How to tell if you are old

Gecko of Desire · Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:21 pm

lol I found this in my teacher's union magazine

This ringtone is the hottest thing to hit the streets this summer! It was first introduced as a way to get rid of teenagers by making a loud sound that only kids and teenagers would hear. It was supposed to keep the teens off properties by blasting this high frequency sound in parking lots. Now the teens are getting their revenge by downloading it as a ringtone and playing it when they shouldn't be - and adults can't hear it!!! It's been showing up in classrooms all over the world. Check it out - the story just broke in the New York Times and on Digg - even Headline News was talking about the ring tone.

I can hear it faintly if it's turned all the way up, but Ant can still hear it. He wanted to kill me lol.

Can you hear it?

http://www.freemosquitoringtone.com/

edit: I think we go deaf from things like, "Mommy, Mommy, Mom, Mommy, Mommy, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom"

Post by **Gadjett** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:16 pm

Dam that hurts......

Post by **Suleka** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:53 pm

OMG!

I thought this was one of those "turn this up real loud" things that is quiet til the end then you hear some really loud scream or something........... but it's real.

My kids can hear it but I can't. I wonder where the cut off mark for "old" is.

Edit: I put it waaaaay up and put my ear directly on the speaker, I can hear it only with my right ear and ouch.. I don't suggest you try that.

Post by **Vedrix** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:53 pm

Far from being old only 32 here and with 3 kids and heard it fine lol

Post by **Kyreth** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:29 pm

Niz and I can hear it, but his mom can't.. she thought we were crazy.

Post by **Ailerdar** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:47 pm

I don't get it, so you can annoy the class and give them a headache, without the teacher being affected, yeah that's really showing them...

Heard it just fine btw

Post by **fazin** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:51 pm

the "silent" ringtone is probably meant for txt messaging. the modern world's way of note passing.

I can't hear it. oh well. I am 88 years old after all...

Post by **Ailerdar** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:56 pm

There's a subtler way that won't even alert other kids... it's called vibrate

Post by **fazin** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:08 pm

actually you can hear it vibrate.

I got my cell on vibrate and my mother can hear it every time.

Post by **Ailerdar** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:56 pm

Get a better phone and put it on a lower setting

Post by **Taunto** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:32 am

I hear it and I've beat the shit out of my ears throught the years. Drumming, shooting, blunt trauma to the head, etc, etc. If I ever heard this go off in a public setting, I would put the kid's head through a wall. That sound is more annoying than nails across a chalkboard to me.

Post by **slaanax** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:19 pm

I suppose you have to have a cell-phone to hear it lol

Gecko of Desire · Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:42 am

slaanax wrote:I suppose you have to have a cell-phone to hear it lol

That must be it!! I am not old at all, I just didn't download it to a cell phone lol