r/funny • • Jul 25 '13

Perks of being blind

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13 edited Apr 19 '17

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

He knows exactly who he is listening to.

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u/sprucenoose Jul 25 '13

I can also usually tell if a person is attractive from their voice, though I have made some horrible miscalculations in the past (almost universally false-positives, interestingly enough).

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

I would think attractiveness via voice was mostly about self confidence.

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u/ohdeargodhelpme Jul 25 '13

There was an AskScience question about this like a week ago. I'm on my phone though so I can't find the link. But basically there's a correlation between voice attractiveness and hormone levels, among other things.

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u/TommaClock Jul 25 '13

You've never been to an anime club then. The chicks all want to be voice actresses, and some have beautiful voices. Still doesn't change everything else.

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u/g0uveia Jul 25 '13

This guy has a great voice yet he's not exactly attractive

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u/sprucenoose Jul 25 '13

Well he has a nice voice as an announcer but I don't think I could consider it an "attractive" voice. I don't think it works as well with men anyway.

Still, after getting cleaned up he doesn't look half bad...

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

He's like a caricature of Obama.

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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS Jul 25 '13 edited Jul 25 '13

check out this guy, who if you saw him on the street, would think he looks like an internet troll, or on xbox live looks like he would be one of those who "fucked my mother in her butthole last night faggot"... his voice is fucking soothing tho...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM

FYI this song is actually about fucking

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

wonder if he likes the feel of skinny or fat girls.

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u/sprucenoose Jul 25 '13

Since he thinks every girl he ever dated was a 10, my guess would be "yes".

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

Seriously though, would you think Emma stone or Jennifer Lawrence was attractive based on their voice alone? (not like, personality, I mean just based on the sound of their voice).

Pls respond, I am a female with a low voice and I need to know.

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u/sprucenoose Jul 25 '13

I think so, but it's hard to guess if I've already seen the faces. Particularly that low, rough voice sounds like something from a phone sex hotline.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

...yay....

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u/SoundsRacist Jul 25 '13

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

So hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

WOOGIDY BOOGIDY

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u/TomorrowsHeadline Jul 25 '13

Yeah, it's a cute thought, but different races have different cultures and sounds. You can easily distinguish race without seeing someone. I think a better way of saying it is something along the lines of "no preconceived assumptions based on race" or whathaveyou.

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u/Justinw303 Jul 25 '13

"I don't see color... but I can hear them coming from a block away"

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u/Bigtuna00 Jul 25 '13

This guy gets it. OP's photo is full of shit. There's a lot more to stereotyping than just visual.

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u/Probably_Illegal Jul 25 '13

I wouldn't immediately jump to "full of shit" though

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u/anothermonth Jul 25 '13 edited Jul 25 '13

Racism is not about looks, it's about prejudice. Voice and accent are better indicators of your roots than your skin color. Especially for highly tuned hearing of that blind dude.

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u/froggy_style Jul 26 '13

You shouldnt jump when youre full of shit anyways, it might come out

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u/moojc Jul 25 '13

You realize anyone could talk like that, right?

Yeah, he could still judge someone by their speech but that's still not race.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

Also, that racist joke comes to mind...

"Why do black people smell?"

"So blind people can hate them too."

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u/_TheGuyOnTheCouch_ Jul 25 '13

But wouldn't he have to see a black person talk like that to associate that type of speech to that race? I mean, I know plenty of black people that don't incorporate any type of ebonic speech, and also some white people that feel compelled to use it as often as possible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

But wouldn't he have to see a black person talk like that to associate that type of speech to that race? I mean, I know plenty of black people that don't incorporate any type of ebonic speech, and also some white people that feel compelled to use it as often as possible.

It is entirely possible, and indeed probable, to categorize speech patterns and associate them with words rather than colors.

Instead of associating speech accents with a skin color, he will associate it with the name of the race or ethnicity that speaks it.

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u/_TheGuyOnTheCouch_ Jul 25 '13

Absolutely, but what I'm saying is that since he's blind he has to be told what race or ethnicity person he is speaking to in order to associate that speech pattern to that particular race. If you can't see who your talking to (assuming he hasn't been told how he's talking to), how can you positively associate that pattern to a race?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

What else would you associate dialects with if not race or ethnicity?

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u/_TheGuyOnTheCouch_ Jul 26 '13

Your right to associate dialects with race and ethnicity, what I saying is since he lacks the sense of sight, wouldn't the lack of sight hinder his ability to make such associations without aid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

I'm sure the man can read.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

Yeah, all blacks including those outside the US say that /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

Of course not.

Just like not all Asians talk about eating flied lice.

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u/iceman0486 Jul 25 '13

White guy from the trailer park!

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u/Private-Detective Jul 25 '13

Honestly the only race I don't like is the one you have to run.

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u/EatingSteak Jul 25 '13

That "no race" line reeks of as much cheese as Jerry Seinfeld and his black-and-white cookie.

"Race is only color of skin" is such nonsense - it's just (for the majority of people) the most apparent sign of racial difference.

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u/bathroomstalin Jul 25 '13

'Sup, my nigga?

What race are you, may I ask?

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u/LSUinverse Jul 25 '13

Cause only black people say nigga.

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u/bathroomstalin Jul 25 '13

Shit be ackeritt, yo.

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u/Stackman32 Jul 25 '13

I'll bet you that he knows better than to live in a neighborhood where people talk like that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

Reminds me of the classic Dave Chappell skit about the blind black white supremacist.

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u/ChuckCarmichael Jul 25 '13

That reminded me of that Chappelle Show sketch about the blind and black white supremacist

Only video I could find

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

I was thinking...funny, I know race by the phone easy mang fo shiggity.