Unless you were sitting in the first couple of rows, you wouldn't be able to read the captioning anyway. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryant Petitt" <skyshirts@yahoo.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:04 AM Subject: Re: in flight movies and deaf persons > ...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 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >