Well I may be a cunt, but at least I'm not the one being unreasonable.
When I go to to a theater play in, say Hungary or Poland, I KNOW I'm not the target audience of the people who organized the event. I don't speak the language and won't understand a single sentence. So I ask them If they will provide an interpreter for those who don't speak their language, and they say no. I mean why would they, it'd be more expensive than just not having me as a patron, and why would they feel obligated to cater to some fringe group they never expected to turn up in the first place.
So now, after being told that I can bring my own interpreter if I feel I want one at the event, but I don't, attend anyways and then try to sue them for not having an interpreter just for me - if I did all of that - then people would rightly be unsympathetic to my problem, and call me an idiot.
This is exactly what this mom did, but suddenly people treat her differently just because she's deaf and telling some sob story about wanting to go there with her daughter? How is that the promoters problem?
Last edited by Krawu; 2018-01-24 at 07:03 PM.
Just because the cost is not excessive does not mean that you can demand that something is provided. I just don't understand why you would want to go to a concert if you cant hear it. If you can feel it fine, but can you sign a song? Possibly, but would that song have a beat? Would it really be any different from reading the Lyrics from a sheet of paper? I just feel like having someone sign a song to you is like someone just signing a sentence to you. It's like someone who cant walk turning up for an event and demanding that the organizer provide a wheel chair for them, the cost may not be excessive, but it's not on the organizer to provide something that you know in advance that you need and they don't provide. She could have just hired an interpreter herself.
I have heard of Beethoven but he is very different. He wasn't always deaf so by the time he became deaf he had already experienced sound and composed music, it was his passion and when he went deaf he desperately wanted to continue so he found a way, but can you imagine him stood in the front row of a little mix concert with a pencil between his teeth, with it's tip resting the other end on the stage?
It's only if he wants access to any and all buildings. Unless he's walking to the superbowl, theatre, airport or whatever.
Look, I appreciate English probably isn't your first language, and admittedly I'm English and even by hour standards rather dry but... I'm starting to think you're a bit dim.
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This is the answer I wish I'd thought of to reply with.
Despite being deaf the girl enjoys the music and likely having something in common with her sisters to share. She has a disability and is likely reaching out for any semblance of a way to fit in and feel normal and this could be that outlet for her. And they do have the right to demand something be provided because the law requires it. The article states there was an act passed in 2010 requiring the venue provide accommodation.
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Yes I’m sure you’ve paid for all the stairs at all the places you go that have stairs.
Do you think companies provide their products for sale for what they pay for them? No, they've added to it to profit to make up for their expenses and to make money. Building a ramp would only be a beneficial move if there were enough customers that need to use a ramp to make up for the costs.
Last edited by Freighter; 2018-01-24 at 07:37 PM.
He actually was happy to serve them any cake that they had available... just not all cakes that his guests know he doesn't provide. Not a completely false equivalence but I can play pretend if you'd like. For those who don't do their HW end up believing he doesn't serve Gay couples just because they are Gay.
O Flora, of the moon, of the dream. O Little ones, O fleeting will of the ancients. Let the hunter be safe. Let them find comfort. And let this dream, their captor, Foretell a pleasant awakening