AVFCforever1991 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Walking down the street listening to bitter sweet symphony 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wainy316 Posted March 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Hope you've shoulder twatted everyone. Edited March 28, 2014 by Wainy316 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Thinking about Tom Baker reading the intro lines to one of the Little Britain shows: "It is the law in Britain that on Sunday, everyone must eat a roast. The most popular are beef, lamb, pork and bat." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2014 Deaf woman hears sound for the first time. I can't actually fathom this. How can she even comprehend what sound is? She's obviously overwhelmed, but I dunno I just expected her head to explode or something because she'd be so bewildered. Incredible stuff I'm a bit perplexed by this. She was on the national news tonight. If she's never heard any sound, how can she comprehend the relationship between the written and the spoken word? And to thicken the plot further, she speaks - with the usual "deaf person's speech impediment" - but also with a definite trace of a Geordie accent (she's from Newcastle). This doesn't seem consistent with never having heard speech in her life. Not trying to demean the fantastic improvement in her life that this has given her, but I smell media exaggeration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 When I saw it my guess was that the words were being signed to her off camera while they were read out. Either way, it'd still be mindblowing to hear sounds, whether they were as good as in Russian or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Anyone who likes likes: Say some more bad things about golf and you shall receive. Que Stefan slating it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Pedantry. Pedantry cheers me up immensely. There's something so very reassuring about being reminded that you're not the only sad clearing in the woods who cares about its and it's. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 The taste of beer after a horrendously stressful week at work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Going back to golf. I don't mind golf... don't play it myself but no issue with it. Don't mind exclusive golf clubs either for well off people. What annoys me is women moaning about all men golf clubs that date back 200 years. Piss off slags. Let men have their space. You have your female gyms etc, let men have their refuges. Bitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2014 When I saw it my guess was that the words were being signed to her off camera while they were read out. Either way, it'd still be mindblowing to hear sounds, whether they were as good as in Russian or not.I imagine she's lip reading. Which would explain why the nurse/doc is speaking to her like she's a 3 year old. I can understand how she can understand what is being said. And I'm not for one second saying its fake, I just expected her to be more... Bewildered I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Peace & quiet. I know, I know. I'm young. I should be out getting smashed and doing all the rest of that shit. But, feck it. I like quiet weekends. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 You need peace and quiet every now and again 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Isn't golf a bit like horse racing where it used to be for the elite and then yer builders and plumbers came along and ruined it by wanting to show how affluent they had become as they worked cash in hand and paid no tax and thus had a few bob To make it worse you can never find a bleedin plumber on a Friday afternoon , unless you are at the 18th green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Nah, horse racing is tiny men riding horses to death while gambling companies fleece vulnerable sods. Golf is bigger men in better clothes and fancy sticks knocking a ball about. Sometimes it's a bit racist, most of the time it's a bit sexist, but it gives Peter Alliss something to do so it's OK in the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Deaf woman hears sound for the first time. I can't actually fathom this. How can she even comprehend what sound is? She's obviously overwhelmed, but I dunno I just expected her head to explode or something because she'd be so bewildered. Incredible stuff I'm a bit perplexed by this. She was on the national news tonight. If she's never heard any sound, how can she comprehend the relationship between the written and the spoken word? And to thicken the plot further, she speaks - with the usual "deaf person's speech impediment" - but also with a definite trace of a Geordie accent (she's from Newcastle). This doesn't seem consistent with never having heard speech in her life. Not trying to demean the fantastic improvement in her life that this has given her, but I smell media exaggeration. with no actual knowledge, here I go..... I think it could well be that she has never 'heard' these words but she will have 'felt' them, the vibration on a hand or with the music she mentioned, through her whole body remember, she can already speak, so she must know what sound vibration to mimic and therefore would recognise well enough that what she is now hearing is indeed the words for the days of the week what she didn't recognise at first were those other sounds she wouldn't know by learning to make them herself - she was apparently surprised by how noisey a scrunched crisp packet was, and was delighted by birdsong confession time, I was in the car early this morning when I first heard this story, and it nearly made me cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 28, 2014 Its an incredible story, and video. Again I'm not doubting the authenticity of it at all. I just sort of expected her to be MORE surprised by it. As if the whole concept of sound would be alien to her. But as you said she probably experienced sounds, just not by hearing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I got my first ever starred post, this is making me genuinely happy. Seems to play to the gallery you just have to dislike cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CrackpotForeigner Posted March 29, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2014 Only primitive minds reward those who insult the great and noble game of cricket. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 It was once sold to me as a place to go for an all day piss up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekka Posted March 29, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2014 I noticed seeing more adverts, popups and other annoying tidbits whilst surfing the web. Ran Malwarebytes and my internet experience is so much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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