Pointless announcements 2.0

I just made this up. You're welcome.

What do you get when you cross a philanderer with a philatelist?



A tramp stamp collector.

 

My bad

 

This' my 13,000 post on the Tilted Forum Project.

I wonder how many I had on the previous version?

 

I couldn't find my previous post count using the Archived thread. That is something meaningless .

 

My wife & I were in San Antonio the last few days. I finally actually went to the Briscoe Museum of Western Art, & it was great.

 

The Univ of Houston Cougars men's basketball team no longer has to worry about playing for the NCAA Championship here in Houston.

They got their ass kicked & stomped by the Miami Hurricanes. A great regular season and a couple of wins in the tournament is nice, but a 14 point loss is getting your ass kicked.


Oh, Alabama, another top seed, also lost. But only by seven points.

 

Test in this forum. My pointless announcement is I'm yet again having problems posting in the Politics forum.

Edit: This posted immediately.

 

Something in the movie Mr. Holland's Opus has bothered me for many years:

His teenaged (exact age?) son was born deaf (I think), yet Mr. Holland couldn't sign worth a shit.

 

It's a serious issue with kids born into hearing families.
Only about 40% learn to sign with proficiency.
That leaves kids, as Rogue pointed out, without language development when they need it most.
We also see the parents who refuse to let their kids join the Deaf community because they think it means they won't be successful in the 'real' world.
Personally I think they are more afraid of their kids being involved in something they will be totally not be able to participate in.
Parents are happy to take their kids to sports in the wee hours of the morning but won't let them hang out with deaf friends.
It's fucked up.

 

I had no ideas deafness was still an issue with some families. In my mind it's simple, you have a deaf child you learn to sign.

This thought was triggered a rerun episode of Providence* in which a deaf mother selfishly doesn't want her deaf young daughter to have a cochlear implant, but the hearing father does.

* If you haven't seen Providence, think sappy "Hallmark" Christmas movie that doesn't end.

 

The cochlear implant issue is way more complicated than you might think.
We get people into DVR who had them installed as kids by well meaning parents and they took them out because the sound was painful and overwhelming.
They have to be constantly maintained and balanced which is something kids, teenagers don't do well.
The Deaf Community also doesn't consider themselves broken.
Having something forced on them to make them hear, especially when it involves major surgery, does not go over well.
I'm not big D Deaf and not part of the community so my making their arguments will sound wrong and probably a bit weird.
But it makes sense to them.

 

I received (yet another) life insurance offer through the mail.

They included a small freebie:
A few sheets of
return address labels for envelopes.

Seriously, AAA?

 

Is pointing out the obvious...pointless?

Connor McGregor, yet again, shows that
he is a complete asshole.

The Anus of Ireland strikes again!


View: https://youtu.be/uMlrvREuurA

 

I am getting 2 new knees tomorrow (Wednesday the 5th).
I may be off the TFP for a while ! Whish me luck and I'll see you soon.
xoxoxoo

 

Good luck!!

Keep up with your PT, you don't want to deal with uncooperative knees.

 

Take care man.
You'll be chasing your old lady around on those new knees in no time.

 

Late last night our AC, the part in the attic (blower unit I've since learned), made a long & loud humming noise, then stopped. The outside compressor kept running constantly..

We got it looked at this afternoon. The replacement fournace & blower unit is in stock, & repairs should start around 10 tomorrow morning.

It's 86F in our house, & we still have about 4 hours of western sun to go.

 

Oh man, I remember when the AC went out at our house in NJ.
That was a miserable couple of days.
I'm glad they are getting to you soon.