It's because they didn't set that ringtone, it's either the default of their grandson set it for them, and they don't realize other people have a different one.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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I like the second part of this. My dad's always asking about updates as if we get the same universal updates. Or notifications. Or apps. Or you tubes. He has no idea how drastically different each experience is
Hearing loss doesn't necessarily mean that everything gets quieter. What it can mean is that you have a harder time differentiating between sounds.
Further, electronic hearing aids can butcher sound with a goal to produce understandable spoken word alone. Music can sound like garbage depending on how severe the hearing loss is in the person and what functional hearing remains.
Especially higher pitched sounds which in my experience is most default ring tones. My gramps can understand me, a dude, no problem when I talk but my younger female cousins start talking fast in high pitched voices, then 9 times put of 10 gramps' response will be a polite smile and nod cuz he can't understand a word the little shitbags are saying.
I have tinnitus and struggle in loud places to focus on conversations because I just get an unfiltered mess and f noise hitting my brain.
It sucks, because I can hear a pin drop the rest of the time.
That comma, usage annoyed, me.
Idk man, I'm not a native English speaker
What is your first language if you don't mind me asking
All good, it's German. We have terrible comma usage
I've found it interesting how people who learned English as a second language tend to use sentence structures and patterns associated with their first language. What are the ways to tell if a German speaker is obviously American or has learned English first, if you know them?
Pronunciation is a big one - they often struggle with the "r", and other sounds such as "ch". Also, instead of "the", German has "der", "die" and "das" with no obvious structure when you should use which, so people fail to say the correct one.
My favourite German word can be used now, although probably spelled incorrectly and missing accents. Your comma usage is verbesserungsbedurftig.
Yes it is :)
In Ukrainian, we would have even one more comma in this text: after "identify".
Don't think it's old people I think it's more audio processing disorder which perhaps could happen to people later in life. All I know is I know people who have audio processing disorder and often times don't realize it's there phone because of how much noise is going around, all ages and all gender and sexes can experience this
I have it also and it's incredibly hard for me to know who's talking or my ringtone /notification even if it's unique. With out my noise cancelling headphones with passthrough, every sound I hear all at once at all times, nearly impossible for me to differentiate between them
I do that, and I wouldn't consider myself old. I get called so infrequently that I don't know what my ringtone even sounds like. Any phone ringing within earshot could be mine.
You are so incredibly old its not even funny. You've gone gray in the last few minutes.
It’s because they don’t care, it’s not important to them. They are usually right too
My ringtone is silence. If my phone isn't on me to feel the vibration, the call isn't important enough to answer.