Columbus Dispatch poll comments - some great new freeperisms!

[unpossibles]

The poll is asking if we should do something to alter our currency to make it more easily distinguishable for the blind. "No" is winning.

Some of the gems:

"Do you think radio discriminates against the def, or the internet discriminates against the blind? Ridicules!"

"It is regretable that blind people have been sattled with dificulties in life but society can not solve every inconvience for every one."

"I cannot believe this is a question. Sure, it discriminates, if you cannot see. So, the rest of us are supposed to suffer these people? It's hard to believe we've gone from sticking these people in asylums a hundred years ago to having to listen to them whine about how paper money discriminates against them. So, does coloration. You can't see. It's called not getting everything you want. Get used to it, babies"

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[DarkTirade]

1. Yikes.

Do they realize how easy it would be to add a bit of braille bumps into the texture? Apparently not.

[petronius]

5. But why should the rest of us suffer!? Ridicules!!11!!

Those little bumps might irritate my tender backside when I sit down, after all - thats too much of a risk. Silly freeper-types...

[skygazer]

2. Oh, for the good old days when we could send people to asylums

Of course, the people who wrote these comments would all be in those asylums... :eyes:

[unpossibles]

3. they apparently aren't "sattled" with a brain either. nt

[madinmaryland]

4. "sattled," "coloration," and "def"

:rofl:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Problem is, the content in Def Comedy Jam probably violates FEC regs

So radio has no choice but to discriminate against the def.

[DS1]

7. Radio totally ignored Def Leppard

It was criminal.


Ridicules!

[BarenakedLady]

8. Gah!

WTF is wrong with people?

:grr:

[meow2u3]

9. Self-delete--duplicate

[meow2u3]

10. A few more freeperisms

Were getting to the point where we have to accomodate for everyone, no matter how ridiculious the complaint is. I bet this project will be outsorced to China.

No money can be made blind proof. I can fake the shape or put brail dots on paper and how would they know - because they can't see, Duh! We gave them dollar coins no one else wants. Life is not always fair, grow up.

How silly can freepers be? Sometimes "discrimination" is warranted when public safety is involved--no one except the most ignorant would even think about letting a blind person operate heavy machinery:

No. Everyone has access to it. The money treats everyone the same. We cannot correct every inability that people have. Should we try and design automobiles so the blind can drive? How much should the taxpayer spend to try and eliminate the problems people have because of a handicap. Maybe we should send everyone a bill for these changes so we realize what it is costing.

Bold type emphasis is mine.