[MeetingsBrowser]

What skill do you develop to avoid the need for a helmet? Is it like a spidey sense, or do you hit yourself in the head so frequently your skull thickens enough to protect your brain from falling objects?

[lapetitejort]

I would like to learn the skill to dodge harmful prolonged sound waves. A technique similar to the safety squint, but with your ears?

[Lanzaa]

The equivalent of safety squints for your hearing would be conscious control of the tensor tympanic muscle. As with safety squints, I don't think there has been much study on the effectiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

[doubled112]

Don't mind me, boss. Just hitting my head off of this pipe to build up a resistance to physical trauma.

[Terr_]

"Just some good old Heterotopic ossification, y'know? More bones, more safety."

(That said, repeated head trauma does tend to thicken the skull, although any practical benefits are extraordinarily questionable.)

[gopher_space]

This was sort of a variation on the “don’t screw around, the idiots will see you” speech I give to the idiots. I missed the mark on tone.