https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2clMgI76
File this one under "Tell us something we don't know."
On Friday, the UK's Royal National Institute for the Deaf reported that 80 percent of the 1,700 concert-goers it polled complained of hearing damage or trouble. The RNID's solution? Don't stand so close to the speakers.
Dude, who pays for these things?
The RNID's data set included festival attendees from Glastonbury, Leeds, Rise, Reading and more. It found that Glastonbury fans came a bit more prepared, while the Leeds crowds were lost causes. Same probably goes for the Reading hordes who saw the Rage Against the Machine play "Testify" in 2000, viewable at right.
"Volume levels at festivals can reach levels over 110 decibels," the RNID's Emma Harrison told BBC News. "That's the same as a jet plane taking off."
Of course it is. That's what we're paying for.
Sure, we may pay a different price later, but the same can be said of sipping sugar, eating beef or walking to work, especially in Los Angeles. Memo to scientists and other interested parties: Get to work on building cranial implants that can take care of the problem.
this audio or video is no longer availableAs for the problem, we already know what it is, and it's not a problem. It's the point.
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