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Listed below are comments made by Wheelie EDSer between Friday, 1st May 2009 and Sunday, 1st November 2009.

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Farewell to a brilliant season - and roll on 2010 7:19pm on 01 Nov 2009 The coverage has been fantastic. Thursday - archive race highlights. Friday - practise 1 and 2. Saturday - practise and qualifying. Sunday - race... and I catch up on the F1 forum on Monday. So you are giving us five days of enjoyment around each race.

I'm not sure I like the technical advances in F1 - it used to be about drivers and skin of the pants driving, not telemetry and traction control - but I *do* like the technical advances in the ways that coverage is provided.

You have done an absolutely sterling job this year, such a pro. Best blog entry by far was the "talkback" one - more behind the scenes info would be appreciated.

Enjoy the winter but don't leave us bereft of news and info until March please!
Weekly Bonus Question 4:45pm on 30 Oct 2009 What is the real competition between Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton?
Pick your classic F1 season finale 4:50pm on 24 Oct 2009 I'm glad you've chosen so many races from the same period, so people won't vote for one purely because it was before their time and interesting to see the "old days". Admittedly I'm guilty of that, it's great to reminisce over the 80s and 90s and to see the 70s for the first time).

My vote is for 1981 because it sounds like an interesting layout(!) and I'd love to see how it worked, and also the race sounds exciting too.
Pick your classic Brazilian Grand Prix 2:01pm on 07 Oct 2009 I'll go for 1989 please - I was 13 at the time, with a love of Ferrari but as they hadn't been doing too well since I started following F1, I had also been supporting Mansell. Finally the two combined and I could have something to celebrate. I'd love to see it again.

My second choice is 1982 purely because I love reminiscing over the old races, particularly those before the mid-80s as I was too young to remember them. Love seeing how big the cars were and how chaotic the pits seemed.

But 1989 would be my favourite.
Your classic grand prix 11:48am on 24 Sep 2009 1976 for me please - I was approaching my first birthday so although I'm sure it would have been on in our house, I don't remember it! The older races are always fun to watch - to see how things have changed. I'm always struck by how busy the pits were, compared to how precisely they seem to operate now.
Not just a pretty Facebook 3:43pm on 29 Jul 2009 Other groups available:
Dwarfism Awareness (an advocacy group which hates the term "midget"),
Representin' the LPA (non-profit organisation),
various groups that want to stop discrimination,
and a group for people with dwarfism to meet each other for friendship / dating.

This is just at a quick glance (as I don't like to waste much time on Facebook!)

In short - it's the Internet. You will find bad if you look for it, and good if you look for that. News at 11.
Growing up at the Deaf Club 10:30pm on 21 Jul 2009 Everything you see before you takes place in perfect silence.

I'll be surprised! At my local Deaf club, the children run round screaming and shouting, and some Deaf people laugh and vocalise loudly (though not always coherently).

If it was silent, then that would be bliss, but there are a lot of noises that Deaf people do not seem to be aware of (hearing parents would have asked their kids to be a bit quieter) which meant that as a student of BSL who had gone there for a lesson and to practise communicating, I found it very hard to concentrate!

Not knocking it - it's the Deaf people's space after all - but it certainly wasn't silent!
Disability: an accident waiting to happen? 11:10am on 11 May 2009 "I nearly slid under a truck last week. I thought my partner was pushing my chair, she thought I was and I stopped myself from veering into the road just in time."

I have a rule with people pushing me that I take control to cross roads. I'll say something like "got it" or "thank you" to indicate "I'll take over" and "please start pushing me again". Without agreement like that I find it frustrating through to dangerous, but at least my partner and friends have got the hang of the system very quickly.

I agree, crossing the road can be daunting, and drivers aren't always looking out for people in a wheelchair on their own, they are looking higher up. But we can at least help a bit - by always crossing at proper crossings, and waiting for traffic to stop before moving out, and as you said, by increasing visibility at night, by which I mean that my chair carries lights when using my chair in areas without streetlighting. In my wheelchair I only ever use zebra and pelican crossings - although I would jaywalk on crutches, as long as my view was clear.

One of the worst things can be crossing with people who don't know how long you take to get across. They will look for smaller gaps. So I simply cross on my own or wait if I'm not confident, rather than risking rushing and falling.

It's all common sense, isn't it?
Disabled at 35,000 feet 4:51pm on 04 May 2009 I have highlighted a similar problem on trains. "Your attention is drawn to the safety cards..." - I've written in and asked why they don't show how the wheelchair user evacuates, they don't even say "we know you are there and someone will come and get you" - at least on the card in the wheelchair bay!
1st May: are you Blogging Against Disablism? 10:41pm on 01 May 2009 Yes, I am blogging! http://techiebabe.livejournal.com/795260.html

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