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05/05/2009 09:50:57 AM · #51 |
Originally posted by justine:
thread title changed per/ Bear_Music request. |
Boy one (fantastic) interview and he starts throwing his weight around :) It must be nice to weild that kind of power, eh Robert err Bear_Music sir :)
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05/05/2009 10:04:11 AM · #52 |
Thanks for allowing us to learn more and sharing your thoughts. Great interview and insight into a photographer and dpc member. Photos speak louder then words, but they go hand in hand. Biography reading is always educational.
About hearing loss, you can't lose something you never had. A person who had a hearing aid once told me, he could just turn it up or down. Selective hearing at it's best. There is so much noise pollution out there. Sometimes it makes it harder for me to concentrate on my work.
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05/05/2009 09:00:50 PM · #53 |
| Great job on both sides. Thanks for taking the time. |
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05/06/2009 01:04:10 AM · #54 |
| It was good. Deaf person with a good ear for poetry. Only thing lacking was commentary by Karma. |
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05/06/2009 04:02:13 PM · #55 |
| An enjoyable interview. I've always valued any comment from Bear_Music and from now on even more so. thank you. |
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05/06/2009 04:06:12 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by tnun:
It was good. Deaf person with a good ear for poetry. Only thing lacking was commentary by Karma. |
Karma says "Woof! Woof!", which is about the extent of her communicative capabilities, sadly; the dog has no ear, deaf or otherwise, for poetry :-)
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05/06/2009 09:39:03 PM · #57 |
| Hark, hark, the dogs do bark. |
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05/06/2009 09:53:45 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by tnun:
It was good. Deaf person with a good ear for poetry. Only thing lacking was commentary by Karma. |
Karma says "Woof! Woof!", which is about the extent of her communicative capabilities ...
R. |
A man takes his dog into a bar and asks for two beers. The irate bartender says "Get that dog outta here!"
"You don't understand," says the man, "this is a talking dog."
"Oh, sure," says the bartender, "we better hear him talk right now."
The man turns to the dog and asks "What's on top of this building?"
"Rrrrroof," replies the dog.
"That's not talking," says the bartender, starting to make his way around the counter.
"Wait," says the man, that's not all. "What's the most popular mini-series of all time?" he asks.
"Rrrrrroots," says the dog, as the other patrons begin to clear the way for the seemingly inevitible action to follow.
"Hold on, one more," says the man desperately. "Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?"
The dog, glad to know the answer to this one too, joyfully yelps out "Rrrrruth," at which point the bartender grabs them by their respective collars and flings them through the front door.
Outside, on the sidewalk, the dog turns to the man and says "Gee, do you think I should have said Mickey Mantle?"
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02/18/2010 12:53:50 PM · #59 |
| thanks, it is very interesting |
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02/18/2010 01:16:00 PM · #60 |
| Yes. I especially liked the mint jelly. |
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02/26/2010 02:04:03 PM · #61 |
| Bear, do you speak sign language. |
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02/26/2010 02:12:52 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
Bear, do you speak sign language. |
Actually, no. IN 1949, when I was deafened, conventional wisdom was that I needed to be sent to a residential school for the deaf, where I could be taught "means of overcoming my handicap and becoming a functional member of society." My parents weren't interested in this. They saw sign language as part of a process of slotting me into an underachieving segment, in much the same way that Downs Syndrome individuals can acquire limited self-sufficiency. It's hard to explain the mindset that was prevalent in those days. But things were changing.
My mom had a degree in early childhood education from Smith College, and she basically took over the (very difficult) job of raising me with no concessions and no excuses. For all my early childhood, 9 years basically, I did two hours of various therapies after school every single day. I hated it. All my peers got to have fun, and I was "still in school"... I was taught ti lipread, and taught to speak by feeling vocal cords and mimicking lip/tongue movements.
Worked pretty well, though. I always attended normal classes in normal schools, never special needs classes 9which didn't exist then) or "schools for the deaf". I speak fine, and comprehend speech pretty well, though I have to lipread speech to do so.
I don't mind discussing this further if anyone has questions.
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06/02/2014 12:24:39 AM · #63 |
Just got around to finally reading this, great interview.
Wishing you well for the operation.
Dan |
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06/02/2014 07:33:33 AM · #64 |
| this was awesome...thank you |
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