To be blind in the true sense

I guess we all get confused sometimes...but this seems to be a reasonable shocker...

Friend #1 was walking with friends, 2 and 3, who didn't know eachother. Friend 2 happened to be deaf.

When stopping at the lights, the "beep beep beep" sounded to let those that are blind know they can cross the road, when friend #3 said to #2 "Does that really help?"...

I guess to a person who hasn't put a lot of thought into this, maybe all disabilities appear the same...

Parents

A great story for this site has been passed onto me by a friend who gathered up the courage to tell her parents she is in a same-gender relationship. I guess there are a number of ways parents could react to this - some might scream and cry, others might celebrate, and maybe some parents just couldn't care less.

Her mum's response?

"Is it because you couldn't get a boyfriend?"

Yikes.

Johnny

Can't help but think of this website with all the crap coming out of John Howard's mouth lately- his carry on about Muslims needing to learn english and Muslims needing to be taught "Australian values" in schools and Muslims needing to "assimilate" into the community.

There's no other way to see it: it's just plain racism. And it's made me wonder about the term 'brain farts'. The term means something that just slipped out. Unfortunately I think Johnny Howard's comments are something he truly believes and wants to say. Maybe it doesn't belong here...

oops

Apologies for the lack of 'blogging' lately. I've been somewhat preoccupied!

Thanks to SH for jogging my motivation with this quote sent in:


"God always gives you a great equalizer. He gives you 'Dancing on the Ceiling' and then he gives you Nicole."
-- Lionel Richie

Energy consumption

"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."

I kid you not...it's George W Bush again.

Church camp

My friend (who could have his own Brain Fart site :)) sat down at church next to a newcomer and made a joke about "instead of Church camp we should have a camp church"...

at the next interval - the Passing of the Peace -

the newcomer moved to the other side of the church.

Adoption

It really shouldn't be funny, some of these comments that people make. But the insensitivity and tactlessness of people sometimes - at some point - has to be funny. How else do we survive brainfarts? At some point, we need to move to that place of being able to giggle and shake our heads rather than wanting to poke their eyes out with a stick... having said that, I'm not an adoptive parent and here's a couple of "better in than outs" to people who seem to get brain farts flying their way at an alarming rate!

“That’s such a kind, charitable thing you did, adopting (Alex).”

“Oh, you had your baby the easy way.”