but I also considered that on this forum, there might be many people who have many different disabilities with different degrees of severity.
Like not being able to see the difference between a white and a yellow bulb?
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faile was only reacting on the genes thing you ppl ware discussing. (A topic I gladly avoided) There never was the intention to laugh about handicapped ppl.
They prefer the term disabled btw. (in western countries anyway)
I agree with HEF on the joke you told. Nothing funny about it. In Belgium it's been a major issue for some time.
Children in traffic and accidents with trucks/lorries.
Trucks in Belgium all have extra mirrors now, to avoid the "death curve". The spots directly beside and/or behind a truck that a truckdriver can't always see, specially while making a turn.
Ppl who lost a familymember in traffic won't think it's funny. And I'm sure a lot of truckdrivers won't think it's funny.
Italian drivers are officially the worst drivers in Europe. Not long ago the EC released results about a test they had done (German drivers turned out to be the best drivers).
- Don't ask me how they tested it, all the EC seems to do is having these useless tests and then do nothing with the results they publish anyway. Where do ppl drive best, where do ppl drink most wine, where do they eat most carrots,...
They should have one like where are they most bored of our useless testing. I even doubt if those tests really exist. All they do is confirm things everybody knew already. -
But I'm sure a lot of Italian ppl don't feel good about that title.
I too spend a lot of time in Italy. Taking the hectic traffic and the fact that they don't seem to care about traffic rules in mind, they don't seem to have so much (major) accidents as one could expect. It's often tourists who get involved in accidents. For the obvious reason that they're not used to the crazy driving and hectic traffic.
If you look at it in another way, you could even say that they're good drivers. Being able to survive that traffic daily does imply they have skill. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
In a lot of Asian cities the traffic is a lot more crazy and hectic.