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Round of applause on 8 minutes for Gazza

Discussion in 'Rangers' started by Medro, Feb 6, 2013.

  1. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    Autisim is like alcoholism?

    You buoys never fail to impress <laugh>
     
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  2. Go G YellowScreen

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    Aye, it's debilitating and makes you look like a ****.
     
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  3. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    So Jimmy Johnstone (he used to play for Celtic) was also a ****.

    We know he struggled with alcoholism.
     
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    Alcoholism can be classed as a disease. Addiction can be linked to genetics.

    In no way do I class it as being similar to cancer, even though that is also genetic.

    I wouldn't feel sympathy towards alcoholics, but that's because I have been in hospital seeing them. Its brought on by themselves in a way, and in gazzas case I think he has been a victim of his own success (had the money to drink himself to the brink).
     
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  5. Go G YellowScreen

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    No, I said it makes YOU look like a ****.

    If it wasn't for your autism you would have understood that.

    Ironic.
     
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  6. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    You said "Aye, it's debilitating and makes you look like a ****"

    You are therefore suggesting that Jimmy Johnstone was a **** or at least looked like a ****.

    Which is it.
     
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  7. Go G YellowScreen

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    Virgin, ****y, autistic ***** says what now?
     
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  8. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    That Wayne's World (1991) "joke" gets funnier each time.

    So Julian the Surreal Nonce has a dig at the Celtic fans for applauding Petrov and now he's calling Jimmy Johnstone a ****.

    And the buoys thought Pud was the infiltrator.
     
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  9. Toby

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    Ketchup is considered to be one of your 5 a day in the US <doh>

    Alcoholism isn't a disease, it's a ****ty life choice.

    Depression isn't a disease, it's a by-product of having a ****ing up mind.

    Anyways, all this disease talk is harsh on Medro <Mono-Teste>
     
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  10. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    I thought you didn't visit the Gers board?

    As noted before plenty of medical professionals classify alcoholism as a disease.

    Medical professional > depressed loner working in call centre
     
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  11. Toby

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    In America? Where ****loads of people believe god put dino bones in the ground to trick us?

    <MedroFail>

    You keeping up with the call-centre bullshit? Not everyone has a ****ty job like yours :(
     
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  12. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    This is where the addiction-as-disease lobby runs into real trouble.

    There is no medical test for addiction: no brain scan or blood screening that enables a doctor to detect its presence.
    And the disease model doesn’t just fail to meet scientific criteria: it doesn’t pass the common sense test, either.
    Suppose an alcoholic kills a child while driving drunk. He can wave a certificate signed by every addiction specialist in the country testifying that his actions were involuntary because he has the disease of addiction. Quite rightly, it won’t make a blind bit of difference to the verdict.

    But imagine that someone suffering from coronary disease has a heart attack at the wheel and kills a child. It would be outrageous to jail him. Or, to choose a less clear-cut example, what about an axe killer suffering from schizophrenia? We may feel uncomfortable that he’s sent to a secure hospital rather than to prison, but we understand why it’s appropriate: the killer’s volition was affected by a mental illness over which he had no control.
    Ah, say the disease-model advocates, but addiction does change the brain by making it crave rewards. True, but all sorts of behaviour rewires our brains. I’m happy to accept that, when I was a young drunk, my unwillingness to say no to that third bottle of wine at lunch had a neurological component. But, in the end, it’s just another excuse for the fact that I felt like getting smashed. (Incidentally, I wish I’d been able to bluff about dopamine and neural circuits at the time: my supply of excuses was always running dry.)There’s no doubt that addiction is a scourge – and spreading fast, as the makers of fast food, computer games and online porn learn how to manipulate our neurotransmitters. Technology makes us like things too much. But it doesn’t turn us into robots.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...isease-careful-youll-be-branded-as-a-heretic/
     
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  13. Toby

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    But Dev, some people think it's a disease and Medro agrees with them because it suits his argument so it has to be true <ok>
     
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  14. Toby

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    *In the meantime, Medro is furiously googling to find something to back his claims up*

    <MEDROFAIL>
     
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  15. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    Medro cleans the sewers?
     
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  16. Toby

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    He might as well. He's paid to use Paint and make pretty pictures.

    He was considered too repulsive to work behind the counter at Burger King :(
     
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  17. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    Where did I mention America?

    Toby fail.

    Hmmm....okay....ahh haaa....I didn't read any of that.

    No.
     
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  18. VenomPD

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    This proof says otherwise

    please log in to view this image
     
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  19. Medro

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    Incorrect, I do not use paint.

    And my job is not all about making pretty pictures.

    It's no Isme catalogue call operator work but it pays good.

    I'm still waiting for you to better my photoshop work Mr Happy.
     
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  20. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    SQA text messenger < medical professional
     
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