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Originally Posted by Plan9
Lindy, I was being 100% sarcastic. One of my best friends is missing a leg and I'm tired of how much society shits on them over it. My comments were attempts to poke fun at those in the thread that don't get why people with physical disabilities should have better parking spots. There is a huge amount of injustice in the US for those with prosthetic limbs... just in the insurance angle alone. My personal favorite is that most insurance companies will pay for a goddamn wheelchair instead of paying a percentage for a leg so the person can walk. Quality of life? Fuck it, too expensive. This ties into the parking spot thing in that my friend is using a prosthetic leg that is painful to walk on because they don't want to have to sell their car, get a van, and use a wheelchair to get everywhere. It's pathetic. Some insurance companies even call it a preexisting condition. No, I woke up and it was gone!
I have the utmost respect for those who wake up every day, slide on a plastic leg, and kick more ass than all the dickheads in this thread combined.
That's my rub. I've got nothing but love for those with the stub. This is a good thread... I can better see who's a heartless asshole.
Ya know, aside from my dad.
TheJazz.
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I'm sure you're good people, Lindy. I just wanted to bit in my bit about the discussion topic in the way that I know best.
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Ten-Four Plan9.
The sarcasm part just went over my head. Probably because I'm so short.
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Originally Posted by telekinetic
Wow, green on green is even worse than red on green, which I also didn't read. Break up your quote boxes by opening and closing quote tags if you want to refer to individual points, like I do here:
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Thanks for pointing out an alternate way. I'm trying it with this reply.
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Originally Posted by telekinetic
Yeah...I'm not changing my skin to read your reply. Sorry.
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Didn't mean that you should. The skin/appearance thing was just an FYI for people that (like me) for a long time didn't even know that appearance COULD be changed. I bet that if we had a show of hands that there would be quite a few on this forum that are still using whatever skin appeared the first time they got on TFP. When Cynthetiq mentioned in his post (#52) that red might be hard to read in some skins I checked several of the ones in the lower left corner menu and red seemed to show up fine in all of them. Using Safari Browser 4.0.2 on a MacMini with a Dell monitor. Your mileage may vary.
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Originally Posted by telekinetic
Discussions wander, that's why they're discussions, and not debates (this reply provided mostly as a further example of quote/unquote breaking.
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Indeed, telekinetic. Discussions will wander, and up to a point, that's OK. But they should at least somehow relate to the topic at hand. In this thread, once ShoQuanda ran in to Walmart for hair grease, the thread didn't just go out in left field, it got chased completely out of the ballpark!
Lindy