[HairOfTheDog]

I have a couple ~very nearly~ deaf friends, one who was a police firearms instructor 20 years, back before it was vogue to wear hearing protection shooting, and another young friend who can't hear either, and that is exactly what they say NOW.... that and "WHAT?"

We had been friends a long time before I realized how bad her hearing was. She would come over and watch movies and never hear a thing.... I didn't know that till I watched a movie at her house. I said, "do you really need it this loud?", and she said "yeah, can't hear". I said, "Well, jeepers! you should have said something at my house! Would be easier to turn it up than explain the plot when you say "what's going on?""

[2Jedismom]

I sit on the floor just feet way from the TV. I don't like closed captioning...it irritates me to have it down there...so I don't use it on the first viewing of a DVD...just after I've seen it a few times and if there is something I just keep missing.