Inspirational

Swords Hoopster. · Sep 8, 2012

BrixtonR said: ↑

Your reputation goes before you mate. Andy's Medrew-isms on this one may be distasteful to some but clearly not enough to attract expressed umbrage. Maybe if he goes on like that for a few months it'll change... Meantime Mrs B might find a more worthy friend to go shopping with!
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I read ye mate.

No hard feelings come what may, old friend.

Sooperhoop · Sep 9, 2012

BrixtonR said: ↑

It's worth pointing out that there has been a complaint from a regular and respected poster about the glibness of some of the responses to the inspirational nature of Sooper's OP. The complainant wasn't Sooper but he can't have been happy to see his message turned over in the way it has been. So on behalf of the board, I apologise Sooper. I for one join you in celebrating the supreme efforts of athletes who, were it not for their bloody-mindedness, willingness and determination to compensate for their reduced abilities by actively going out of their comfort zone to make something of their lives. Better what they do than simply vegetate at the expense of others in the way Andy's fat lady does.

I'm sure we all know of people like that: mindless wastrels whose very sub-existence has the potential to turn the likes of us perfect souls into a herd of sanctimonious Victor Meldrews! Believe me, on the back of a lifetime of do-gooding and empathy, I'm no better than Andy when it comes to deriding the spongers. (My neighbour's on the sick, hasn't done a day's work in living memory and somehow end's up with a new car and all the bits - and the house on the hill I've long since coveted but could never afford at my time in life, has been occupied for the past seven years by a woman on benefits with six kids!)

However, I'm equally sure that such wasters are not the kind that Peruvian and many like him, see the need to tirelessly care for and support down south. His point is that behind the admirable paralympians Sooper applauds here, are masses of people around the world with similar conditions but without the necessary support structures. These people haven't a hope in hell of hauling themselves into a position that provides what we'd call a reasonable standard of life.

It's interesting to see this thread posing the question, should we be saying about people with physical and/or mental disabilities, '**** 'em I'm alright Jack'; or rather the acknowledgement 'there but for the grace of God go I'?

We have to remember that our much admired social welfare state wasn't set up to accommodate wastrels but simply as a means to stem the tide of abject (Victorian-esque) poverty by ensuring that we all have a right to basic education, health and thereby the means to support ourselves. The wastrels are the inevitable parasites that latch onto any positive development.

So what should we do about these scroungers who feign disability for a 'living'? Well, for me, there's nothing in the concept of a social welfare system that espouses free money. The notion is both repugnant and spells all the wrong messages. It's in the implementation that we've gone wrong, doling out money unconditionally.

There are many areas of life (especially environmental house-keeping) that need constant attention where there is little profitable incentive to do so, e.g. beaches, sewers, filthy tube tunnels and so on. For those of us who need money from the state to survive, surely a few hours a week contributing to such projects in ways our bodies or brains are able, would do much to resolve sooooo many of our current issues.

Andy's fat lady could start by making the tea for those doing the labour for instance; and that ****ing woman in my house on the hill could look after people's kids while their parents are on community duty...

All sounds workable to me. What d'you mean the government think it'd be an administrative nightmare to organise?

I just do not believe it!!!!
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Good post as usual Brix. No need to apologise, if some people can take the mickey out of something as uplifting as the Paralympics that says all you need to know about them...

BrixtonR · Sep 9, 2012

QPR999 said: ↑

Oh, of course I've just fallen in. I'm not sure that it is better than thicker brix. Although Mr Inappropriate might be more apt

Ps... I can't even remember my old user name on BBC 606, how would I find it out?
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No idea Nines. Dickie? Sorry just couldn't resist (self-imposed yellow card) !!!!

BrixtonR · Sep 9, 2012

Swords said: ↑

I read ye mate.

No hard feelings come what may, old friend.
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Likewise. Loss can be tough though. Both ways. Don't let it happen.

Swords Hoopster. · Sep 9, 2012

QPR999 said: ↑

Ps... I can't even remember my old user name on BBC 606, how would I find it out?
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Yours was Richard

Have a guess what mine was. Here's the clue:

A warm sunny day when the butterflies fly,
Boy and girl meet in the orchard grove,
In memory of that special place,
The black river flowed gently by,
Bush and thistle observantly silent.

Busy Being Headhunted · Sep 9, 2012

Swords said: ↑

Yours was Richard

Have guess what mine was. Here's the clue:

A warm sunny day when the butterflies fly,
Boy and girl meet in the orchard grove,
In memory of that special place,
The black river flowed gently by,
Bush and thistle observantly silent.
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wummy boy

mine was
careforincapacitated

BrixtonR · Sep 9, 2012

Swords said: ↑

Yours was Richard

Have guess what mine was. Here's the clue:

A warm sunny day when the butterflies fly,
Boy and girl meet in the orchard grove,
In memory of that special place,
The black river flowed gently by,
Bush and thistle observantly silent.
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We know (even when you subsequently deny it)!

Keyser SÃ¶ze.

'You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught, and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it'll be to get rid of me. After that... my guess is you'll never hear from him again.'

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