Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 08, 2019

Must not be able to afford hearing aids. Or his hearing is so bad they don’t help.

In my case, the volume set to 35 isn’t that loud, is it?

He’s watching GUNSMOKE!

He’ll start reading lips any day now.

Our cable company will change the volume for you … you don’t even have to ask ;-)

34? that WAS about right…..

My hearing is the only thing that’s NOT failing me.

Mine is about 1/3 my age

Closed Caption helps a lot..especially watching British TV accents

Let’s see betwee OTA and the various roku channels mine goes from 20 to 55. Not too bad considering I’m 66.

Mine depends on how much damn background music they put in the shown to obscure dialogue. My wife likes “Grey’s Anatomy” so I watch it with her…. but about a third of the episode has obnoxious music WITH LYRICS played my that is LOUDER than the dialogue being spoken by the actors.

holey miss kitty, Batman!

It really gets me how actors today might do 13 episodes of a show and they are completely worn out. Gunsmoke played every week. The whole crew. You didn’t hear them whining.

What would Matt do without Festus? And what would “we” do if we couldn’t hear “Gunsmoke”

This one is pretty strange. If a 19 year old is listening at 19, does that make them a Plugger?I guess yes, since the real 19 year olds have ear buds on and are tuned out.

It might be true for my wife but not me.

Actually, the volume on mine depends on what I’m watching – sometimes 23 is LOUD while other times 44 is barely audible

just who I want treating me. A boozy doctor hauled out of the saloon

gave up on the volume, now just use closed captioning.

And you have to set your thermostat temperature to match your age, too.

Closed captioning is great, lip reading is a great bonus but the attitude of the actors comes through with the volume set high. The emotional content can be as necessary to understanding as the actual words. And, closed caption has the bonus that occasionally the CC version of what was said is different enough, changes the meaning enough or skips over something enough that the result is funny.

And you recognize the quote

You mean ’Ends at 70?"

Hubby got ear phones so he can watch the TV without everybody for miles around having to listen to the same program.

Ours doesn’t go that high.

I wish! I have hyper-sensitive hearing. My volume is set at 25 and I’m 61.

Haha, I blew out the speakers on my t.v., turning it so high! My son bought me a new t.v. and hooked up stereo speakers to it so I wouldn’t wreck this one.

Hey! I resemble that remark!!! :(

As I recall, my Dad would turn up the volume of every device he had when he started his daily routine … and then leave it at that volume when he turned in for the night … took a while to get the house to stop vibrating … ;)