Reply to: Ken - the special needs kid

[EternalOptimist]

I would've thought that trick with the golf ball and the hosepipe would be an attribute, not a disability.

Ohhh, you're talking about the fact that (s)he's an attention seeking gender confused schizophrenic . Sorry, my bad!

and you took the words right out of my mouth
it must have been while you were kissing me
you took the words... maltloaf

Luciferbox ..lucy.
call me slow but i Have my suspicions

[Churchill]

Sorry to hear that Lucy, what is it ?

I would've thought that trick with the golf ball and the hosepipe would be an attribute, not a disability.

Ohhh, you're talking about the fact that (s)he's an attention seeking gender confused schizophrenic alchoholic. Sorry, my bad!

[EternalOptimist]

And I do have a 'mental disorder/disability' and people make fun of that kind of stuff all the time.

Sorry to hear that Lucy, what is it ?

[Torran]

Another well thought-out Lucy post.
Rapidly rising up the village idiot rankings, currently topped by HRH.

Free Tibet! Laugh at special needs kids!

Brilliant stuff as always Lucy

[daviejones]

From The Times:

He looks oddly mal-coordinated. He has pigeon toes and big feet and walks with a cartoonish dopiness. His arms don’t synchronise and he’s got that eternally cheap cotton suit and shapeless flasher’s mac with the final style addition of a girl’s rucksack.

Altogether with his little head bent forward he looks like an oversized special needs kid.

The reaction to Ken in the street is muted. After-office drinkers look up without interest, occasionally someone yells. It’s difficult to tell if they’re being encouraging or ironic. There are plenty of shouts of “winker”.

Ken waves and every so often a drunk lad will come up and ask him to fix their lives, the buses or the weather. He promises to do what he can. Facts and figures tumble out of him with alacrity – if not conviction. He’s like an automated phone system. Press one for bendy buses and Boris; press two for immigration and the Olympics; press three for gay and lesbian issues; stay on the line for a smooth operator.

Except he isn’t that smooth any more. There’s something about Ken’s whole demeanour that looks beaten. He’s losing from the inside out. He was always a grey man, the Stalinist version of John Major with a whiny south London accent. But now there’s a weariness, an absence of enthusiasm.

HRH gets everywhere it seems!!!

[Lucy]

Another well thought-out Lucy post.
Rapidly rising up the village idiot rankings, currently topped by HRH.

Don't worry saddo not even HRH is as gormless as you.

[sasguru]

Another well thought-out Lucy post.
Rapidly rising up the village idiot rankings, currently topped by HRH.

[BrilloPad]

Anyone who votes for Ken is stupid.

Vote for Matt! I did.

[Lucy]

First person "look at that drunk person over there"
Second person "Oh he's disabled"
(Crowd laughter)

Lucy, you're missing the point. By joining in with your laughter smilie, you intrinsically find it funny too. Well if the cap fits......

No, actually you miss the point (Mr somone's alternative id), the point I understand Gill to be making is that Ken is laughable because he behaves in a way that is undesireable, but he is too gormless to realise and change it. He isn't and I certainly am not saying being disabled is laughable, but someone who is too ridiculous to realise he behaves that way is. They are two separate ideas.

Whoever you are.

(Oh and the personal insults directed at me are just as offensive as what you are accusing me of btw)

[Ivor Bigun]

Being disabled is not preferred, surely you agree with that. I think the point Gill is trying to make is that Ken behaves like he is ill-informed, tired and far from dynamic, when he does have a choice about that.

And I do have a 'mental disorder/disability' and people make fun of that kind of stuff all the time. It's just what happens and no amount of tutting from Tunbridge Wells will ever change that.

First person "look at that drunk person over there"
Second person "Oh he's disabled"
(Crowd laughter)

Lucy, you're missing the point. By joining in with your laughter smilie, you intrinsically find it funny too. Well if the cap fits......

[Lucy]

The article compares someone the author doesn't like to a disabled person. That implies being disabled is also something to be frowned upon. The author is a twat who thinks laughing at disabled people is amusing

Being disabled is not preferred, surely you agree with that. I think the point Gill is trying to make is that Ken behaves like he is ill-informed, tired and far from dynamic, when he does have a choice about that.

And I do have a 'mental disorder/disability' and people make fun of that kind of stuff all the time. It's just what happens and no amount of tutting from Tunbridge Wells will ever change that.

[Bagpuss]

I think you are being a little overly PC here bagpuss, it is Ken, the stealing, lying cheating lefty.

The sooner he is gone the better.

The article compares someone the author doesn't like to a disabled person. That implies being disabled is also something to be frowned upon. The author is a twat who thinks laughing at disabled people is amusing

[Lucy]

I think it's poor journalism to compare somone you don't like to the mentally disabled. No better than the rule of playground and tells me the author was a bully.

I think you are being a little overly PC here bagpuss, it is Ken, the stealing, lying cheating lefty.

The sooner he is gone the better.

[Bagpuss]

I think it's poor journalism to compare somone you don't like to the mentally disabled. No better than the rule of playground and tells me the author was a bully.

[Lucy]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3778963.ece