For what?
Close this one and start another? Why?
My dad hated people asking “What?” after lengthy instructions. So he started countering with “I said, you’ve been putting on a little weight, haven’t you?”
I probably heard him say that fifty times. His told me his theory: “It’s almost always true, and people don’t want to be reminded of it, so they’ll stop asking ‘What?’. Especially when they figure out that it’ll be the same line every time.”
And on interminable cross-country car vacations, his answer to every single instance of “How soon will we get there?” was “Hmm, 'bout a half an hour.” So of course we’d ask him as soon as we left the house for a week-long coast-to-coast drive.
There is no need to “report a zombie.”* This thread isn’t hurting anyone. Sure, a zombie thread that isn’t relevant any more, or is offensive, might need to be locked. But a harmless and/or interesting one? No need.
[sigh] How many times have people here suggested that you talk less and listen more? At least until you figure out how this board works. I lurked and listened for a decade, before I decided to be annoying.
*unless it’s a real zombie, but in that case, your local Bureau of Undead Defense suggests that it might be easier to just take a chainsaw to it.
Eh, what a lame joke I made back during the first term of the Bush43 administration.
Why do we report zombies? Every time I go in IMHO and see someone has bumped a zombie, the moderators close it and tell the “bumper” to start a new thread, even for harmless and interesting zombies. I figured the same applies here. It’s called inductive reasoning.
Fine, I am wrong.
But after seeing how strict those moderators are in IMHO and GQ about zombies, I figured that this was pretty much the same thing.
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Beats me. I should have just said, “100th” or something.
Closing zombie threads has always been done on the basis that some posters are probably inactive now and can no longer defend their point of view. In GD and maybe IMHO it makes sense that any new post may be challenging information posted years earlier by someone who is no longer around to continue the debate. The post in this thread isn’t really challenging the posts from years gone by, it is simply restarting the conversation.
I have the ambient noise problem too; my current solution is just to not stick around in places with lots of ambient noise. Eventually I’m sure I’ll have to confront the problem directly, but until then…
Made me chuckle.
I know that this is a zombie thread, but I know a lot of people with hearing loss who just reply to questions from wait staff with non sequiturs. This really annoys me, LOOK at the person who is talking to you.
Waitress says “hello, how are you today?”
Deaf guy who is looking at the menu, “water with lemon, please.”
I’ve been known to throw menus at people to make them pay attention to the servers.
Woohoo, I can educate you guys!
I do not say “huh” ever. But I do say “what?” a lot. The reason is pretty simple. I am not deaf in the way that someone with normal hearing would think a deaf person is - basically hearing life with the volume turned down. Instead, I have an auditory processing disorder. Usually I can understand what you say immediately like a normal person. But sometimes it takes me a few seconds to get what you said, basically by replaying it over and over again in my mind. But as that is not the normal state of things, I have usually automatically said “what?” in response to your (apparent) mumble - which if you start repeating it and I reply to the original thing as you are mid flow probably makes me look a prick.
But you know what? Now I’ve explained the situation to you, stop being a prick about it. This is to sound as dyslexia is to words and dyscalcula is to numbers.
Try just responding with “Go for Kabong.”
Or, “Kabong here. What can I do for you, L…?”
Happy to explain. This goes for everyone who gets what all the time. You’re probably talking too fast and/or too high. It’s even more of a pain if I say what and you start explaining. If you start talking when you’re behind me, I will not understand you. Deal. Especially if we have to work together and you are the newcomer trying to fit in.
No you can’t. Read the thread before sharing. Or skim. It’s not long.
You sound like a prick to me, and this sounds like your personal whiny little problem. We talked about auditory processing disorders.
Not only am I going to keep being a prick, but I’ve also got some great suggestions since the thread’s been zombified.
I said you’re putting on weight aren’t you!
Love it.
We’re pretty damn casual here in the states. However, your German anecdote reminds me of perhaps the only true “Cincinnati-ism”. Cincinnati was heavily settled by German immigrants. (Thus we have Over-the-Rhine, and one of the big annual festivals is Oktoberfest.) It’s quite common for Cincinnati folk, rather than saying “huh?” or “excuse me?” or “pardon me?” or “could you repeat that” to say “please?”. Directly descended from our German forebears, and confusing for visitors. 
Matzoh reminds us that when the Jews left the slavery of Egypt they had no time to bake their bread.
Somewhere in the next life, my dad’s busting a gut.
So, the same fucking issue multiple posters wrote about MORE THAN 8 YEARS AGO? Jesus motherfucking CHRIST. I’d sure as fuck hope that 8 years is enough fucking time for you to read the fucking thread before replying.
My Chem Phys I teacher would do that. We’d ask “shouldn’t the third plus be a minus?” and he’d answer “I’m glad you ask that. This is a very important equation because it shows the intrinsic relationship between different types of energy, which leads us to…”
When we discovered he switched off his hearing aid just before entering a class we could’a turned him into meatballs :mad: He was the worst teacher I had in college, and it wasn’t due to lack of competition.
And Simple Linctus, as long as you go the “huh?” or “what?” way with no further explanation, you are being an irritation and it’s not the other people who are asses. I’m another one who got taught that you do not just bray at people, you ask for a clarification on the specific point missed and, if possible, explain what the problem is and propose possible solutions if any (in my case, the most common sources of missed information are people not calling my name when I’m working on a document, noisy environments and bad phone signals).
Zombie Jesus can’t hear you.