Ten-year-old deaf girl hears for the first time. Get kleenex ready.

gseurat · 2012-05-25T10:01:31.240485+00:00

Scientists actually did a study where they raised 50 babies from all over the world in a dark room with only each other. No language was taught to them, and yet they all just naturally started speaking English to each other one day. Turns out English is ingrained in the genetic code of all humans.

ingoingo · 2012-05-25T09:52:02.959892+00:00

Thanks for the link. I don't doubt that they're a good lock.

koolllG_uy1911 · 2012-05-25T09:29:20.052294+00:00

I loved the short, but this one looks a bit too melodramatic for me.

Dylanjosh · 2012-05-24T23:18:04.131772+00:00

Rogert Ebert has written some of the greatest commentary on film ever, but his reviewing criteria is fickle as hell. I don't trust him for anything, but I always love to hear what he says.

ingoingo · 2012-05-24T19:49:53.301175+00:00

I'm guessing Bike Guard Lock are the ones sponsoring your show?

jtramsey · 2012-05-24T19:45:05.192337+00:00

Thought that started off painfully bad, but got really good in the banana bit and then was absolute gold with the unicorns. I think the delivery needs a lot of work, but the writing for the last two bits was A+.

jason1287 · 1 day

Lengthy dialogues don't equate to a dialogue-based movie. A dialogue-based movie is a film that centers around a conversation or multiple conversations. Think: Before Sunrise or Dinner With Andre.

jason1287 · 1 day

You listed some great examples there, but I wouldn't consider Shawshank or Rear Window to be dialogue-based films. If they are, then you could consider just about any movie to be dialogue-based.

For the OP, some others:

Dinner With Andre

Almost any Linklater film

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Certified Copy

Withnail and I (borderline, as there is some action).

Rubix89 · 1 day

The Usual Suspects and The Others were both ruined for me after years of hearing about them and learning too much information.

Supersace56 · 1 day

My friends and I used to take Benadryl for fun in high school. We'd swallow about 30 pills at a time. That drug would mess me up more than anything else we did, and we were pretty much doing everything. The hallucinations were much more vivid than LSD or mushrooms. You were in a completely different reality.

I remember seeing dragons flying beside the car I was riding in (driven by a sober friend). I remember seeing girls I had crushes on climbing out of bushes in the middle of the night. I remember being in a car for hours, in the passenger seat, and for the entire time completely convinced that I was driving.

laserhannon · 1 day

They're both attorneys, so I'm sure they're at least managing. And the singer is recording his first album of original material as we speak, thanks to $10,000 he just managed to secure through kickstarter.

Dandical · 1 day

Your comment just caused me to abort a child I didn't even know I had. And I'm a grandmother 20+ years post menopause.

The "aborted baby" is in fact the calcified remains of what would have been my last child, a 3-month-old fetus we had been planning to name Jason. This was 1962. My husband had just been laid off from his job at the airplane factory, and truth be told the timing wasn't exactly right to have another youngin' at the supper table (there were six of us already). I guess a part of me has always wondered all these years if it weren't me cursing at my belly every night under my breath that made that baby die. Lord knows my thoughts weren't right those days. The long horseback rides into town probably didn't help none either.

The curious thing though was that the darned thing never came out. When we asked the doctor why the fetus insisted on staying where it was, he just shrugged his shoulders and said "One of those things..." So we left it at that, and were glad enough to just forget the whole mess.

And now here he finally is, after all these years of thinking that maybe I had somehow pooped him out, or I don't know, absorbed him into my internal organs: little Jason who was all alone--hard as chalk, only bone. Squeezed out my old vajayjay after reading your comment. I have to thank you, fernhead. For forcing an old woman to finally take a cold, hard look at what she done.

Obliverate · 1 day

I laughed.

laserhannon · 1 day

Imagine how many times they must have played that song to have nailed it so perfectly. There's no way they still actually enjoy playing it.

devilsadvocado · 1 day

Exactly. Also consequences are integral to a meaningful existence. Would you and your friends gather together and spend time playing a game where everybody won, or a game where the rules could simply be broken if you wished to break them? No, there would be no point in playing such a game. Just as there would be no point in God creating a universe without consequences or one in which the rules could be casually disregarded.

devilsadvocado · 1 day

Unfortunately, there is (or was anyway) a terrible description of a devil's avocado on Urban Dictionary. Don't look it up if you are easily offended, but anyway to answer your question: it would not be tasty.

heliotrop · 1 day

Well, our choices are either to self-destruct as a society or to gradually learn how to become responsible citizens/consumers. I'm going to do my best to push the trend of the latter. Government dependence is not an option, because centralized political power in combination with corporate monopolies will always be a disaster.

heliotrop · 2 days

It's not the concept that's a load of crock, it's we, the consumers, who are the load of crock. We are a lazy, entitled, selfish, and ignorant consumerbase (as a whole). We literally have the power to control the entire market, and yet when it comes down to it we don't give a shit who we give our dollars to just as long as we get our multiple daily fixes of instant gratification.

devilsadvocado · 2 days

Maybe this video will do it for you (frogs wharbling)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOXxa8CjRII

devilsadvocado · 2 days

wet...egg shells.

devilsadvocado · 2 days

Be patient and wait for the egg shell crunching, it gets really good at the end. I would pay someone decent wages to upload a video of them just chewing on wet egg shells for an hour.

devilsadvocado · 2 days

That's great. I wish we could make a little video anthology of all these brain fart moments.

devilsadvocado · 2 days

Teehee. Glad you got a kick out my mental issues.

devilsadvocado · 2 days

Good call. I've read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. I definitely need to continue that series. God's Philosophers looks really interesting.

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