Whats worse than some ignorant bstrd using a handicap space?

cajun_tiger wrote:

all the gardai up there are a$$holes

Wow, what a wonderful and sweeping statement.

cajun_tiger wrote:

sorry if you write a post all in caps it turns out like my one,

Why would you write a post all in caps anyway? To píss people off?

koneko wrote:

Wow, what a wonderful and sweeping statement.

I was thinkin the same thing myself there koneko, the world generalisation isnt general enough for a statement like that.

I actually new a garda who was more up his Sergeants asshole than his own by the way.

Parent & Child spaces are designated on the same basis as Disabled Driver spaces - the spaces are wider, facilitating people who may be trying to get a wheelchair or a pushchair alongside the car. They are nothing to do with proximity to the store, security at night or anything else.

I think Parent & Child spaces are a good idea - if you've ever had some toddler sprint in front of your car while his parent's got the pushchair stuck behind the car and the side door open because they're trying to get the baby out of the pushchair and into the carseat and don't have eyes in the back of their head, you might agree...

I do think that parking spaces should be used on the basis of availability, and you should be permitted to park in a Disabled Driver or Parent & Child space if the rest of the carpark is full. Then again, someone would have to be employed to stand in the carpark and make sure people don't abuse that rule, because the general public are ba$tards...

Linoge wrote:

As requested.

DuJimmy.
Stop being a PC asshole. Handicapped is a perfectly acceptable term. It is not in any way derogatory. You're the type of person who would say "of African origin" rather than just "black", or "sick" instead of "Downs Syndrome". I don't think anyone would appreciate you being so patronizing.

Physically challenged people do have a right to park closer. Just think of all the trouble they have to go to to do their shopping. If its one luxury we can give them, why should we begrudge? I'm sure anybody objecting here is not in a wheelchair, nor any of their family.

I don’t see myself as being “ a pc asshole” I do however subscribe to the social model of disability and not the medical model.

To explain: The medical model of disability sees the disabled person as the problem. They are to be adapted or “cured” to fit into the world as it is. If this is not possible, then they are to be shut away in some specialised institution or isolated at home, where only their most basic needs are met. The emphasis is on dependence, backed up by the stereotypes of disability that call forth pity, fear and patronising attitudes. Usually the focus is on the impairment, rather than the needs of the person. Other people's assessments of them are used to determine where they go to school, what support they get (or don’t get) and what type of education, where they live, etc etc, and indeed whether or not we are born at all, or are even allowed to have children of their own. Similar control is exercised by the design of the built environment making it difficult or impossible for needs to be met and limiting opportunities. Whether it is in work, school, leisure and entertainment facilities, transport, training, higher education, and housing or in personal, family and social life, too many common practices and attitudes disable them.

The Social Model of Disability would say that the position of disabled people and the discrimination against them are socially created. This has little to do with their impairments. Disabled people are often made to feel it's their own fault that they are different. The difference is that some part, or parts, of their bodies or mind are limited in their functioning. This is impairment. And this impairment does not make them any less suitable to participate in society.
The problem is that most people have not been brought up to accept disabled people as they are. Through fear, ignorance and prejudice, barriers and discriminatory practices develop which disable them.
The “social model” believes the “Cure” to the problem of disability lies in the restructuring of society. Unlike medically based 'cures', which focus on individuals and their impairment, this is an achievable goal and to the benefit of everyone. This approach, suggests that disabled people's individual and collective disadvantage is due to a complex form of institutional discrimination.

pickarooney wrote:

So should I be working on my golf disability?

No
The dictionary definition is
hand·i·capped, hand·i·cap·ping, hand·i·caps
Sports & Games. To assign handicaps or a handicap to (a contestant).
To cause to be at a disadvantage; impede.

[From obsolete hand in cap, a game in which forfeits were held in a cap.]

Gilgamesh wrote:

man CU, are you sitting in a library or something, or do you spend your days memorising Encyclopedias?

No just looked out some of my old training materials

cujimmy wrote:

I don’t see myself as being “ a pc asshole” I do however subscribe to the social model of disability and not the medical model.

To explain: shíte, shíte, waffle etc.

Jaysus. Give it a rest would ye? You are being a bit over PC here.

Blub2k4 wrote:

Yeah shut up cujimmy, PC is so non-boards.

You just have to be a non-caring asshole like the rest of them and you'll fit right in.

No need to resort to insults. There's PC and then there's stupidly annoying PC.

cujimmy wrote:

These may help to explain my thinking on disability

but not everyone wants, needs or has to think of these things like you do.
its your right to get annoyed over something like that, the same way i get annoyed over teen angsters who think they should cut themselves, but hey, what can you do
chill out, and let people have their own opinions.