I was reading today of a girl with some mental health problems who had tried to throw herself off of a multi-storied car park in the UK. For three hours a specially trained police officer talked to her until she finally came down. What disturbed me was the fact that a crowd gathered below to watch the drama, and were shouting at the girl to jump. This is totally beyond my understanding. While we lived in England my wife worked at the village school, that once a week received children from a special needs school. This seemed to help the children from both schools, and certainly taught the ones to be helpful and caring about those less able than them. Unfortunately some of the parents did not see it that way, and stated that they didn't see why their little darlings should have to mix with "children like that". I quite frequently see groups of disabled children and adults being taken out to the shops or places of entertainment, and it is normal to speak to them as you would anyone else. Clearly attitudes to anyone different need to change for some if we don't want to see people being encouraged to kill themselves.
Extraordinary, but unfortunately not overly surprising. Inclusive education is the way forwards. Most modern children, those who have had an inclusive education, are better people than our generations. There are exceptions though. :/
Fantastic achievement by our sports people in Rio. To finish with more medals than in London was not expected - and almost as many Gold medals. Finishing above China too is amazing. What does surprise me though is how few medals Portugal, Austria and Finland win - you tend to think of them as being quite sports competitive nations.
That was Joyce's gold. Simple as that. Friend of my sister-in-law. My wife had been insisting her sister was pals with Anthony Joshua and I told her sister that her friend was a Watford fan and had won a heavyweight World Boxing belt. She was overwhelmed. I got her to watch the fight but she hadn't really listened to the names - she thought Joshua was the other fighter, then she said: "That's not Joe!" "His name's Joshua," I said. "No, it's Joe." "Well is that your friend?" I ask, pointing at a freeze frame of Joshua. "You told me it was. Let me get my glasses," she says. "You mean you can't even see him?" "He looks a bit like him. He's tall like that. (puts on glasses) But no, that's not him." Then we looked up on the iPad and found Joe Joyce. "THAT'S HIM!" she says.
I agree, enjoyed them immensely as usual but I have discovered the most boring sport ever - dressage, it's worse than watching squash.
I can enjoy watching squash in small doses - but much preferred playing it. Dressage though .............
Well squash is one of the sports that people say deserves to be in the Olympics ahead of golf (and other main stream sports) No wonder the USA come top - they have teams in basically every sport (and basketball is a free gold or two anyway..) We must have almost medalled in every one we had a team/competitor in.
Personally I think squash should be an Olympic sport. Not sure about golf, which is a fantastic sport (says the 21 handicapper), but I guess the money talks.
Personally I did not enjoy bouncing off the walls of a concrete box but many do, but I feel its not a great spectacle to watch, no offence meant BB.
while we are on silly sports, why is BMX in the olympics? Its amusing to watch but its just 'grown ups' riding over bumps on kiddies bikes which I used to do as a kid, when we used to have waste ground to play on. Such places have now been sanitised or built on, great memories though.
