Hi niki, I wasn't really annoyed by the reference to short sighted people but when complaining about the new design of the web page because of the large lettering and the font why attribute it to someone that is short sighted why not attribute it to four year olds with pencilsI think that was my real problem but seeing that kids are the most marketable quantity on the planet this would not have been done as childline and every mother on the country would have reacted. In perspective I would compare this to opening one's mouth without thinking. then again I'll stick to computer stuff in future. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Kealy" <nicky.kealy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:52 AM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ignorance of disc jockeys
Lads, I haven't read all of this thread so far as I am catching up with emails but is this discussion not just a bit reduculus? Did the DJs really say anything wrong or anything that could be interpreted as being offensive to anyone? And Gerry, I would put it to you that what the man meant by the blind gentleman being able to see probably meant that maybe the loss of sight might have hampered his track ability in that he might have been able to achieve more by having his sight. I don't see this as offensive but you or the person concerned might.Cheers, NIcky.----- Original Message -----From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:53 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: ignorance of disc jockeysHi Gerry,And how was the motormouthed or smartmouthed DJ supposed to describe someone who, though not formally 'vision impaired', without glasses has (or seems to have) a problem seeing? Is such a person *not* 'hard of seeing'? if that DJ had instead used the expression, 'visually impaired' or 'vision impaired' it would have been certainly politically incorrect: you or some other listeners would have been offended by it. 'Treading a fine line', I would say. Perhaps 'shortsighted' would be the correct description? but perhaps somebody would have been offended by that, too, it not being wholly accurate, etc. yes, one has to fight one's corner; but a bit of perspective is also useful.----- Original Message ----- From: "GERARD SHANAHAN" <gershan@xxxxxx>To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:43 PM Subject: [vicsireland] ignorance of disc jockeys Hi Gang,By chance had the radio on today fm around 2.15p.m. Wednesday. Don't know the two Disk jockey guys that were on but they were discussing how awful the internet google page with the large font characters looked. I don't normally worry or am not usually bothered by political incorrectness but they got to me for some reason with their comments. The conversation went something like this:"This looks hughrendress" "I know, it's awful the letters are so huge""yea, I pressed control and the minus key and the size changed the letters look like big spider marks" "Yea, it must have been designed by Some guy that was hard of seeing with no glasses"."How can I tell google to give me back my old version of the webpage" "I don't know..."I wanted to tell them to go into font size but I wasn't very sure as to the correct instruction. I thought it funny how they got their Hard of hearing and short sighted references mixed up. If anyone can identify them and put them right it would be great. They were on just before tony fenton. Putting them right would be giving them the two fingers and show them we have brains aswell. Gerry=========================================================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message.To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4451 (20090923) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com=========================================================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message.To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org
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