 idiotfilter
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
 3934 Posts
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:43:13 AM
wicked awesome...but they didn't have to make him look like a retard...1:06 |
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 3002-3038
Female, 18-29, Western US
479 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 9:58:52 PM
batman as in Referring to a Man Whose like a Bat Because he uses echolocation.
not because he's liek batman the superhero..
seriously people |
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 Genocyde
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
711 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 4:12:47 PM
Ben Underwood...look him up sometime. He didn't even use a damn cane and played videogames. |
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 Zethadrol
Female, 13-17, S. America
12 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 2:56:59 PM
Seriously, it's daredevil, batman was the rich kid who's parents were murdered |
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 wertiana
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
222 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 12:39:40 PM
Ive heard of this before.
I saw a video on it, but it involved a black teenager |
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 dweezil
Female, 18-29, Western US
29 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 12:35:44 PM
I was to lazy to read the other comments but WHY THE HELL IS THIS A REAL LIFE BATMAN.... EVER HEARD OF DAREDEVIL RETARD? |
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 meepmaker
Male, 30-39, Southern US
6716 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 7:33:54 AM
Thats strange. |
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 elgrappa
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
96 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 5:34:26 AM
that is actually possible i saw it on tv one time also considering that blind people can hear a LOT better!! |
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 Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9533 Posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010 3:26:49 AM
Empathy from me, unsurprisingly.
The plummeting of standards of use of English worries me. I would class myself as being merely competent with English and yet, as you point out, I stand out like a sore thumb. I often see fundamental errors in things written by professionals, errors that a moderately well educated 10 year old should be able to avoid. I'm not talking about fine points of grammatical style. I'm talking about very basic use of language.
Amongst people in general, semiliteracy is actively embraced as an ideal to such an extent that it's normal to call anyone who gives a damn about language a Nazi.
Human language requires a certain degree of complexity in order to be able to convey human thought. Dumbing down language effectively stifles thought, a fact that Orwell used as the basis for Newspeak in 1984. It's disturbing that such a thing is being imposed by popular demand, more disturbing than its use in Orwell's dystopia. |
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 Suicism
Male, 18-29, Western US
3534 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:40:54 PM
Wow Angillion - I have to say, aside from your remarks, I've grown more and more accustomed lately to seeing errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling (your/you're) and general word usage to the point that I've almost come to expect it especially when I see problem areas up ahead.
This has to have become insidiously ingrained as of late because when I come across well-written and grammatically immaculate posts/paragraphs such as yours, and see none of the myriad errors I've come to expect, I find my mind trying to correct in FAVOR of these errors that I'm so used to seeing! It's the weirdest reversal of reaction I've ever experienced. See how the greatest common denominator comes to further influence itself downward? Troubling to say the least. Looks like I'll have to stick with the classics for a while or well-written/published authors of integrity where errors still STAND-OUT due to their lack of preponderance, and not the other way around. Any empathy here? |
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 pmarren
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
3381 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 7:37:54 PM
I bet he blows monkeys. |
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 collegebound
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
3471 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:35:14 PM
wouldnt a more accurate comparison be daredevil rather than batman? batman isnt blind at all that the phone thing in the movie was just crap (srry for geekin)
still awesome to know that its possible |
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 teampink27
Female, 18-29, Western US
535 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:29:56 PM
kind of misleading description but thats really cool |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9533 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:58:51 PM
i didn't know human ears were sensitive enough to use echolocation. i will have to try that when i'm in the dark.
Try this experiment:
Close your eyes and try to identify coins solely by touching one surface of them. You probably won't be able to, but a blind person can do so quite easily. Or just try to determine the pattern of dots in braille by touch alone. Same thing applies.
If you're deprived of sight, your brain will adapt over time by paying more attention to other senses. A lesser degree of adaptation can occur quickly (try sex after being blindfolded for even just 10 minutes or so) but the degree of adaptation will increase with a lot of time. I've seen a lecturer who was blind accurately align transparencies on a projector by feeling the ink on them.
So it would be far more difficult for a sighted person to use echolocation than it would be for a blind person to do so. |
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 GRadde
Male, 18-29, Europe
2567 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:57:23 PM
Extremely cool. 'Cept he's not the best I've seen doing this, he's not even close to this. |
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ardystic
Male, 18-29, Western US
1085 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:20:11 PM
i didn't know human ears were sensitive enough to use echolocation. i will have to try that when i'm in the dark. |
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MechaWolf
Male, 18-29, Southern US
311 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:58:05 AM
Why would I feel worthless. I could use light wave bouncing objects to see with my eyes. It works better. |
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 crystalskyz
Female, 30-39, Western US
356 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:35:54 AM
Very cool!
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 r3tr0r0ck3r
Male, 18-29, Europe
188 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:23:00 AM
I think the retards mean Daredevil, seeing as he actually did use echolocation.
But I guess we're still trying to forget that film with Ben Affleck eh... |
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NoArms5534
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
195 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 7:58:40 AM
That's awesome. Was the voice-over guy the same fella from Mythbusters? |
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 mynamecandi
Female, 18-29, Southern US
212 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 5:51:30 AM
Folks.. By "Batman" they are referring to how bats use echo location. Not everything in life revolves around comic books. |
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 FuriousTuna
Male, 13-17, Europe
39 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 5:26:03 AM
IT'S
DARE
DEVIL
AUGH |
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 Link_Hiei
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
5158 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 3:46:05 AM
Thats bad ass. |
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 vorpalsword
Male, 18-29, Western US
1429 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 3:16:55 AM
you mean DAREDEVIL |
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Cyradis314
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
48 Posts
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:59:28 AM
flyingpie, he said he had retinal cancer. That's bound to screw up how your eyes look.
I think I must have seen same/similar show as last-iconOC, since the one I saw was also a teenager who discovered echolocation.
Pretty damn neat feat to learn. Can't beat good ol' sight, but it gets them around for sure! |
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