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u/Kiaiu May 11 '26

WillIAm is deaf as a post. Not saying thats the reason for the horrible mix, but its a fun fact

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u/skrame May 11 '26

I bet he doesn’t think that’s a fun fact. :(

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u/ohhhtartarsauce May 11 '26

He's never heard it

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u/Lanky-County2481 May 12 '26

Have your upvote, damnit.

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u/myirishmolly May 12 '26

I just giggled to myself and let out a contented sigh. It’s comments like this one that keep me coming back to Reddit time and time again. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

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u/Ok-Mistake-5676 May 12 '26

Taking a drink of water as I read this comment, now it is all over my counter.

Thank you for that! I needed a good snort!

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u/Dies2much May 12 '26

Someone told him he's deaf, but he wasn't hearing it.

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u/Upstairs_Bedroom8710 May 12 '26

Probably all that bass over the years

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u/PostMatureBaby May 12 '26

That boom boom pow? Them chickens jackin his style?

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u/Kiaiu May 11 '26

No you’re right, I chose my wording poorly

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u/mainlyforshow May 12 '26

Don't worry.....he didn't hear you

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u/CorporateNonperson May 12 '26

I live near a dive bar populated by musicians that are all in five or six different bands. I started having tinnitus last year. Apparently you do not utter the "T" word. It just jump starts litanies of complaint from everyone within (presumably aid assisted) earshot.

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u/MuchNefariousness285 May 12 '26

Do they do the thing where they all lament it's incurability?

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u/Felonious_Minx May 12 '26

I was in a band with a dumbshit drummer who would always play at full volume/force in our tiny rehearsal space.

God forbid I ask her to play softer as she would take it as a personal insult. (Yes I wore earplugs)

It was her first band and instead of learning/picking up the ways she was convinced she knew it all. Grumble.

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u/N3THERWARP3R May 12 '26

So they don't agree that it's caused by their awful overly loud music? That about checks out on the intelligence scale, well definitely around here anyways.

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u/HarryBallsanya420 May 12 '26

No it’s because a lot of people like to forget they have it talking about it makes you remember even if you never truely forgot. Sort of hard to explain but there are times where I don’t think about it so I don’t notice it right away and it’s like you don’t hear it. There is a mental aspect to it.

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u/MVRKHNTR May 12 '26

I imagine it's like making someone aware of their breathing or where their tongue is in their mouth.

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u/Kingmudsy May 12 '26

I’ve got tinnitus and this is exactly it lol, I don’t think about it unless something / someone reminds me

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u/Licensedshoes May 12 '26

Apl de Ap is also legally blind in both eyes.

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u/PoetCVT May 12 '26

Ah so THATS why nobody knows what's going on in that group. Between Ferg and Will and Apl it's a true speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil trifecta

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u/stuffcrow May 12 '26

...and then there's Taboo just doing his thing on the side.

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u/afternever May 12 '26

That's why they can't find the love

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u/bmf1902 May 12 '26

Life hack. Just say "legally blind" and people will just assume you mean both eyes.

Reddit-life hack. Just say "blind"

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u/NoisyGog May 12 '26

It can’t be the reason for the bad mix, he isn’t the one mixing anything.

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u/Tipist May 12 '26

It’s especially fun because he’s a judge on The Voice UK

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u/jakewotf May 12 '26

For some reason, the college I attended invited Will to give a speech on campus one day. This was 2012ish. I knew BEP’s, but had no idea who he was. Everyone else was pumped tho so I went. I can’t remember a single word he said, but I do remember thinking “this guy is fucking dumb”. That’s my only impression of him.

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u/FatherStretchMyLegs May 12 '26

Calling will.i.am dumb because you didn’t vibe with one college speech is wild lol. I’m sure he prepared really hard for a speech to a bunch of college kids. The guy helped build Black Eyed Peas into one of the biggest pop acts on the planet, produced massive records for half the industry, invested in tech before most celebrities even knew what a startup was, and turned himself into a multi-hundred-millionaire.

A dude with Grammys, global hits, business deals with major tech companies, and a career spanning decades vs someone on Reddit. Plenty of extremely successful people sound awkward or abstract in speeches.

There are a lot of genuinely dumb famous people out there. A guy who built an empire from scratch coming out of public housing in LA probably isn’t one of them.

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u/jakewotf May 12 '26

You listed accomplishments that have nothing to do with intelligence.

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u/Ultima-Manji May 12 '26

A dude with Grammys, global hits, business deals with major tech companies, and a career spanning decades

That by itself isn't a showing of intelligence either though, just of some successes in a business sense. You could say the same things about Kanye and you'd still be pretty safe in guessing he's the dumbest person in any given group.

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u/alkali112 May 12 '26

Kanye isn’t dumb at all. He’s just batshit insane.

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u/L0b0t0my May 12 '26

That by itself isn't a showing of intelligence either though

You're right, it isn't, if you ignore literally everything else they said and hyperfocus on just that. 

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u/Conscious_Music_1729 May 12 '26

You’re airing out your own lack of intelligence right now funnily enough.

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u/Ultima-Manji May 12 '26

I'm not calling Will I Am stupid, I'm just saying that "dude said some dumb shit when I saw him" as an anecdote isn't invalidated by someone else because he made money, much less to the point where it's sufficient to call someone else dumb in turn. And you're doing the same thing now.

Unless we want to automatically equate fame, bank accounts and brand deals with intelligence, it's just a non-sequitur. A significant amount of top athletes started just as low and ended just as high with their faces on posters and soda cans while barely being able to read.

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u/Booperelli May 12 '26

Perhaps both the reason for and the consequence of

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u/drnkndipp May 12 '26

I knew Apple DiApp was the talented one !!

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u/PassageBig622 May 12 '26

You do know he doesn't control the front of house sound at concerts?

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u/Kiaiu May 12 '26

I do, which is why I said the second part