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I was thinking about this the other day -

If you had a choice would you rather lose your voice compared to losing your
hearing, mobility or sight.

If I couldn't sing anymore I think I would be devastated, even if the only place I
sang was my bathroom.

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I am losing all three of them at sometimes an alarming rate One can compensate for loss of hearing.. As far as mobilty just slow dance....My glasses are 3" thick so I know to deal with that But the day I cant sing and totally turn on an audience or give them pleasure will be a sad day..

Interesting question.  I'd have to be real practical in my answer.  I think in order of personal importance to me it'd be:

1. Sight
2. Mobility
3. Hearing
4. Voice

As much as I LOVE music, I'd have to lower it's priority.  Tough call though!

I would opt to lose my voice.  If I had the other 3, I could still work & function quite well.
Sight - I could still drive to a job on my own, I could still see what I am doing & what others are doing around me (such as children growing up).
Hearing - I could still listen to & enjoy music (sounds of children growing up & laughing).
Mobility - I could still walk on my own without relying on someone or something to get me to move.  

So I couldn't sing (guess it isn't as important to me - I enjoy it, but wouldn't die because of it) - I would just do other things in the music industry someway somehow since I would still have all the other functions.

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Wow!....So there is a woman out there who's first concern is NOT about losing weight....COOL!

I would prefer to lose my voice before the others. I could still work.

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GASP! My voice! But.. but... I NEVER shut up! (No, seriously, i even talk in my sleep, and sing EVERYWHERE. (i am the crazy singing grocery store lady:)


I bet my husband would LOVE for it to happen though.


I have limited hearing as it is, but love music, as I am an instrumentalist.

My sight? I am an artist.

Basically, music and art are the only things I am decent at. If I lost THOSE, I would have nothing.

(But, mobility? I am a lazy arse, I don't do ANYTHIGN anyways. I would rather wheel myself to the bathroom, to be honest;)

Hmmm...What a wonderfully depressing thought you gave me.

I wouldn't be happy about losing any of my senses, or talents.

But as long as I'm alive, I'm ok.

This is hypothetical, so it's tough to "know" what's what, or how we would actually
feel if any of these events horrible things happened to us.


To me depending on the extent of "mobility", if you are talking about quad, or paralysis from the neck down for that matter,  I'd rather lose my life first... than to be that dependent...incontinent.  JMO,  I'd rather live a more dignified life, and not be totally needy. If I can't move, and I just stay where I'm parked,  that's worse than death IMHO...that, having to have people change my diapers...no thanks... quality of my life, would not be such that I cared to live at that point...

If I lost my voice, I'd just do what I do now,  TYPE.. Just as a joke, I'd even submit my exhalations to backing tracks for you folks in Singer's Showcase.  It'd be an improvement...

Sight vs Hearing ?  I think I'd rather have my sight...Not sure however...I believe the world is a tougher place if you've lost your sight after having had it, as opposed to your hearing.. Without your sight YOU really feel helpless...Have you ever tried those trust walks ?  Where you are blindfolded for an hour,  and someone next to you tells you every step to take as you take a walk without having your vision ?  It's brutal... One of the many weird things we did, when I took acting...

If I HAD to lose ONE,  I'd volunteer my voice first. I think I'd trade both my voice AND hearing to keep my vision..

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Ooh, tough question.  :shock:

I don't even want to really think about it.

To lose my hearing would be about as bad as losing my voice...... I mean, who could sing if they were deaf? And to never hear music again? I couldn't live that way...... life really would cease to be the same.

My voice? Same thing. I guess all things considered, it would be the easiest to let go though and still function as a normal human. I couldn't bear to lose mobility (if you're talking where I could not MOVE at all)...... nor could I handle losing my sight. I would never want to live as a burden to someone else. Being blind & in the dark for the rest of my life would be truly scary. But ....... all those choices would be. Losing my voice would not be "scary"..... but I could never mentally deal with it.

I guess it just makes one think of how fortunate we really are to have all these things..... cause there are many people who CAN'T sing....... or CAN'T hear....... or CAN'T walk across the floor, or dance....... or who CAN'T see.

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Robbie does it all the time.....If he didn't, I would almost never get outside and enjoy the fresh air.

I'm afraid I'd burn my finger's attempting to type on the waffle iron

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I would prefer to lose my voice.  I can always still sing in my own head.

I know a lady that sings karaoke and she is blind.  Needless to say she does not rely on the monitor.  And she never knows what she is going to sing until the KJ starts the song.  She has a lengthy song list.  She's a lot of fun to be around too!!!  We do mess with her sometimes and leave her int he ladies room or up on stage....Thank goodness she has a terrifc sense of humor....

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 Now theres 6 people on here sayin wats a waffle iron??  LMAO  LOL

waffle iron?

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Yeah,  Nothing funnier than telling a blind person "stage" is the bathroom !   One of my most memorable moments watching Karaoke, was when the person on-stage flushed the toilet,  and started feeling around for toilet paper....

Damn,  nothing like having a good SOH !!!

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It never ocurred to me Karyoker.. Yet when I mention some things, It makes me realize that I'm getting up there in years...

Besides "waffle Iron",  just things that I take forgranted;  In real life my friends are (for some strange reason) mainly atty's and cops....

15 years ago I was discussing cars, and mentioned Carmenn Gia's <SP>, two cops turned to me and asked  "Now what the heck is that"?

I take forgranted that there are people in the world today under 20 that have never seen a rotary phone, heard of MANY auto models we grew up with, certain analog technology etc..  Like I've said, How many kids today have heard a really good 60's tube amp and audio separation from 40 years ago thru two speakers ?   It beats surround sound for just audio dispersion sensitivity IMHO...  Today it's more gimmick,  but decent analog audio gave a more spatial sound thru  just two speakers than todays DTS systems IMHO... There's just something really nice about a Thorens TT running into a McIntosh tube amp, and going into two Bozak speakers..

Another interesting aspect Karyoker.. I have ALOT of guitar and bass amps.. some new, some old...

Take a cheaper tube head such as my Ampeg B-25B 60 watt head.. compared to my Trace Elliot bass amp head...

The Ampeg is fabulous...  Fewer nobs,  greater tonal offerings, more 3-D sounding,,, for ALL styles except "slap and pop"...  Flea probably wouldn't want to run a MM Stingray bass into a tube head alone for RHCP stuff

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Steve : do you say Refrigerator or Ice Box?   The Latter for me still.
Remember Milk boxes on your stoop?





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Couldnt have said It better, you could still be able to be a sound man or musician.
Look at all the people that think they can sing now and have all their senses. they dont mind

Michael,  Did you grow up with parents that used that term ?  My dad is a city boy, Up til he got out've Highschool never left Washington Heights Manhattan (right next to Harlem)... His parents used to call it "Ice Box".... My thought's are neither of us grew up in a time period that would've referred to a fridge as an "ice box", yet I don't know... Might be a socio-economic thing, in certain areas in our country a fridge is no doubt STILL an ice box...

If your folks used the term, I suppose you'd get used to referring to it as such... Yet in the 1960's on... In the metropolitan area... How many grew up in an era, where the fridge, and freezer WERE the "Ice box" ?... Interesting concept Michael... I know my father still ocassionally uses the term,  as do a few of my uncles from the Philly area.... Mostly males use the slang too I think... I wonder why... Do you know of females our age that still refer to a fridge as an "Ice box" ?  I don't... Interesting, almost seems as if there's an underlying "Male" aspect to using the slang...

I haven't a clue,   just thinking outloud here...

Of course the biggest factor is likely that the damn word Refrigerator is 5 syllables... Ice box makes much more sense !!

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