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Now For Summat Interesting About The Implant..
While I’m on a roll, I’m gonna blog about something I never thought I would. The cochlear implant. Yes, that damn thing. I could describe it as an infestation, of biblical proportions, but I will try to be impartial and abstain from making any sarcastic comments, but irony, there will be aplenty. I’m Australian. How
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Food For Thought: Part III
On the train back from the mountains last night, which has some people scratching their heads as to what I get up to when I go to the mountains. Well, you can read all about it when I am dead and gone, and not before. But if you were to part with some cash, I
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Food For Thought: Part II
Still thinking about the post I wrote yesterday, Food For Thought, and some deafies continued obsession with technology as a point of identification, it’s not that I don’t understand their motives or intentions, just that it all is so surreal and absurd.
Take for example, the implant. You have all sorts of new buzz words that
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Food For Thought
I was just reading Blogs disclosing professional relationships earns trust, Drama in DeafBlogLand,and thinking about all the issues that were raised by the fracas caused by Rachel being sent to Coventry.
It occurred to me, that never have I ever known such a spirited defence of a piece of technology like the cochlear implant. It is
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Now For Summat Interesting About The Implant..
While I’m on a roll, I’m gonna blog about something I never thought I would. The cochlear implant. Yes, that damn thing. I could describe it as an infestation, of biblical proportions, but I will try to be impartial and abstain from making any sarcastic comments, but irony, there will be aplenty. I’m Australian. How
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Boring As It Gets! Part II
And so the debate continues over at Enough with the CI Blogs?, with a commentary of huff, puffs, woof woof’s, and a bearing of fangs thrown in for good measure.
One thing I should make clear, is that I do not advocate, under any terms, violence or physical abuse [and that includes verbal] towards people who
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Boring As It Gets!
I wondered someone was going to comment on the plethora of post about the CI and subsequent variations on a theme, and then Dianrez’s hit me with her blog post, Enough With Blog About CI Surgery.
I mentioned to a mate of mine, this past weekend, how bored I am with Deaf and deaf blogs.
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