Deus Ex Alpha

So back in the Summer me and my friends visited the pool.. alot. It was free, it was hot, it was a great place to pick up girls and exercise.

One particularly sunny day, the good lord blessed us with two particularly beautiful girls. And as a result, I was on it faster than the speed of light, and attempted to call them over. To no avail. They wouldn't turn around at all and there was just me and them in the deep end, leaving me confused.

Then I saw them doing hand signals. Couple seconds later I figured it out.

They're deaf.

My soul was crushed and by the time I gathered enough of their language to forumlate a conversation, they had left.

Fast forward to last week, I rediscovered one of them on a social networking site; and as a result contacted her.

We began talking and now she wants to meet with me, which I am happy to do.

Now, here is where I need help. I've never been out with a deaf person let alone a deaf girl.

Where should we go? Normally I would take them to a film, this is now out of the question for obvious reasons.

Conversation is one of my strong points, especially with jokes, how fast can I learn sign language.

Other general help.

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If you can, some non-mainstream movie theatres display films with subtitles, it may come off as a bit cliche, but it could also be interpreted as considerate.

Otherwise swallow your man pride and take her out shopping or something, it's not particularly MANLY, but she might enjoy going around shops and asking for your opinion, which is easy to signal, its either thumbs up or down or the hand stretched out horizontally and wiggle it, the old "maybe, maybe not" signal, that and you would get a chance to check out her figure.

Don't kill yourself that you can't hand sign, if you get with this girl, she will appreciate your slow learning her language. On the date don't be afraid to take like a pad and pen, and write stuff down to communicate, just be polite and don't make it a big issue.

When you take her out to lunch or whatever, go to like a fast food restaurant where she can point at the food she wants, Pizza hut is always good, cos you can sit down she can point at what she wants, and it will only set you back 10-15 quid.

Just don't feel like your an ass because you can't sign, and be confident with her, so that she knows your serious about getting with her instead of "oh i dunno, she is deaf..."

This is absolutely cute, sorry, but it is.

A lot of deaf people can lip read to some degree. Some are very good at it.

Learning sign is brilliant. You can talk to someone across the room or the street and not worry about screaming your lungs out. You can talk stuff that no one else around you can understand.

Like most languages start with the basic stuff.

Now, here is where I need help. I've never been out with a deaf person let alone a deaf girl.

Are you subtley admitting bisexuality?

Yeah, I'd go with a subtitled movie.

Go to a foreign film, those usually have subtitles.

Or watch District B13.

Snakey wrote:

Now, here is where I need help. I've never been out with a deaf person let alone a deaf girl.

Are you subtley admitting bisexuality?

Yeah, I'd go with a subtitled movie.

I have a few deaf bros (not literal brothers)
If I was to go aboot town with them it would be entirely different with going around with a deaf girl

I am only bi for you snakey :F

cataclyzm wrote:Go to a foreign film, those usually have subtitles.

I watched Run Lola Run once, it was good.

cataclyzm wrote:Or watch District B13.

wat

MrBlack wrote:Fantastic brotherly advice

Thanks. The pad and pen shouldn't be an issue since I have a PDA with a keyboard on it, so I anticipated that.

I had also figured Pizza Hut would be a good choice since they have a buffet thingy and then all you have to do is pay.

She's bringing her friend now for one of my brahs so we will both be in the same boat and should make the entire experience easier.

And even if it doesn't go fantastically well I'll get a little insight into how deaf people do things and that's something I've always been a bit mystified about.

James wrote:This is absolutely cute, sorry, but it is.

I have a female friend who said the exact same thing to me after I told her about it

I dislike awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwing from all directions D:

Pizza Hut is a good start for any kindof CUTE date

I was gonna suggest KFC, but I thought that might have been racist

Oh and btw, this is gonna be harsh, but you should do this with her;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJUX1UiPCA

Like speak for her

So you "Yeah lets go to Pizza hut"

You with girly voice "OK baby!"

LMAO BEN YOU FUCKING DHASDJHASSSJ WE SHOULD KEEP THIS TO MSN

What and calling him Cute is OK?

Motherfucker

I'm a sweet transvesite.

MrBlack wrote:The worst post ever

ur a fgt

Protocol wrote:

MrBlack wrote:The worst post ever

ur a fgt

My bad

Remember to retell us your experiences when the thing happens lol.

~Psychotic~ wrote:Remember to retell us your experiences when the thing happens lol.

Naturally m7

wat

French movie

Made American-style

"This video is not available in your country. "

When I first saw that you had a new topic in your journal I thought someone's got beaten again

Back in primary school my female classmates invented a weird language that even deaf people could understand if they were told what the meaning of the signs were.
They had different signs for every single letter and they could communicate so fast with hands that I couldn't catch up even when they told me what the meaning of those signs were. They didn't communicate like that all day, only when helping eachother on tests ( It was extremely useful when all you had to do is underlining the right answers ) or when they wanted to tell eachother something during the lesson. I found that amazing.

So you had your cute date yet duder?

How did it go?

Friday.

WHAT IF FORUM WORLD CAT CUM INTO UR DATE RITE NOW
AN HE B SIGNING UP UR WOMAN
WAT U DO

wait wait wat wait wat what wait wut what wait wait what wait wat wait

What?

Forum World Cat wrote:WHAT IF FORUM WORLD CAT CUM INTO UR DATE RITE NOW
AN HE B SIGNING UP UR WOMAN
WAT U DO

Obviously a flykick is the only solution

Protocol wrote:I dislike awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwing from all directions D:

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Protocol wrote:Friday.

It's Saturday dude

How was it?

It was pretty good.

First we all met up in Greenwich and hopped on one of those boats with the tour and whatnot. I had the idea that it would be cold and lo and behold she wasn't wearing a proper jacket. So I stole the movie routine and gave her mine.

She can lipread pretty well and I understood most of her signing so conversation wasn't really an issue.

For me.

My bro crashed and burned for the most part. She was feeling a little seasick (she'd never been on a boat before) and tried to lean on his shoulder and he pushed her off and told her to wake up and all we could do was laugh at the unfolding debacle.

We got off at Waterloo and got my favourite pancakes and hot dogs and just walked around the city. Gawking at things and making idle 'signversation'.

At the end we came back to Greenwich (By taxi for I am balla) and sat in the park pointing at things and sharing a large foam cup of coffee. My mate took his girl and went missing for the moment we got there for the best part of two hours which we didn't really mind.

She came back in tears and he was jogging after her telling her to calm down (Like shouting to a deaf person is effective). We soon noticed her jeans were wet and he stated that it would be a funny joke to 'dip' her in the lake. He's a large guy so I assume he just picked her up.

At the end we took our seperate ways home (me and my date and him and his) and she gave me a kiss and we hugged for a bit and then she took my phone and made an appointment. She wouldn't let me read it but after she closed the door and went in I couldn't help myself. It said '<hername>'s New Years Party. 6pm to ?'

And then I went home. Haven't seen my friend since actually..