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Sign language on late night tv?

  • 02-10-2014 8:36am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭


    They've had it on British tv for years now I see it's creeping onto Irish tv, what's the deal? are all deaf people insomniacs who only watch tele after 1am.......what is the fking point of this


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    It's because it's the ear-ly hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    It distracts from fapping.

    Or, depending on the signer, enhances it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    whats the sign language for F. off ? two fingers ?

    and up yours ? one finger ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Here's a mad thought. Maybe they record it to watch at their leisure.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    what?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Yeah, those deaf idiots who can't enjoy the same television us people with our perfect hearing can! I mean it's like they want have some sort of normal life or something. Pff does my head in.
    Seriously OP, have you nothing better to complain about? They have that service for a particular audience. Don't like it? Go to fcuking bed or put on a dvd or better yet.... change the channel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    They've had it on British tv for years now I see it's creeping onto Irish tv, what's the deal? are all deaf people insomniacs who only watch tele after 1am.......what is the fking point of this

    This has to be the worst complaint I've seen in a while.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    There's none so blind than them what won't listen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rory28


    The OP should be ridiculed for this post. Boo, I say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭nerobert


    anncoates wrote: »
    It's because it's the ear-ly hours.

    Heh heh


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭nerobert


    anncoates wrote: »
    It's because it's the ear-ly hours.

    Heh heh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Having a go at the deaf:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    seriously though, who do they think they are?

    Why should they get their own language put on tv? its a ****ing disgrace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Having a go at the deaf:confused:

    Next he will be pi33ed off that disabled people are allowed to park so close to shop entrances.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    RossieMan wrote: »
    seriously though, who do they think they are?

    Why should they get their own language put on tv? its a ****ing disgrace.

    You should go out and protest about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Having a go at the deaf:confused:

    Well, its easy.
    They can't hear it.

    I seen a while back a signed episode of Family Guy on BBC3.
    The signer didn't have the hands to articulate " Bird is the word" for the 5 solid minutes it was played.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Jesus Christ, he's not having a go at deaf people he's just asking a question, why is it on so late at night, instead of during the day when most people are awake, the question was answered above "they record it etc" albeit in a very condescending and sarcastic manner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    RossieMan wrote: »
    seriously though, who do they think they are?

    Why should they get their own language put on tv? its a ****ing disgrace.

    They should revise the curriculum to make it more conversational and no longer make it mandatory in the leaving ce-...oh sorry, wrong thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    Sit in RTE anyone?

    We'll make hong kong look like a picnic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Jesus Christ, he's not having a go at deaf people he's just asking a question, why is it on so late at night, instead of during the day when most people are awake, the question was answered above "they record it etc" albeit in a very condescending and sarcastic manner.

    Sorry, I couldn't think of any other way to answer a question that the OP could have figured out inside 2 minutes if he'd bothered to think about it instead of taking to the internet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Having a go at the deaf:confused:

    No I'm not deafist.....just always struck me as odd having late night tele with sign language is all, I get the record thing but most tv subscribers today have the option of subtitles


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    kylith wrote: »
    Sorry, I couldn't think of any other way to answer a question that the OP could have figured out inside 2 minutes if he'd bothered to think about it instead of taking to the internet.

    Zing :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Deaf people are clearly vampires.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,282 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    You haven’t lived until you have watched the Inbetweeners on E4 at two in the morning. Little lad in the corner giving it socks trying to translate "Clunge" and "Bumder" for the deaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    kylith wrote: »
    Sorry, I couldn't think of any other way to answer a question that the OP could have figured out inside 2 minutes if he'd bothered to think about it instead of taking to the internet.

    You don't know the OP and can't just assume certain things, i don't see what the harm in asking the question was it's quite a common thing to hear really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Deathwish4


    Always gutted when I record a late night film only to press play and see the old bag who gesticulates taking up half the screen.

    Oh well, it could be worse..I could be deaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,925 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    kylith wrote: »
    Sorry, I couldn't think of any other way to answer a question that the OP could have figured out inside 2 minutes if he'd bothered to think about it instead of taking to the internet.

    This is hilarious considering you weren't able to give him the correct answer, well done!

    OP, the reason you see late night programmes with sign language is because in the UK:

    This replaced the Broadcasting Act of 1996. Because networks had to have programmes with sign language, they preferred to put those programmes on late at night to minimise the impact on people who preferred not to have their picture obscured.

    Thats why you may have seen it on British TV for years, and I'm not searching for it because I haven't encountered the issue here but I would guess there is now a similar requirement in Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    The reality is that for most people the sign language is seen as a distraction/annoyance, and if you put it on all the daytime/evening TV people will just switch to another channel.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    You don't know the OP and can't just assume certain things, i don't see what the harm in asking the question was it's quite a common thing to hear really.

    There are way and means of asking questions though without appearing to come across as a complete prick.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Jesus Christ, he's not having a go at deaf people he's just asking a question, why is it on so late at night, instead of during the day when most people are awake, the question was answered above "they record it etc" albeit in a very condescending and sarcastic manner.

    No, the OP was having a go, and trying to be a smartarsed git in a cackhanded way. Either that or he or he is a complete idiot incapable of thinking things out for himself.

    If you can't see that you're in the same boat.

    You don't use words like "now I see it's creeping onto Irish tv" as though it was some kind of sinister disease, unless you're trying to stir it up.

    Nor do people 'just ask a question' like this - "what is the fking point of this" without trying to be deliberately provocotive.

    And you accuse someone else of sarcasm while ignoring this obviously sarcasm loaded question in the OP - "what's the deal? are all deaf people insomniacs who only watch tele after 1am".

    Like I say, he's either trying to stir the shít or is a complete and utter fool.

    But anyone who tries to defend him is an even bigger eejit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Lapin wrote: »
    No, the OP was having a go, and trying to be a smartarsed git in a cackhanded way. Either that or he or he is a complete idiot incapable of thinking things out for himself.

    If you can't see that you're in the same boat.

    You don't use words like "now I see it's creeping onto Irish tv" as though it was some kind of sinister disease, unless you're trying to stir it up.

    Nor do people 'just ask a question' like this - "what is the fking point of this" without trying to be deliberately provocotive.

    And you accuse someone else of sarcasm while ignoring this obviously sarcasm loaded question in the OP - "what's the deal? are all deaf people insomniacs who only watch tele after 1am".

    Like I say, he's either trying to stir the shít or is a complete and utter fool.

    But anyone who tries to defend him is an even bigger eejit.

    And if that is the case what does that make you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    You don't know the OP and can't just assume certain things, i don't see what the harm in asking the question was it's quite a common thing to hear really.

    Not for deaf people though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    And if that is the case what does that make you?

    Bob.Carcass meet pointless thread, pointless thread meet Bob.Carcass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I'm making a sign. Can you guess what it is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    endacl wrote: »
    I'm making a sign. Can you guess what it is?

    Is it a type of performing an act on oneself sign?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭Dub Ste


    A bit off topic,I don't really watch things that are signed,but I do sometimes watch the telly with the subtitles on,don't know why,just have done for a while.

    Every now then,all the smart remarks and wisecracks about why I have the subtitles on pay off.

    The next time Blazing Saddles is on,stick on the subtitles................you haven't lived until you've seen the scene where they are sitting round the campfire eating beans.

    How do you subtitle a fart you may ask,just watch,it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen............:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    endacl wrote: »
    I'm making a sign. Can you guess what it is?

    Cul de sac? One way street?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Cul de sac? One way street?

    Damn, you're good! It was both if those.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,416 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Lapin wrote: »
    There are way and means of asking questions though without appearing to come across as a complete prick.

    Lighten up Mr uptight, take it for how it was meant ....in a lighthearted way, are you as confrontational in real life to harmless stuff or are you just playing the Internet game


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rory28


    bear1 wrote: »
    Not for deaf people though.

    Zing


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    sonofenoch wrote: »
    No I'm not deafist.....just always struck me as odd having late night tele with sign language is all, I get the record thing but most tv subscribers today have the option of subtitles

    Subtitles and sign-language are not interchangeable. Sign language is not a translation of English. It is a true language itself, with it's own grammar and structure. For many sign language users, it is their first language. Many deaf people have low literacy levels in English, as a result of poor education, segregation and discrimination. There are many deaf people who will be able to understand sign language but who will not be able to read English language subtitles quick enough to keep up with a programme.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Its a bit annoying when catching a late repeat.

    The BBC misses a trick - its got a red button channel on Sky and freesat which it could use permanently (recordable) and yet doesn't think to use it for signing transmissions.


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