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| Braille in the strangest places | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 6 2005, 03:35 PM (282 Views) | |
| ivorythumper | Dec 6 2005, 03:35 PM Post #1 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I was at a restaurant last night. The men's room had a Koala Baby Changing Station, with braille instructions on it. Does anyone else appreciate the strangeness of this? Nappy changing is one activity where being blind would be a serious liability. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| KlavierBauer | Dec 6 2005, 03:37 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Seems as though if they can get to the bathroom with a child and diaper bag, then find the table on their own, they probably don't need instructions on how to use it. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 6 2005, 03:38 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: That's classic. The best i ever saw has at an art exhibition at The Baltic and under all the painting blurbs, it was also in braille. I would have though eyesight would have been quite impostant for viewing art as well as changing nappies! ![]() x |
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| apple | Dec 6 2005, 03:59 PM Post #4 |
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one of the angels
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oddly my blind piano student who will be leaving for college next fall hopes to be an interpreter for French and Spanish seeing people. |
| it behooves me to behold | |
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| JBryan | Dec 6 2005, 04:00 PM Post #5 |
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I am the grey one
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How about a drive up bank teller. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Dewey | Dec 6 2005, 04:04 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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One of my all time favorites, in addition to the time-stamping entry gate at a parking garage. The ADA is nothing if not thorough... :rolleyes: |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| George K | Dec 6 2005, 05:20 PM Post #7 |
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Finally
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How about an operating room? For all the blind surgeons...
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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