[jambutty]

You won’t publish Heather’s email address Tinkerbelle because your claim to have emailed her was a very, very poor bluff. She does have a web site though with a ‘CONTACT’ link and you don’t need an ‘ology in The Internet to find it.

Your definition of a disabled person has it about right so let us apply it to Heather Mills. Can she run, swim, climb stairs like she used to? No of course not! Thus the loss of a leg makes her disabled. I don’t care that she has oodles of cash. That has no bearing on the issue and bringing her money into the debate only smacks of jealousy on the part of the commentator.

The fact that she has come to terms with her disability and leads as near a normal life as can be expected is to her credit but she doesn’t deserve people mocking her because of her disability. You Tinkerbelle seem to be trying to justify your cruel comments because, in your own words, she is ‘money grabbing’. I would remind you that the original topic – “How much of the 800m will she take? – was the discussion point.

Would you have mocked Alison Lapper if she happened to be in the throws of a divorce from a multi millionaire?

All you are doing is trying to excuse your crass ignorance and don’t have the guts to stand up and say “sorry I shouldn’t have joked about her missing leg.”

I am sure that most disabled people would prefer to be treated just like anyone else accymel but that is no excuse to poke fun at them because of their disability. I’m equally sure that many disabled people poke fun at their own disability but that is a defence mechanism to dull the pain of insensitive jibes from others. That doesn’t give other people carte blanche to do the same though.

I still stand by my post #30.

This thread started off under the terms of “General chat - common sense in here please. Decent serious discussions to be enjoyed by everyone!” but has degenerated into disparaging comments starting with post #4 by chav1. That and all related posts should have been deleted as off topic if nothing else and certainly because of the content. Sadly all that happened is the post was moved from its legitimate place in General Talk to Fun>Anything Goes in a lame attempt to justify the hurtful posts being left in place.