time they are right, many things are designed with safety in mind, but not all of them.
Young people especially quite like their noise to be noisy and it's very easy to totally wreck your hearing in a very short time. People just don't think and see the obvious -- I got laughed at many times for wearing industrial earplugs on stage when playing with bands, and I only did it because my friends' dad educated us (with emphasis) about how fragile human hearing is.
And I'm grateful to the man that he nannied us back then -- unlike many of my colleagues I jammed with back then I still have perfect hearing.
Of all the stupid warning there are, this is one of the few that actually makes sense to put onto the gadget itself and write a convincing, in-depth blurb about why exactly it's bad to crank the volume up so that you can hear your music above the rattle of the tube...
Alternatively, I hate to say it, but making manufactures keep to a DB limit on earpieces might be an idea -- put a chip in there and don't let it go over the safe limits of time and decibels. If you dislike this idea, ask yourself why you use plugs on electric cable -- it's perfectly simple and safe to just insert the cable straight into power point, it is? ;)
If you dislike this idea, ask yourself why you use plugs on electric cable -- it's perfectly simple and safe to just insert the cable straight into power point, it is?
do you use USB plug on your computer?
Sorry, but i like my knives sharp and my oven hot.
That's not smutty innuendo btw.
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