DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 7, 2016
-- Deaf woman warned not to go cycling
Charmaine Chua, a deaf woman of Singapore,
wanted to join a hearing cycling club, but
was warned by two hearing members to forget
it. They felt deaf people cannot cycle!
Making it worse, they posted on facebook
"shocked" that a deaf woman would try
cycling! She would not listen to them
and continued to cycle. Eventually these
two people backed off. A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/being-told-deaf-cannot-cycle/
-- movie theater to show open captions every day
The Cinema Chupuki Tabata will be showing captions
every day. It was made possible with funds raised
by an organiation of the deaf and the disabled.
Unfortunately it is not in USA, but in Kita-ku,
Tokyo, Japan. Always great to watch open captions
without using these captioning devices.
-- a big TV series goof about the deaf
Harry Reid, the British actor, wears hearing
aids. He has been appearing as "Ben Mitchell"
on the wildly popular EastEnders TV series in
Great Britain. Viewers know he is deaf because
of his hearing aids. Anyway a recent plot was
embarrassing. In the plot he was kidnapped by
two evil men, and badly beaten up. The "bloodied"
deaf actor asked these two evil men:
You want me to go deaf?
A deaf man asking them to make him deaf!
These script writers did not know what they
were writing about.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- first TV captioned series
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
09/04/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
