AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! Dammit, DU! [View all]

Once again the DU "hearies" have given me the runaround for being deaf!

You know how it goes. Someone posts a video without even the slightest explanation of its content. Or they post some cryptic comment that can be understood only by someone who has seen a certain video or heard something on TV.

When you ask for a brief summary of the point or an explanation of the cryptic comment, they say, "Watch the video." So you explain that being deaf means you are not likely to understand the video. So they say, as if we don't have a clue, "There's a button to click for CC."

Then you explain that CC is most often absolute gibberish, and that even when it is not, it is virtually unreadable because of being provided in very pale grayish white print on a black background, which blends into the video image.

And it goes on and on and on, with one hearie after another advising you to just watch the damned video, as though being deaf is merely a matter of being lazy or recalcitrant.

I finally got so frustrated by their ironic unwillingness to hear what I was explaining that I hunted up an article that explained "TBD," the cryptic initialism in the OP that started the whole thing. (It means "to be determined," in case you are interested.)

Here is the OP:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8749716

And here is my last exasperated response to the runaround I was given, not just by the OP, but by several other people posting on the thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8750834