Jehovah's Witnesses tell people to stop masturbating

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Amusing ASL video produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses to tell deaf people to stop masturbating:

Jehovah's Witnesses Tell Deaf People to Stop Masturbating - YouTube

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Hey if they don’t like me masturbating, they shouldn’t have sat next to me on the bus.

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The sound of one hand fwapping.

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To be fair, telling the blind to stop masturbating is like shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped. What’s ASL for “hairy palms”?

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It’s even better with some music.

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This version is particularly moving:

No masturbation (Jehovah Witnesses tell deaf people not to masturbate) - YouTube

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I’m going to try some of those hand movements next time I masturbate.

…It is an instructional video, right?

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Is this actually what American sign language looks like? It looks a bit… dramatic

Or does dramatising it add it more va va voom and it’s how you show inflection and stuff? I have no idea

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Exactly. Speed and intensity/force of movement and facial expression help convey the full meaning.

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Stop masturbating. You’ll grow so much hair on your palms that no one will know what you’re signing anymore.

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Wait, are you talking about sign language or masturbation?

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Yes.

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He certainly knows how to turn a phrase.

A planet of the blind would keep them company.

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:confused: I thought they were against masturbation.

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Well, yeah; that’s why Jehovah gives you a handjob like he said.

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**Jehovah’s Witnesses tell people to stop masturbating
**

They need to pick a better time to knock on my door! :mad:

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I wasn’t aware:

  1. That there was a big epidemic of deaf people masturbating;

and

  1. That it was a problem.
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I would have thought that there’s a big epidemic of everyone masturbating.

Or am I alone in that as well?

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I’m really disappointed with the “related videos”.

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ASL incorporates facial expression as an element of both grammar and individual word meaning (I’ve heard it can be considered proper to sign BSL* without much facial expression, that’s not the same in ASL), BUT yes, this is an over-the-top performance. I showed it to my ASL teacher (who is deaf) and he laughed his ass off.

I can only understand about half of it, enough to get the gist.

*ASL and BSL (British Sign) are not closely related languages.