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Be careful dropping glass bottles into recycling bins too; they pose nearly the same problem - they don't usually shatter and the sound escapes the bin upwards
by Cerium 7y ago
Be careful dropping glass bottles into recycling bins too; they pose nearly the same problem - they don't usually shatter and the sound escapes the bin upwards towards you.
- skeletonjelly 7y agoWish I knew this back when I worked in bars, emptying big bins of glass into the outdoor bins. Learnt quickly to look up when I did it.
- QuixoticQuibit 7y agoHow would looking up help, though? Unless I’m misunderstanding, the sound would still be coming up straight towards your face/ears.
- skrebbel 7y agoYou look up by bending your neck and your upper back, so when your body is bent forward, looking up will actually move your head (incl your ears) further away from the glass bin.
- cat199 7y agorather than your ears concentrating/funneling the sound into your ear canal, they would be muffling it since the direct sound wave direction would basically now point into your earlobe
- skeletonjelly 7y agoWhat the other kind commenters said. I just found it worked. I like the analogy of the funnel, pointing it 90 degrees from where it usually is. OH&S wasn't such a thing back in my day (and I'm not even that old), smoking inside was still a thing (banned in that Australian state I was in a long time ago now). I'd use the air conditioners as a break to get some fresh air. But anyway, a big bin full of glass being emptied was damn loud, but all the concerts I went to wouldn't have helped.
- mehrdadn 7y agoWhy isn't this taught to everyone at a young age? I had no idea this could happen and it kind of terrifies me that I can lose my hearing so easily like this without having any clue.
- mikestew 7y agoThen go buy the toilet lids that don’t drop with the acceleration of gravity, i. e., “soft close”. Hearing loss or not, I don’t want to hear anyone dropping the toilet lid in the middle of the night.
- dijit 7y agoI don't believe we're talking about the same thing. The ceramic lid usually goes over the water tank. (also, you can't control all the toilets in the world)
- dllthomas 7y ago> (also, you can't control all the toilets in the world) But imagine if you could!
- morsch 7y agoThe culprit was actually a lid on the tank. I've never seen a toilet lid, soft close or not, that doesn't have plastic pieces that prevent full direct contact between the lid and the part below it. They'll deform under pressure, taking the noise level down from unbearable to just loud.
- mikestew 7y agoYeah, I saw that it was the lid after I posted. In fact, I even remember the original post, and at the time thought, "huh, never even thought of that". Welcome to middle age, where a lot of stuff starts to occur to you after the fact. :-|
- obituary_latte 7y ago
- dogsgobork 7y agoI've been surprised at how loud emptying a bucket of aluminum cans into an empty bin can be, the half open lid also reflects the sound back toward you.
- Tempest1981 7y agoI've started tilting the bin at a 45 degree angle, and sliding the bottles in. Seems to help somewhat.
- Sharlin 7y agoYeah, and it’s even worse if the bin happens to be in an enclosed space!
- pmontra 7y agoYes, that's the recurrent loudest noise I experience in my life. Not so many times per year obviously, but more than concerts or disco. I should try bending knees to put my ears below the top of the bin.