Did you hear the one about the one-armed Chinaman?

Monkey likes to surf all over the web and read all sorts of things. It's interesting that the world's press seem to largely treat disabled people in the same way.

Chinese news website Xinhuanet are currently carrying a disability story entitled One-armed man finds success as business tycoon, which I found rather interesting because of the total lack of story in there. It's pathetic though that what I mainly like in this article is the bad Chinese-to-English translation; it made me laugh out loud. Oh, and the fact that he went to Inner Mongolia Normal University. Normal, of course, is the opposite of disabled, innit?

Once upon a time, kids, and not all that long ago, the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford used to be known as the Royal Normal College. If you read up on its history though, you find it's not quite so weird.

I tell ya, time in the Ouch! office simply flies by sometimes.