Re:Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth i...
by jrockway on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @03:41PM
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I'm beginning to take the notes that say "always wear safety glasses" on nearly every tool more seriously.
Re:Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth i...
by handelaar on Thursday July 09, 2009 @01:35AM
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That jarred for me, having grown up in the UK where -- famously -- almost all piano tuners are blind. It's almost a cliche, and even schools for the blind were of the opinion that this was historically the best chance its students had of a 'normal job'.
I hope that this is no longer the case, but it certainly still was when I was at school in the 80s.
Re:Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth i...
by rjurney on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @05:07PM
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One of the most dangerous jobs is... farming. Tons of guys get arms torn off on tractors, etc.
Re:Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth i...
by MaysonL on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @11:27PM
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Just read on Doc Searls's blog of the death of a friend of his who fell off his tractor...
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/07/07/a-good-man-is-ha...
Re:Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth i...
by sho on Thursday July 09, 2009 @05:50AM
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Oh, gross. What a way to go. You know it wasn't a pleasant death when the police take a day to identify someone killed on their own property.
Sigh, I really hate the pointless deaths of good people.
I met a piano tuner with only one eye one day. He was tuning a grand piano, overstressed the string, it broke and the little loop at the end of it was shot off straight into his eye...
I'll bet you he never thought that piano tuning can lead to blindness either.