Posted On: Wednesday - May 8th 2024 5:48PM MST
In Topics: Humor Curmudgeonry Media Stupidity Zhou Bai Dien
Fellow Peak Stupidity curmudgeon readers might have also noticed something in the image atop the post Massholes and Emotional Rescues from yesterday. The fellow on our right is signing, that is, making sign language for the deaf with his hands. Or he just saw a heckler, got done pointing him out, and is fixing to lay a beat down on the guy. No, we (haha, OK I) should not stereotype people here - it's the former thing he's doing.
This is a fairly new thing, isn't it, the deployment of signers at press conferences, speeches, and so on? It's damnably distracting, I gotta say. I see this service as something that was more important in the past, before software-generated closed-captioning. The info could easily be sent to an "app" on any deaf attendee's phone nowadays. I have an idea why it just started up recently - the minoritarianism* and virtue signalling factors - but is it necessary now?
You're trying to watch and listen to one guy, yet there are hands waving wildly around right nearby. I'm sorry, for any deaf PS readers, to say this, but I wish they'd cut this out and find another method. I get that lipreading is very difficult. I do have a feeling we all do some of that though, as I noticed within myself** during the ridiculous mask-wearing phase of the Kung Flu PanicFest. That must have been a tough time for lipreading deaf people.
I wonder how it works for the signer that works for Zhou Bai Dien.
(Just an image - does not play. That'd have been rude.)
It's gotta be tricky. Are you supposed to make signs for his words "pause" or "face to the audience" or "get really angry here" off the Dementiaprompter? Can you even understand the guy enough to make signs to represent Bai Dien's stuttering and slurring? Will anybody in the deaf audience ever spill the beans that you've been making complete fun of the guy for the last 3 years?
Because we're talking signing and lipreading here, the following Seinfeld clip is a must-see:
That show was aired in October of '93. I don't think the joke would work now... for various reasons.
* It's a phrase from Unz Review iSteve crowd commenter AnotherDad, though, come to think of it, Mr. Sailer used that word in one of the articles in his book. I'll try to find it again - it may have been well before AnotherDad the commenter. It means the idea that society must cater to the minorities OVER the majority of the people.
** That post is about other nonverbal cues, masked by the Kung Flu masks. I know I wrote about lip-reading somewhere though ... For another post that was close, see Lost Comms From near the end: "You try not to be rude, but it's hard to converse with someone who sounds pretty much like Charlie Brown's Mom." Boy were those times nuts!
Comments:
Possumman
Thursday - May 9th 2024 7:28PM MST
PS. The less they have to say the more likely they are to have one of those hand wavers standing beside them.
Adam Smith
Thursday - May 9th 2024 7:37AM MST
PS: Once Upon a time in Hollywood...
https://z-kkb4jvzl1og7.bitchute.com/vHfuWuYV3HEo/EB0eipsJYse6.mp4
- or -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EB0eipsJYse6/
It does look like bitchute canceled a few channels for sharing this movie (violating copyright) but this link currently works. (You can download the movie by right clicking and saving if you use the first link.)
Hope you have a great day too, Achmed! โฎ๏ธ
https://z-kkb4jvzl1og7.bitchute.com/vHfuWuYV3HEo/EB0eipsJYse6.mp4
- or -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EB0eipsJYse6/
It does look like bitchute canceled a few channels for sharing this movie (violating copyright) but this link currently works. (You can download the movie by right clicking and saving if you use the first link.)
Hope you have a great day too, Achmed! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - May 9th 2024 7:21AM MST
PS: I was going to follow up with you on the Cocaine Cowboys vid, Adam. I watched about 1/2 hour more last night on that same device. I don't think it was going to stop on me, but I had to go to bed. I won't get a chance to watch the rest for a little while. I'm glad to have it.
On the "Once Upon a Time in the West", man, I'm embarrassed to say that in those comments a few weeks back on this (Mr. Hail commented too), I was thinking of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Steve Sailer liked the latter and wrote about it. He worships the movie world too much IMO, but he made me interested in watching it. However, I'd be glad to watch the "... in the West" movie, so thank you for getting it.
Have a great day, Adam.
On the "Once Upon a Time in the West", man, I'm embarrassed to say that in those comments a few weeks back on this (Mr. Hail commented too), I was thinking of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Steve Sailer liked the latter and wrote about it. He worships the movie world too much IMO, but he made me interested in watching it. However, I'd be glad to watch the "... in the West" movie, so thank you for getting it.
Have a great day, Adam.
Adam Smith
Thursday - May 9th 2024 7:09AM MST
PS: Good morning, Achmed!
I've been meaning to follow up about the cocaine cowboys video. (Mega is a clunky way to share video.) I don't know if you've finished watching it, but you might have had a little better luck if you downloaded the video first and then watched it. (Maybe? I don't know?)
Anyway...
I opened a bitchute channel, and I'm going to open a rumble account to share videos that youtube will not approve of. The first video, well movie, that I uploaded is ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก. (I like using the source link when using bitchute because you can download the video by right clicking and saving it. I also prefer watching it in a blank browser page as it seems to bypass the advertisements this way.)
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก...
https://seed171.bitchute.com/n6uHcDkxVpad/cmzVP9V8jIRI.mp4
And here is the "proper" bitchute link...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cmzVP9V8jIRI/
It should work much better hosting videos this way.
I guess we'll find out.(?)
I might also be able to do a little samizdat style info sharing with bitchute, but I haven't tinkered with that yet. (Been pretty busy lately.)
That's about all I have for now, so...
Cheers to a wonderful Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
I've been meaning to follow up about the cocaine cowboys video. (Mega is a clunky way to share video.) I don't know if you've finished watching it, but you might have had a little better luck if you downloaded the video first and then watched it. (Maybe? I don't know?)
Anyway...
I opened a bitchute channel, and I'm going to open a rumble account to share videos that youtube will not approve of. The first video, well movie, that I uploaded is ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก. (I like using the source link when using bitchute because you can download the video by right clicking and saving it. I also prefer watching it in a blank browser page as it seems to bypass the advertisements this way.)
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก...
https://seed171.bitchute.com/n6uHcDkxVpad/cmzVP9V8jIRI.mp4
And here is the "proper" bitchute link...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cmzVP9V8jIRI/
It should work much better hosting videos this way.
I guess we'll find out.(?)
I might also be able to do a little samizdat style info sharing with bitchute, but I haven't tinkered with that yet. (Been pretty busy lately.)
That's about all I have for now, so...
Cheers to a wonderful Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - May 9th 2024 5:34AM MST
PS: Nope, I didn't remember him, but that's great stuff, Adam! That'll make a good post.
The black woman just went into the office and asked (or demanded?) that they use her as a sign language interpreter. I can see that being an easy call for the police official - don't do it, and you'll get called 2 different kinds of bad names. Do it, and what's the worst that can happen?
Hilarious stuff.
The black woman just went into the office and asked (or demanded?) that they use her as a sign language interpreter. I can see that being an easy call for the police official - don't do it, and you'll get called 2 different kinds of bad names. Do it, and what's the worst that can happen?
Hilarious stuff.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - May 8th 2024 7:12PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Moderator...
Remember this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_OK1T7bn74
Apparently, this fake interpreter thing is pretty common...
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/18/florida-countys-fake-asl-translator-has-become-a-sensation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNPKwz4Ghw
Good times! โฎ๏ธ
Remember this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_OK1T7bn74
Apparently, this fake interpreter thing is pretty common...
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/18/florida-countys-fake-asl-translator-has-become-a-sensation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNPKwz4Ghw
Good times! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Wednesday - May 8th 2024 6:37PM MST
PS: Virtue-signalling is probably the best term to use than minoritarianism here. I'll switch that out.
"... the vast majority of hearing impaired people don't even know ASL." Thanks, I didn't have a feel for that, Cloudbuster.
"... the vast majority of hearing impaired people don't even know ASL." Thanks, I didn't have a feel for that, Cloudbuster.
Cloudbuster
Wednesday - May 8th 2024 6:15PM MST
PS The sign language thing is pure virtue-signaling. Automatic closed captioning exists on virtually all platforms and the vast majority of hearing impaired people don't even know ASL.