You know when disabled people claim they are regularly abused and spat at in the

[Monty92]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

[Sir C]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

It's not just the disableds, though. All those stories of Poles being abused in the streets - I find it extremely hard to believe that this is a common occurence.

My word, there was even a claim that two women on a bus in Wales were abused for speaking Polish to each other, but then, what larks! actually they were speaking Welsh hahahaha! #didn'thappen

[SWv2]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

Might depend on what the modern day definition of disabled is.

When I was a lad a disabled was either in a wheelchair or crusing the streets in a 3 wheeled blue. Not the case anymore I suspect. See Disability Benefit.


In general though I concur with you. I can’t really understand why any people would engage in such abuse.

[redgunamo]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

I'm fairly sure it would happen "regularly". There's an awful lot of disgruntlement about.

[Pokster]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

My brother (who had a stroke 12 years ago) and now has trouble walking and talking, gets regular abuse while he is out.

So how do you know they lie about the level of abuse they get?

[Monty92]

Might depend on what the modern day definition of disabled is.

When I was a lad a disabled was either in a wheelchair or crusing the streets in a 3 wheeled blue. Not the case anymore I suspect. See Disability Benefit.


In general though I concur with you. I can’t really understand why any people would engage in such abuse.

This bloke, for example. I'm sure you get cruel kids pointing and giggling, but outright abuse from adults? Even a misanthrope like me cannot imagine this being a habitual problem.

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[SWv2]

My brother (who had a stroke 12 years ago) and now has trouble walking and talking, gets regular abuse while he is out.

So how do you know they lie about the level of abuse they get?

Do you often end up in altercations as a result of this?

[Burney]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

I've only ever seen disabled people treated with exaggerated courtesy and consideration to the point of condescension.

Obviously we laugh at them behind their backs, but in person they are kindly treated in my experience.

[Monty92]

My brother (who had a stroke 12 years ago) and now has trouble walking and talking, gets regular abuse while he is out.

So how do you know they lie about the level of abuse they get?

What kind of abuse?

I don't *know* that they lie. It's my suspicion that they do.

[Sir C]

This bloke, for example. I'm sure you get cruel kids pointing and giggling, but outright abuse from adults? Even a misanthrope like me cannot imagine this being a habitual problem.

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You shouldn't refer to your mum as 'this bloke'. It's disrespectful.

[Pokster]

Do you often end up in altercations as a result of this?

I don't..... he has learnt to live with it, it's when he's with his friends and they find it hugely offensive

[Sir C]

I don't..... he has learnt to live with it, it's when he's with his friends and they find it hugely offensive

This is up norf, isn't it?

We have manners down here.

[Monty92]

I've only ever seen disabled people treated with exaggerated courtesy and consideration to the point of condescension.

Obviously we laugh at them behind their backs, but in person they are kindly treated in my experience.

Exactly. I am sure there are isolated incidents, but the idea that disabled people routinely face overt discrimination on our streets is patently horse****.

[Monty92]

You shouldn't refer to your mum as 'this bloke'. It's disrespectful.

I blame your p*nis for her looking like that.

[SWv2]

Exactly. I am sure there are isolated incidents, but the idea that disabled people routinely face overt discrimination on our streets is patently horse****.

Of course it is isolated incidents as most people in society are normal, respectful people.

The same applies to racism and sexism but it doesn't stop it being reported on as a everyday occurence / crisis.

[Burney]

Exactly. I am sure there are isolated incidents, but the idea that disabled people routinely face overt discrimination on our streets is patently horse****.

Yes. Even so, though, the Paralympics is still utter, utter shït. Talking of which, has it finished yet?

[Monty92]

This is up norf, isn't it?

We have manners down here.

Also, everyone up north looks a bit like they've had a stroke.

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[Mo Britain less Europe]

What pisses me off is all these youngish types on mobility scooters zipping around on pavements at speeds well beyond what human mobility normally entails.

Many of them do not appear to have mobility issues (unless you count laziness as being a legitimate reason to have a mobility aid) and almost all of them are irresponsible, integrity-threatening twa ts.

[Pokster]

What kind of abuse?

I don't *know* that they lie. It's my suspicion that they do.

ots of shouts of spaz and things like that

[Monty92]

Of course it is isolated incidents as most people in society are normal, respectful people.

The same applies to racism and sexism but it doesn't stop it being reported on as a everyday occurence / crisis.

But listen to them and they talk in terms which suggest they face these incidents on a regular basis. Liars, mate.

[Pokster]

This is up norf, isn't it?

We have manners down here.

Yes of course you do

[Monty92]

ots of shouts of spaz and things like that

Have you suggested that he stops hanging out in school playgrounds?

[Pokster]

Also, everyone up north looks a bit like they've had a stroke.

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So disabled people lie about the amount of abuse they get, and then tossers like you say that all northerners look they have had a stroke... you really are a dumb ****

[Pokster]

Have you suggested that he stops hanging out in school playgrounds?

So you think it is funny that he gets abuse.... and people wonder why I think you are the biggest **** on here????

[SWv2]

What pisses me off is all these youngish types on mobility scooters zipping around on pavements at speeds well beyond what human mobility normally entails.

Many of them do not appear to have mobility issues (unless you count laziness as being a legitimate reason to have a mobility aid) and almost all of them are irresponsible, integrity-threatening twa ts.

Just to clarfy Mo, you do realise these things are not mobility scooters:

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[Mo Britain less Europe]

Yes. I don't mean those.

[Sir C]

Yes of course you do

Ah, chief chip-pisser revealed to have absolutely zero sense of humour shocker!

[Pokster]

Ah, chief chip-pisser revealed to have absolutely zero sense of humour shocker!

Strangely enough I find it hard to have a sense of humour over this. Silly me

[Sir C]

Strangely enough I find it hard to have a sense of humour over this. Silly me

This, or indeed anything else.

Lighten up, for fúck's sake.

[Pokster]

This, or indeed anything else.

Lighten up, for fúck's sake.

I should lighten up over the fact my brother gets regular abuse??? I have a very good sense of humour if you don't mind!

Thsi subject is of particular concern to me seeing as he almost died, and I find it hard to find any of it amusing.

I'm so sorry

[Ash]

street for “being different”?

I just don’t believe them.

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.

Do people stare at the disabled and make them feel self-conscious? Without question, and this is a bad thing.

Is there a pandemic of people hurling abuse at disabled people on the street? No

Why do disabled people lie about the level of abuse they receive?

I recall once witnessing a disabled person getting verbally abused by some kids in Kentish Town. It was very sad, and I would have gladly given the perps a clip round the ear were it not for the likelihood of either getting stabbed to death or imprisoned for assault.

[Ash]

Yes. I don't mean those.

These, perhaps.

http://ib3.huluim.com/video/60492082?region=US&size=600x400

[World's End Stella]

This is up norf, isn't it?

We have manners down here.

Bugger, I would have thought that at your age you would have slowed down a bit and let another chap have a go at that one.

[Monty92]

So you think it is funny that he gets abuse.... and people wonder why I think you are the biggest **** on here????

I don't think it's funny, since I don't believe it happens.

[World's End Stella]

I don't think it's funny, since I don't believe it happens.

Looking at this issue from a slightly different perspective, how many disabled claim that they routinely receive this type of abuse?

I can't remember the last time I read or heard of a disabled person claiming this to be true.

[Pokster]

I don't think it's funny, since I don't believe it happens.

So even though it has happened to him, you don't beleive it happens?? : headburriedinsand :

[Monty92]

Looking at this issue from a slightly different perspective, how many disabled claim that they routinely receive this type of abuse?

I can't remember the last time I read or heard of a disabled person claiming this to be true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03jduD9N5o

[redgunamo]

Just to clarfy Mo, you do realise these things are not mobility scooters:

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Yeah, but you *would* say that.

[Pokster]

Looking at this issue from a slightly different perspective, how many disabled claim that they routinely receive this type of abuse?

I can't remember the last time I read or heard of a disabled person claiming this to be true.

Perhaps a lot of the disabled people can't or won't make a point about it as they don't want to draw attention to thelselves??

[World's End Stella]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03jduD9N5o

Ah I see, so your point isn't that disabled people are constantly complaining about something that you don't believe is an issue, it's that when a BBC documentary asked them about it they stated that it did occur yet you still don't believe them.

So the real question is, are an utter c*nt or just an attention seeking c*nt?

[AFC East]

Perhaps a lot of the disabled people can't or won't make a point about it as they don't want to draw attention to thelselves??

And then they read on a forum somewhere that everyone thinks they're lying anyway?

[Ash]

And then they read on a forum somewhere that everyone thinks they're lying anyway?

Not everyone.

[AFC East]

Not everyone.

Fair comment, but seems like a majority.

[Ash]

Fair comment, but seems like a majority.

It's more of a table in a pub than a forum.

[Mc Gooner]

Are there lots of arseholes around who can be gratuitously offensive? Absolutely, and this is a bad thing.Absolutely absolutely with all that wishing cancer on people thing you see from time to time.

[AFC East]

It's more of a table in a pub than a forum.

Fair enough, a table where someone makes a fairly inflammatory and potentially pretty offensive comment (which is fair enough), but then completely ignores someone offering personal evidence countering the claim? Oh and virtually everyone else just laughs?

Every pub has a few ****s, but you'd expect someone to call them out for it.

[Ash]

Fair enough, a table where someone makes a fairly inflammatory and potentially pretty offensive comment (which is fair enough), but then completely ignores someone offering personal evidence countering the claim? Oh and virtually everyone else just laughs?

Every pub has a few ****s, but you'd expect someone to call them out for it.

Oh, I wasn't at all surprised that my evidence was ignored. If everybody called everyone else out on here for being cùnts every time they were a cùnt there would be an awful lot of calling people out for being cùnts. As for Monty, we're kind of used to him being like that, and much worse. AWIMB isn't really a place for the easily-offended. Never has been. In fact it was a lot meaner in the old days. You should have seen Greg Mitchell. And that bully Nicosia. :driving:

[redgunamo]

Oh, I wasn't at all surprised that my evidence was ignored. If everybody called everyone else out on here for being cùnts every time they were a cùnt there would be an awful lot of calling people out for being cùnts. As for Monty, we're kind of used to him being like that, and much worse. AWIMB isn't really a place for the easily-offended. Never has been. In fact it was a lot meaner in the old days. You should have seen Greg Mitchell. And that bully Nicosia. :driving:

Mitchell had a nice dog, at least.

[AFC East]

Oh, I wasn't at all surprised that my evidence was ignored. If everybody called everyone else out on here for being cùnts every time they were a cùnt there would be an awful lot of calling people out for being cùnts. As for Monty, we're kind of used to him being like that, and much worse. AWIMB isn't really a place for the easily-offended. Never has been. In fact it was a lot meaner in the old days. You should have seen Greg Mitchell. And that bully Nicosia. :driving:

Not really a question of being offended is it? It doesn't offend me, but how how do you think a disabled person would feel reading it?

To be honest this board is like a dumbed down, less funny, Top Gear.

[Ash]

Not really a question of being offended is it? It doesn't offend me, but how how do you think a disabled person would feel reading it?

Well maybe you should let them deal with that. :shrug: Hopefully, if they didn't like it they'd log on and give Monty both barrels.


To be honest this board is like a dumbed down, less funny, Top Gear.

:yikes: Don't let Headgear find out that you think Top Gear is funny.

[Burney]

Well maybe you should let them deal with that. :shrug: Hopefully, if they didn't like it they'd log on and give Monty both barrels.



:yikes: Don't let Headgear find out that you think Top Gear is funny.

I suppose that this would be a bad time to use the :headwand: smiley?

[Ash]

I suppose that this would be a bad time to use the :headwand: smiley?

:hehe: Oh my! We're institutionally offensive!

[Burney]

:hehe: Oh my! We're institutionally offensive!

Not at all! We are representative! We've got racially diverse and disabled smilies. If you choose to, you could choose to see that as someone severely disabled giving Monty both barrels.

[AFC East]

Well maybe you should let them deal with that. :shrug: Hopefully, if they didn't like it they'd log on and give Monty both barrels.



:yikes: Don't let Headgear find out that you think Top Gear is funny.

Monty is clearly someone desperate to come across as a **** who probably wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life. It was the reaction to Pokster from everyone else that was ****.

Top Gear isn't funny.

[Ash]

Monty is clearly someone desperate to come across as a **** who probably wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life. It was the reaction to Pokster from everyone else that was ****.

Top Gear isn't funny.

I expect you don't find South Park funny.

[Pokster]

Monty is clearly someone desperate to come across as a **** who probably wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life. It was the reaction to Pokster from everyone else that was ****.

Top Gear isn't funny.

Thank you.... and Top Gear used to be a bit funny until Evans managed to make it crap

[AFC East]

I expect you don't find South Park funny.

I used to, got bored with it in the end.

[AFC East]

Thank you.... and Top Gear used to be a bit funny until Evans managed to make it crap

You're welcome. I can be ****ing offensive at times, but would like to think I'd admit when I was wrong and to be called out by my 'friends'.