Barnsley Pensioner Regains Hearing After Trimming Ear Hair
2020-01-27
A Barnsley pensioner was able to hear music and birdsong for the first time in three decades this week, after finally being persuaded to trim his ear hair.
Fred Tattylugs, from Wombwell, went deaf 30 years ago at just about the same time as he went bald and decided to grow his ear hair out to compensate, but had never put the two events together. “I was hoping it would eventually grow long enough for a comb over,” he told The Bugle, “but it never quite got there. I decided to keep it though, because it saved me wearing a hat in winter. It was only when my six-year-old Great Grandson said I looked a right twat that I decided to do something about it.”
Fred says it’s amazing being able to hear again, but there are drawbacks “I heard a Sam Smith song the other day” he said “Jesus Christ, I hated that bloke when I could only see him, but it’s on a whole new level now.”
Fred’s wife Freda says she’s not too sure about the new Fred “On the one hand it’s less embarrassing not having to go to the shops with someone who looks like they’ve got a spider orgy going on in each ear, but on the other, I’m having to get used to holding my farts in.”
