Ah it’s the weekend of wheelchair and scooter stories. Firstly we have the senior citizens scooter racing in Israel, then we have the drunk Canadian who nicked a motorised chair and got done for it. But the prize must go to Ben Carpenter who went for a ride on a truck. Not just any old […]
Entries Tagged as 'Disability'
2012 Design causes people to have seizures
June 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on 2012 Design causes people to have seizures · Disability, Uncategorized
It’s not just crap, getting the piss taken out of it, the prelude for the new design for 2012 caused people with epilepsy to have seizures. Being very photosensitive and not a fan of strobe lighting or a lot of flash photography I’ve have been aware of the fact that people with epilepsy can’t do […]
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Is Big Jim watching – think he would be happy?
May 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Disability, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Uncategorized
I could write hundreds of words on the launch of the Labour Manifesto today – particularly on the section on gay rights (they forgot the lbt in the title but I’ll let it pass for now as the full text of it is inclusive.) The main thing I thought about tonight reflecting on the history […]
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NDA and disability rights – Where are ya?
May 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Disability
It’s Blogging against Disablisim day today. I’m awaiting all the manifesto launches before I fully blog about disability and the general election. The National Disability Authority are doinig Bertie Ahern’s campaigning job for him in yet another government funded publicity campaign about another new initiative – what you mean you have not noticed the huge […]
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Thoughts I want to send
April 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Thoughts I want to send · Disability
I can’t help but think that if this poor guy was able bodied someone would have checked a bit harder to make sure he was really dead…now I’ve read that again and that sounds like I mean that they could have made sure he did not live – but hey they sent him to the […]
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