sign language on tv... very late.

berrycherry

Ok so I'm watching a program on bbc, and in the corner of the screen is this gigantic fella doing sign language!
But my problem is he only comes on this hour of the morning.... do they expect deaf people to wait till this time to watch tv??

Dudess

I love the way some music channels have a sign language person in the corner of videos. :pac:

44leto

berrycherry wrote: »

Ok so I'm watching a program on bbc, and in the corner of the screen is this gigantic fella doing sign language!
But my problem is he only comes on this hour of the morning.... do they expect deaf people to wait till this time to watch tv??

I suppose the programs are always repeats so they expect them to record them or watch them on the player.

wobbles

Deaf people dont hear the alarm clock and sleep in. Do you know how hard it is to go to sleep at night when youve slept til 11?

chin_grin

Dudess wrote: »

I love the way some music channels have a sign language person in the corner of videos. :pac:

The best bit is when they're really getting in to the song and dancing away to it.

berrycherry

But the sign language guy is literally taking up half the tv screen....

I wouldn't complain as much if he was a bit of eye candy :pac:

IM0

sky+/VCR

VCR is for if you are going wtf at skt+

Temptamperu

I like when looking at subtitles it says "door bell rings" how does a deaf person interpret that

AlmightyCushion

What a ridiculous thread, everyone knows deaf people are nocturnal.

Hank_Jones

Don't get me started on the blind either, with their beeping traffic lights.

Those bastards...

chin_grin

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Don't get me started on the blind either, with their beeping traffic lights.

Those bastards...

The blind drive?

(cof pedestrian lights /cof)

LighterGuy

I dont know why they have these sign language programs ...

1, why only at night?
2, Don't most tv shows have a subtitles option?

I'm not against them But with the ever popular 'Red Button' feature. How come a deaf person doesnt have the option to press red when Eastenders is on so they can watch a signed feed of the programme?

krudler

LighterGuy wrote: »

I dont know why they have these sign language programs ...

1, why only at night?
2, Don't most tv shows have a subtitles option?

I'm not against them But with the ever popular 'Red Button' feature. How come a deaf person doesnt have the option to press red when Eastenders is on so they can watch a signed feed of the programme?

cos the signer would slash their wrists being forced to watch dreary sh1te like Eastenders every night?

xi

berrycherry wrote: »

Ok so I'm watching a program on bbc, and in the corner of the screen is this gigantic fella doing sign language!
But my problem is he only comes on this hour of the morning.... do they expect deaf people to wait till this time to watch tv??

The hearing impaired like to watch TV too, as 44leto says these are always repeats and are made available recording purposes.

You can always invoke your remote control privilege and find a documentary on Discovery covering let's say... bigotry?

starbelgrade

What the hell are blind people doing watching the telly anyway?

berrycherry

xi wrote: »

The hearing impaired like to watch TV too, as 44leto says these are always repeats and are made available recording purposes.

You can always invoke you're remote control privilege and find a documentary on Discovery covering let's say... bigotry?

This was ment as a light hearted thread!
Of course the deaf have to watch tv two.... keep your knickers on love.... :rollseyes:

berrycherry

berrycherry wrote: »

Ok so I'm watching a program on bbc, and in the corner of the screen is this gigantic fella doing sign language!
But my problem is he only comes on this hour of the morning.... do they expect deaf people to wait till this time to watch tv??

IT'S SO WE DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEIR TV'S IN THE NEXT STREET!

44leto

xi wrote: »

The hearing impaired like to watch TV too, as 44leto says these are always repeats and are made available recording purposes.

You can always invoke your remote control privilege and find a documentary on Discovery covering let's say... bigotry?

I am hearing impaired but I use the subs which comes with most RTE and BBC programs. So you to could watch any of those programs with the option of subs when they are first aired.

But anyone with SKY+ or the various Iplayers which also have subs, hardly ever watch scheduled tele, they only watch recordings, as i do.

Sorry you feel like a victim.

xi

berrycherry wrote: »

This was ment as a light hearted thread!
Of course the deaf have to watch tv two.... keep your knickers on love.... :rollseyes:

You might have mentioned that in the title then, coupled with the deaf term your original post seemed a bit naive, my bad, knickers pulled firmly back up.

berrycherry

xi wrote: »

You might have mentioned that in the title then, coupled with the deaf term your original post seemed a bit naive, my bad, knickers pulled firmly back up.

I didn't think I'd offend anyone...
That's good keep em up :pac:

Mr.Biscuits

Reminds me of the time back years ago when one of my mates asked us why the sides of cassette tapes had one bump for side one and two bumps for side two and we said it was so deaf people could tell the sides.

ejmaztec

My hearing's perfect, but I have to use sub-titles because my wife won't shut the fuck up when I want to watch something.:(

Princess Peach

I watched the Blues Brothers with sign language not too long ago. It was amazing, especially the songs.

And one morning I saw a documentary about a Scandanavian deaf rapper. He raps in sign language!

Also in the news last year http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/08/17/bbc-sign-language-interpreter-sacked-for-changing-the-news/

Leslie Grange, 32, has been a sign language interpreter for seven years. In a statement today she cited ‘personal difficulties – particularly a crushing professional boredom’ as to why, over the past six months, she had started deviating from what was actually being reported, giving deaf viewers an often ‘wildly different version of events’.
“Questions started to be raised around the time of the Japanese earthquake when several viewers emailed us to complain about our reports of radioactive zombies sighted near the nuclear reactor. We dismissed them as some sort of organised hoax.”
“However, when there were similar numbers getting in touch to ask if Rebekah Brooks was really in trouble for raping a monkey, and why the BBC was claiming that, as a special summer treat, the Prime Minister had told the nation’s teenagers they didn’t have to pay for anything any more, we realised something was wrong.”
“I would like to apologise to everyone in the deaf community,” Grange told reporters today, “though when I had Cameron tell Obama “your statesmen-like profile leaves my willy plump” – well, frankly I don’t think that is so very far from the truth.”

brimal

Didn't one of these sign language ppl on TV get the sack recently for signing absolute rubbish instead of the show.

Signing 'Can I get a curry chip please' and other shizz like that..

bodhrandude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiAONEymW1k