There, I've fixed it.

[Graham.]

[Chris Hogg]

Hmm...the whole* looks bigger than the hole!

*(area of the bits)

[ARW]

Agreed. But if it was if it was smaller it would fall into the hole:-).

I would have just used gaffer tape or one of the traffic cones I stole [1] the other night to fix it.

[1] I am sure that they were just put there by a local resident who is annoyed by people parking on the street when using the shop next door to his house.

[Roger Mills]

Indeed. The are parts of at least two covers there!

[Brian Gaff]

An intriguing thread for those not able to see pictures, the mind boggles as to what part a traffic cone might play in such things.. Brian

[Graham.]

I was primarily thinking about blind people when I took the picture. It's a shattered cast iron duct cover (I hesitate to say manhole) The fragments of which, augmented with the fragments of a second cover, have been laid in a sort of lattice making a surprisingly effective man-trap.

It's bang in the middle of the footpath of a busy arterial route.

[ARW]

We are all aware that you are blind.

But there's no need to mention it every time someone posts a picture.

FFS.

[Roger Mills]

Calm down, Adam! He mainly mentions it in cases like this where someone links to a picture which he cannot see. I don't have a problem with that. I only hope that I shall manage to do the things which Brian still does if I ever lose my sight.

[Tim+]

Well, he does mention it with tedious regularity. Now I know being blind sucks but I sincerely hope that if it ever happens to me I don't go whinging about every photograph that I can't see. It's shit, but shit happens.

Maybe Brian hopes that everyone will post descriptions of every photograph linked in Usenet. Well, he can hope, but I doubt it will happen. Perhaps if Brian ceased engaging with trolls and worked on improving the signal to noise ratio in his posts more of us would make the effort to describe photos. Respect needs to be earned, not demanded.

Now if for example (god forbid) John Rumm became blind but continued to post intelligently and helpfully I'm sure that most of us would show him consideration and willingly describe photographs if appropriate.

Tim

[newshound]

+1

[harry]

+2 I don't mind in the slightest. There but for the grace of God........

Don't be such miserable bastards to the poor bloke.

[ARW]

And can you cite a post where has someone posted a picture he could see?

[ARW]

The only thing that annoys me more than a blind bloke telling me for the

30th time that he is still blind are your racist posts.

[Roger Mills]

Silly question!

But the point is that, as far as I'm aware, he doesn't dwell on his blindness ordinarily - only when there's a picture involved. And he does make a useful contribution to this NG on subjects in which he is knowledgeable.

[harry]

I see you're also blind in your own way

[harry]

I have done it myself. But if he asks, I post a description. Have you no charity?

[whisky-dave]

I knew I shouldn't spend to much time on amazon as I brought this T-shirt

[ARW]

So have just emailed the gf and asked her to order one for me.

[whisky-dave]

I'll let you have one of those, but you can't have one of these and wear it like wot I can

[ARW]

My gf tells me what I can wear not you:-)

I am allowed an opinion on what I want to wear but I am not allowed to voice it.