Re: in flight movies and deaf persons

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...The one request that I rarely comply with is to
close my window shade to view the Movie......Why would
I want to do that, when I often find the scenery out
the window more entertaining than most of the garbage
they put on the video screens?......

Bryant Petitt
Cumming, GA

--- Nick Laflamme <dplaflamme@alumni.nd.edu> wrote:
> At 09:20 PM 2/19/2003 -0800, Mark Panic wrote:
> >here a question suppose you are deaf and you want
> to watch the In-flight
> >movie what would you do? those movies are not
> captioned at all..  how
> >would you hear the movie? and yes this is airline
> related..
>
> I'd make a point of switching from a one long flight
> to two short flights
> so that neither of my flights had a movie on it.
> Instead of a JFK-LAX
> non-stop, I'd go JFK to ORD/STL/DFW/DEN and then on
> to LAX. (Or, maybe, ISP
> to BWI to BNA to MCI to PHX to LAX, but only if I
> was on LUV. :-) )
>
> And I'd bring a book instead of just sitting there,
> whining and moping. Or
> I'd work the cross-word puzzle in the in-flight
> magazine.
>
> After all, what did people do before in-flight
> movies?
>
> Airlines make lots of various accommodations for
> lots of various
> impairments, but an in-flight movie is not a basic
> human right that that
> must be protected at all costs.
>
> Will the plaintiff be happier if the airlines just
> decide to do away with
> all in-flight movies? Then we'd all be as miserable
> as he apparently is.
> And, as a bonus, the rest of us would have one
> person to focus our
> discontent upon. :-)
>
> The world is not fair. People ought to learn to deal
> with that instead of
> trying desperate to even every playing surface they
> step onto. And they
> ought to be damned thankful that a non-captioned
> in-flight movie is the
> worst thing they encounter in a month.
>
> Heartless in Vienna


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