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>And I suppose the most important question is, how to ask for a bit of shoosh without >offending and sounding like a prat?...
Tel --- you're being way too re-active ... much better to be pro-active ... Norton-decidamp, (or similar), industrial ear-plugs will blur-out the humanoid-'noise' & enable you to tune into that wonderful brain-buzz-sound ... you will also find that by not being able to hear your own breathing/grunting, will enable you to climb a grade or two harder ... strange but true ...
Worth the experimentation ...
Luv HEX:-)
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