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Im blind due to ROP. I went to a blind school, I now work for a company that employs mainly blind people. I thought I'd try Twitter for the first time to share all the hilarious jokes and conversations we have at work, that sighted people don't find funny. Anyone else on Twitter doing the same? (self.Blind)
submitted by Pickleweede
CloudyBeep 5 points 3y ago
What's your username?
Pickleweede [OP] 8 points 3y ago
saltyblind
It's supposed to be light hearted mockery. I don't actually hate sighted people or want to harvest their eyeballs..
It's supposed to be light hearted mockery. I don't actually hate sighted people or want to harvest their eyeballs..
emwells 3 points 3y ago
Lol love your posts. Sharing with my blind uncle
CloudyBeep 2 points 3y ago
I find your posts funny. What kind of company do you work at?
Pickleweede [OP] 7 points 3y ago
We are a company that has a paper products factory making toilet paper and paper towels, and we also offer technology training like JAWS etc for the local blind community. 90% of the company including factory staff are blind. Ofcourse, forklift drivers are sighted people. I am in the IT department. It's a cool place to work. We have talking microwaves in the break room, a room for off duty guide dogs to chill in, HR is always on your side when you need to skip work for an eye appointment, and lots of technology to make everyone's lives easier.
CloudyBeep 2 points 3y ago
So I suppose there was no panic buying among the staff?
bradley22 1 points 3y ago
That sounds great!
Rethunker 2 points 3y ago
Following you on Twitter now. Your post about blind privilege is my favorite so far. Keep it up!
And as a sighted person, I **do** find the jokes funny. True, half the people I work with are blind, but I think most sighted folks will get the jokes.
And as a sighted person, I **do** find the jokes funny. True, half the people I work with are blind, but I think most sighted folks will get the jokes.
Pickleweede [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Aaaw that's so nice to hear! Thank you!
Danielle082 2 points 3y ago
Not everyone is on twitter. Please post here as well. Im excited to see your material.
CloudyBeep 1 points 3y ago
Just check www.twitter.com/saltyblind from time to time.
IDKzeros 2 points 3y ago
I also have ROP. I find humor helpful especially when I tried to make a cake and use baking soda instead of baking powder. Needless to say the cake was very salty and what's flat as a pancake. I don't bake anymore I let my daughter do all the cooking now.
CosmicBunny97 2 points 3y ago
This sounds fantastic, I’d love to check out your Twitter haha
Pickleweede [OP] 1 points 3y ago
@saltyblind
Winnmark 2 points 3y ago
I mean, it's the internet. unless you can top something like broken arms, the Doritos story, the jolly rancher story, or some sort of beheading snuff video, You're not going to break the internet and no one's going to get offended... Actually it's Twitter, so maybe somebody will, but whatever.
Just do it.
Just do it.
bjayernaeiy 2 points 3y ago
I hate myself for asking and preemptively know that I'm going to regret finding the answer, but what's the Doritos story?
Winnmark 1 points 3y ago
TL;DR: woman in a mental hospital eats a bag of Doritos by dipping them in a yellow vaginal discharge.
bjayernaeiy 3 points 3y ago
Steps on deleting someone else's comment pls?
Winnmark 1 points 3y ago
Lol
highpointing 1 points 3y ago
I had forgotten that one.
Winnmark 1 points 3y ago
Do you remember broken arms?
TL;DR: kid breaks both of his arms, steamy incestuous intercourse ensues with his mother.
TL;DR: kid breaks both of his arms, steamy incestuous intercourse ensues with his mother.
Pickleweede [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Okydoky.
highpointing 1 points 3y ago
Your missing a bunch of good ones. Blowfly girl, Poopknife, Swamps of Dagobah, cum box guy, the guy who never cleaned off his smegma. All good quality entertainment.
Winnmark 1 points 3y ago
Parasite man, the mercenary story hidden in the HTML code, 331... Yeah, the internet is large.
Dragonfly337 2 points 3y ago
The jolly rancher story
EverySingleThread 1 points 3y ago
#
jasondbk 1 points 3y ago
How do you top broken arms? I have no legs and I fell and broke both arms.
highpointing 2 points 3y ago
The story is more than broken arms. Search for it at your own risk.
jasondbk 1 points 3y ago
I’ll risk it, but a link to it would be appreciated.
Thanks
Thanks
highpointing 1 points 3y ago
A link! What, are your arms broke?
sicklixix 2 points 3y ago
What are some jokes that signted people wouldn't find funny?
Pickleweede [OP] 10 points 3y ago
Well, I suppose not jokes per se, but more like funny happenings; like when a friend of mine picked up veruca cream instead of eye cream, squirted a load of it on his false eye and slid it back in, and the next thing we knew, the eye was flying down the stairs and he was shrieking obscenities in the corridor. I said "ooh didn't see that coming". Someone else commented "neither did Robin".
Or the arguments we have at lunch times at work, about who has the better quality cane.
Things like, how stupid sighted people looked doing that birdbox challenge 2 years ago, or how funny they are when there's a blackout and they can't find their phones. Just those kind of silly things that make me and friends smile.
Or the arguments we have at lunch times at work, about who has the better quality cane.
Things like, how stupid sighted people looked doing that birdbox challenge 2 years ago, or how funny they are when there's a blackout and they can't find their phones. Just those kind of silly things that make me and friends smile.
codeplaysleep 7 points 3y ago
Not long after my husband and I first started dating, he made dinner for me - nothing fancy, just a spaghetti dinner. He couldn't cook and the sauce tasted awful. Fortunately, the UPS guy knocked on the door a couple minutes after we sat down dinner, so he stepped away to deal with that and I thought I'd try and make my meal at least partially edible by sneaking in some spices while he was gone... So I started quickly rummaging through his kitchen cabinet, found what I thought was garlic powder, and ended up mixing cinnamon all through my spaghetti. Then I had to pretend like it was still good.
Pickleweede [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Lol poor you! At least it wasn't chili powder!
mcbaine37 4 points 3y ago
We went camping a while ago and my legally blind mother brushed her teeth with antifungal foot cream. The only reason we even knew is because after she asked why the toothpaste tasted funny. She still jokes about that.
Pickleweede [OP] 3 points 3y ago
Hahaha!! That's funny! Glad to hear she saw the funny side of it.
bradley22 1 points 3y ago
I wish I could work at this company but I live in the UK.
Criptedinyourcloset 1 points 10m ago
I still have some vision left and I’m very good at checking my stuff before I use it but I’ve heard stories like that from my friends. I’m going to a blind school pretty much my whole life and me and a friend of mine wrote this winter ski in camp. Anyway, we’re half awake and my friend says she’s gonna go to the bathroom to brush her teeth. I hear her spit out the toothpaste and I walk in to see what’s wrong and turns out the girl had squirted Sunstream on her toothbrush. I couldn’t stop laughing and I still won’t let her live it down.g
NicholasMarsala 1 points 3y ago
I'm really happy for you that you're doing well in life! God bless you!
Pickleweede [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thank you. I'm not happy about lots of things in my life but I am happy I have a job. I hope you're doing well too
NicholasMarsala 1 points 3y ago
I understand and am sorry for what you are going through in life. I truly am!
gaeboi555 1 points 3y ago
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