I had been reading that thread about toe movements and how an armless man could read, write and play the piano with his feet because he had learned to. (I actually saw a documentary on a man like that years ago.)
And then there was the pit thread about the SDoper who had been trying to talk to a customer rep on the phone who was a bad stutterer and the replies about how EOE would come down on you if you discriminated against anyone in anyway.
My theorectical questions are:
If you were opening a sushi shop or subway sandwich shop and this man applied for a job, would you turn him away?
Would the EOE come down on the owner if he refused to hire this man?
If you were a customer would you eat sushi or a sub-sandwich prepared by a man with his feet?
If his feet were clean (just as with hands), it wouldn’t bother me a bit, as a matter of fact, it would be pretty cool to watch. But I bet it would weird a lot of people out.
As I said in the thread you referenced, as a person with a disability, (prosthetic leg) it irritates me more when we are put in jobs we obviously will fail at…
Sorry, didn’t mean a GD’ish/Pitish post here, carry on.
One fateful night, I stumbled across a kung-fu flick entitled “Crippled Masters”. It was the heartwarming story of a vicious warlord who briefly experimented with maiming people who crossed him instead of just killing them.
Experiment one was having one of those in his employ remove the arms of some poor dude. Dude runs away screaming after ceasing to bleed with remarkable speed, falls into a river, gets washed downstream, has a general hard time of it. But he doesn’t give up! He learns to use his feet for everything. Triumphant music plays over a montage of this.
Being employed by evil warlord isn’t really the definition of “job security”, because he gets angry at the goon who removed the others’ arms, and has acid poured all over his legs, turning them into dead withered stick-like things. Likewise, he gets thrown into a river.
He is fished out, as luck would have it, by Armless Guy, who proceeds to kick Legless all over the map. The ongoing asskicking proceeds into a cave, where a kung fu master is meditating in a basket. Kung fu master pops out, and says, “you two! Stop fighting, you will now be my students!” That’s a good idea they both agree, and rapidly forget how much they hate one another and learn to fight together as a team. Triumphant music over a montage of legless/armless dual-action kung fu.
Together, they team up and defeat evil warlord’s remaining goon squad, whom he has ceased to cripple. It’s worth noting that evil warlord was hunchbacked, with a metal hump. His style of kung fu involved killing people by falling backwards onto them.
I don’t know about the OP’s question, but I heartily recommend the movie to anyone.
