Kerrang! Magazine: "Worth the tinnitus."

[Markku]

Kerrang! Magazine has some 648K followers on Twitter, and... No matter if said with tongue-in-cheek or not, seriously awful to see this.

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[valeri]

@Markku
Maybe few suicide stories would make them rethink if it's wort it!

 

[IreneO]

It's weird how some medical conditions are seen as inherently comedic. Tinnitus is one. Gout is another (apparently it is *amazingly* debilitating and painful). I guess we can't blame people who don't have these things for thinking they're funny ... For a lot of people, tinnitus is something aged crotchety grannies go on about in comics while holding massive trumpet-shaped hearing aids to their ears.

 

[Karel]

There's a dance club in Germany called Tinnitus. Yeah.

 

[Fungus]

Wonder if the many rock stars who have/had tinnitus (Lemmy of Moorhead RIP comes to mind) would agree?

 

[GregCA]

No matter if said with tongue-in-cheek or not, seriously awful to see this.

It's probably out of ignorance though: I suspect they think that tinnitus is the ringing you'll get for a day after the concert, and so their message is "oh yeah, it's so worth having to deal with ringing for a day". I doubt they know it can stick forever and be disabling.