Masked Monkey

um gary they are already going to be spending it with upwards of 80,000 people :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

If I may make a suggestion Dion. The newly reopend chat room is a good place to get to know a subset of the people here. You don't have to participate, you can just sit silently and watch the people there make idiots of themselves. When you feel comfortable, or have something to contribute, you can. :snowy:

So Robbie, you gonna let John play with your stick? Of course I am referring to your car .... and you call me a perv :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

But he lives in New Jersey and can't be expected to know anything anyway. Snowy

ahem Punk :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

Somehow the thought of being at "The Happiest Place on Earth" on July 4th is not very appealing. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snwoy: Dog

I can see the look on Rich's face when you tell him we are all sleeping at your house :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

You've never met my family But I am celebrating a start date for my new job ... July 14 I will be in San Diego ... unfortunately, closer to my family :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

Geeze, jump down his throat for using an analogy, which by definition never fits exactly. It think that what Nerotorb was saying is that for him, being gay is just a part of who he is, like handedness or skin, eye, and hair color. I have never sat down and thought "What do I like about having hazel eyes?" That is a very different question from "Do I like having hazel eyes?", or "Why do/don't I like having hazel eyes?". "What do you like about ..." looks beyond liking the thing itself and goes into an analysis of the benefits you receive from said trait that you would not get without said trait. As phrased, it is a weird and generally difficult question once you get past the defining attraction to the same-sex bodily form. However, I think it is an important question to ask simply because self-hatred/dislike is so prevalent. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

Repetative and frequently off-topic ... doesn't that describe 95.4% of all the threads on this site? :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

of course you do , Robbie is a stud :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

Geeeze, you deaf (or partially deaf) people ... you seem to want things from us NORMAL people like looking at you when we talk and speaking clearly. Next thing you are going to want is for us not to cut in line ahead of you, to let you change lanes when you are trying to get off the interstate, and gods forbid, the right to vote. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog P.S. For those of you who aren't sure, I was being sarcastic.

I just call them "Pea Souper's" anyway

I think anyone who didn't notice right away should have at least 1,000 posts removed from their count. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

most likely from an fMRI (functional MRI). That wouldn't surprise me with someone who was born deaf or became deaf at a young age (in terms of senory development). The part of the brain that processes hearing is a very active part of the brain, it isn't just going to sit there unused simply because it isn't getting input from it's intended source. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog Edit: Although, I would have to read the study to accept/understand the conclusions. (damned scientist)

I usually either bury myself in work, or I talk to people online ... sometimes both. But since I have been battling depression for 30+ years, only realizing it as such for the last 2, I have a lot of defelction techniques. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

Twisted I tell you .... Twisted. I would NEVER have participated in such a public display of depravity. You (except gabe, steve, jamie, viv, tiger, krista, and steph) should be ashamed of yourselves. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow :snowy: Dog

My grandmother emmigrated to Canada from France (with her parents and most of her siblings, her eldest sister didn't as she was a can-can dancer and making too good of a living), but she would have beat you if you called her a French Canadian ... they emmigrated to western Canada. Don't talk to Myr, talk to Trebs, he is responsible for this fiasco

Not gonna comment on the deaf people wanting deaf children, there is too much stereotyping and assuming that the attitude of the whole is exemplified by the attitudes of a few radicals I take exception with tihs comment from a scientific point of view. I recently saw a very good lecture on the physics of hearing and the Chochelar Implant (yet another hot topic in the deaf community). It was presented by a Perdue prof. who lost his hearing due to the use of an oto-toxic antibiotic used during his leukemia treatment. While "hearing" may be the sensation of compression waves entering the ear canal, the whole function of the Chochlea is to convert that compression wave (after it has been converted into the physical motion of bone and membranes, yes, vibration), including separating out the variouos frequency components, into an electrical signal that can be processed by the brain. Whether a "deaf" person can "hear" any type of vibration depends upon the source of hearing loss. If it is nerve damage, then no, vibrations are not passed, in any fashion. I think many hearing people tend to forget that our "hearing" of music is not simply the neurologic signal that starts at our eardrums, but also the vibration in all parts of the body caused primarily by bass. Vibrations can be "detected" by many parts of the body, not just the ears. As to the overall topic, any time you get a "minority" group together, they will have a set of common experiences. Hell, even "majority" groups have common experiences and create communities, but that is beside the point. Minority groups tend to identify with the experiences that set them apart from the majority, rather than those that include them. Since the "majority" will not, generally, develop language or practices that are not a part of the "majority" experince, part of the process of developing a "community" or "culture" must naturally include developing that language. It is also natural that the "minority" will identify "inequities" between the standard operation of the "majority" and how those practices apply to the "minority". That said, it would surprise me if there wasn't a "deaf culture", a "gay culture", a "recovering drug addict" culture, an "active drug addict" culture, a "criminal" culture, a "this disease" or "that disease" culture, a "scientific" culture, a "religious" culture ... I need not go on ad infinitum. What does surprise me is that people seem surprised that these things exist as wholly functioning things. :king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

naw, he looks like a typical young professor waiting for some insufferable dolt to stop annoying him. At least given the time frame .... 15 years later, the same person would have looked quite different :king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

*Pet Peeve alert* A LOT is two words

Mhh, say in August? :king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog

No thanks, I've seen the movies I will also add that I am 0th generation American, my family is from Canada, complete with relatives who left the Colonies during the period of treason around 1777.

I dunno about Canada, with the way the American Dollar is going, I don't know that I'll be able to afford Canada by the time the next get together comes around :king: Dr. Mr. Snow Dog