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   gmartin997 said, 11 months ago

   That’s why they invented closed captioning, so the rest of the family wouldn’t suffer.
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   rhmaustin said, 11 months ago

   But do you ever put your TV on mute and watch the closed-captions? On the major networks, they’re accurate, spelled correctly, etc. But on many of the others, they’re meaningless strings of letters, like some weird foreign language. I guess deaf people simply don’t watch those shows.
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   Arianne said, 11 months ago

   Good one, Dave! :ↁ
   How many seniors have had hi-deaf for years, and never knew it?
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   Bob said, 11 months ago

   I can “hear” fine. Just can’t understand the words
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   Notsoastute said, 11 months ago

   Nah, it is just during the commercials.
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   J. Short said, 11 months ago

   I don’t think that’s the right deaf-inition
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   philyfanstukinmi said, 11 months ago

   Watching an interview in the early days of CC. the interviewee stated something about the participants and it came out on the screen as poor piss pants. I wasn’t sure then or now whether the typist actually did that on purpose to see if anyone was paying attention.
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   Arch Stanton said, 11 months ago

   teenagers and old people. The radio is cranked up loud because teenagers like it loud or because old people need it loud.
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   Pacopuddy said, 11 months ago

   @Bob

   I can cope with the words, it’s the sentences that I can’t manage.
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    gmartin997 said, 11 months ago

    @rhmaustin

    At my age, I couldn’t watch television without closed captioning; and I’m getting to the point where even that is hard to read.
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    Vegas Viper said, 11 months ago

    I must have lost most hearing in the 60’s… But then I can’t remember the 60’s.
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    Ronald Davis said, 11 months ago

    @Arch Stanton

    Right! The old people need it loud because when they were teenagers they liked it loud.
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    Smythe Symble said, 11 months ago

    _{eh? I can’t hear youse…type louder!}
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    RUBBER DUCKY said, 11 months ago

    groan…LOL
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    SamalaWolf said, 11 months ago

    Did you know that Blu-ray players don’t do CC? Sadly, we found this out after my Dad had spent big bucks for a new system…. HDMI cables don’t carry that part of the signal at all, and if you go back to analog cables, it still won’t work because Blu-ray doesn’t transmit all the signal anyway…..Boy was he pissed.
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