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How do blind people not fall asleep all the time?

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  • #32
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Chop Chop wrote: »
    Most blind people can see with their ears.

    I remember the time my Dad was sacked by Nicki Laudas F1 racing team , he was a motor mechanic with them , my Dad visited Lauda in hospital just after Lauda was in his famous crash where he had his ears burned off .

    To cheer Lauda up my Dad told him he'd save a fortune in sunglasses and that contact lens werent that bad seeing as his ears were gone.


  • #33
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Sacramento wrote: »
    I can see the t-shirts now

    "I'M BLIND, NOT TIRED."

    pƎɹI┴ ┴ON 'pNI˥q W,I


  • #34
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    I mean, its always dark for them. That is condusive to sleeping right?

    It's not dark, they don't have any input from the optical nerve in the first place. They don't have that sense. At least that's true for most blind people.


  • #35
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    smcgiff wrote: »
    Not for ANY amount of money.

    And that's from an accountant. Says a lot.


  • #36
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    How do they know they're done wiping their ass?


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  • #37
    Chop Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 343 ✭✭Chop Chop


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    How do they know they're done wiping their ass?

    They can hear the shíte on the toilet paper.


  • #38
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    barry181091 wrote: »
    We need some blind people opinions on this!

















    oh wait.

    Wait what?

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_(screen_reader)

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #39
    Logical_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Logical_Bear


    TOMs WIFE wrote: »
    I don't find this funny.
    the internet really isnt for you.

    Can I recommend a few other sites for you? try facesofdeath.com and 4chan.org


  • #40
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Tearwave wrote: »
    Here's a better question, how much would you accept to go blind for the rest of your life... 1 million euro, 2 million? You could still do a lot of stuff, listen to good music eat nice foods etc and the money could go a long way for your family, especially those with children. I would personally be talking at least 5 million.
    Absolutely not for sale. Just one of those things. I would rather work a dull and boring job to just get by than to have a billion euros and no sight.

    I'm sure for blind people it's not that bad, you come to terms with it and get used to it, but basically 99% of the things I can think of doing with a billion euros requires me to be able to see what I'm doing.

    My hearing, that's a different matter. And that's coming from a guy who loves his music. There's probably a price for that, but it's probably in the hundreds of millions. Even at that, I'd have to think about it for weeks. I don't have a bad life that requires stupid amounts of money to make me happy. I'd like to earn a little more, work a little less and have no debts, sure. But I'm not really willing to trade intangible things like sight and hearing to make life insanely comfortable. It's not like I'm living in sub-saharan Africa. Life is comfortable, and compared to 99% of the rest of the people in the world I might as well be a millionaire.

    To never be able to see my wife or daughter smiling again would absolutely crush me. To not be able to hear them would be devastating too, but not quite as much.


  • #41
    Meangadh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Yeah I mean you can learn sign language or write things down to communicate with people, but a lack of sight is so debilitating. You would end up so dependant on others. If you're deaf you can live a far more "normal" life. And like Seamus, I say that as someone who loves music- I listen to it every day and perform it a few times a week. But give me my sight any day.

    I wear contact lenses and I'd give up most of my other mod cons over my contacts. Hopefully some day I'll afford the laser surgery. Those of ye who have 20-20 vision should really know how lucky ye are- to wake up in the morning, open your eyes and be able to just see everything perfectly. There's a reason why they call it the "gift" of sight, so seriously, treasure it!


    (I did however, laugh heartily at the thread title, classic!)


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  • #42
    Clandestine
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    Because of their lack of sight, the energy they would usually consume from using their sight is not used. Therefore, they receive a sort of "power boost" which allows them to stay awake and focus their attention, moreso than the average person in fact.


  • #43
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    What do blind people dream of?


  • #44
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    seamus wrote: »
    Absolutely not for sale. Just one of those things. I would rather work a dull and boring job to just get by than to have a billion euros and no sight.

    I'm sure for blind people it's not that bad, you come to terms with it and get used to it, but basically 99% of the things I can think of doing with a billion euros requires me to be able to see what I'm doing.

    My hearing, that's a different matter. And that's coming from a guy who loves his music. There's probably a price for that, but it's probably in the hundreds of millions. Even at that, I'd have to think about it for weeks. I don't have a bad life that requires stupid amounts of money to make me happy. I'd like to earn a little more, work a little less and have no debts, sure. But I'm not really willing to trade intangible things like sight and hearing to make life insanely comfortable. It's not like I'm living in sub-saharan Africa. Life is comfortable, and compared to 99% of the rest of the people in the world I might as well be a millionaire.

    To never be able to see my wife or daughter smiling again would absolutely crush me. To not be able to hear them would be devastating too, but not quite as much.

    I've heard it said that deaf people are more socially removed than blind people.


  • #45
    JustAThought
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    smcgiff wrote: »
    I've heard it said that deaf people are more socially removed than blind people.


    Wha?


  • #46
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭baalthor


    smcgiff wrote: »
    I've heard it said that deaf people are more socially removed than blind people.

    Where I grew up there was one blind person and one deaf person in our community.
    The blind person went to the same schools as everyone else, socialised in the same places, got married, has a family.

    The deaf person went to a school for the deaf where they learned sign language. They do go out and and socialise but as nearly no one else has sign language, their communication options are more limited. Sometimes in shops they have to write things down on paper for the shop staff.

    Of course, many deaf people can communicate through speech but it's not true to say either that blind people are always dependant on others.

    Look at it this way: have you ever been in a situation where you had to communicate with someone without seeing them (say in a different room or on the phone) or where you could see someone but not hear them (like in a very noisy pub)?
    Which was more challenging?

    Or which would people prefer ?
    A television with no sound or a radio?


  • #47
    joetoad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 295 ✭✭joetoad


    They have a giant vibrating egg shoved up their ass that stops them falling asleep


  • #48
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    JustAThought wrote: »
    Wha?

    I SAID... Ah, never mind.


  • #49
    Truncheon Rouge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    seamus wrote: »
    To never be able to see my wife or daughter smiling again would absolutely crush me. To not be able to hear them would be devastating too, but not quite as much.


    More importantly you'd never be able to watch porn again.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,226 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know AH is bandit-country regarding matters of taste...

    But ughhh, I don't see the humour here


  • #51
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    joetoad wrote: »
    stops them falling asleep

    That's what they said... And you believed them :D


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  • #52
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    baalthor wrote: »
    Look at it this way: have you ever been in a situation where you had to communicate with someone without seeing them (say in a different room or on the phone) or where you could see someone but not hear them (like in a very noisy pub)?
    Which was more challenging?

    Or which would people prefer ?
    A television with no sound or a radio?
    I can see this point of course, but I'm probably coming from a POV where I find communication via text better than audio or video. Like when someone posts a video saying, "You have to watch this", I ignore it because I can't sit through five minutes of video when I could read a transcript of it in 30 seconds. Being unable to read things and having to get all of my information from audio would be a special kind of hell for me.

    But then that's a relatively new phenomenon, the internet hasn't been around that long, before that deaf people's ability to communicate would have been much more limited.

    I also think there would be a significant difference between becoming deaf later in life and being born deaf. I have 30 years experience speaking, as well as interpreting body language and tone. Even if I couldn't hear anymore I should be able to quite accurately guess at the tone by matching it to the speaker's body language, and since I know what words are supposed to look like, I should be able to pick up lip reading pretty quickly.

    But I can certainly see how being born deaf would lead to more social isolation than being born blind.


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