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Spastic In Space!!
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Ozymandias
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- Jan 31, 2007
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rool said:
About somes it up, if you're over forty it tends to have a different meaning than if you're in your twenties.
To me in it's particularly nasty expressions equating some who is 'normal' and being an idiot to someone who's disabled, implying that by being disabled your're deemed less than human.
For the younger generation ( I can't believe I've just typed that
), it just means an idiot with no link to being disabled. hence why I find it offensive and magoo doesn't. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here.Shizuoka Dolphin
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Rougvie said:Imagine the controversy if Hawking had been a NIG NOG
Well, Oxford Uni probably wouldn't have taken him.
Trufflehound
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Shizuoka Dolphin said:
They didn't - he's at Cambridge.
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Trufflehound said:
I meant when he went to Uni in the 50s for his BA.
magoo
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Ozymandias said:About somes it up, if you're over forty it tends to have a different meaning than if you're in your twenties.
To me in it's particularly nasty expressions equating some who is 'normal' and being an idiot to someone who's disabled, implying that by being disabled your're deemed less than human.
For the younger generation ( I can't believe I've just typed that
listen people, i was often called a spastic, albeit years ago in a less PC era because people just assumed that every disability comes under the umbrella of SPASTIC! one of my best friends has CP. i have other aquantances with various disabilities and we always use SPASTIC as a general term and it's many colourful variations when verbally abusing each other. i'm not saying it's RIGHT to call people spastics but you'd think if anyone was going to be offended it would be me/us. i can't belive i'm having to explain myself
so mr Ozymandias i am not an idiot with no link to being disabled, i'm just an idiot!
Trufflehound
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Shizuoka Dolphin said:I meant when he went to Uni in the 50s for his BA.
Fair enough.
Woodchip
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All is forgiven. That just made me chuckle.magoo said:
It did shock me a little that you'd post with that title, as you seem to be one the people that actually think before posting. No offence meant by calling you a spaz, just trying to make a point as I have a lot of respect for Stephen Hawking.
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He looks a bit like Brains from Thunderbirds in that picture. He is clearly enjoying himself and deserves to.
Croydonbloke
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You`re out of order with that heading.magoo said:
Franks Wild Years
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I would imagine that if your confined to a wheel chair and your body is so damaged the feeling of freedom and weightlessness must be incredible. He's having a top time.
PS. Mrs Wildy Ears told me off for my Steven Hawkins impression.
PS. Mrs Wildy Ears told me off for my Steven Hawkins impression.
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For those of us that live through the Joey Deacon era, spastic will always be a funny word, no matter how politically incorrect it may be.
Trufflehound
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Franks Wild Years said:
Can't think why. Surely "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?
Rougvie
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Now pictures of MONGS in Reading tops I really do find offensive........
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Trufflehound said:
My point exactly. I painted him in a a very cheeky lighthearted fond way.
If I'd tucked my arms up my sleeves, gurned and dribled, thrown myself down the stairs whilst shouting 'look at me I'm weightless spaker Hawkins' then she would have every right to admonish me.
Its a bloody minefield, this joking lark.
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magoo said:
