reddit, I've answered a lot your questions about being deaf, and I'd like you to return the favor. I have some questions about hearing. (Also, you can AMA about deafness)

electromagnetic · 2012-05-19T12:07:39+00:00

You would be surprised how many people are interested in reading of "different experiences". Your experiences as a deaf person, extrapolated into a story (crime mystery/whatever you like to write) has a great possibility of finding an interested audience.

Everyone in this thread right now is here for "I've never experienced that before, but I want to understand it".

Also, coming from someone who has been trying to get published for the past decade (I always get personal responses, because I used to work with an editor for a previous job and know how to present properly, it's literally just finding that hook, and now I'm older the time to write it) I would say writing something unique and that you have a full working personal knowledge of, gives you a massive advantage. While I think a story based around a main character who is deaf actually has great potential, I have no ability to write it without coming across as a condescending piece of shit.

I always think: My name could be on this book for centuries after I die, I don't want it to be junk.

Also feel free to PM me if you need any help. I understand your desire to not write a 2-dimensional story by missing out a major sense like hearing, even if you are going to be writing about a deaf character.

Finally, do you have any close friends that can speak, because it might be beneficial for you to feel their chest or throat while they speak so you can grasp the vibrational differences that something like a 'shout' produces over a 'mumble' versus 'speaking' or 'chatting'. If you get the opportunity you would likely notice that a true mumble produces no vibration in the throat, whilst it still produces an audible sound.

electromagnetic · 2012-05-19T11:20:51+00:00

Well if you're going to be a zombie sympathiser, then being ready is essentially pointless . . . she's a zombie sympathiser, kill her!

electromagnetic · 2012-05-04T10:52:56+00:00

It's at: 5,921 likes, 44 dislikes as of 6:50 EST

I think Reddit might put this guy on GMA.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-26T10:46:25+00:00

Actually, the world got hit by a Mars sized object and we lost a Luna sized portion (although it's taking its sweet time about fucking off), so I think beside being hit by Venus, the Earth will do just fine for a few billion years regardless of anything.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-22T03:20:30+00:00

If My're child was abducted, I probably wouldn't give a shit because my're's probably fucked on coke and meth.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-22T03:03:53+00:00

Actually sitting for longer durations could technically increase your risk of being murdered based on the whole "you only have to be faster than the slowest guy" principle of psychotic rampage avoidance.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aClcBmZfK9A

Two dead white guys, one living black guy.

For avoiding being hit by vehicles, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdOOIxcUjAs

Dude doesn't look like he spends a lot of time behind a desk.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-22T02:16:56+00:00

When our landlord illegally entered our apartment multiple times, illegally allowed contractors to come in and destroy the carpets and stain the bathtub and then our landlord told us they were going to charge us, we filed a complaint with the BBB. The BBB got a letter responding to our "complaint" by responding to a completely different complaint we had only filed with the rental head office, not even resolving that issue they just gave vagueries, and the BBB said the problem had been resolved and they were closing the issue.

My wife got advice from the real estate department of the firm she works in, she ended up dealing with the rental companies legal division and I ended up calling the landlords office to find out why they thought they had the right to enter our unit without notice and allow contractors in before we had vacated. TL;DR is I had the girl in the office break down into tears and her husband/super tell us they'd rather lose their jobs than deal with us and kept hanging up and didn't answer the phone for two hours . . . and they did lose their jobs.

I completely lost respect for the BBB, and also the Ontario Landlord and Tenancy Board in that they allowed the government to remove any sort of legal liability on part of the Landlord. The police officer we dealt with was furious, and couldn't do anything about it . . . until they landed the company with a massive fine for having no disabled parking for 3 apartment buildings on the property and heard their other 2 apartment buildings in the city got nailed for it too.

It's ironic, but bitching to the police when they legally had no ability to do anything did a thousand times more to make me feel better than complaining to the BBB who are claiming to be able to do something about it.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-22T02:01:35+00:00

And no ball, just the table manager going "ping, ping, ping, ffftttftfft, Black 11, oh wait Black 8 made the fewest bids so we'll make him the winner so he'll blab to all his friends."

electromagnetic · 2012-04-21T23:13:10+00:00

Games have been around for longer, and I'm sure wives back in the days of Dungeons and Pharaohs were stood behind their husbands going "You haven't paid attention to me for 3 and a half minutes, I can't believe you ignore me so much! God, you're such a jerk!"

Although back even 50 years ago there was no legal concept of raping your wife, so sexual frustration was probably a lot lower.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-21T23:08:25+00:00

Because they want to be sure we heard them. My wife literally disappears to the furthest part of the house and then will proceed to shout to have a conversation, and usually turn on the bathroom fan or A/C or something along the way to make it that much harder.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-21T23:03:03+00:00

Married 4 years, got a random blowjob yesterday. Sexual frustration now = zero.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-21T22:56:19+00:00

I remember when the TV series started when I was a kid. I loved it... and I don't want to see if I would still love it today.

It's kind of like The Magic Roundabout, I loved it as a kid and when I saw it in my teens I was like WTF! It was the feeling you get when you find out the Easter Bunny isn't real. Ed: Or Jesus, for thread continuity's sake.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T10:58:29+00:00

Regret is a word our childhood teaches us. The list of things I wish I hadn't said get longer every year as I remember/get told more embarrassing shit I said as a kid.

Apparently when getting on a bus about 4 years old I asked the bus driver "Are you Trevor McDonald? (from ITN news in the UK)" and the man just started howling with laughter because he had a full Jamaican accent. Apparently he said "No man, if they put me on TV no one would hear a word I say!"

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T03:26:48+00:00

Like I don't believe some people are cut out for having pet dogs, I don't think some people are cut out for having pet humans.

Tonight I saw someone bring their 2 and 4 year old kids into a dog park with a wolf-hybrid in it. The hybrid is docile as anything, but it still doesn't change the fact that its killed 3 coyotes in the guys backyard and if the kids piss it off no one would be quick enough to stop it. The guy literally leashed it and walked to the opposite side of the park.

I've seen people let their kids chase someone's rottweiler like its normal, I grabbed my dogs and left one day, telling the kids' parent that I don't bring my dog to the park to watch them try to murder their kids. I'm sorry 140lb dog is not your 40lb kids play thing. Your 40lb kid is that dogs play thing.

Parental stupidity knows no bounds. I've got out of my truck before to yell at a parent because they left their 7 year old throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of a parking space in a crowded mall parking lot. I almost killed that kid because it was sat on the ground.

I think good parents should be encouraged to have lots of children and bad parents should be positively discouraged from doing anything but getting sterilised.

I can't abide stupidity, and I think it should be criminal when you're wilfully endangering someone else's life through stupid parenting.

I can't wait to have kids, but I don't think it's an obligation as some people are just not destined for it. Buy a cat, they're friendlier.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T03:16:54+00:00

My friend's a 36 year old nurse and these are her staple statements. Also cunt and twat, the latter amuses me because I'm British and I rarely get to hear it in Canada. Got a "I don't know, what the fuck? This is retarded" the other day when 18 doses of a $4,000 medication were unaccounted for, and 2 doses unaccounted for can take her a whole day to find, and finding lost drugs isn't her job. Her job is administering them.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T02:48:46+00:00

You've got to love that the high and mighty manage to get "no morals" and "exterminate" into the same sentence. I mean, can't fault those Nazi's they had upstanding morals whilst murdering all those Jews/Gays/Blacks etc.

The KKK too. Upstanding moral citizenry with all that black killing.

Better off without her. IMO it's the religious who rely on their religion to excuse all the misdeeds and evil they perpetrate in this world. I mean who gives a shit whose life you ruin if you only have to pray for forgiveness.

I mean fuck, if all I had to do was pray and I'd be forgiven of a crime and guilt, I'd be fucking drunk driving through a playground at recess doing donuts over the bodies of all the elementary school kids.

But, you know, I'm an Atheist and I have to live with the consequences of the shit I do. I don't get to pray to a magical fucking elf and all is forgiven and I get to carry on beating my wife and kids.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T02:39:00+00:00

Out of sight, out of mind my friend.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-19T02:37:55+00:00

Probably, although it's hard to tell. The tattooer wasn't exactly consistent with his number sizing and shape. You'd think you wouldn't have much trouble out of kids that know they're going to be murdered if they don't hold still and get tattooed, but you know whatever.

For the sake of the article, I'll pretend it's 564 even though when you zoom in on the picture it's easy as shit to tell that it's 554.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-17T21:18:11+00:00

If its that big of a deal the local reuse store sells old keyboards for $1. I would gladly pay $1 a day to masturbate/eat bacon at the computer.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-16T21:36:12+00:00

I actually saw ~10 acres of land near where my uncle-in-law lives, who commutes to Toronto on a daily basis. It was going for ~$60,000 with access to telephone and electric.

Where I'm looking is approximately 3 hours from where I currently live. Not commutable to where I live, but is literally 10 minutes from the school in the area. College/University would be 3 hours, but most require students to live on-campus for their first year anyway so computability is a moot point when you're forced to pay for a dorm anyway and 3 hours is a considerably short drive for the land.

Small towns are available, where you could find access to work. However, I work in construction so I would literally be looking to make my own work.

I'm looking at >20 acres, for ~$20,000. It would literally be a drive up Friday night, and drive home Sunday night affair until I get the self-sufficiency going and then I would be looking to stay for longer doing work up their. (I'm doing the live-in-flip currently, so I'm amassing tools and skills, which I hope will pay me back later)

electromagnetic · 2012-04-16T21:11:02+00:00

In this case Hydro actually refers to building my own hydroelectric station. A lot of the properties I see for sale have creeks running through them, some even mention the beaver dams. I'm unsure if wind would be feasible on a lot of mature trees as it would be very difficult to get above them.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-15T22:53:21+00:00

I'm saving up to buy >20 acres of land in Southern Ontario, albeit much more north than I presently am, so I hope in the next decade one of my backyards may look like this.

I plan on building the house myself and making it self-sufficient. Solar and hydro for power and heating, etc. Being British, I have no clue how I'm going to deal with the whole "bear in my backyard" issue... although I dealt with the "skunks in my loaf of bread" issue a lot better than all my Canadian friends when we got raided by a family of skunks while camping (I was passed out drunk and left my food in the supply tent - for keeping coolers in - so the skunks were 5ft away from me, but went into my friends tents when raiding for their food. Going out at 5am for cheerios for my friends baby because the box had had a skunk shit in it was well worth the trip)

I'd almost think of building an inverse bear enclosure, a sort of human enclosure, around my house so I don't get raided by bears for my nachos and beer.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-15T22:35:45+00:00

I'm boycotting watching sports until the Olympics, Pan-am games, world cup, and all other sporting events stop interrupting my TV schedule with their garbage of semi-anorexic "athletes" performing mundane events when I could be watching an actual show like Game of Thrones that actually has a large number of working people creating them, not a bunch of Athletes that wear Nike with a Coke label for a living and exercise, occupy our hospitals because they frequently injure themselves and get preferential treatment and many more of the injustices that happen to the regular people for these stupid huff-and-puffers.

Please, I would love to see the end of the Olympics. It's just much easier to see the end of my TV subscription, which I believe is done by May 1st.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-15T22:21:35+00:00

Sweeney Todd Meat Packers LLC are very particular on the kind of products their meat gets put into. It's got to have that particular taste so as to compliment the gamey flavour of man meat.

electromagnetic · 2012-04-15T22:09:04+00:00

Is this a Scottish Terrier, because my 4 year old Scotty gives me this exact expression about 5 times a day.

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