wow lot of posts this week. Group of teenage chavvy kids getting on my bus and think its cool to make fun at every old person on the bus then play their music full blast.
Also i`m deaf and some people when asked to repeat themselves feel they need to talk slowly and loudly back to me well i`m not retarded just say it again in exactly the same way.
(Nahla, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 9:42, 11 replies)

Repetition
I don't see the problem with the repetition thing. It seems like a perfectly reasonable response, if you're told that your interlocutor didn't catch something, to repeat it a little more slowly and forcefully. (Deafness has nothing to do with it, either - it seems to me to be a perfectly civil respose to anyone.)

I SAID: I DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM WITH THE REPETITION THING.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:06, closed)

I don`t mind repetion but the fact that repeating at 120db and speed of a snail in a little degrading and derogatory.
(Nahla, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:14, closed)

Nope - I really don't see it.
Naive and well-meaning seems more likely. Maybe people misjudge your needs - but that's hardly degrading or derogatory; they're still aiming to do the right thing. (It's not like they're adding "YOU DEAF TWAT" at the end of every statement.) You seem a little techy.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:34, closed)

what enzyme said
has just made me cry a little bit and some tea come out of my nose. thanks for that.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:07, closed)

*cackles maniacally*

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:14, closed)

How do you know they are playing their music full blast ?
Just wondering...
(wrigglesworth, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:15, closed)

Bcause they don`t wear headphones dummy.
Just because i`m deaf it doesn`t mean I don`t hear anything I also wear a hearing aid. not thats its any of your beeswax
(Nahla, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:18, closed)

I had the same question
You are awfully tetchy.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:59, closed)

duh i'm a big dummy...
Oh okay, so you're not completely deaf then... thats all you had to say.

HAVE A NICE DAY
(wrigglesworth, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:10, closed)

Presumably
The same way he listens to people talking.
(Merrep, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:13, closed)

I thought
we established that he had problems hearing people talking sometimes?

This whole set of replies is sounding like lets bash the deaf bloke, but I think we should make it clear that we are actually playing "lets taunt the tetchy person" before some well meaning chickenlady person comes in and tells us off for being naughty.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:35, closed)