The UK Deaf Tribe

Professor Robert WInston on QT re gender confusion YouTube video by NewsScape Channel (NewsScape)

If it has a willy it's a bloke. You're supposed to be intelligent.

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I always think that it is not really Christmas until the Hallelujah chorus turns up on the radio.
Even my sh!t hearing can pick that one up.

Strongly recommend a bean to cup machine. I used to grind my own beans but the bean to cup machine does it all with one push of a button.
Mine is a De Longhi Magnifica but there is plenty of choice.

Remember that none of this would have happened if Hamas had not attacked Israeli children.

It's a waste of time trying to have a discussion with these people because they just block overyone who disagrees with them.

What you don't hear about cheerleaders is that they are athletes with a high injury rate. They may look good but they also hurt easily.

2. I was unable to get out to post it. To my shock the tutor refused to mark it and returned it unmarked.
This had the effect of completely demoralising me. After 7 good years with the OU then this.
So I walked away. They can keep their fucking degrees I am no longer interested.

I didn't go for a higher degree because I was discriminated against by the Open University of all people.
I was coming to the end of my BSc and was considering taking it further.
Unfortunately I injured me leg and it was just before an assignment was due. I did the assignment but owing to my injury

The significance of Milan 1880 is absolutely zero.
It was a small obscure meeting in somebody elses country and attended mostly by Italian teachers of the deaf.
It certainly was not some kind of watershed in deaf life and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to do some proper research.

Hot milk with plenty of sugar and wedge of Kraft cheese. A great start to the day.

Bring Down The Government (2004 Remaster) YouTube video by Lindisfarne - Topic

Please meet old time folk band Lindisfarne from Newcastle.
They wrote this song many years ago but it never became a hit.

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Notice how none of them are signing. It's all lipreading.
This just goes to show how fake the BDA really is.

John Entwistle - Deafer & Deafer (Thunderfingers - A Tribute) YouTube video by Stevie's Vinyl Cupboard

Yes, you can "lipread" a guitar. Who knew?

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This makes an important point. It's easy to be a signer in an area where everyone else signs.

But what happens to the Deaf person who moves into an area where there are few if any signers?

So what happens is that sign users tend to confine themselves to areas which are supported by other signers.

Take a good look at a man's formal jacket.
The collar is fake, the buttonhole, the top pocket, the shoulder padding, the cuffs, the vent are all unnecessary and never used.
That's why I don't wear a suit.

All the excitement about Dr Who makes me smile. It is after all 100% fiction and yet people get so involved in it.

I've never had the privilege of understanding Dr Who because right from the start it was for hearings.
Funny voices, masks, machines that talk. No subtitles.
No thanks.

Unfortunately Professor Schembri appears to have left the discussion and blocked me.
The whole point of a discussion document is to have a discussion.
However it seems that nobody wants a discussion.

This is the APPG on Deafness.
Note that it has new members in this Parliament including Lord Bruce who is definitely knowledgeable about deaf people.
This is separate to the APPG on BSL.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallp...

This is a survey carried out by the DWP some years ago. A bit out of date but still a good guide to the Deaf world.
Certainly it is more accurate than anything produced by the BDA. In discussion the Government will obviously use their own data.

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The BDA has now become involved in an All Party Parliamentary group for British Sign language.
This consists of a committee led by Jen Craft MP.
The admin is carried out by the BDA.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallp...

The BSL Broadcasting Trust commissioned a report into the number of signing Deaf people who might watch their films. The Deaf Audience.
The report is buried on the BSLBT/Lumo site, which is a pity because it contains accurate, verifiable information.

lumotv.co.uk/application/...

It is worth pointing out that MP Rosie Cooper announced in the HOC that there are 151,000 BSL users in this country.

This paper now tells us that there are 87,000. Where did they go?

The membership of the BDA is about 3500.
Unrepresentative, I'm afraid and not very truthful.

They have put up a discussion paper but nobody seems to be discussing it.

One of the biggest misunderstandings about deaf people is that there is a difference between the word Deaf and the word deaf.
In the hearing world there is no perceptible difference. This is because people do not speak in capital letters.
In sign, there is no doubt that Deaf people are signers.

Quite recently I wrote to the editor of a national publication pointing out that the article about Deaf people that he had printed was twaddle.
Just because a handful of employees in a factory learned a smattering of BSL is not a solution to deafness in the workplace.

I too am very concerned about the wildly inaccurate answers being given by hearing people.

However let us consider who supplies that information?

Which charity has been constantly banging on about BSL morning, noon and night?
For 22 years? Very ineffective communication.

Children's Cochlear Implants Hearing loss can affect these areas of development. When hearing aids don’t help enough, a surgically implanted hearing device called a cochlear implant may help.

This is interesting. It is clear from this and other reports that early intervention is the best approach.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treat...

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Thank you for the report I'll certainly read it.

This is a report that the BDA knows about, but they never mention it. Yet as you will see it's been verified to the highest standards. Strangely it never gets mentioned that only 26,000 people said they sign at home.

lumotv.co.uk/application/...

Well all of MY research is evidence based. I am a trained Systems Analyst. I don't understand why people get hot under the collar when confronted with facts.
The BDA have been flogging BSL like soap powder for the past 20 years and nobody is allowed to disagree with them.