Is everyone under 30 deaf?

I don’t think the young people are being rude, they are just loud! I wonder if they listen to loud music directly in there ear, unlike our loud music that was all around us, they become used to high volume.

I am convinced 30 upwards have some deterioration of hearing. Only yesterday met a neighbour in an aisle and we could hardly hear one another. There were two 30ish females with a child each in trolley. One child started crying and the female just started shouting at him then the other joined in trying to placate him. They were so loud I commented I think I'll need to go shopping wearing headphones. Heard what the problem was, child wanted his cuddle cloth but Mum was adamant he wasn't getting it until she had had it for a cuddle too. She was cuddling it when I passed down the aisle, beggars belief!

Good job they are deaf.
They can't hear you,

Oh dear. I saw someone under 30 eating in public too the other day.

I was so disgusted I yelled at them.

My family are convinced anyone over 65 needs hearing aids. They keep complaining my TV is too loud when they phone me. My neighbour never gears it so it can't be that loud. Although I might need them eventually as I am just beginning to notice a slight difference in volume on my iPad.

Growstuff - I'm a bit the same. For a start I'm deaf & was probably born deaf. Then I was brought up on a farm with no neighbours & if Dad was in the fields & someone called / meals were ready it was a loud "haloo" or a parp on the Landrover horn. So although I'm a very concientious, guilt-prone citizen, I can be a bit noisy.My alarm used to go off at 6.40 & wake a neighbour (it was quite loud as I'm deaf & my DH is "alarm -deaf"). So she used to ring & complain & I did say I needed to get to work (she wasn't much older but she didn't work). She suggested I get a smart watch which would vibrate to wake me up, so I purchased one for £25 which just did alarms. When re-charging the tiny battery I lost it, still hasnt turned up 2 yrs later I expect the puppy ate it. Anyway next day the alarm woke her & that evening she was on the phone complaining again. I said sorry, explained what had happened, & her response 'well you'd better hurry up & get another watch'. I didnt have a lot of spare cash & given that she had a choice of 4 bedrooms & was choosing to use the one adjoining us, I just said I couldn't afford to do this. I felt I had a right to an alarm to wake me up to go to work, providing it was promptly turned off, which it was. People with sensitive hearing drive me nuts. She also complained to the next-door neighbour but one that the dog was whining (not barking mind you) in its outdoor run during the day. If you are that sensitive to noise, you shouldn't buy a semi-detached house IMO.

Personally I don’t find people laughing and doing long drawn out goodbyes whilest slightly “merry” at all disturbing even after midnight.
However intimidating loud behaviour with foul language and vandalism or threats obviously fuelled by excessive alcohol, I do find disturbing at any hour.

I have a loud voice at times. When I trained to be a teacher, we had voice training, so that our voices carried and there are times when I use that training without realising it. My partner also has a loud voice and has the TV loud. I'm trying to persuade him to get his hearing checked because I think he's possibly going a bit deaf.

PS. I haven't noticed that young people have particularly loud voices.

They are very loud and excitable on the buses so many of the girls scream and don’t get me started on the phone calls 🤣 now I love loud music so o can’t really talk but mines confined to the walls of my house did we really make so much noise on public. Transport maybe we did but I don’t think so

I'm not convinced that it's just younger people....a few evenings ago some people in my street had guests / visitors and just after midnight they were leaving.
Two vehicles parked in the street and they all decided to continue the evenings conversation for around 45 mins.

All very loudly with lots of laughter etc....now this was a Tuesday evening, a residential street and from what I could see, most downstairs lights in the vicinity were off, so presumably, residents were in bed and/or asleep.

Is there no comprehension about that level of noise disturbing people or is it more of an ignorance / disregard for common courtesy?

When I think back to how quiet, orderly and respectful my generation was, while still under 30, it makes my blood boil the way today's youngsters behave.

Of course we were, apart from those awful Beatles twisting and shouting!!

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I don't think it's just because I'm old (69) but I'm sure that the under forties have definitely got louder when they speak.

Busy restaurants are the worst, especially if they have music too. Conversations can be impossible unless you shout!

It's some sort of a culture shift.

I think that many are so full of their own importance that they assume everyone will be interested in their inane chatter.

MissInterpreted

It's the loud talking with their phones on speaker which does my head in. Why can't they just use them normally? No-one else is interested in their conversations.

I find that I can‘t hear what’s being said on the other end unless I have the speaker on. Having said that, I prefer messaging wherever possible

Oh, and l am told my voice can be loud. However, I have had problems with my ears and hearing since early childhood.

I do think that there has been a seismic shift in today's generation, but, as ever, it is not all bad and the vast majority are polite and helpful. I have come across a fair few objectionable elderly people in my time, who appear to think that they can be as rude and outspoken as they like because they are old. It works both ways. I think one difference with young people today is how entitled so many of them seem and cannot accept that someone else might have a different opinion from them without getting disproportionately upset about it. Whatever happened to being able to agree to disagree in a civilised fashion? Mumsnet demonstrates this time and time again. I was born in the sixties, a child in the seventies and a teenager and young adult in the eighties. I think we learnt to be more resilient and responsible from an early age. More was expected from us. I think many of the young adults of today were overpraised for every little achievement as children (the prizes for all culture), whereas we had praise where it was due, but also quick admonishment for the opposite. The general feeling was that if it didn't kill you, it made you stronger. However, I also think that there were things that happened that should not have happened and were swept under the carpet at the time. As for the loud voices, it is very intrusive and our generations were generally made to be aware that we were not the only people around and that we had to be considerate towards everyone else. A particularly dim view was given to showing off. In the end, though, we are all products of our time and l consider myself very fortunate to have been born when I was

I've noticed quite a few older people talking loudly as if they owned the place, pub, restaurant, etc.

that reminds me of Bob Mortimer's 'train guy'

It's the loud talking with their phones on speaker which does my head in. Why can't they just use them normally? No-one else is interested in their conversations.

I can't honestly say I've noticed younger people being louder

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I did have a youth and now 66. Never had Sony Walkman and was brought up to be respectful and not be loud. Unfortunately I know I do talk loud at times but jaundice left me hearing my heart beat in my left ear and at times it's very loud and can't hear very well. Nothing can be done as a hearing aid woul only make the thumps louder. Had my hearing tested couple of months ago.

I know my daughter says her hearing has suffered due to going to loud gigs until in her mid 30's . She doesn't wear ear buds as it makes it harder to hear .

Sorry, what was that? I couldn't quite hear you.🙉

PS It was a, supposedly, non-denominational school.

I went to state school during the 1960s. Unless you were Jewish you had to attend a Christian assembly every morning and RI was exclusively about Christianity. Indoctrination takes many forms love0c.