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I was attempting to give a detailed response as someone with hearing difficulties.
But PIEBALDConsulant gave the best response.
what utter PC codswallop! I would rather be employed on the skills I have than be a special project for the company.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Wow Kudo's to for raising their morale by calling them 'differently enabled' I expect that makes them feel so much better about their disabilities. It's like they are Mutants with super-powers.
Tell me did she mention anything about the 'normally enabled' staff purposely blinding or maiming themselves in order to make themselves differently enabled? To me that could be the only downside to this approach
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I applaud this.
(I do not know why some people are saying it's too PC. What exactly is the axe you're grinding?)
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effayqueue wrote: I do not know why some people are saying it's too PC.
Read what this person was saying about her employees, drawing attention to their disabilities. Could not be more patronising if she tried.
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Avijnata wrote: more than 90 percent of the staff are differently enabled
What? They can master magnetism, heal amazingly quickly, things like that?
Reading that, what keeps screaming out at me is, paying lower than market rate to people who you deem will be just grateful for a job. I don't read that as philanthropy. To me, that smacks of rampant exploitation.
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There was this company called ReHab in the Washington, DC area in the 1970s. They made a habit of hiring quite a few physically disabled persons. The company used to contract for the Federal government.
Someone said that the founder was disabled in a car accident and that gave him the impetus to start a company that actively solicited disabled persons for employment.
Nothing wrong with that. It is not PC (politically correct)crap. It is not exploiting the disabled. It is a way of recognizing that they also have the right to be productive employees.
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Avijnata wrote: Do you have such companies in your country?
Oh, boy, do we.
Avijnata wrote: This company has combined "business with philanthropy".
Yeah, we got a lot of those. It is called "marketing". A business is not a philantropical institution. Its purpose is profit.
Avijnata wrote: About the vision-impaired staff members, they possess very high memory.
That's some generalization there.
I'm technically considered a "disabled" person. That is NOT the same as differently abled - the latter is a perversion of the political correct idiots that think that it sounds negative to call someone "disabled". People that use terms like "differently abled" have a pshylogical disability, a perverted need for positivism.
We, in the real world, name sh*t as it is. We learn to discriminate between warm and cold so we can survive fires and winters. Don't talk about "different temperatured seasons" or you'll get a long-sleeve sweater. One with very long sleeves.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Like you Eddy, I would be technically classified as disabled. Wishy washy language like this just annoys the crap out of me - when I was younger, I had a brief moment of madness where I considered looking to the army to be sponsored through university and into Sandhurst. I flunked the physical purely because of my disability - and they didn't sugar coat it as me being "differently abled". As far as they were concerned, I would not even be worthy of being called up in times of National Service.
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I've just done my pisspot renewal online. Now well done gov.uk for getting this process online, as I have to provide so much information my fingers would have fallen off writing it all. Actually for a renewal I think I provided less data then I would to sign up for the average web site!
Now, I just need to get some pirdy snaps and post this stuff off to Liverpool. I hope nothing gets nicked. 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I just need to get some pirdy snaps
Remember: your passport photo must:
0) Not contain a smile
1) Bear as little resemblance to you as possible.
2) Make you look like a terrorist or paedophile, preferably both at the same time.
3) Not look like you spent 4 hours in the airport bar before take off (this is to comply with (1) above).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh Passport, I had no idea what you what you were talking about.
On the plus side, I heard that processing is much quicker now after the fiasco earlier this year.
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You have to excuse Nagy: he's foreign... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sadly too true. Singaporian, Irish, British and Hungarian. Wherever I go I am at least 75% forn!
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And the other 25% Gin?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That would imply that gin is ubiquitous in its nationality. This brings to mind jynnian tonnix, although the thought of Nagy in a bath with his rubber duck is somewhat disquieting.
... isn't Nagy always MORE than 25% gin?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: the thought of Nagy in a bath with his rubber duck
Mind bleach! I need mind bleach... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 3) Not look like you spent 4 hours in the airport bar before take off (this is to comply with (1) above).
Is the man capable of such short stays?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Depends on whether he is travelling with the ickles or not... 
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Piccies done & application dispatched. I now cannot leave these shores until them there scousers do their job.
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There's a job in ScouserLand? 
Do the locals know? 
Why does the Mersey run through Liverpool?
Because if it walked, it'd get mugged!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They did a fine job for me the last time I needed them. On the evening before my daughter was due to fly to Cyprus with her grandparents, my ex-wife informed me that her passport had expired (she didn't realise that kids inly get 5 years on theirs, compared to 10 for adults).
I sent them to get photos in the local supermarket photo booth, and took my littl'un down to the passport office at 8.30am the next morning. We got an emergency appointment, paid about a £50 premium on the normal price, and had a new document in our hands at 12.30pm. I then had to get her to Manchester airport for 2.00pm for a 3.30 flight. Job done and lots of dad points banked.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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My last two passports where renewed at the Embassy in Budapest and it was an overnight service then. Now it takes a month at least and costs too much. I thought about going up to London and doing a same day renewal, but felt that, all in all, I couldn't justify the extra cost.
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Here it takes an average of 15 days and 73€  Up until some years ago it also costed 40 €/year to keep it valid. Bureaucracy.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
If you don't tell me what I need to know, I'm gonna press down on this chair until it crushes your trachea. Trust me, it's agonizing. Plus, there's the posthumous humiliation of having been killed with a chair.
Which movie?
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