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Entries from March 2009

Obama makes crass “Special Olympics” joke during Jay Leno interview

March 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

Not impressed, Mr Obama. Not impressed at all. Hopefully the YouTube video below will stay live for you all to see this, but the gist of it goes that Jay Leno is asking Barack Obama if he has kept the bowling alley in the White House. Obama replies that yes, he has kept it, and […]

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Tags: Disability Awareness · News · Paralympics · Politics · World

Blind people can be abusive, too

March 18th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Here’s an interesting conundrum that a lot of able-bodied people struggle with.
How “helpful” should one be towards a disabled person, without appearing to be condescending, or patronising?
Every now and then you might see a wheelchair user struggling up a curb or a step. Do you offer to help, and risk offending him/her, or do you […]

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Tags: Blogs · Transport

“Talking Hands”, by Cassandra Swan

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Cassi sent me this sweet little poem from the perspective of someone who is deafblind, and I thought I’d post it up here Cheers Cass!
TALKING HANDS
Graceful movements
expressions are relayed
many languages are involved
Hand on hand, block letter, braille sign
Deaf, Deafblind and Hearing alike
Mothers, Fathers, Interpreters
Sign Language, Talking Hands

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Tags: Transport

Do you want to write for Walking Is Overrated?

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Morning folks! As you can tell, my blogging activity has been a wee bit sporadic lately, thanks to Uni going back and me galavanting around this beautiful country of ours.
So it is at this time that I ask - would you like to contribute to walkingisoverrated.com? It could be anything - a review, opinion piece, […]

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Tags: Blogs · Ramblings · Site News

Welcome, Rise readers!

March 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Thanks for coming to check out my blog! If you’d like to get in touch, head on over to the contact page and drop me a message - would love to know your thoughts on the site or the article, or anything else you’d like to discuss!
For those who don’t know, this month’s Rise […]

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Tags: Blogs · Exciting times · News · Site News

Excuse my ignorance, but what the hell is an invalid?

March 10th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Firstly, apologies for the tone of this but I’m annoyed. Trust vernacular to bring me back from blogging oblivion.
Now, call me what you like, but when I last checked, the dictionary definition for the word ‘invalid’ read something like this:
invalid 2 |inˈvalid| |1nˈvøləd| |ɪnˈvalɪd|
adjective
not valid, in particular
• (esp. of an official document or procedure) not […]

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Tags: Ramblings