20151002 - Open Lines - Live Show Chat Thred

[JamesMcDonald]

[Scorch]

Art should just ditch the news and turn it into ads.

I do miss all that crazy stuff he used to advertise back in the day, the telescopes, the wireless phones, the butt-pills, crazy stuff added to the "flavor" of the show.

[nextgen.fm]

lmao

[ZomZom]

SHit, I need to be a professional ELF..

HURRY UP KID!! STORES CLOSING!

[Autistic Star Children]

Leo Ashcraft updated his facebook profile picture to this in the past half hour: 

so funny

I was checking out his fb page. Wonder if enough people entice him, he'd call in to open lines

[SgtRocko2]

Oh.... I have missed Artie... don't break my heart again!

Tuned in, first thing I hear is a guy 'growing tobacco' on the shores of Lake Erie (WTF?) AND carrying a staff 'to ward off wolves'.

The loons have just fermented.  Wolves and tobacco in Ohio... not outside zoos and stores, Bubu...

[Scorch]

lmao

+1

[aldousburbank]

I would call the Married An Alien line but all my alien trysts were gloriously sordid affairs so technically do not qualify.

[littlechris]

OH WOW!!! WHAT A DOUCHE BAG!!!!!

[malachi.martini]

That's fucked up.  I'm not blind, but I am "low vision" and it FUCKING SUCKS!

Someone like this needs their asshole removed.

Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies

OTTAWA â€" When he cut off his right arm with a “very sharp power tool,” a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident.

But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn’t bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.

“My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do,” he told the body modification website ModBlog.

People like Jason have been classified as ‘‘transabled’’ â€" feeling like imposters in their bodies, their arms and legs in full working order.

“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.

“The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic. It’s a really, really strong desire.”

Researchers in Canada are trying to better understand how transabled people think and feel. Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled.

Most of them are men. About half are in Germany and Switzerland, but he knows of a few in Canada. Most crave an amputation or paralysis, though he has interviewed one person who wants his penis removed. Another wants to be blind.

Many people, like One Hand Jason, arrange “accidents” to help achieve the goal. One dropped an incredibly heavy concrete block on his legs â€" an attempt to injure himself so bad an amputation would be necessary. But doctors saved the leg. He limps, but it’s not the disability he wanted.

The transabled are very secretive and often keep their desires to themselves, Baldwin says. One 78-year-old man told Baldwin he’d lived with the secret for 60 years and never told his wife.

Some of his study participants do draw parallels to the experience many transgender people express of not feeling like they’re in the right body. Baldwin says this disorder is starting to be thought of as a neurological problem with the body’s mapping, rather than a mental illness.


Laurentiu Garofeanu/Barcroft Media /Landov ORGChloe Jennings-White adjusts leg braces at her home on May 16, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She wears leg braces even though she does not need them. A disability acquired in recent years has forced her into a wheelchair.

“It’s a problem for individuals because it’s distressing. But lots of things are.” He suggests this is just another form of body diversity â€" like transgenderism â€" and amputation may help someone achieve similar goals as someone who, say, undergoes cosmetic surgery to look more like who they believe their ideal selves to be.

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.An image of the front of "HYPATIA" where the article on transability appeared.
In the late 1990s, Scottish surgeon Dr. Robert Smith amputated the legs of two patients at their request. While the surgery involved National Health Service staff, each patient paid nearly $6,000 for their procedures.

As the public begins to embrace people who identify as transgender, the trans people within the disability movement are also seeking their due, or at very least a bit of understanding in a public that cannot fathom why anyone would want to be anything other than healthy and mobile.

But this has been met with great resistance in both the disability activist community and in transgender circles, argues Baril, a visiting scholar of feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

“They tend to see transabled people as dishonest people, people who try to steal resources from the community, people who would be disrespectful by denying or fetishizing or romanticizing disability reality,” Baril says, adding people in both transgender and disabled circles tend to make judgmental or prejudicial statements about transabled people. “Each try to distance themselves.”

Baril â€" who is himself disabled and transgender â€" believes the transgender community distances itself because it has worked very hard to de-pathologize what’s known as ‘gender dysphoria,’ and sought its removal from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Transability is also known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, which was only just added to the “emerging measures and models” appendix section of the DSM-5 in 2013. Many transabled people want to see it fully added to the psychiatric bible because it might legitimize their experience in the field of medicine, Baril notes.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/becoming-disabled-by-choice-not-chance-transabled-people-feel-like-impostors-in-their-fully-working-bodies

[nextgen.fm]

I do miss all that crazy stuff he used to advertise back in the day, the telescopes, the wireless phones, the butt-pills, crazy stuff added to the "flavor" of the show.

lol...you guys cracking me up tonight thanks

[trostol]

[sydtron]

FUCK YOU LEO ASSHAT!! EAT AN OCTOPUSS DICK!

[Scorch]

I would call the Married An Alien line but all my alien trysts were gloriously sordid affairs so technically do not qualify.

Same, no weddings, just 8-ball fueled weekends of debauchery!

[ArJuna]

look at leo facebook page, hahaah what a cry baby cunt


https://www.facebook.com/WW5LEO?fref=ts

I am surprised at how childish he is.  At his age you'd expect he would be smarter than that.  He is doing what he accuses Art of doing, only worse.  He's hurting himself in many ways.  It's too bad too because he does have a good voice for doing the news. Not sure I would want someone working for me that displayed such poor judgment.

[MV/Liberace!]

Leo Ashcraft's voice is great, some of the content is rather meh... He is NO journalist though.

i was surprised art hired him.  he had no business reading the written word into a microphone.  i did a better job of reading radio news at age 17.

[norland2424]

how much do you people want to bet that leo will become noorys " news adviser" in the next coming weeks.

[QuantumMystics]

Here ya go Leo....eat up!

[whiptrackercracker]

Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies

As a card carrying gimp since birth, I have words I can't even put together for that article...

[ZomZom]

It's sooooo nice to be listening live and hearing the ads and bumper music tonight. 

[GuerrillaUnReal]

God bless you Art, this is the perfect track right now.

This is probably in my top ten favorite songs. 

[trostol]

how much do you people want to bet that leo will become noorys " news adviser" in the next coming weeks.

dont care..far too many people do though lol

[SciFiAuthor]

i was surprised art hired him.  he had no business reading the written word into a microphone.  i did a better job of reading radio news at age 17.

He did flub and mispronounce a lot.

[MV/Liberace!]

I'm just glad I got to hear about Hurricane Jo-keen before he left.

did he really pronounce it that way?

[nextgen.fm]

Leo blew his top all over Facebook

[sydtron]

how much do you people want to bet that leo will become noorys " news adviser" in the next coming weeks.

Leo will become his BALL ADVISER.

[JamesMcDonald]

God bless you Art, this is the perfect track right now.

This is probably in my top ten favorite songs. 

I've always loved the song, and a few years back I finally realized how easy and fun it is to play that riff on guitar.  It's a heck of a fun one to crank out.

[Scorch]

As a card carrying gimp since birth, I have words I can't even put together for that article...

+1 Whiptrackercraker, I'm not blind but I am "low vision" and it fucking sucks.  Someone like that should have their asshole removed.  WTF?

[nextgen.fm]

did he really pronounce it that way?

lol...his last newscast minutes ago had some errors

[SgtRocko2]

al qaeda gave me a bad limp (amongst some other things)... people WANTING to be like this?  Good G-d....