I just saw a blind man being led by a seeing man, who was holding the other end of his cane, as if he was a dog in a leash.

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I guess it would've been to gay to hold his hand?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Blind man thinks: "Blimey, they've given me a tall dog!"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

Did you feel it was a shocking patriarchal emasculation of the dysabled, Tuomas?

― Mark C, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

(which reminds me - was the term "dysabled" only ever used on the Warwick university campus 1992-1996, or did it gain currency elsewhere? I remember it being explained to me that it meant "differently abled", i.e. had no negative connotations, but the prefix "dys-" appears to mean "bad, unlucky or abnormal", hmm)

― Mark C, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it was a sex thing.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Living near the state School for the Blind, I've seen a number of odd interactions between sighted and blind folks. It could have been part of a training exercise, who knows.

My favorite exercise is a navigational assessment, where a blind person is tailed by a sighted person wielding a clipboard and making all sorts of notations.

― patita, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Disabled is still the term of choice here in the US of A.

"Dysabled" reminds me of "womyn."

― Jesse, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Remember the days when wearing a Burberry scarf used to connote poshness? Well, yesterday I saw a bum sleeping on bench who wore one. One of those moments when I wished I'd own a camera...

― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

pls to make tuomasburberry.jpg

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/burberry-check-boxer.jpg

― sanskrit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

I walked past an office on my lunch hour, and someone had made a picture of one of the dragons in Bubble Bobble by sticking yellow and green post-it notes to the window as "pixels". I though that was megacute.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2005/chav-mobile.jpg

Yeah, poshness.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, don't know if you know but a couple of years back Burberry stopped being associated with high fashion in the UK as it was adopted by everybody's best friends, the chavs.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Not really true - the stripes are seen as chavvy but Burberry is still a high-fashion label, with ads featuring Kate Moss etc.

― braveclub, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, don't know if you know but a couple of years back Burberry stopped being associated with high fashion in the UK as it was adopted by everybody's best friends, the chavs.

Er, the same thing has happened here, and that was my point exactly, that was why I wrote "remember when..." The bum thing seemed to me like high point of this change.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, ok.

Not really true - the stripes are seen as chavvy but Burberry is still a high-fashion label, with ads featuring Kate Moss etc.

Cos Kate is not at all chavvy

― the next grozart, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

What else did you see, my blue eyed son?

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Some girl was trying to get downstairs at the station. She was trying to grab for sth to hold on to. I asked if she needed any help. So I took her downstairs and to the bus station. She complimented me asking if I had helped blind people before as I was so great at it. Well, sort of. My mom doesn't have depth perception so as a kid I would hold her hand when going down stairs and stuff.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

I had to help a blind man pick out some CDs at a record store once, and let me tell you, if you think it's initially obvious what the appropriate ways are to guide them, you've spent more time thinking about this than I have.

Anyway, I'm sure blind people are used to strangers being awkward guides or forgetting and handing them things to read or whatever, and it tends to only take about a minute and a half to sort the right way to actually be helpful for them.

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

(As per previous post's acknowledgement that duh, helping people right is a skill you kinda have to learn!)

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

i made fun of a woman on the street yesterday for pointing at nothing in particular and laughing in a really bizarre way as she pushed her friend down the sidewalk and then when they were about a half-block away i saw the woman speak in sign language and i felt like an asshole :/

― ghost rider, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

On my morning bus ride there was a mildly attractive Asian woman with a walking/poking white cane. She was very neatly dressed in a very black suit, which went well with the cane. Cane's are cooler than dogs. If you can pull them off.

On the return journey I was sat next to an obese man talking on the phone about having lost depth perception. He had to get up when I got off, and I was worried he'd slip and tumble down the aisle - damaging my credibility with the visually impaired. (he didn't have any problem at all)

― Greist, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

I just had a customer with a tear tattoo below his eye, I've never before seen a Finn with one (he had other tats too, which looked jail-made, plus a German skinhead jacket). It's kinda funny how international even these sort of subcultural signifiers have gotten.

― Tuomas, Monday, 3 March 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

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