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Actually, after the initial thing went over, I've figured that they just removed me as the school year is over, and they just want to be left alone while the HS group doesn't meet-up, or that's what I'm hoping, shame though, because I was going to invite them to my pool this summer, but it really doesn't matter anymore.

I'll forget about it anyway when I get my DFP on Wednesday, hopefully.

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Chris.
High school drama. Jesus, I'm glad I haven't seen it for 2 years now.
 
Why do they say "Closed Captioning sponsored by" on TV? It seems really odd that a company is willing to sponsor a feature that barely anybody uses (and can't heard the fact that the company is sponsoring the feature they're using anyways).

They're obviously just advertising through the network for a specific program outside of regular ad placement, but why not just say "this program sponsored by" or "brought to you by"?
 
Because the captioning has a specific cost, and the company sponsoring it has paid that cost. That's sort of what sponsoring means.

And I'd bet that when the announcer says, "Closed captioning sponsored by. . .." So does the caption. That's what they do, see, is spell out what's being said in the audio. So the people that can't hear the announcement still know who did the captioning.

They might also be a sponsor of the show itself and have regular commercials, but maybe not. They may jist have done the captioning.
 
My father doesn't hear that well anymore. Almost everytime when I tell him something, he doesn't understand me and or hear something completely different from what I said.

He, and others in his situation, have a 50% 50% change of guessing the right thing.

Why is it that people like him always hear something different from what is being said? Why can't he guess what is being said? No, he always misinterpret what I say.
Is there also something wrong with his brain or is it that he hears what his brain wants to hear and thus always hear the wrong thing?



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SPEAK LOUDER, YOUNG' UN.

Understanding speech is part interpretation, part extrapolation. When you hear spoken language or rear written language, you don't actually read it letter by letter or hear it syllable by syllable. You hear the important parts and extrapolate the rest.

That's why sometimes you can misinterpret a heard word, simply because your brain is filling in the gaps for what you didn't hear or weren't paying attention to.

Old people don't have the best of hearing, and their brains are working overtime to patch up what they can't hear well. If your Dad has trouble understanding you, speak up, speak more CLEARLY and, most importantly, FACE him when talking to him, so he can match what he thinks he hears to your lips. Even more important to do all of this if the background noise is very intrusive.

I still have decent hearing, but I have a hard time understanding my wife, too. I keep telling her to stop eating her words and to face me square on when talking to me, but she always claims it's my fault I don't understand her.

Well, hell, woman, how the heck do you expect me to understand every word if you're talking to the wall instead of me? :lol:
 
Understanding speech is part interpretation, part extrapolation. When you hear spoken language or rear written language, you don't actually read it letter by letter or hear it syllable by syllable. You hear the important parts and extrapolate the rest.

That's why sometimes you can misinterpret a heard word, simply because your brain is filling in the gaps for what you didn't hear or weren't paying attention to.

I must be giving my brain too much of a break, because usually I just tell the other person to repeat themselves.
 
If your Dad has trouble understanding you, speak up, speak more CLEARLY and, most importantly, FACE him when talking to him, so he can match what he thinks he hears to your lips.
If I do that, he gets mad. :ouch:
 
Is there some sort of law on airliners revving their engines incesantly over residential areas? I remember that such aircraft over the neighbourhood used to do it, but dropped the practice recently...
 
It keeps them from falling onto the houses. That would probably bring harsher complaints.

Seriously, if you're under an approach path, it's gonna happen. They don't control their glide slope by flying up and down, they control it by adding or reducing power. If you're dropping too much, you can't just pull up, you'll slow down and stall, and fall out of the sky. You have to add power to reduce your descent rate.

If you think airliners are noisy, you should be under a military approach. F15s and F22s have no noise restrictions.

Another possibility: Is it aircraft in flight, or on the ground at a nearby airport? Part of engine maintenance is a run-up lasting several minutes, and if you live nearby, you hear it.
 
Jah. UCSD is right under an approach to Naval Base Coronado. Multiple times every day: ShhhhhaaaaaWWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmmm!!!!

I love it though. The sound of pure, raw power and man’s capability to rule any environment he chooses.
 
I have a question that's been bugging me pretty much my whole life now.
What is the difference between hair and fur? I mean the actual physical/scientific difference, not one is smooth and one is rough. (Unless that's the answer.:p But then where is the line drawn if that be the case?).
Cat's/Lemur's Fur.
Dog's/Horse's hair.
 
I have a question that's been bugging me pretty much my whole life now.
What is the difference between hair and fur? I mean the actual physical/scientific difference, not one is smooth and one is rough. (Unless that's the answer.:p But then where is the line drawn if that be the case?).
Cat's/Lemur's Fur.
Dog's/Horse's hair.

There is no difference. Not even biologically/chemically. Hair is used to describe human hair (mostly) where as Fur is used to describe mammal hair. Mammals that have only a small covering of hair in certain areas of the body (like an elephant) will sometimes be described as having 'hair' rather than fur. But in general Hair = Human. Fur = other mammal.

Dog, Horse (or any other) 'hair' is a term probably only used once detached from the animal.
 
And who said one is smooth and the other rough? :odd:

That depends on the hair itself. One of my cats has fur as smooth as silk, and the other has rather short, spiky hair. Same with quite a few dogs I know - and humans.
 
That had to be on prupose :p

Nope, it wasn't. Good catch. However...

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This had to be. The grayscale avatar? I was there first. :p
 
If you think airliners are noisy, you should be under a military approach. F15s and F22s have no noise restrictions.

Another possibility: Is it aircraft in flight, or on the ground at a nearby airport? Part of engine maintenance is a run-up lasting several minutes, and if you live nearby, you hear it.

Oh, I know! I love it too.

And: the aircraft is in flight, and appears to be flying straight and level in all cases. It only occurred for a short period of time over my neighbourhood.
 
There is no difference. Not even biologically/chemically. Hair is used to describe human hair (mostly) where as Fur is used to describe mammal hair. Mammals that have only a small covering of hair in certain areas of the body (like an elephant) will sometimes be described as having 'hair' rather than fur. But in general Hair = Human. Fur = other mammal.

Dog, Horse (or any other) 'hair' is a term probably only used once detached from the animal.

I just assumed the smooth and rough difference based on how we refer to different animals. I have however, not in my entire life, heard the term "Dog Fur". Stupid humans :lol: Thanks for the answer!👍
 
Solid Lifters Jr. - "Dad, why do banana peels stink so bad after you peel a banana?

Solid Lifters - "Because, they're garbage."

That's the best I can come up with. Anybody else want to take a shot?
 
They don't exactly stink, but they're not very apeeling.
 
I saw it about 5 minutes after he posted it but didn't want to encourage him. :p
 
Almost slipped that through, huh? Nearly 9 hours, and nobody calls you out on it?

Ah... and just the two of you doing it, eh? I kinda miss the old days when there'd be a bunch of monkeys like yourselves plastering these threads with those punishing jokes... :D
 
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