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Bro, Let me tell you this: I'm equally shy among deaf and hearing people alike. Even among friends, I don't feel comfortable "opening my mouth" so to speak. I only really TALK with my closest friends. That said, I work in a busy office environment and I'm a volunteer firefighter. I...

Let me know if you also want FD patches.. I can send some from my department... Thx - Neil

This is a flawed argument. Polecat Pictures is a business devoted to "deaf" pornography. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. However, at Deaf Expo and DeafNation shows, there's a LOT of kids walking around and there's a valid reason to remove them. Regardless, the producers of...

There's no confusion here on my part. DeafVP.com is owned and operated by Sorenson. VPList.com is owned and operated by CSD. What's the issue? Yes, Sorenson is behaving like Micro$oft in many ways and other agencies are playing "catchup" but that's capitalism at its best/worst. In...

Amen. You could go to Harvard for all I know, blow your mind on pot and never get anywhere in life. Conversely, I know plenty of people who quite successful with just a high-school education. People who disparage Gallaudet forget one very important point: Gallaudet graduates are deaf and...

I. King Jordan (President of Gallaudet Univ) had a great quote in regards to this question: Think about that. It's a profound statement.

What will you do if you need to call 911?

You're exactly right. Companies/stores/etc. need to do more to consider folks with disabilities in their emergency planning efforts. But we have to look out for ourselves. All the fancy strobe lights and doohickies aren't gonna save you if you don't know what to DO when the alarm starts going...

Personally, I think those of us who have special needs can't just sit around and expect that we'll be taken care of when something happens. For those of you who work, how many of you have sat down with your supervisor, building manager, security director, etc. and said: "OK, I'm deaf.. this...

There's only three things I cannot live without in my kitchen (I'm the cook in the family... my wife is the baker). 1: A sharp chef's knife. Not only can u chop stuff with this thing, but you can also use it to mash garlic, scoop stuff from the cutting board onto the pan, etc.. 2: My...

I don't even bother reading half of the new topics these days because they always seem to follow this pattern: 1) Original post of value 2) 4 or 5 good comments 3) one troll makes stupid comments 4) other trolls smell stupidity and start trolling too. 5) topic gets locked or dies of its...

AmazingChrist, I really like those rollup doors on the fire truck you posted. They really do make it easy to get to the stuff you need to get. Did you have any questions about the fire service that I could answer for you? Mattie; Looks like a basement fire in that house. Any news...

now now.. tell us how you REALLY feel....

Honor is not a 'conservative' or 'christian' concept. There are conservatives out there that are without honor (pill-poppin' Rush, trollin' Steve, etc..) just as there are plenty of liberals out there who come up a few notches short in the honor department (JFK, etc..). Magatsu said it...

And you even say you'd be joining the confederates if you had the opportunity during the civil war... You can't say, "cops suck because they beat black people" then turn around and say (even indirectly) that black people should have remained as slaves. Get off your deranged high horse and...

I'd have to disagree. You WANT to keep the ASL going. I would talk to your manager. Tell them that you'd applied to a RA position before you accepted ur current job then they offered you a job you really want. You can always offer to stay on and help train the replacement. If you're really...

I'll have to agree on this. I think because of our deaf"ness", we're often clueless in terms of the social ebb and flow in the workplace and I've had situations come up where I open my mouth and I've said the WORST POSSIBLE THING that could be said at that point because I didn't know what was...

You rang?

I have an Ogo and my wife does too. You can't look at the device as something that "beats" the SKII because it doesn't. It simply handles e-mail and AIM. The only problem I had was with the activiation which took more than 24 hours (a simple call to their data group resolved that quickly)...

There's been conflicting stories about the smoke detectors.. some media reports said they had strobed smoke detectors that were not in the bedrooms themselves... other reports suggest they had the "hearing" kind but expected the dog to alert them (dog was found dead in the living room). Even...