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deaf people apparently only watch TV in early hours!

  • 14-10-2008 12:27pm
    #1
    Hack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭


    anyone have any idea why TV stations only ever have sign language interpreter's on the screens foreground for show and movie repeats after midnight? clearly they either assume that the deaf only ever watch TV at these late times or maybe they have to show a small per centage each day so they put them on when less people are watching TV.


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  • #2
    shenanigans1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


    Think they have to have a certain amount of programmes signed, and its just a distraction to have them on during the day. Would subtitles not be a better option?


  • #3
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    I used to work with a Russian woman who thought all babies with any problems (e.g. down syndrome, deafness) should be aborted.

    Nice lady...

    She used to make bombs for the KGB.

    /True story


  • #4
    fifth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    the little man in the corner would make it impossible for me to see the time on the screen on ireland am in the mornings

    proper order tbh


  • #5
    Fiend-Foe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Fiend-Foe


    Hack wrote: »
    anyone have any idea why TV stations only ever have sign language interpreter's on the screens foreground for show and movie repeats after midnight? clearly they either assume that the deaf only ever watch TV at these late times or maybe they have to show a small per centage each day so they put them on when less people are watching TV.

    I dunno, maybe deaf people use videos and set timers to record it.

    But it p1sses me of cos I'm a nocturnal type and always end up watching them.

    Surely in this day and age they could have seperate signed channels, we have E4+1, Paramount+1 Discovery+1. Surely they could add extra channels for the deaf people...


  • #6
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Fiend-Foe wrote: »
    Surely they could add extra channels for the deaf people...

    They tried that before on the radio, didn't work out.


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  • #7
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    I used to work with a Russian woman who thought all babies with any problems (e.g. down syndrome, deafness) should be aborted.

    Nice lady...

    She used to make bombs for the KGB.

    /True story

    Thanks for sharing that with us :rolleyes:

    Really ad's to the thread.


  • #8
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Hack wrote: »
    anyone have any idea why TV stations only ever have sign language interpreter's on the screens foreground for show and movie repeats after midnight? clearly they either assume that the deaf only ever watch TV at these late times or maybe they have to show a small per centage each day so they put them on when less people are watching TV.

    WHAT?


  • #9
    Fiend-Foe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Fiend-Foe


    toiletduck wrote: »
    They tried that before on the radio, didn't work out.
    :)

    Bah dum... tis

    **** you broke my cymbal...


  • #10
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    toiletduck wrote: »
    They tried that before on the radio, didn't work out.

    LOL

    tbh I'd say it's a lot easier to read subtitles than it is to watch someone waving their hands around. some fat bitch throwing her arms about is FAR more of a distraction than writing at the bottom of the screen

    /2c


  • #11
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    The Bollox wrote: »
    LOL

    tbh I'd say it's a lot easier to read subtitles than it is to watch someone waving their hands around. some fat bitch throwing her arms about is FAR more of a distraction than writing at the bottom of the screen

    /2c

    Have you not seen the ones on the music channels? Some white guy dropping shapes while signing. Very funny.


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  • #12
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Fiend-Foe wrote: »
    Surely in this day and age they could have seperate signed channels, we have E4+1, Paramount+1 Discovery+1. Surely they could add extra channels for the deaf people...


    Yeah, they could have Paramount -1


  • #13
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Yeah, they could have Paramount -1

    Paramount+WHAT?


  • #14
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    The Bollox wrote: »
    LOL

    tbh I'd say it's a lot easier to read subtitles than it is to watch someone waving their hands around. some fat bitch throwing her arms about is FAR more of a distraction than writing at the bottom of the screen

    /2c

    What gets me is the news for the deaf, yer wan is moving her mouth but someone else is reading the news... why? I mean if it's for lip reading then why doesn't she do the talking? Lazy bitch.


  • #15
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭nobodythere


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Have you not seen the ones on the music channels? Some white guy dropping shapes while signing. Very funny.

    So funny! One of them looks like Michael Stipe. Always a larf when the sexy songs come on


  • #16
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    They should put one of them on MTV Dance. She could have glow sticks tucked between her fingers, eyes rollin around in her head and the jaws up around her eyes.

    There is a danger she might just be signing "I'm ****in mashed...."


  • #17
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's obvious really.

    During the daytime, the deaf people turn up the volume until the speakers are busting out of the tv set. Were they to do this when everybody else is asleep, they would be dead - as they wouldn't hear some insomniac guy with a machete kicking their door in at 2 O'Clock in the morning.


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