Originally Posted by Rezdaddy Longlegs

Great image. Baby throws up in Bl's mouth, BL retaliates by throwing up in babies mouth. Like a couple of baby birds.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Burning Down

A deaf person's other 4 senses are extremely heightened, to make up for the lack of hearing. Feeling of sound (feeling the vibrations) in deaf people is actually sensed by the area of the brain normally used to process sound waves picked up by the ears. The brain then attaches emotions to this. From a study done at the University of Washington:

Brains of deaf people rewire to ‘hear’ music | UW Today

My absolute favourite example of deafness and music perception and composition is Beethoven. A lot of his later works make extensive use of lower frequency notes (heavy bass), and now we understand that he did this because he could "feel" those notes better than pitches of a higher frequency. Beethoven, after his hearing was completely gone, had chopped the legs off his piano so that he could compose music whilst laying on the floor to feel the notes, because he couldn't hear them. Symphonies 8 and 9 were composed in this fashion. Beethoven worked on the 9th Symphony for 7 years, from 1817 until 1824, due to his complete deafness. He also worked on choral parts for this symphony (like the Ode to Joy chorus).

Symphony 8



Symphony 9, Movement 4 (you probably already know this one but here it is). You'll notice heavier bass in this piece.



The unfortunate part is that Beethoven did not get to hear his own compositions. He had no idea what they sounded like, if they were great or disastrous. He only saw the music on paper.

Originally Posted by Lord Larehip

Yes, but composers back then had the ability to hear the music as the read it--a skill that is diminishing. Look at Joplin, he would ride trains through the countryside and write that way--never at the piano. Mozart supposedly did not write at the piano or harpsichord either. Gershwin wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" while riding on a train and incorporated the rhythm of the train passing over the tracks into the piece. Beethoven, despite being deaf, could probably hear the music in his head as he wrote it.

Originally Posted by Burning Down

I didn't say that he couldn't, but being able to hear the pitches in your head is not the same as hearing them from the instrument.

Originally Posted by Vanilla

Lord:

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

top 10 things that would piss me off on a daily basis if I had a child:

10. Their booger-encrusted face.
09. Their endless amounts of dribbling slobber.
08. Trying to dress them with their spastic limbs.
07. Feeding their ridiculously uncoordinated mouth.
06. Vomit. Anywhere. Anytime.
05. Piss/shit on everything. Their general disgusting child-stench.
04. The fact that I would never sleep again, probably.
03. The excess flab on my body from that ungrateful little troll.
02. The noises it would make. All of them.
01. Elmo. He isn't even a real Muppet. He's an "anything Muppet".

Originally Posted by Janszoon

What's an "anything Muppet"?

Originally Posted by ladyislingering

It was a term used by Jim Henson's workshop to describe a Muppet that was essentially interchangeable, blank in appearance and easy to dress into any character for any scene, meant to be used in "crowds" of Muppets. Essentially they were meant to be nobodies. Which is exactly what Elmo was and suddenly he has a name and he's just the greatest thing ever. WTF.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Interesting. I guess that makes more of an underdog character though, not part of the Muppet royalty.