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A UK information site for deaf people.
Ex Mary Hare Grammar School. 1965
BSc in computing from the Open University. 2002
Former volunteer advisor/counsellor with RNID for 15 years. Retd.
Specialist in PIP. CI user for 15 years
Lives in Cornwall UK.
If it has a willy it's a bloke. You're supposed to be intelligent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGR_...
Professor Robert WInston on QT re gender confusion
YouTube video by NewsScape Channel (NewsScape)
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December 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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.
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Remember that none of this would have happened if Hamas had not attacked Israeli children.
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It's a waste of time trying to have a discussion with these people because they just block overyone who disagrees with them.
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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.
September 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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.
September 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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.
July 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hot milk with plenty of sugar and wedge of Kraft cheese. A great start to the day.
June 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Notice how none of them are signing. It's all lipreading.
This just goes to show how fake the BDA really is.
May 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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.
April 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
April 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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.
April 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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.
April 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
They have put up a discussion paper but nobody seems to be discussing it.
April 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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.
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM