She’s still sexy, even as a zombie!
Tonight, Bardstown Road. Be there!
Brittany and I will be there!
(Source: olivia-ross, via fuckyeahlouisville)
It looks like one hell of a storm is popping up just west of Louisville!
and it’s tracking northeast!
**TRIGGER WARNING ABLEISM, ABUSE OF A DISABLED PERSON** (Deaf relevant) Why I will never be flying United or flying into/out of Louisville ever again.
(TW for audism out the ass)
As we were leaving the NAD convention in Louisville, Kentucky, I had on the following shirt I got at the convention:
It was a very public week-long event downtown, make no bones about it. As such, the shirt very clearly identified me as deaf.
While I was going through the TSA, some of them started laughing in my direction. I thought it might’ve been someone behind me, but I found out otherwise.
They went through my bag (for no reason), and found a couple bags of candy I brought. I was told I wasn’t allowed to fly with that (wtf? I’ve flown with food before — these were even sealed still because I brought them right in the airport). I was then asked if I would like to donate the candy “To the USO”. Since I know the airport there has an Air National Guard base, and I figured it would go to the soldiers, I (annoyed) said sure, why not?
The guards, as I was getting scanned, started eating the candy they just told me was for the soldiers. In front of me, still laughing at me (very clearly now). One of them asked why they were laughing, and one of them came up to me, pointed at my shirt, laughed at me and said, “Fucking deafie”. The Louisville TSA called me a “fucking deafie” and laughed at me because I was deaf, and they expected wouldn’t say anything back (or wouldn’t hear them). Make no bones about it — she was facing me and I read her lips. There was no mistake. I would later find out that they had called at least 4 other individuals the same thing.
My teammates had to hold me back from going after them, but we moved on. After I had calmed down and we had sat down, some rude as fuck lady got up and started filming us signing. She called us “Dumb apes” with a “gesture language” and laughed at us. When we asked her to stop, she said “I was getting a picture of the plane behind you! (the plane wasn’t even at the gate yet)” and “You’re dumb deafies anyway so no one would believe you”.
At this point I was blind in rage, but I let it go. It wasn’t the end of it though. This, however, is why I’m never returning to Louisville, ever again.
When we got back to Rochester, we found out that United had lost all of our luggage. It ended up in Kansas. The United reps had put a phone number up and said to call it. I responded, “I’m deaf, I can’t use a phone!” I was told, “Buy a TTY then talk to us!” When I shouted back that TTYs had gone obsolete years ago for texting, I was told, “I guess you’re shit outta luck then, huh?” .
But I guess because I’m disabled, I have too many rights, huh?
That’s awful. I’m so sorry ><
Reblogging and adding Louisville to the tags. I’m hoping this can get picked up by local media.
This is fucking unacceptable.
(Source: ihavenoidea28, via lesshumansmorecats)
So we’re currently under a “Fire Weather Watch.”
It says it expires tonight, but we had the same Watch yesterday, so I’m not really seeing that happening.
Also:
No rain for a really long time, and next Wednesday is July 4th.
News Headlines will read: CITY OF LOUISVILLE HAS BURNED TO THE GROUND
WELP.
And those numbers are just the actual temperatures, the heat index is supposed to be a lot higher.
This storm popped up out of nowhere and was like, “Hey Louisville, what’s up?”
Right over our neighborhood too!
LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) — Fort Knox has cancelled a performance by rocker Ted Nugent because of recent remarks he made about President Obama.
Nugent was to meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain those comments, which some people have interpreted as a threat.
At last weekend’s National Rifle Association convention, Nugent said if the president were re-elected, “I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
more at the link
Besides being my favorite character and my favorite comic, I always thought it was pretty cool that Nightwing’s former city of Bludhaven has Louisville Kentucky landmarks planted in it. This is probably because artist Greg Land uses photo references really heavily and he is from right across the river in Indiana, I believe from New Albany actually.
I’ll post the only other reference that stood out in my next post.
How cool! I had no idea!
Holy shit is so freaking cool!
Another reference of Louisville used in the previous Nightwing comic is the Aegon Building, which is the tallest building in Kentucky actually. I believe back then it was called the Capital Building. I actually remember watching it being built every day back and forth on the bus ride to school when I was a little kid in grade school.
That’s awesome!!!
To the Batcave!
Found this while tooling around Louisville.
