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Team GB Paralympics medal hope is banned after testing positive for Thalidomide

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dvo4fun

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more soon

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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Brilliantly awful and just enough bad taste to win it for me!

Posted 2 years ago #
Immunis

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ouch, ouch, 5 stars, ouch

Posted 2 years ago #
dvo4fun

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Thangyou very mush. Sensitivity is one of my best features

Posted 2 years ago #
butagirl

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Flinching and giggling in equal measure. Have stars.

Posted 2 years ago #
Anonymous

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It's good, but I can't hear them clapping...

Posted 2 years ago #
John Ffitch-Rucker

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They haven’t got a leg to stand on.

Posted 2 years ago #
thisisall1word

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I couldn't keep myself quite together after reading this one.

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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'armless fun

Posted 2 years ago #
dvo4fun

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Might have legs

Posted 2 years ago #
Perks

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Nice one dvo.

Posted 2 years ago #
reforse

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Disgraceful, 5*

Posted 2 years ago #
Ironduke

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sublimbinal humour.

Posted 2 years ago #
dvo4fun

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truly awful pun. well done

Posted 2 years ago #
Sinnick

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I think this steps over the line. I have a friend affected by thalidomide who would definitely not be amused.

And, isn't it illegal to publish hatred against disabilities ? We don't want to be taken offline !

Posted 2 years ago #
John Ffitch-Rucker

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"I think this steps over the line” - which is more than the banned competitor can do.

Posted 2 years ago #
Username

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This is A DISGRACE.

And by that I mean it's wheely wheely bad.

Two and a half stars.

(That's five stumpy ones all added up)

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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I'm not sure this could be classed as hatred against disabilities.

Disrespectful? Maybe. But certainly not meant to be offensive.

Posted 2 years ago #
Immunis

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Sometimes good comedy needs to have one foot over the boundaries of good taste. This headline does that to perfection for us writers. It doesn't mean that it is the right headline for Newsbiscuit to put on the ticker.

Being offended as part of a small group where you can have a right of reply and can offend back is part of the give and take of a group experience. Posting the same words more publicly to people that have no right of reply, changes the meaning of the words and they will more likely be judged as offensive.

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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Excellent point. And yes, I don't expect it to make the FP.

Posted 2 years ago #
cinquecento

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should have been submitted in short hand

Posted 2 years ago #
dvo4fun

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This ticker could have formed part of a longer NiB length sub. Thinking how Oscar Pistorius, the chap without lower legs who runs on carbon fibre(?) blades, has been the subject of speculation that he has an unfair advantage by virtue of those mechanical aids.

From that the thought was wondering how far people might be prepared to go - elective amputation perhaps? Just ended up with the Thalidomide ticker though, which I accept is v.close to, even if not actually over wherever 'the line' may happen to be..

Posted 2 years ago #
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Appalling. I wouldn't be such a cripple as to post something like this.

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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Drunken humour - the original poster must have been legless.

Posted 2 years ago #
dvo4fun

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Thangyou bonjo, your my best friend you are.

I was indeed.

Posted 2 years ago #
bonjonelson

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Was this ever used? If not, a real shame!

Posted 2 years ago #
beau-jolly

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I vaguely recall a story about some able-bodied youth argueing that he should be allowed to take part in a wheelchair race. I think he was just quietly told to fuck off.
Sadly the British army appears to provide more paralympians than thalydamide nowadays. Perhaps the headline should read "semtex".

Still thought it was chuckleworthy though.

Posted 2 years ago #
Gerontius

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The original ticker is quite clever and amusing.
Everything else that follows is simply unpleasant mockery - the sort you used to enjoy doing just before you went to the big school and your mom let you wear long trousers for the first time.
I wonder how many of you would be prepared to say those things to their face.
I could be completely wrong about it and they might actually enjoy being mocked about their disability.
At least they never have to worry about sitting next to a moron on the bus.
Parents eh.
Lads eh.

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cinquecento

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'say those things to their face' - far from me to make a crack about about conjoined octuplets...

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dvo4fun

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two days away, in the wastelands of northeast england, and I come back to find this awful sub resurrected. shame on you [& me]

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