Tourettes thing on BBC1 at 9pm

[patchamalbion]

Did he just punch her in the face I missed it.

i turned on at that stage expecting to hear swearing and he f***ing whacked her one.....just had to laugh

 

[Bluejuice]

Right, this thread has sold it to me.

iPlayer it is

 

[csider]

Right, this thread has sold it to me.

iPlayer it is

you will not be let down mr blue.

although do agree it must be difficult to live with, funny as f*** though

 

[Nottseagull]

"There aren't enough gays in the world"

That must be because there aren't enough heterosexuals in the World to produce them.

 

[magoo]

i thought his dog was cool.

knew exactly when his tourrettes was telling him to cross the road lol.

 

[little al]

i missed the programme does anyone no if its being repeated ? i was tempted to end that with you cu##s but thought better of it

Its on iplayer

 

[little al]

iplayer it you c!nty chicken fucker, sweaty back, ginger pubes........

oops.

 

[Mendoza]

It was rather funny but it was sad to see it messing up genuinely nice peoples lives.

I found it weird that they would get ticks all the time they were doing everyday things, but when they were talking about their condition or how it affects them, their ticks would disappear or become significantly less frequent.

Thought it was a great documentry but it may well create new Joey Deacon like icons out of the people featured

I'm up to my knees in fuckin cowpats was a BRILLIO line though

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Tim Howard, the ex Man Ure keeper had this as well. Well, that was his excuse for calling Rio Ferdinand a 'useless black fucker'.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yeah, john is sound, let's hope he finds a ladyfriend.

Yeah. I really started to warm to John. The young lad was pretty sweet as well. And both brave as well.

Still, priceless telly.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I once saw a programme about Narcolepsy, whereby people afflicted by this condition suddenly fall asleep in an instant.

When the Narcolepsy Association had meetings they used 3 people to take the minutes of the meeting. The theory was that if one or two nodded off at least one person would be able to record what had been said and they could then print up what had been said. Which is vital considering that at any one time 30% of the attendee's would be asleep.

I shouldn't laugh but......

 

[Dave the OAP]

Did anyone see the one where they took the kids to France....and when they went through the ferry terminal and passport control they kept shouting "BOMB"

I know it is not good to mock the afflicted, but I had to leave the room I was crying so much

 

[BLOCK F]

Both guys came over as very articulate....in between the tic episodes and the programme was both funny and sad.
Have to say that John's 'cow pat' retort was one of the funniest things I've heard for ages!

 

[Brovion]

Did anyone see the one where they took the kids to France....and when they went through the ferry terminal and passport control they kept shouting "BOMB"

I know it is not good to mock the afflicted, but I had to leave the room I was crying so much

I know what you mean. I was watching the cricket (well Twenty/20) and all I could hear was my wife crying with laughter in the other room. And she's a nurse!

 

[Man of Harveys]

I think I feel a Tourettes-suffering visit to Omegle.com coming up...

 

[Easy 10]

I flicked over just in time to see the scottish guy packing his shopping at the till, and suddenly shouting "DICK" at the till operator.

Bloody marvellous.

 

[Taybha]

Saw the original documentry and felt at the time it was all a put on really,just watched it and feel a bit of a f***ing **** now to be honest,thought it was a very good thought provoking Documentry,very funny yet extremely sad at the same time.

 

[The Ringleader]

Iplayer is going on right now

 

[Harold]

I remember the original documentary way back when. Very sad and almost completely unheard of, as a condition, by the general public.

This time around what I found most disturbing was the guy 'Chopper' saying how tourettes suddenly struck him out of the blue aged 33. How he was driving his kids and suddenly did a random pig snort sound. Over time the tics began manifesting themselves as physical head jerks and more verbal outbursts, until the point he's at now where it's really really bad (especially during the advice meeting for benefit claims). Sad to hear how it robbed him of his job and his wife. What a nightmare.

 

[glasfryn]

Brilliant programme had me laughing and crying they were both very intelligent and knew how to handle their Tourettes the scene with the lady from citizens advice was hilarious and even she was laughing about it, but the bit where the boy when little had me in tears he is a very brave man and has learned to cope with a very sad affliction.


why Oh why can't we see more documentaries like this thoroughly enjoyable