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09-26-2013, 11:34 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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I'm deaf, not blind.
But thanks for shouting. PS ... Sorry you feel like a vet, sexobon. Oh, wait ... never mind.
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09-26-2013, 11:59 PM
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The future is unwritten
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What?
 I never thought she was deaf, just dense, unhip, clueless, kind of like everyone's previous generation.
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09-27-2013, 12:11 AM
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I love it when a plan comes together.
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Funny you should say that. When I went through Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS, a.k.a. goats on wheels) conducted by the American College of Surgeons to qualify US physicians to work in ERs, I named [for the patient charts] my Human Role Model (HMR, a.k.a. goat) Gilda ... after Gilda Radner. I always admired that comedienne's innate ability to enable people to laugh at their adversities and my HMR was certainly in an adverse situation facing euthanasia after surgical procedures. Gilda was quite popular for her namesake as was her namesake. Maybe trash talking dead comediennes is a Canadian thing, ay? |
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09-27-2013, 12:33 AM
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I'm sure Emily Litella was in Gilda Radnor's repertoire because people thought it hilarious when she couldn't distinguish consonants. Radnor gave the audience what they wanted. It says more about the audience than about Radnor.
Canadians save their trash-talk for hockey, eh.
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09-27-2013, 12:45 AM
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I love it when a plan comes together.
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Note to Congress regarding all treaties with Canada, change "ay" to "eh." Zut alors!
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09-27-2013, 12:46 AM
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 I know that coming out as HOH/deaf loses me ... oh, a gajillion hotness points. But I have some great stories about my more severe misinterpretations of conversation. Like the turtle weenie soup conversation ...
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09-27-2013, 12:57 AM
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(Ottawa Valley dialect; do not try this at home.)
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09-27-2013, 01:44 AM
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I've been wearing two hearing aids since 1981 and should have way before that. As of two months ago they told me they had good news, my hearing is so bad there's no sense in buying hearing aids with all the bells and whistles because I wouldn't hear either. So don't lecture me on misinterpretations of conversation, eh. 
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09-27-2013, 05:15 AM
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We should trade stories.
All right, all right, I have duly lightened up. I get tetchy around 2 am; it's not my best time.
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09-27-2013, 05:29 AM
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still says videotape
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Bruce, how much conversation were you missing when you finally got the hearing aides? I'm headed in that direction... Sometimes I think my level of disinterest in humans makes it worse but there are times when I want to understand and don't.
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09-27-2013, 09:34 AM
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Much more than I thought, according to others. But I think that was more a case of, "You didn't hear a thing I was thinking", in some cases.
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09-27-2013, 10:19 AM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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My uncle is a musician, and he was really in denial about his growing hearing loss, until the Ear-Nose-Throat doc explained to him that it's not just about the ear, it's about the connections in the brain. The longer you can't hear something, the more neurons shut down, and if you wait too long, no hearing aide in the world is going to be able to get those sounds back for you. If you get one as soon as the hearing starts to go, you get to keep everything for much longer. He got one, and was astounded to discover all the things he'd been missing. They make them so tiny now, you really can't see them, and there is no shame in wearing one even if you're still on the young side. |
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09-27-2013, 12:35 PM
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I can hear my ears
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What?
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09-27-2013, 12:59 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Can they help with figure ground hearing problems?
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09-27-2013, 01:32 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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Goddamned gnats!!!!
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