This is how I initially read the below post:
I was thinking…just how bad were those worms??? :eek:
I’ve had several blind friends. None had any suicidal tendencies that I know of. I’m quite sure I could deal, even though it’d be difficult.
Having a disability doesn’t mean you have a tragic life. You have a life. Sometimes it’s a pain in the ass. But it’s your life, and you find ways to do things because you have to. Humans are adapable. And life is great.
I guess that makes me some sort of pervert, given that I’m married to someone disabled…
Or maybe I value that person for what they have rather than what they lack…
Given a choice, I’d get rid of the hand. The only catch is, someone else would have to lop it off. I doubt I have the strength of will to do it myself. Hooks are cool, but a Darth Vader super strong metal hand is way cooler. But, hooks are OK too. Just remember not to scratch yer nuts with a hook. :eek:
Yesterday evening. A discussion of this thread IRL.
My SO: “How would you masturbate?”
Me: “Well, you gotta be careful with the hook…”
Him: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Me: 
What kind of a job could a one-handed person get? How about a job as a drummer for one of the most successful rock’n’roll bands of all time?
Let’s see… one handed job holders…
Well, there has been more than one guy in the pro-baseball leagues with just one hand.
There have been a number of one-handed pilots, including a captain for the former Eastern Airlines. There’s a double-hand amputee working the air show stunt flying circuit (or at least he was a couple years ago) whose name I can’t remember.
There’s a “one-handed repetoire” for the piano, by and for one-handed pianists.
The drummer mentioned in the prior post.
There are one-handed keyboards available for computers so presumably someone is buying them.
A family friend of my family was one-handed and worked for the New York Times as an editor prior to his retirement.
There’s probably a LOT of one-handed folks out there holding down jobs that we’ll never hear about because really it’s not that remarkable a thing to do. Not that different from - where I currently work - the deaf accountant working as a supervisor in the finance department, the two blind computer programmers, the one-leg lawyer, and the nice lady down the hallway who just happens to be three feet tall.
Well, if science fiction is any indicator of the future, I could have my hand replaced with a bad ass plasma cannon or some other beamy shooty thing. Until then I’d have to make do with the hook. Hell, I’d just go whole hog and get the full pirate get up: eye patch, parrot, snazzy outfit, hat with the skull and crossbones on it.
The op is really silly.
It could even be fun. Imagine a camp out. They are around the fire, telling scary stories about a deranged killer with a hook (it’s a long tradition after all). At the pre-arranged signal, you fly out of the brush brandishing your gleaming HOOK! The look on people’s faces would be priceless.
Yeah, I’m an evil bastard
Ah, but they would just figure that you were holding a hook in your hand. No, the real practical joke comes in shop class. It is amazing how long it takes people to notice things like a missing hand. So the first day of shop class you bring in a fake rubber hand, some cow blood, and off you go to the table saw. A friend blocks the view, rubber hand and blood on saw, blood on stump… I think that you can imagine the fake screams from the one handed person and the real screams from the shop teacher and rest of class.
Exactly. The lack of symetry would bother me to the point where I would end up not being able to function.
Let me clarify that I would still rather be left-handed for the rest of my life. But… I like the symetry.
You folks will be very surprised to learn that it’s death by over 300 to 1.
Well, from experience, that’s just silly. I injured my left arm badly late last year and spent several months with the whole arm and hand in a rigid cast. Even if I’d wanted to use my left hand I couldn’t for a long while because of the amount of muscle and nerve damage.
Admittedly I’m right handed, but for some months I worked (and I write and publish web content for a living), managed five dogs, three horses and twenty acres with one arm, and I live on my own, so I had to do it all myself. During that time one of my cats broke her jaw and I was feeding her through a tube in her throat, still with my arm in a cast.
I learned about voice recognition software and got very good at typing with one hand. I’m sure that if you had to, you’d learn to do all the things you’d need to do with your left arm.
Jack Newton managed to make a new life for himself after losing both his right arm and his right eye in an accident.
Just get the other hand chopped off, too. Then you can have TWIN STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS!!!
Losing a hand or losing my life? What’s the catch, exactly?
Then again, clairobscur, it was your country that pioneered hand transplants so perhaps there are some cultural/scientific differences at work???
I think the folks who say “I rather be dead than lose X” fall into several categories:
>>> Physically normal in every way - so they’ve never had any experience dealing with being less than perfect. If they had, they’d realize that it’s not as horrible as they think it is, even if it might be inconvenient.
>>> They don’t know anyone with a disability beyond mere acquaintance level - if that much.