I can tell you that it’s bullshit. Most of us will say we don’t lip read when asked if we lip read because lip reading involving 70-80% of guesswork. Yes, there are a few deaf people who can lip read very well but most of them will still give up after 5 or 15 min - just imagine trying to listen to a person with a thick Scottish or Indian accent talk about policies or even sports.
Edit: although I should point out that it’s less difficult for hard of hearing people, and they can cope with lip reading on a daily basis because they can hear to an extent with their hearing aids so that helps. But yeah, just cos they’re good at lip reading, it doesn’t mean it is easy for them.
Every generation has plus and minus… and arguments about the merits of each have always happened… but Gen Z could answer all questions definitively about which way we are heading… I have two myself and am involved with plenty in a volunteer capacity… they, as a generation, just approach things differently to anything we have seen before. The biggest difference is this generation literally demands that society changes to suit their needs… and so far it has. That is scary in some ways but we won’t really know for another 20-30 years what that actually looks like.
I still reckon training reports are going to be appreciated… although maybe they will just live stream them??
l was joking, in reference to here to a poster who was a nephew of Mal Pascoe’s and got his number mixed up. He wasn’t sure if it # 32 or # 34. He started a thread on the history board about it, probably more than 12 years ago now, it was hilarious.
He didn’t get it mixed up, he got it completely wrong. The thread was titled “The Original No 32” and the posters name was Mal Pascoe. His opening post was telling us all about his namesake and the great memories he provided for family and fans alike. It was great stuff until someone (Noonan?) pointed out he wore 34 and not 32. We then got to see all the different stages of grief in about three posts from poor old Pascoe. I think at one point he accused his family of having lied to him for several decades. It was like watching Ralph Wiggum’s heart breaking when Lisa tells him she only gave him a valentines card because she felt sorry for him.
Probably in the top three for most brilliant and hilarious threads Blitz has ever produced.