tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post1786764808764666832..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: The danger of being inoffensive.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-89446772282853826392010-10-28T22:18:24.577+01:002010-10-28T22:18:24.577+01:00"assuming the operator doesn't hang up in..."assuming the operator doesn't hang up in a huff and apply for counselling (and compensation)."<br /><br />LI, that's a magnificent line. She'll then proceed to take a week off of work to attend group therapy, where her assigned guru will manage to work the word 'appropriate' into every other sentence.<br /><br />"One day, we'll be wishing Orwell had been right because what's happening now is worse."<br /><br />Sadly true. 1984 and Animal Farm were required reading when I was in high school. I doubt it's the case anymore. The safety-pinned baby-boomers running the schools probably see those books as a menace to their overall risk avoidance stratagem. Independent kids tend to try out smoking and ride their bikes without helmets.smokervoterhttp://smokervoter.webs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-26570459914564983462010-10-27T16:46:36.921+01:002010-10-27T16:46:36.921+01:00Special Needs is a meaningless term used to pigeon...Special Needs is a meaningless term used to pigeon hole a huge variety of people in the same way as 'Learning Difficulties'. It's all about control of behaviour introduced by self interest lobby groups that get paid to make us feel guilty. <br /><br />On the BBC recently I recall seeing a person described as having Learning Difficulties when it was apparent that their problems were physical and not mental. If I was that person then I may well have been offended by that description.<br /><br />For a while I've decided to start using some very un-pc terminology and guess what? Normal people just aren't bothered by the use of some words - mind you it might just help being 6'5" and 18 stones!!<br /><br />Clarkson is a rare beast on the biased BBC, and the Righteous struggle to understand his popularity.Scoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-55829824571750794912010-10-27T13:15:47.352+01:002010-10-27T13:15:47.352+01:00The other way of looking at it is that if you have...The other way of looking at it is that if you have special needs you're as good looking as a Ferrari. Unfortunately that doesn't give the offence seekers much satisfaction.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-32795312272883957232010-10-26T12:34:54.056+01:002010-10-26T12:34:54.056+01:00I was going through some of my mp3 collection the ...I was going through some of my mp3 collection the other day and found some Rowan Atkinson clips. "The Father Of The Bride" is hilarious, in which he refers to the bridegroom as "The sort of man we used to describe at school as an utter spastic". <br /><br />I don't suppose he includes this in his repertoire any more...microdavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-20294337740081884032010-10-26T05:37:43.403+01:002010-10-26T05:37:43.403+01:00"This comes from the constant Righteous misus...<i>"This comes from the constant Righteous misuse of the 'shouting fire in a crowded theatre' line. When there is a fire, yes, you do shout 'Fire'. Very loudly."</i><br /><br />It's why we have Fire Alarms, not Fire Concerns....JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-86514853888209715062010-10-26T03:06:50.610+01:002010-10-26T03:06:50.610+01:00banned - I jest not. A poke with a finger is deeme...banned - I jest not. A poke with a finger is deemed assault. Even if it's not in a place you shouldn't be poking it. That's official. As for insults, there have been insane ads in buses with 'police' tape over peoples' ears...<br /><br /><br />The two complaints might be because the en-masse charity complaints only count as one each.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-88546734189163600632010-10-26T02:59:36.388+01:002010-10-26T02:59:36.388+01:00Paul - my birthday is in April too and the book is...Paul - my birthday is in April too and the book is set in April 1647. Somewhere a numerologist is wetting themselves.<br /><br /><i>I'm me; if you don't like it, don't associate with me. I don't have many friends and I like it that way.</i><br /><br />Are you sure you're not me? ;) Nah, you're too considerate to be me.<br /><br />Other peoples' thoughts and feelings are their business. If they have problems with them, that's not my problem.<br /><br />The teaching... 'So and so is upset by being called names. You have to be gentle with so and so.'<br /><br />Why? So and so is an idiot. Tell so and so that and they might learn to think properly and not waste time worrying about trivia.<br /><br /><br /><br />Here's a funny bit of trivia. Once, a student showed me a plate of bacteria and said 'How am I supposed to count this?'<br /><br />I glanced at it and said '264'.<br /><br />He came up to me much later in the lesson and said 'I counted 263'.<br /><br />I didn't look at the plate or him. All I said was 'You missed one'.<br /><br />Poor bugger ran out of time before he could prove me wrong. I still don't think I was.<br /><br />(really, on the scale of bacteria, it didn't matter at all anyway but it was too much fun to pass up).Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-6976726365309200172010-10-26T02:49:37.721+01:002010-10-26T02:49:37.721+01:00Just two complaints? The other professional offend...Just two complaints? The other professional offendees must have been sleeping on the job.<br />I recall some while ago accusing our local council of having 'special needs', the woman I was with froze for a couple of seconds before deciding to laugh. 4 decades ago me and my mates used to go to the gym at the local YMCA except when it was being used by 'the disabled'; one day they renamed them the Special Club which of course gave us an ideal term of abuse for anything we thought less than satisfactory, "Oi mate, with a shirt like that you should be in Special Club!"<br /><br />Is Celia Harrison being set up as an Aunt Sally to excuse the piss-poor reasponse of the emergency services to the 7/7 'terrorist bombings'?<br /><br /><br />"<i> You dare not compliment anyone on their clothes, hair or anything else. You must be careful about eye contact and don't smile - that could be considered leering. No jokes. No laughing. Absolutely no contact of any kind at all, ever. That's assault.</i> You jest L-I but I imagine that is exactly what is happening in State Sector offices and canteens throughout the land.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-63062369871501341092010-10-26T01:42:58.408+01:002010-10-26T01:42:58.408+01:00LI: We don't, generally, but I/we have been &...LI: We don't, generally, but I/we have been 'taught' to. I don't want to but apparently one is supposed to take other people's thoughts/feelings into account. I do my best but to be honest half the time I just can't be arsed. I can think about other people occasionally but empathy doesn't come naturally even though we must show it all the time. As far as I am concerned, that's for middle-aged women to do. You know, the kind of harpies that sit in libraries and spend all day looking at your browsing history because they don't have any lives of their own. (I think such invasive monitoring could actually be dangerous, but that's by-the-by.)<br /><br />I'm me; if you don't like it, don't associate with me. I don't have many friends and I like it that way. Means I can live my life as I see fit. And I've got loads of things I want to do.<br /><br />The game plan for me is simple: lose the weight and get off the anti-depressants. That way I can get off the drugs and live a clean life and maybe even a job. Throw off the yolk of dependency. Well, apart from the whisky and pork scratchings, of course.<br /><br />April?! OK, fair enough. It'll do for my birthday then. ;-)<br /><br />WV: ressive (wut?!) ;)Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-13469555402964486852010-10-26T01:21:46.577+01:002010-10-26T01:21:46.577+01:00Paul - it amazes me that autism-spectrum charities...Paul - it amazes me that autism-spectrum charities fail to understand the type of mind they are dealing with. Why would anyone on that spectrum give a crap about the opinions of anyone else? Especially the slow-thinking and narrow-minded 'normals'.<br /><br />I once raged at someone who claimed to be Aspergers and who spent much time attention-seeking and going on about her 'self-help group'. If she really had Apergers she would never appear as herself online and she would shy away from attention. <br /><br />As for groups for those who don't want to be part of groups... Olympic standard point-missing there.<br /><br />It's trendy to have 'an affliction' now. In the old days we called it 'individuality'. But then, individuality is illegal these days. If you don't fit the British Standard Human then there must be something wrong with you. The problem is, nobody fits it.<br /><br />It's deliberate. If everyone needs to be fixed, everyone has to visit the Pharmers. Cures are not profitable. Lifetime drugs are. <br /><br />So we all get denormalised because nobody can match the 'normal' specification.<br /><br />I never went to pubs at weekends either. Smoky-Drinkies are different, they tend to be at weekends to accommodate those nine-to-fivers who work with others. Pubs were too busy at weekends. I was one of those who supported pubs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until they kicked me outside. There weren't many of us and we all smoked.<br /><br />For the book, it's not out until April but drop me an Email and I'll see what I can do.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-7262312265106045032010-10-26T01:04:08.188+01:002010-10-26T01:04:08.188+01:00Smoking Hot - she's all they have to choose fr...Smoking Hot - she's all they have to choose from now. Anyone who would have screamed 'Fire' in a burning theatre wouldn't have got the job.<br /><br />She's not the cause. She's a symptom.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-39321118549221312642010-10-26T00:58:10.297+01:002010-10-26T00:58:10.297+01:00I'm autistic. I'm one of the people who&#...I'm autistic. I'm one of the people who's supposed to be offended. Guess what? I'm not. Not one bit. Not one squiggly-dibbly-dozy. Just like I don't get offended by anything you write in your blog.<br /><br />The NAS is full of arseholes anyway. I've learnt over the years to stay well away from any 'professional' bodies representing 'our' interests as it's almost always made up of the self-serving and people who think they know better than us.<br /><br />Real autistic people wouldn't give a toss. Actually, Clarkson's remark raised a smile. So the NAS can go fuck itself with a dildo complete with nails.<br /><br />There's your response from one of the people who's supposed to be offended.<br /><br />(Don't suppose I could buy a copy of your nice new book and get you to sign it, perchance? It'll give me something to read over Christmas when I should be doing normal things that normal people do like drinking too much and vomiting in the town centre.)Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-55552016103017108732010-10-26T00:39:59.362+01:002010-10-26T00:39:59.362+01:00She obviously ticked all the correct boxes to get ...She obviously ticked all the correct boxes to get the job ... sadly none of the boxes were anything to do with competence.<br /><br />They got exactly what they wanted.Smoking Hothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04534745989363293923noreply@blogger.com