High pitched noise that only kids are supposed to hear...

Royale with Cheese

So everytime I go to tescos the high pitched noise they use to keep kid's from hanging around outside drives me ****ing nuts. It has come to my attention that nobody else I know can hear it. I'm 22 but apparently I have the ears of a 12 year old. Can anybody hear these stupid things?

bronte

I've never noticed it outside tesco..which branch?
There is a really annoying "silent" ringtone only kids are meant to hear..but i can hear the shaggin thing and I'm 23...tis very irritating!

indough

Never noticed it at Tescos, but I can hear high pitched noises like those things that people use to keep animals away from their property. Noone else I know can hear them

Royale with Cheese

Ballbrack. They keep it just over the entrance. You can't hear it as soon as you step inside but it's audible outside from about 10 metres away and it's really ****ing bad when you're right underneath it. It's actually makes your head throb.

Maybe it's not for kids, and it's actually for animals. There's a fair amount of young skangers that hang around there so I always assumed it was there to try and keep them away.

WeeDiddly

I'm 15, know exactly the noise your on about. Does't bother me. Big debate a few months back as to whether they were legal because they affected babies, and small children more so.

bronte

Haven't been in that branch, but god that sounds annoying! If it's making your head throb, I'd be inclined to mention it to them.

Royale with Cheese

Well to be honest it only makes your head throb if you stand right underneath it. If you're walking past it's just annoying but not too bad. I was more interested in seeing if anybody else my age was able to hear it.

Oh yeah, you'd be standing underneath it cos that's where the atm is.

bronte

Is it that it's so loud that it makes your head throb..or is it that it's so high pitched? It's certainly a good way to keep the kids from hanging around! I know a good few shops I could sell this to!

Royale with Cheese

No no, it's not loud. Just annoying. It just makes your head feel very uncomfortable. Would certainly stop me hanging around there.

monkeyfudge

Your hearing starts to drop off at the age of 20.

Anyone over the age of 30 would probably be hard pressed to hear it.

Average human kids can hear up to 20khz, an average human adult can hear up to about 15khz.

bronte

Sounds like exactly how I feel when I hear that blimmin ringtone..very irritating alright.

Bit unfair of them to have it near the atm too.

JIZZLORD

i can here them, a shop in sligo had one for ages to deter scum from sitting on the steps outside writing "jacinta and deco 4 eva"

MrJoeSoap

Can't say I've noticed any more than the usual ringing in my ears when walking into the local Tesco, will pay more attention next time though!

Funkstard

I noticed one there and there's also one outside Johnstown church nearby. I can hear them but they don't make my head throb or anything. All for them if they result in less scum in my way/line of sight

Pinker

Yeah anyone who has frequented nightclubs or gigs has probably lost that range of their hearing a long time ago, the more damage you do over time is the factor as opposed to aging itslef..

monkeyfudge

Pinker wrote:

Yeah anyone who has frequented nightclubs or gigs has probably lost that range of their hearing a long time ago, the more damage you do over time is the factor as opposed to aging itslef..

That's true. Headphones are a killer as well.

mukki

I am 30, and never heard them things,


but i can hear Ultrasonic insect repellants, bats and power lines from a great distance away, so if i pass one i bet i'll hear it


going to try and leap tall buildings in a single bound when it gets bright

User45701

i didnt know they had been installed yet, does it work? does it keep the kids away? kids screming sometimes wakes me up on a saturday id love to pick one of those up

Saint_Mel

I'm 30 and can hear it ... just about though

jobonar

I hate these things. There's 1 outside spar in swords which is particluarly bad. Have heard them in a couple of places but the 1 in swords seems louder. I can hear it about 20ft ish before i get to the entrance. They are bad at the best of times but this 1 can give me a headache. I'm 22 btw.

rant over.

cance

i can hear it too, im 24

I can hear dog whistles, silent ringtones, those emitters. everything really.

Very very sore on the ears when you are at the ATM.

connundrum

I was going to start a new thread today but might as well tag onto this one.

I was talking to a friend who does CCTV for many buildings and he reckons that playing low level orchestral music in affected areas will keep junkies away, as they aparently hate it??

Has anyone heard of this or was he totally havin me on?

I ask as my building has a huge problem with junkies who come in to shoot up and sleep on stairwells etc. Static security is too expensive and CCTV doesn't seem to worry them

Leeby

they've one outside the chipper in Kingswood aswell, I'm 22 and I can hear them and the silent ringtones, ****en headwrecking!! Surely they're against some sort of noise pollution laws?

Papergirl 1

Yes I'm 25 and can hear this......glad to know I'm not the only one! Total pain in the ass.

nice1franko

so that's what the fukc is going on!!!! they must have put one outside supervalu in donabate. I was queuing at the ATM outside it and it nearly drove me bananas! I thought I was going mad. I had to run. bastards. I'm going to give out to them about that.

edit - I'm 28

Terry

I read something in the paper about the government stepping in on these things. I can't remember which paper or any more details, but it seems they will soon be done away with.
As for the silent ringtones, I'm 31 and can hear them. Well the one my friends nephew has anyway.

L1011

Not heard these in a Tescos, but I point blank refuse to shop anywhere that has them. Agist **** shop keepers don't deserve my money.

L1011

Pinker wrote:

Yeah anyone who has frequented nightclubs or gigs has probably lost that range of their hearing a long time ago, the more damage you do over time is the factor as opposed to aging itslef..

I can hear them fine - its the low range you destroy clubbing and not the high range. I now need to wear filtering earplugs when clubbing or DJing to preserve what hearing I have left

TwoShedsJackson

MYOB wrote:

Not heard these in a Tescos, but I point blank refuse to shop anywhere that has them. Agist **** shop keepers don't deserve my money.

I can't hear them (being 36) but I'm happy to shop anywhere that there isn't a load of slack-jawed skangers hanging around staring at anyone and everything that passes by.

L31mr0d

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

I can't hear them (being 36) but I'm happy to shop anywhere that there isn't a load of slack-jawed skangers hanging around staring at anyone and everything that passes by.

yeah they have one in the underground car park where I work. Can't freekin stand it. They also have it set to pulsate so its even more annoying. I actually get a horrible throbbing pain behind my eyeballs when i'm near it, no joke. You can download the actually sound all over the internet, there are varying versions of it, some that adults can only slightly hear and others that only teenagers and lower can hear. I think the're called mosquito ringtones.

Oh and i'm 24, I also get irritated by those dog and cat deterrant noises.

Heres a little known fact, you know that ringing sound in your ear after hearing a loud noise, thats your ears actually forgetting sound at that frequency. Once that ringing dies off your ears will never be able to hear that frequency again.

nice1franko

L31mr0d wrote:

Heres a little known fact, you know that ringing sound in your ear after hearing a loud noise, thats your ears actually forgetting sound at that frequency. Once that ringing dies off your ears will never be able to hear that frequency again.

That's bollix. prove your fact with links to the interweb.

L1011

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

I can't hear them (being 36) but I'm happy to shop anywhere that there isn't a load of slack-jawed skangers hanging around staring at anyone and everything that passes by.

Oddly enough theres none of them hanging around outside my local set of shops, but that may just because they have other ways of getting rid of them... collateral damage to sales caused by driving away perfectly valid customers who are in the age groups that happen to spend like its going out of money is not a good idea.

L1011

L31mr0d wrote:

Heres a little known fact, you know that ringing sound in your ear after hearing a loud noise, thats your ears actually forgetting sound at that frequency. Once that ringing dies off your ears will never be able to hear that frequency again.

:rolleyes:

No, its tinnitus. Nothing close to what you've suggested.

mukki

you can try a few of those ringtones here

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/



why not just play a song in a loop, it would be fine for people passing, but your not going to sit there for more 10mins

cance

mukki wrote:

you can try a few of those ringtones here

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/



why not just play a song in a loop, it would be fine for people passing, but your not going to sit there for more 10mins

you'd be suprised.

the little fúcking hoodied gang of spineless freaks used to frequent a video shop i worked in for months. I tried it all, barney, shrek, power rangers... day after day they would watch the same 2hours over and over and not budge their arses from the back of the shop.

in the end it was the fire that got them out, albeit not intended.

Scruff

29 an can here it loud and clear at the local shop. young scangers still hang around outside it, probably cuase they have waxy build ups in their ears from poor hygiene standards....

Had one of those ultrasonic rodent repellers in the house. Could hear that too. Always made me want to run out of the room and chew on a piece of electric cable.....

Supercell

L31mr0d wrote:

Heres a little known fact, you know that ringing sound in your ear after hearing a loud noise, thats your ears actually forgetting sound at that frequency. Once that ringing dies off your ears will never be able to hear that frequency again.

Interesting, in Babylon 5 Season 5 Episode 1 : No Compromises, one of the characters postulates something similar to this - they say the sound is the death of the cells that can hear this frequency and once it fades thats the last time you'll ever hear it so it must be true*































May not be true

emilyc

mukki wrote:

you can try a few of those ringtones here

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/

Im really worried now..
I can't hear any of the <24 ones, and im only 16

Giblet

I can hear them, they're very loud. There's on outside Spar on cabra road.

Terry

emilyc wrote:

Im really worried now..
I can't hear any of the <24 ones, and im only 16

Count yourself lucky.

mukki

emilyc wrote:

Im really worried now..
I can't hear any of the <24 ones, and im only 16

probably your speakers can make it

everyone emily has cheap speakers!!

SpicyNoodle

mukki wrote:

you can try a few of those ringtones here

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/



why not just play a song in a loop, it would be fine for people passing, but your not going to sit there for more 10mins

Them sounds were painful to listen too. I have very acute hearing due to having autism. I don't know how small kids with autism will react to those type of noises outside the shops, but I am sure they won't react to well. :mad: