While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.
These are used with people who can’t grip well:
This is for Parkinsons’s:
For people who can’t even bend their joints:
Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth
This one holds a sandwich
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help.
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.
This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own.
the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users
The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.
I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius
remember this whenever politicians start advertising themselves as “tough on crime” or start talking about a crime wave all of a sudden.
I know I don’t have a ton of followers, but just a reminder that there are currently prisoners striking in America over forced labor in the prison system, which is basically a firm of legal slavery.
You can personally thank Marco Rubio for the laws allowing this; he drafted some of the first private prison legislature in FL which was then used as the base contract for other states with GEO group and CCA. (The two major for profit prison groups. I’m pretty sure one of them got taken out by a lawsuit but I forget which.)
Basically if their quota falls below 90% capacity, they legally sue the state for not providing them with a “product.” Which is, usually, lower income Americans of color.
Also, the Supreme Court decided in Bevins v. Six Unnamed Agents of FBI, that American citizens do NOT have the right to sue private prisons for violations of the 1st amendment.
The country is fucked and it’s the fault of greedy politicians.
fandom for an American TV show: don’t watch it online! watch the show on TV when it airs so the ratings go up! show your support!
me, a mere European:
fandom for an American TV show: then at least watch it for free on their own website and support them through ads and hits
me, a mere European:
fandom for an American TV show: ok fine, then AT LEAST buy the DVDs when they come out and support the show through that!
me, a mere European:
FUCKING THIS OMFG
Do you want piracy? Because this is how you get piracy.
fandom for an American movie: please go see this underrated, important movie on opening day so execs will know how much people love it!
me, a mere European, looking up the release date: This movie is playing at 5am, on a Monday, in a city 100 miles away, down a sewer
fandom for an American TV show: it’s on Netflix!
me, a mere European: *American Netflix
fandom for an American TV show: then at least wait until it’s shown on free tv
me, a mere European: has to wait for a year; first season is on Wednesdays at 11.30 pm; second season is on Tuedsays at 2.45 am; series is cancelled after that; or six-hour mini series gets cut down to three parts à 90 min, shown Sundays at 11 pm
do you ever have like a breakdown but your logical brain is still active just thinking “ok this is annoying can we wrap this up so we can go back to bottling these feelings and like going to work or whatever” lol
like can we finish this early im trying to build a potato farm in minecraft
“She would be riding a bear and duel-wielding AK47s” FUCK YES that’s some wild fucking shit
“Her ultimate would be for the bear to also pull out dual AK47s”
Someone probably already drew this better, but the description was so much fun I had to give it a try.
Isn’t this supposed to be a WWII thing? The ak wasn’t invented yet. Lacks realism.
You’re absolutely right hentai kid. A woman riding a bear dual-weilding AK47s would be unrealistic because overwatch is set during World War II and AK47s had yet to be invented
Captain-Radioactive-Mentality 