‘We Already Have Somewhere To Sit’

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Hmm.

Saturday.

The novel suggestion of introducing ‘wheelchair accessible’ park benches was made by Galway City Fine Gael Councillor Clodagh Higgins.

To help the disabled get that prized middle seat?

Or deter the homeless from having a kip?

We may never know.

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

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25 thoughts on “‘We Already Have Somewhere To Sit’

  1. Spot of Bodge

    Irish politicians are so depressingly cynical/thick. Choose one or both options.

  2. GiggidyGoo

    The photoshopping isn’t that great either. Judging by the image, the wheelchair user would have turn his/her head more than 90 degrees either side to converse with people. Plus, there’s no back on that wheelchair, nor handles if it needed to be pushed.

    1. milk teeth

      A lot of wheelchairs don’t have handles because people who use them don’t like being pushed. Often ‘helpful’ people will try and push someone somewhere they think that person wants to go, when the person really doesn’t. Also lots of people have wheelchairs without backs because it makes them smaller and easier to fold up when they get into their car, on the train or such.

      It also should be noted that is most wheelchair uses would be able to get out and onto the bench and those who can’t would likely have a back on their wheelchair.

      1. Johnny

        On a bender in Orlando, early one morning we decided to hit Disneyland take in a few the ‘best’ rides, in order to cut the lines, one us pretended he needed a wheelchair, I always felt bad after it.

          1. Johnny

            What’s the burn rate on this handle,Harris doesn’t come close to your number accounts.

  3. Spider

    Sweet Baby Jeasus, what the fupp is wrong with these idiots and how do people vote them in?

  4. RT

    Inevitable sob story on Twitter from this councillor already about how she’s been “slurred” online ,rather than acknowledging and responding to the valid critiques provided by members of the disabled community, some of which include her own constituents. Maybe we’ll get a Maria Bailey style car crash interview on a regional radio station if we’re lucky

    Fine Gael gonna Fine Gael…..do we expect any different from that shower?

    1. goldenbrown

      some of the meme responses are good, especially that acupuncture-friendly one

      I suspect she’s just thick and posted her poorly misjudged comment for some cheap likes without realising that those yokes are straight out of the defensive street furniture section of the catalogue….but I would love to hear her try to explain it to Sarah McInerney all the same, lol

      just so ye know, we’re quite good at making this stuff….Kent Stainless down in Wexford even gets a name drop in one of the current exhibitions running at the Victoria & Albert in London:

      “these Architectural Spikes, Manufactured by Kent Stainless, Ltd., an Ireland-based designer and fabricator of steel products, are made from cast, electropolished steel. Each spike is designed to sit partly above and partly below a surface. The exposed part takes the shape of a cone with a blunt tip, designed to be uncomfortable to rest on but not cause serious physical harm…”

      https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1296001/architectural-spikes-kent-stainless-ltd/

      1. Verbatim

        Next time I see architectural spikes I’m going to uproot them, a cultural artifact worth a fortune in the future and kills two birds etc…

      2. Daisy Chainsaw

        I suspect a combination of thickness and Fine Gael hatred of the homeless.

    2. goldenbrown

      some of the meme responses are good, especially that acupuncture-friendly one

      I suspect she’s just thick and posted her poorly misjudged comment for some cheap likes without realising that those yokes are straight out of the defensive street furniture section of the catalogue….but I would love to hear her try to explain it to Sarah McInerney all the same, lol

      just so ye know, we’re quite good at making this stuff….Kent Stainless in Wexford even gets a name drop in one of the current exhibitions running at the Victoria & Albert in London:

      “these Architectural Spikes, Manufactured by Kent Stainless, Ltd., an Ireland-based designer and fabricator of steel products, are made from cast, electropolished steel. Each spike is designed to sit partly above and partly below a surface. The exposed part takes the shape of a cone with a blunt tip, designed to be uncomfortable to rest on but not cause serious physical harm…”

      https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1296001/architectural-spikes-kent-stainless-ltd/

    3. Nomad

      “Slurred online” I wonder if this is what the new laws they’re bringing in to prevent abuse of public officials online. they seem to frame valid criticism as abuse, would this be an example of that?

  5. Junkface

    Is this really about helping the disabled in our communities, or is it a PC over correction and virtue signaling from Cllr Clodagh Higgins? I’m thinking the later. Objective reality and critical thinking is a weak spot for people like her.

    1. italia'90

      Says the guy who parroted CIA talking points re Russia paying bounties for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan.
      No critical thinking on show then or other times.
      Did Sagaar inform you it was debunked?

      1. Junkface

        Yes Italia 90, I explained this a good while back. Do you have a thing for me? I’ve no problem with changing my position if someone proves a point with proof or argument or better journalism. Have you never changed your mind on something?

        1. italia'90

          But what proof did you have, what were the facts that you believed in that Wapo/Nyt story?

          As the facts change, I change my opinion as the saying goes.
          The simple truth is the facts didn’t change in this case.
          People are easily manipulated and believe what they want to believe due to confirmation bias.
          An unnamed source told a reporter a fact free fantastical story with no proof, which was
          Immediately questioned by a named source from an alphabet security organisation.
          Fantastic claims require fantastic proof.
          You might consider raising the bar for burden of proof when reading news off the internet?

  6. Verbatim

    This ties in with what Dan Boyle wrote recently https://www.broadsheet.ie/2021/05/06/dan-boyle-a-prox-on-all-their-houses/
    “Arguments become more convincing, it is believed, when they are applied to the disadvantaged, the put upon or the neglected.
    Shamelessly done, white, middle aged middle class men {women are just as capable} become most comfortable in claiming to be protecting the interests of others, when it is the status quo they really want to protect.”

    To add insult to injury these seats are so UGLY.

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