Saw this on the way home... wtf?

mang87

Saw this on my way home from liffey valley on the side of a bus shelter... Is that not sort of like asking a cripple if he would like to walk, or a blind man if he would like to watch the tv... ?

Heh.

Amz

No it's not the same.

You clearly don't understand Autism.

You obviously don't get the message that it's trying to convey.

The picture doesn't show the entire poster.

sceptre

Like Amz said, Autism (as well as all the related conditions) is a little more complicated than anything we saw in Rain Man. Not the same thing as asking a blind man if he'd like to see at all. Or asking a blind man's brother if he'd like to see either.

Hugh Hefner

mang87 wrote:

Saw this on my way home from liffey valley on the side of a bus shelter... Is that not sort of like asking a cripple if he would like to walk, or a blind man if he would like to watch the tv... ?

Heh.

Autistic people can talk you fool.

mike65

The bin awaits.... :rolleyes:

Mike.

Mossy Monk

maybe its asking if someone is living with a person who has autism and would they like to talk to someone

methinks Mike65 is right about this thread

Amz

That's why I made the point about the entire poster not being shown in the picture.

As far as I know this is part of an ad campaign by the Irish Society for Autism to support parents or relatives of people with Autism.

Lump

I'll be honest... I consider myself to be a heartless cúnt.... But I actually cry any time I see a film depicting someone with autism... or see anyone autistic for that matter.


John

CuLT

I find how he understood that poster hilarious

billy the squid

Saw this on my way home from liffey valley on the side of a bus shelter... Is that not sort of like asking a cripple if he would like to walk, or a blind man if he would like to watch the tv... ?

is the concept of a blind person wantint to watch television alien to you?

mang87

Err, I'm pointing out the apparent irony about it, I fully understand what it was really trying to say, but I was in a strange mood and it made me chuckle.


I guess I shouldn't be surprised no one finds it funny, I've been known for having a more perverse sense of humour than most.

[edit] and have I managed to awaken the entire moderating team, or what

pickarooney

I thought it was quite funny (the interpretation if not the poster itself) and thought it funnier the way you only got a tut-shake-so-not-right-on reaction.

mang87

Well I guess it's selective taste, for instance did you laugh when Gary broke out singing the aids song in Team America: world police.

Amz

No I don't think it is the same thing.

I think it's a case of you not understanding the poster and deciding to champion the cause of people with disabilities without even being capable of it.

mang87

Amz wrote:

No I don't think it is the same thing.

I think it's a case of you not understanding the poster and deciding to champion the cause of people with disabilities without even being capable of it.

Ok, so my word of "I fully understand what it was really trying to say" was not enough for you?


Oh well, my tough ****, I guess :rolleyes:

[edit] and how is it not the same thing?

Amz

mang87 wrote:

Ok, so my word of "I fully understand what it was really trying to say" was not enough for you?

Oh well, my tough ****, I guess :rolleyes:

[edit] and how is it not the same thing?

Because of this:

Saw this on my way home from liffey valley on the side of a bus shelter... Is that not sort of like asking a cripple if he would like to walk, or a blind man if he would like to watch the tv... ?

Heh

There's a difference between something being perversely funny and something that's not funny in the slightest and what you're suggesting is perversely funny is in fact something that falls into the latter category of not being remotely funny at all.

It isn't even ironic.

You're just trying to get out of this by saying "I've a perverse sense of humour" because people have pointed out how you misinterpreted it because you didn't really understand it in the first place.

mang87

Amz wrote:

Because of this:




It isn't even ironic.

Yes it is.


I'm not trying to get out of anything, you wish to pigeonhole me as an idiot, you're more than welcome to do so.

Amz

mang87 wrote:

Yes it is.

You might want to check your definition of irony as it appears to differ from mine.

You didn't include the entire poster in the picture you attached in what I can only assume was an attempt to be "funny", that is not the same as irony.

I'm not trying to get out of anything, you wish to pigeonhole me as an idiot, you're more than welcome to do so.

The word I'd have used to describe you isn't "idiot".