Blind people wearing watches..........

[csider]

Whats that all about. Seen several 'blinds' I have seen in Barcelona recently all wearing watches, one even sporting a f***ing rolex.

Please someone explain what's going on ?

 

[severnside gull]

could have a braille fascia or sound the time

 

[cannedheat]

could have a braille fascia or sound the time

Is the right answer meet a blind gentleman in the White Horse Rottingdean yonks ago, owned a Brietling converted to some kind of touch reading.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Blind bloke goes in H. Samuels and asks if they repair watches...

Sales girl says, 'Yes, we do...'

Blind bloke slaps his chappie on the counter and says, 'Can you put two hands and a face on this?'

 

[chucky1973]

Blind bloke goes in H. Samuels and asks if they repair watches...

Sales girl says, 'Yes, we do...'

Blind bloke slaps his chappie on the counter and says, 'Can you put two hands and a face on this?'

 

[fire&skill]

Blind bloke goes in H. Samuels and asks if they repair watches...

Sales girl says, 'Yes, we do...'

Blind bloke slaps his chappie on the counter and says, 'Can you put two hands and a face on this?'

I had to re-read that three times before it sunk in.

And then I laughed.

 

[Meade's Ball]

if i went blind i'd look for a talking macaw to perch on my shoulder and tell me what was going on and remind me both when Countdown was about to start and what Rachel Riley was wearing. I'd ask before its first mount the noise of it in sexual pleasure in order to shake it loose if i heard it getting one on. I suppose we could maybe both have one if it played me tapes of Countdown whilst unbeknownst-to-me viewing a Chris Packham hour in the evening. In general, though, a randy urge inside it would mean its visit to the shoebox for a shuffle.

 

[csider]

A talking rolex?

 

[BensGrandad]

My mother always wore a watch and she just pushed a button and a message came up just like the talking clock. It is 3.25 or whatever. It was purchased from the Royal Society for the Blind and was very cheap in fact cheaper to buy a new one than a battery or strap.

She also had a talking microwave that was brilliant which told her exactly what it was doing like High Power, 6 minutes. then door closed timer started.

I would add that she also received the localpaper in cd format and also talking books that she listened to rather than read. Anybody who knew Floss at The George in Worthing would appreciate how hard it would be for somebody like her to have suddenly had an illness that rendered her blind, but it didnt stop her living a very eventful life for many years.

 

[Acker79]

I was taught to abseil by a blind man.

 

[Hillian1]

I seem to remember seeing a programme once where a blind man had a watch that the glass flipped up and he felt where the hands were.

 

[Jack Straw]

An old chap I used to know would open the glass face on his watch and gently feel where the hands were.
Out of all the disabilities to befall one, blindness must surely be one of the worst.
There are some amazing people about who take this type of handicap in their stride, and makes you wonder how some 100% people get so worked up over nothing.

 

[Uwinsc]

They can adapt almost anyhting these days. I was on holiday recently and was shown by an instuctor how they teach people who are blind to do archery!

 

[Questions]

They can adapt almost anyhting these days. I was on holiday recently and was shown by an instuctor how they teach people who are blind to do archery!

I wonder how many tickets they sold for that event at the Para Olympics ?

 

[magoo]

Have you seen blind football? It's f***ing shit.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I wonder how many tickets they sold for that event at the Para Olympics ?

Boom-boom.

Classic.

 

[Norman Potting]

if i went blind i'd look for a talking macaw to perch on my shoulder and tell me what was going on and remind me both when Countdown was about to start and what Rachel Riley was wearing. I'd ask before its first mount the noise of it in sexual pleasure in order to shake it loose if i heard it getting one on. I suppose we could maybe both have one if it played me tapes of Countdown whilst unbeknownst-to-me viewing a Chris Packham hour in the evening. In general, though, a randy urge inside it would mean its visit to the shoebox for a shuffle.

MB you worry me sometimes.

 

[Matrix10]

A friend of mine is blind, and has a watch with a hinge on the glass and he literally feels the time. Here’s another question, in the UK we make bank notes of different sizes so blind people can distinguish between different denominations, but in the US all notes are of the same size I have asked my blind friend and people in the States but the only answer I got was. “We are more trustworthy over here.”
Yeah! Sure! bet that works in the Bronx!

 

[magoo]

A friend of mine is blind, and has a watch with a hinge on the glass and he literally feels the time. Here’s another question, in the UK we make bank notes of different sizes so blind people can distinguish between different denominations, but in the US all notes are of the same size I have asked my blind friend and people in the States but the only answer I got was. “We are more trustworthy over here.”
Yeah! Sure! bet that works in the Bronx!

Hmm were bank notes originally made different sizes just for the blind? I doubt it. But we have probably left it like that partly for the blind.

 

[hart's shirt]

My mother always wore a watch and she just pushed a button and a message came up just like the talking clock. It is 3.25 or whatever.

Did it say in a 'What-ev-er' style?