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[dolly]

i guess sometimes insomnia can have it's benefits...

i can't believe i haven't seen this one until now (it's over a year old), but i thought it worthy of sharing in the event it may have slipped under the radar of others too.

enjoy.




(anyone speak portuguese?)

[natasha]

HOTTIE. HOTTIE. HOTTIE!!! THANKS DOLLY....

[Claire]

Wow, great find Dolly. Too bad they didn't show him using that sitski!

[Enid]

dolly said:

(anyone speak portuguese?)

I understand it, but I don't think there's anything really worth translating. It's part of a newscast and they're mainly talking about a study the did in Portugal about about the problems disabled people face daily, in which this guy apparently participated. I talks about how the main problems are architectonic barriers and public transportation, and he gives some examples and also talks a bit about having to find a way to get through those things. At the end they talk about how he recently started skiing and he says how much he loves it.

I agree, they should have filmed him skiing ;D

[Deleted]

I'm pretty sure this link hasn't come up earlier and this guy isn't a para but there's definitely still a dev factor. In addition to the fact that he's so attractive, he's also incredibly interesting to listen to.

abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4098698&affil=wxyz

[Claire]

Oh....WOW!!!!!! Iz, that was an amazing vid. I was utterly fascinated.

I'll admit that for me, there was not a whole lot of dev factor except for the shots where he was in his chair. That forced me to analyze why exactly that was, and I think that the complete absence of any legs at all removed the dev factor. I enjoy stumps, I enjoy deformed limbs, I enjoy atrophied limbs. But with him there was nothing at all, so dev-wise my reaction was neutral. However, just as a human being with a deep interest in disability I found him very interesting.

I think if I had been lucky enough to come across him and he snapped MY picture looking at him, he would have seen someone looking back at him with utter fascination and a smile.

[dolly]

thanks for the synopsis, enid.

hi iz, cool link. the dev factor only kicked in for me during that brief moment of him with his wheelchair, but i can see how the skateboard would be much more practical! what a cool, cute guy and i like the concept of his photography theme.

[Claire]

That's interesting Dolly, you and me both...why did it take the wheelchair for the devness to kick it? What's with the chair?

[BA]

He had a great face... beyond that kind of freaked me out. I am not an amputee dev. I'd have no problem dating a single amputee but it doesn't have a dev factor for me. Missing more than one limb freaks me out a bit. Go figure.

[Claire]

That's interesting though because it gives you a bit of a "taste" of what it's like to be "normal".

[BA]

Can you clarify that last post Claire? I'm not sure what you are saying.

[Claire]

You said that "missing more than one limb freaks you out." I was thinking that this feeling of being freaked out by a double amputee is the same kind of feeling that the unenlightened among the non-devs feel when seeing anyone of any disability. So you might be feeling what some other people feel when they see your average para. Note this was not a judgment on you. I'm freaked out by stuff too (I saw a lady today who had a horrible facial disfigurement and that freaked me out a bit), and even the legless guy in the video said "If I saw a legless man on the street, I'd stare!"

[BA]

Ahhhh, thanks Claire, now I understand - I just can't imagine being freaked out by either a para or a quad. Well, that's the whole point of the thing isn't it?

[Claire]

I can't imagine NOT finding a para or a quad sexy.

I mean, I've seen paras and quads who didn't do much for me, but in general, I just can't imagine not finding that attractive.

[dolly]

oops. i accidentally bumped this thread while posting a link intended for the general board.

i'd forgotten about renato. sigh. he's still lovely...