And they say the kids are stupid today

[HBox]

<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13274669/" target="_blank">THEY ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!</a></p><p>Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class &mdash; and many teachers can't even hear the ring.</p><p>Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. </p><p class="textBodyBlack">With it, high schoolers can receive text message alerts on their cell phones without the teacher knowing.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">Don't worry about the kids. they are plotting your demise as we speak.<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13274669/" target="_blank"></a>

[Bill From Yorktown]

<p>no they still are - my fav. article on this had the kids getting busted by their 28 year old teacher - &quot;What you can hear that?&quot; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>BUSTED.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ban the cellphones in class.&nbsp; That'll teach 'em</p>

[kdubya]

OK, so we need to replace drug sniffing dogs with high pitched ring tone hearing dogs.

[Yerdaddy]

<p><a href="http://www.onion.demon.co.uk/theonion/other/babies/stupidbabies.htm" target="_blank">Study Reveals: Babies Are Stupid</a>&nbsp;</p><p>A classic!</p>

[A.J.]

If only they put as much effort into their studies.&nbsp;

[Bill From Yorktown]

dl'd the mp3 - cant hear it (I'm 39) but I swore i could hear it on my tv this morning...

[Doctor Manhattan]

<p><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">I can hear it </a>(I'm 32)</font> <a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">It doesn't sound like a ring tone</a> <font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">at all</a>, just a really high pitched tone (like there is a problem with your stereo or something) </font></font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">Is this what Pete Townsend hears all day long?</font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">And if all these kids cell phones sound like this, how do they tell them apart?</font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">And if cell phones are not allowed and they still want to be able to take call, why not use Vibrate?</font></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Doctor Manhattan on 6-12-06 @ 3:33 PM</span>

[AKA]

<strong>Doctor Manhattan</strong> wrote:<br /><p><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">I can hear it </a>(I'm 32)</font> <a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">It doesn't sound like a ring tone</a> <font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">at all</a>, just a really high pitched tone (like there is a problem with your stereo or something) </font></font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">Is this what Pete Townsend hears all day long?</font></p><p>I hear it&nbsp; - I'm 39 - and I've got tinnitus - and it does sound kind of like that all day (and night) long, but maybe less &quot;pitchy.&quot;</p>

[Doctor Manhattan]

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<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Doctor Manhattan on 6-12-06 @ 3:51 PM</span>

[Doctor Manhattan]

<font color="#990000" size="2">How do you know if you are hearing the tone and not your own ringing?</font>

[jeffdwright2001]

<strong>AKA</strong> wrote:<br />I hear it&nbsp; - I'm 39 - and I've got tinnitus - and it does sound kind of like that all day (and night) long, but maybe less &quot;pitchy.&quot;<p>You said it Dawg.</p><p><img height="199" src="http://redsox.collider.com/uploads/images/category/randy_jackson_.jpg" width="232" border="0" /></p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Well, ringtones are for children.&nbsp; CHILDREN.</p><p>I'm looking at you with the stupid song on your phone as your ringtone.&nbsp; You know who you are.&nbsp; Grow up.</p>

[ADF]

You're just jealous because you're too old to figure out how to put your own ringtone on your phone.<br />

[OGC]

<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="times new roman,times,serif" size="3">I have tinnitus and I can hear the tone. This tone is a little higher pitched than what I hear all day every day. I can hear it starting and stopping but if it is going for a while it just sort of blends right into my own pleasant ear ringing.</font></p></font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">My wife bought one of those &quot;Mosquito repellent&quot; devices that this tone is modeled after, she thought I was crazy telling her that the thing wasn't broken and it was actually making a sound, and no, it didn't keep the mosquitos away.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I think they were marketing these things in England as &quot;teenager replellent&quot; devices. They figured that since the sound was annoying and only teenagers could hear it (supposedly) it would keep them away.</font></p>

[sr71blackbird]

<strong>Doctor Manhattan</strong> wrote:<br /><p><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">I can hear it </a>(I'm 32)</font> <a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">It doesn't sound like a ring tone</a> <font color="#000066"><a href="http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3" target="_blank">at all</a>, just a really high pitched tone (like there is a problem with your stereo or something) </font></font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">Is this what Pete Townsend hears all day long?</font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">And if all these kids cell phones sound like this, how do they tell them apart?</font></p><p><font color="#000066" size="2">And if cell phones are not allowed and they still want to be able to take call, why not use Vibrate?</font></p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Doctor Manhattan on 6-12-06 @ 3:33 PM</span> <p>I hear it, and I am over 40.&nbsp; </p>

[HBox]

Or maybe they put up a fake ringtone to throw off all the adults? They are 10 steps ahead of you.<br />

[Gvac]

I'm 40 and it damn near blew out my ear drums.&nbsp; Are there really people who can't hear this?&nbsp; I didn't even have my speakers turned up that high.&nbsp; <br />

[HBox]

I'm 24 and I could just BARELY hear it.<br />

[Hottub]

That's a joke, right? It sounds just like the tones I use from Stereophile to test my surround sound! And yes, I'm no kid!

[Bulldogcakes]

<p><img width="420" height="378" border="0" src="http://www.funnydog.net/images/funny-dog.jpg" /></p><p>&quot;I'm ronly 5 rears rold rand rhat fruckin thring rearly brew rout my reardrums!&quot; &nbsp;</p>

[Don Stugots]

i cant hear it but i am 60% deaf.

[chili]

<p>About the whole ring tone thing and sound frequencies certain ages can't hear. My apartment is above a 'Snippets' kids haircut place and a 'Lil Gym' daycare (Jim Norton would love it here) and whenever I get home from work and try and take a nap all the little kneebiters are getting picked up by their parents and taken home. I have the strong urge to put my speakers in the window and play a sound file at about 20,000 hz, which neither I nor the parents would hear but would drive the kids nuts and make them start crying.</p><p>Yeah, I guess it makes me a bad person.&nbsp;</p>

[Freakshow]

Nobody is saying kids today are stupid. Just lazy, aimless, unambitious, unmotivated, lethargic, sedentary, coddled, spoiled, selfish, greedy and generally held to lower expectations...


We had a teacher in high school with a hearing aid, and we would rub quarters together and it would screw up his hearing. I bet he would have been able to hear the ringtone from a mile away.

[Death Metal Moe]

<p>I heard it and I've been playing Death Metal for over 10 years.</p><p>This is a gag.</p>

[Gvac]

<p>Here's an <a href="http://www.digital-recordings.com/hearing-test/www-ht-pro/ht_help_p.html" target="_self">online hearing test</a> if anyone's interested.</p><p>Apparently I'm part canine.&nbsp;</p>

[tele7]

Kids' hear the darndest things.

[jeffdwright2001]

<strong>Doctor Manhattan</strong> wrote:<br /><font color="#990000" size="2">How do you know if you are hearing the tone and not your own ringing?</font> <p>For some it's less a tone and more of a bell tolling.&nbsp; Or so I've heard.</p>

[bubblegirl]

Well kids are idiots cause in most schools now, if they catch you with
your cell on during school hours, they take it away and your
parent/guardian has to come pick it up!!!<br />

[Don Stugots]

i'll take their phones too.&nbsp; i could use a new phone.

[angelinad128]

Very lame. That was so clear the tone.