I@m in complete agreement with you about all of that dark, and i understand your reasoning. and you are some kind of monster aren't you? :d i'd love to have a skype conversation with you sometime to discuss this and a few other matters that i want to puy to you, if you could email me offlist then we could sort it out if thats ok. now i'm going to a cricket training session in about 30 minutes, so see you after that!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 08 June 2012 23:50 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone? Hi Ben. Unfortunately my experience of cricket was not good, sinse other than playing in P.E. in school, the only other time I played was at one of the chess championships when several blind people started a cricket match, ostensibly for fun, but essentially they were all from the same blind colidge so it quickly became less fun for me. I am glad there are sports that avoid this, or at least places in sports, but to be brutally honest I'm not that much interested in competitive sports (dont' ask me why, competition just doesn't do it for me), or indeed too much getting into blind only organizations if I can know something about them first and make sure they're not just stuck within their own little bubble. For instance, there used to be a blind drama group who advertized acting, singing composing and putting on a production. You'd think as someone with a very serious interest in singing professionally that would be right up my street right? Accept that when i went, I was pretty much ignored by all the blind members who went on about reminiscences betwene themselves, accept for two other new members who I finished up friends with. Their "singing" turned out to mean that their own pianists made up tunes, a couple of members made up words to which everyone sang, and their "show" was performed to no public members at all (not to mention being full of in jokes). This is really why I have a bit of a prejudice against a lot of blind people in britain, so many are completely and utterly stuck living life one way and don't accept anyone from outside it, or anyone who does anything differently (one girl once seemed to think i was mad and dangerous for pouring liquids without! an indicator), not to mention expecting! help, ---- one person once adviced me not to go to a specific uni because a blind person there had fallen in the lake! and when I said this was the the blind person's own dam fault for not having better mobility skills with their cane, people thought I was some kind of monster. I know that part of this is the special school mentality, sinse if people go to specialist schools this sort of atitude is pretty much ingraned, but it is an atitude that frustrates ,e/ Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2433/5057 - Release Date: 06/08/12 --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
