Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for September 27, 2021

@Number Three Today’s strip IS funny our HERO Mr Andrew Capp knows his pals very well Ron turning his hearing aid off is priceless :o) my avatar is about the deadly words that men should not ignore, how was your day? our Manic Monday should be busy as usual but we should cope I hope we are both in a good mood no errands to run or shopping to do just stay inside the house in places with A/C or huge fans and keep hydrated till this evening when the Greengrocer van comes up our street , keep safe and thanks for caring young Lady

There’s a lot to be said for that! As for me, I would put in earbuds and start listening to music.

What an unusual strip today. Andy Capp is sober, quiet, and he has Flo with him!! Is he sick or something??

Chag sameach, Eldo and rjm. Thank goodness, after Simchas Torah, religious life will be back to normal.

I bet he turns those hearing aids down when Guitar Bob is there.

Nice to see Andy and Flo out for an evening!

Yakkity yak! Don’t talk back!

Andy must be reading the Racing Form. I can’t think of anything else that he would read.

Practical and effective.

This strip is under protest by PETA

Take out the papers and the trash

Or you don’t get no spendin’ cash

If you don’t scrub that kitchen floor

You ain’t gonna rock and roll no more

Yakety yak (don’t talk back)

Just finish cleanin’ up your room

Let’s see that dust fly with that broom

Get all that garbage out of sight

Or you don’t go out Friday night

Yakety yak (Don’t talk back)

You just put on your coat and hat

And walk yourself to the laundromat

And when you finish doin’ that

Bring in the dog and put out the cat

Yakety yak (Don’t talk back)

Don’t you give me no dirty looks

Your father’s hip, he knows what cooks

Just tell your hoodlum friend outside

You ain’t got time to take a ride

Yakety yak (Don’t talk back)

Yakety yak, yakety yakYakety yak, yakety yakYakety yak, yakety yak…

Turning off hearing aids doesn’t mean you don’t hear. Most people have losses at certain frequencies. You can hear but not understand. If going out with somebody with hearing aids, don’t stand under the store/restaurant speaker for the music system. Many hearing aids have the microphone in the top and the music overwhelms your talk. Sit at a booth to help isolate sound. Let the person with hearing aids sit with their back tot he restaurant. just went o my 50th high school reunion. In the main room, once the “band” started playing, it became all but impossible to hear. Moved out to other rooms and was better.

Agnes is the next cartoon strip I’m going to see.

A joke that predates vaudeville (and possibly the dinosaurs):

“Our teacher talks to herself.”

“Is she crazy?”

“No, she thinks we’re listening!”

My younger brother has had a hearing loss since he was about 4 years old. At a family gathering after we were all adults he confessed that by the time he was a pre-teen, he would turn off his hearing aid whenever Mom would chew him out for something!

Good plan, Ron, until Agnes finds out.

I honestly wish I could do that. Or have my own remote and press the “Mute” button on them.

xxx

That must be quite useful. would be nice if life had a volume control. A pause button and a rewind button would also be really handy.

That explains why his left ear is smaller than his right ear – she done talked his ear off.