Fintan Ramblings

Went to get a curry from our local curry house,my wife always phone the orders and the dog comes with me and sits patently out side shop like he always do.

The staff was a bit busy and it was taking longer than usual so I was watching tv that they have behind the counter.
Next thing I saw the their look in horror when I turned round and saw a man enter shop cuddling my dog.

“This dog was out side “

Me “yeah and?”
Him “oh is it your dog “
Me “Yeah “

At this point the staff gave me the food and said, “no no I don’t want any dogs in here”

The guy walked out still holding my dog and was about to hand him over to me

I said why don’t you put him down?

Him “He can walk?”

Me “Yeah it’s a dog he has four legs”

Looking at blogs of people who had bad jobs reminded me the time I used to be a postman few years back.
Although it’s not a bad job story.. maybe for the manager I am about to tell.

I worked with Ian who is deaf like me and speaks well ..
Working indoors sorting out mail in the evening on our 6pm to 2:18 am shift at Royal Mail where Ian proceeded to tell me that he is off to the toilet.

As he did this fire alarm went off and at the time we had no pagers to warn us the danger so I told the manager that Ian was in toilet.

The manager ran into toilet to find that Ian was in cubicle so he climbed over only to be met with his angry face shouting “get out you fucking pervert!”

As Ian and the manager joined us out side waiting for the fire brigade, which turned out to be false alarm, we all burst out laughing when they told us.
The manager said, “I don’t know which was worst seeing Ian’s bottom half in the flesh or the smell of what he done”

Woken up with a sharp nudge..

Me “What?”

Wife “Car alarm going off”

Me “Keys downstairs in kitchen”

Wife ” can’t you do it?”

Me “why … its not bothering me”

Tiptoe quietly into my bedroom at 4 am after night out with the lads, making absolute sure that I don’t wake my wife and baby up.
Remembering not to fling my clothes about and avoiding creaks along the floorboards As I just about to put my foot into bed my wife sat up like Dracula sprung out of a coffin.
Seeing her arms flapping about I manage to lip-read her face from the moonlight shining through a crack in the curtains onto her face.

What I lip-read as she was pointing to her ears “ turn your fucking hearing aids off its whistling”

Oooops , somehow my hearing aids managed to switch back on after I took them out and put them on a dresser !

The RNID and Sunday times have sparked disability hate crime.

Take a look at this link
http://www.timesonline.co.uk

Very shoddy journalism, which I think missed the very issue that we are most concerned with – see this link.

http://stopeugenics.org
We are protesting to protect an embryo from being tossed aside once it is found to have the Deaf gene.

Digg and Fark
http://digg.com http://forums.fark.com
along with so many forums and discussion board are headed with the words “string the deaf people up” “inbreeds” “ I hate deaf people” to “Fucking retards”

They are referring to inaccurate reporting and an inaccurate statement from Jackie Ballard that deaf people demand deaf babies over hearing.

This is a eugenics issue NOT a designer baby issue.

I am unhappy that forum boards are awash with disability hate which is against the law in the UK.

Neither Sarah-Kate Templeton (Sunday Times Newspaper) and Jackie Ballard (RNID) will apologise for it!

I am a married man and concerned by this proposal, which is to me is a seed to start legalised eugenics! Link Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
I am deaf and my wife is hearing I went out with her and eventually got married for a simple reason that I love her.
She says the same and do not see my disability as people put it.
We went on to have 3 healthy boys who we are proud of!
There was never a question of will we produce disabled children on our first date or any thing like that!!
When we settled down to have children the only conversation we had is what if we have a Downs child.
There was no question if a child may turn out deaf shortsighted or any other disabilities.
We mention Downs as every one have an option to be tested; can you imagine the test for any other disabilities?
I often wonder if those women who abort Downs are more likely to abort with any other disabilities.

Quite naturally some people have mixed marriages because they don’t see a race issue. The same principle is the case if deaf people marry hearing people.
No one blinks if anyone marries their own race and goes on to produce children so why is it a problem for same disability to do this?

In America Alexandra Graham Bell noticed that if a deaf couple get together they go on to produce deaf children. However, if a mixed i.e. deaf with hearing you go on to produce hearing children, so social genetics was introduced.
You can find out more in these following links

We don’t need to tell you about nazi camps and we all know not only the Jews were sent to concentration camps and experimented on.. This has happened to all disabilities including deaf people.

But all that is in past… I thank God that people have defeated them and yes-deaf people have played their part in the war….
Time to put away the history books and relax… surely this cant happen again?

WRONG!

(Book mark these pages as they get updated as it happens)
Look at these links about the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

http://www.grumpyoldeafies.com/2007/11/parliament_deaf_embroyo_select.html

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/humanfertilisationandembryology.html

http://www.stopeugenics.org

American deaf bloggers are alarmed by this as if it happens in the UK it will happen in America and rest of the world.

I know this is not always the case, that its only deaf people produce deaf babies as I know 2 people who are hearing produce deaf children.
Can you imagine you are that couple needing an IVF, so you’re left with a few choices?
Would a hearing person accept this? Possibly if there are no known cases of deafness in their family as they are venturing into the unknown!
But to deny a deaf couple is wrong as we don’t see it as a disability!

I find this appalling to class us as abnormal when you know that
68% of people aged 16 years and over wear spectacles or contact lenses.
Is that not a disability? If not… then why wear glasses?
Why not stop everybody producing children with visual impairments?
After all this is caused by genetics??

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved labeling changes for erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs in the class that includes Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra, to display more prominently the potential risk of sudden hearing loss, and to guide consumers on what to do if they experience sudden problems with their hearing.

 http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01730.html

It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “HARD of hearing” 

I came across a news artical about Hearing Dogs For Deaf People see this link in The Press.

A CHARITY that trains dogs for deaf people and is celebrating its 25th birthday this year is looking for a big moving away present as it leaves its training centre in Selby district.

Jenny Moir, a spokeswoman for the charity, said she hoped the new training centre would be operational by next summer. “The target for this appeal is a massive £2.5 million, of which we have worked hard to date to raise £1.5 million,” she said.

“We’re now looking for our final £1 million and need your help to raise the funds to build the kennels, training houses, accommodation and offices.”

She said £10 would buy a brick at the Bielby facility, with donors acknowledged in a book of recognition on-site.

As I am Deaf I don’t use Hearing Dog and for years I did not see the point of them till I came across Tina http://funnyoldlife.wordpress.com/

Even her Hearing dog called smudge got a blog http://justsmudge.wordpress.com/
A dog do more than what a flashing door bell can do, etc so pop along and read her blog for more.

By the way if you want to donate click on this link http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/ look at bottom of page to donate.

This was filmed without their knowledge and they were having a discussion
I know its not real sign language, but its interesting and not surprising that hearing people use their hand to explain.Has anybody seen people who on the phone and their hands are flying about and they don’t realise they were doing it lol

Its learn to sign week from 1^st October 2007 in UK.

Learn to sign campaign have its own blog see here http://learntosign.org.uk/.

If your living in Bristol pop along to Bristol City Council http://www.bristol.gov.uk they are running a big event there.

If you just discovered this blog its NOT to late to join a sign language class, ring up your local college or Deaf Centre and ask they will be happy for you to join even if you’re a couple of weeks late.