CSS ... Can't see stuff.  In my case, that would be CSA (can't see 
anything).

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Howell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 06:45
Subject: Re: PC BS!


> II just like to tell folks I have a really bad case of CSS. I'll leave =
> that for you to work out.
>
> On May 24, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]> =
> wrote:
>
>> When people start using phrases like "sight impaired," I tell them I =
> prefer=20
>> to think of myself as "darkness enabled."
>>=20
>> Steve
>>=20
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Ian Westerland" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 19:08
>> Subject: Re: PC BS!
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Jim and Tom, fully agree.  I also use blind and say, when people ask
>>> me how long I have been sight impaired that there has never been any
>>> sight to be impaired.
>>>=20
>>> Political correctness has gone way too far for my liking.
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Ian, VK3vin
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> At 05:20 AM 25/05/2013, you wrote:
>>>> I'm with you Tom.  Enough of this politically correct BS! Blind
>>>> is blind, forget sight impaired.  I was once being deposed by an
>>>> attorney who had no sense of humor far as I could tell.  At one
>>>> point he asked me, "Have you been blind all of your life?" I said
>>>> no, I'm not dead yet and just sat quietly.  There was a rather
>>>> long and awkward silence after which he kind of stammered
>>>> something like um well, how long have you been um er sight
>>>> impaired? Jim WA6EKS
>>>>=20
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Date sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:04:40 -0400
>>>> Subject: Re: accessible radio
>>>>=20
>>>> Did I ever tell you guys that I caught a lot of grief once when
>>>> doing a
>>>> presentation at a Society For Disability Studies conference, and
>>>> we got into
>>>> a discussion of politically correct terminology?
>>>>=20
>>>> We were argued with when we used the term "disabled", because it
>>>> sounded
>>>> like you should be taken out to a pasture and shot, like an old
>>>> disabled
>>>> animal.
>>>>=20
>>>> Then, we got into trouble when we used terms like "visually or
>>>> physically
>>>> challenged", because what happens if the person fails the
>>>> challenge!
>>>>=20
>>>> So, I bravely said "Why don't we just use terms like blind, deaf,
>>>> partially
>>>> deaf, etc., and be done with the semantics.
>>>>=20
>>>> In other words, call it like it is, and go on with your life.
>>>>=20
>>>> That didn't go over so well.  (big smile)
>>>>=20
>>>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>>=20
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 2:37 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: accessible radio
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> I never understood this "visually challenged" junk.  Give me a
>>>> break!!!!
>>>>  No vision to it.
>>>> 73
>>>> Butch
>>>> WA0VJR
>>>> Node 3148
>>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> Butch, that's true, but it still brings home the point.
>>>> blindness sucks,
>>>> but its not a death sentence; which is what most newly blinded
>>>> people
>>>> think
>>>> it is.  I am purposely using the B word here, because their is a
>>>> movement
>>>> to
>>>> avoid the word.  Forbidden words gain emence power just by being
>>>> forbidden.
>>>> Its a word and if you use it on a tax form, it can be used in
>>>> conversation.
>>>=20
>