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(I'm probably going to hell for saying this but) Does anyone one else apart from me think that Tourette's is the funniest neurological disorder there is?
Tourette's tics come in all forms from cursing and swearing to people who just make (strange) sounds.A bingo fan has been barred from his local bingo hall because he has Tourette’s syndrome. Louis Bunn, 23, said he was told never to come back to Leo Leisure Bingo in Eastbourne, after his tics started during a game last Sunday. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-shouting.html Personally, I can see how Tourette's could be a bit of a issue when playing bingo-all those fat ladies, ducks, legs etc not to mention the bright lights and adrenaline. For more info on Tourette's/tic disorders visit Tourettes Action |
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Typical Daily Mail story (what a rag!). He was banned for being aggressive to a customer and spitting at the club manager, not for having Tourette's. In answer to your question, no, I don't think it's a funny disorder.
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And yes, he can't help his condition (swearing etc) but is being aggressive towards a fellow player and spitting at the manager part of his condition? Hmmm Apparently, he had to double his medication so that would suggest he wasn't taking enough to control his tics etc. I think some folk with this disorder are comedy genius's, I'm not taking the urine I think that if a bit of humour brings attention,raises awareness to Tourettes Syndrome then it's not all bad, at least it's getting the message out there. I'd post some clips but it's a family forum (allegedly). |
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Accyexplorer - no, there is nothing funny about Tourette Syndrome - I can't believe that you would even suggest this. Try walking a mile in their shoes then you wouldn't find anything to laugh about. No neurological disorder is 'funny' either to the sufferer or those who love them.
I am the first to agree that humour helps in a lot of areas but there is nothing humorous about Tourettes. Anyone who laughs at them, or is amused by them, should be ashamed. |
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I thought it was just me who felt like this dotti.
I do not find it humourous at all....I find much of the humour directed at people with any disablility to be in bad taste. Perhaps it is a 'generational thing'....if it is I am glad to belong to the sensible generation. |
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Then, when you have started the 'hell' you're expecting, you start to pull back and try to modify what you said and show how reasonable you really are. Make you're mind up, if you want to stir it stick with it, don't chicken out, it makes it hard to decide just how weird you are. As for Tourettes or any other other major neurological disorder being funny-have you any idea what it must be like for the sufferer, in their moments of clarity, and their family? No, neither have I but I doubt they find it funny. |
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Isn't it time the Internet and all it's advantages were denied from such pillocks as he? Well gosh! Of course not, without such examples how could we know that humanity is DOOMED? |
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I've been thinking about this ever since I heard that Jaysay bought the farm ... he liked that; thought it was funny, although I thought "popped his clogs" was more expressive. Our way of life, and the world we were born into, is on the way out, death by death. In that world we knew what was right, and what was wrong ... and that we had THE choice, free will ... maybe not God's best idea, given that sinning is so often so goddam attractive.:D I often express opinions which may be taken as "Islamaphobic". But it isn't that. Certain things I recognize as wrong: public beheadings, shooting young girls in the head 'cause they wanna go to school, slaughtering innocents who don't conform to their "brand" of Islam, etc. ... I think you get it. This gut feeling for what is the right thing is being replaced by pc'ism and the nanny state. Anyway, to get back on topic, finding someone's disorder, whatever it is, "funny", is just plain wrong. |
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Only one small comment, "sick minded poster"
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For all except the last paragraph, how could any right thinking person think that wrong. |
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I still think Tourette's (the swearing,noises) is funny.....I'll get back to you all when I've had time to think ;) |
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I find you sad, am I wrong for that?
Somehow I think I'm right, again and again, you prove yourself less of a person than someone that can't help being the way they are. They have an excuse, what reason do you have for the way you are? |
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Accyexplorer are you sick or something? How can you find anything amusing in someone else's misfortune, in someone else's disability - especially such a debilitating one? I think you are the one with a problem.
You say you will get back to us when you have had time to think - from the comments already posted by you on this thread I am surprised to know you do think before you write, or that at least you did on this occasion. |
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Be honest: you expected the reaction you have got on this thread. It was meant to be provocative, wasn't it?
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However, I still stand by my comments |
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I asked myself is it possible for someone to joke about certain disabilities in a non-malicious way? And I think yes.
I'm sorry if it doesn't sit well that my reaction to someone shouting random swear words is to think that it's humorous..... ....they may swear,squeak and click but they're still normal folk and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want folk to feel like other folk were pitying them because of their condition (maybe I'm wrong). :confused: |
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Straight from the horses mouth so to speak...
...."Thom has Tourette's Syndrome and says 'biscuit' sixteen times a minute. A visual artist and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, she founded Touretteshero to celebrate the humour that can emerge from Tourette's, challenge misconceptions about the syndrome and encourage people to familiarise themselves with the creative opportunities it presents".......BISCUIT :eek: :D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jmTlQld2Z8 |
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If there is a way to be humorous about a disability, then it is a very fine line.....and I think that the only people who can poke fun at disability are those who are themselves disabled.....or less able. Being provocative will get you no brownie points. I thought you had learned that from your past experiences on here. |
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Accyexplorer, you are probably right in that people with Tourettes would not want pity- but I’m sure they would appreciate some empathy regarding their condition and a bit of consideration regarding something they have no control over. They would not appreciate being made fun of.
How magnanimous of you to say they are ‘still normal folk’. Of course they are normal folk, they don’t need you to tell them this. As much as some sufferers of a disability are able to make light of their affliction and poke fun at themselves, they are the only ones who have the right to do so. They have my full admiration for being able to deal with it in this way but I am sure given the opportunity they would definitely prefer not to have a disability. I ask you this, how would you feel if someone close to you was a sufferer of Tourette Syndrome and you saw or heard them being ridiculed, I doubt you would see any funny side to it. You certainly wouldn’t be laughing at their uncontrollable actions, however much they may ‘swear, squeak and click’. I guarantee your thread on Accyweb would be very different to this one. |
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And you stand by your comments? It's a pity you don't know someone with alzheimer's, they say and do some really funny things. You'd laugh your socks off. :rolleyes: |
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I knew this was going to be a touchy subject for most folk, but i still (wrongly by the looks of it) thought it worthy of being kicked around a bit on here. I wasn't after brownie/friendship points,likes,karma etc (you should all know that by now). Seems I've still a lot to learn M :) |
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I agree, I probably wouldn't be laughing if I had a disability,illness that someone was making humour out of. Seems it was a bad subject matter,it won't happen again (anytime soon). |
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Yes, I think you have...but a willingness to do so is a good start. :)
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At the risk of sounding more like a ignorant "idiot", why is it acceptable to make fun of let's say scoucer's as thieves or the Irish as slightly less intelligent? folk don't seem to be raising a ruckus over that and they can't help coming from Liverpool of Ireland.
I didnt expect to persuade anyone to change their views on (insensitive,offensive) comedy I wanted to have a discussion about it. I guess I have learnt something though... .....never to try make light humour at the expense of marginalised folk and you can't control the response of those your trying to debate with :hidewall: |
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Here, have a winky smiley just to show I mean no harm.:rolleyes: Oops sorry I'm new at this.;) |
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By the way, you don't deserve a long bacon so don't expect one from me. |
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I do have some empathy when it comes to disabilities and comedy and some comedians do take it too far (even for a heartless troll like myself).
Maybe it is wrong for me to laugh,same as it's probably wrong to laugh when I see someone slip or fall....I know I shouldn't laugh...but......I suppose I've just got bad taste when it comes to comedy. |
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I have very bad taste when it comes to laughing at stuff, but also try to have the sense to know when to exercise it.
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Laughing at scousers, or the Irish is different.....they probably make jokes at the expense of other nationalities......and laughing at people slipping on a banana skin is different too.
If you find something funny, then you find it funny....but it might be worthwhile keeping it to,yourself......and to post something because it is a provocative subject is not the way to go. It might work on Facebook, but not on here. |
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... Or are you suggesting I start using it instead of posting my "crap" on here :D I hope you know,I didn't start this thread so I could say unpleasant,offensive or poke fun at, folk with disabilities under the guise of it being called humour :) |
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After the comments I've already received, I am quite ready to get rocks thrown at me if you disagree :D |
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I don't throw rocks at you as I believe that you are entitled to your opinion.
I have already said that humour is a personal thing....what makes some people laugh goes right over my head.......many of today's comedians are just not funny. In fact, many of them make me feel that my funny bone has been removed. Jason, you have already said that you posted this thread purely to get a response......you have had a response. Now stop digging, you are in deep enough as it is. This will be my last post to this thread as I feel it has run it's course. If you haven't got it by now then it is unlikely that you ever will. |
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Accyexplorer – Like Margaret I also think that this has run its course. Your responses as you try to justify your comments, making ridiculous comparisons between those who can help themselves and are able-bodied and those who for no fault of their own have been saddled with a debilitating disability, are deplorable.
Rather than being ‘provocative’ – I’d rather use the word ‘crass’ as Gordon B did – I find you have now become very boring as you try to defend the way you think, and the pathetic reasons you put forward as to why you started this thread. You have, of course, the choice to think and act whatever way you wish to – unlike the people who have the syndrome you enjoy making fun of. |
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..... Perhaps, I should/could be a little more sensitive and choose my words a bit more wisely in future :D....See you in the parking thread (Or other) if you don't want to comment on this thread :) Quote:
I didn't start the thread pointing my finger and making fun of folk who suffer from Tourette's. Like I've said, It's more the inappropriate swearing and noises they make that I find amusing (it adds a little more character I think).I know it may seem distasteful to most but I've a dry (very dry) sense of humour. Sorry if I offended you folks but, I won't walk on eggshells. If you don't want to debate the subject dotti, thats fine, just ignore it :) |
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Accyexplorer – yes, you did make fun of people with Tourettes when you started this thread. The swearing and noises they make are part of the syndrome so if you find this amusing then you are still poking fun at them.
By the way, I am not ‘debating’ this subject with you – debating means arguing the fact in a formal way of making a resolution. There is no argument here and there will be no resolution while we are of such differing opinions as to what is the right way to show compassion and understanding, when the need arises, to a fellow man (or woman). I would call your so-called sense of humour a warped one rather than dry and as for your expression ‘faux outrage’ – believe you me there is nothing false about my outrage. |
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Maybe,I could've had a bit more compassion etc when commenting and starting the thread but "hindsight is always 20/20" and with that I bid you good day :) |
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For Heavens sake, stop trying to justify yourself and back pedal at the same time- that's multitasking and you're not up to it, you keep falling off.
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Not "every poster", just the ones who took the moral high ground instead of having a discussion about the topic (like yours) :rolleyes:. "tourettes can be highly amusing infact hillarious" this quote was taken from a forum member (sadly they declined to join in on this thread) perhaps they've learnt (from past experiences) to keep quite when folk head for the high ground :D |
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No shot so well deserved can be considered cheap.
Look at it this way, you are now getting the attention you craved as a child and were so obviously denied, even if it isn't the attention you hoped for. |
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If you think those who disagreed with you are on the moral high ground you obviously don't think you are- so you place yourself on the moral low ground? Name me the poster on this thread who found ''tourettes can be highly amusing in fact hilarious''. Name me one who didn't disagree with you. Sounding like Less? We can but try and after all you did ask for it, that's what trolling is all about. We've had some good trolls on here, I'm afraid you don't make the list |
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Well, I have read through all the posts now twice, and I don't wish to open up this can of worms again but listen to this.
I am a Tourette's sufferer, I started to develop it as a teenager and believe me normally its not funny. If someone says something I think is unreasonable, I'me afraid it just comes out (F off). It has got me in to lots of bother on many occasions. A few years ago,when I lived in Thailand, I was banned from my local golf course for telling the starter to "F off" when she said my wife couldn't Tee off because she was wearing the wrong type of shirt. The shirt was a golf shirt as worn by many pro golfers but the starter just didn't recognize it because in all honesty, she didn't know her job properly. That's just one example, there are many. Anyway, as my missus was so homesick I agreed to come and live in her local village out in the boonies in Vietnam. We moved in with the family and guess what, her father also suffers from Tourette's. Every now and again he cries out, really loud, "Hey" or th Vietnamese equivalent. He walks about in bare feet and sometimes startles me which results in me having an attack. of "F off" So I'll finally get to my point.....when the two of us get going, I would defy any one of you not to bust yer sides with uncontrollable laughter. |
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Perhaps we all have Tourette's to some degree :eek: , I know I'd have a similar response if someone said to our peg that she couldn't do something because she was wearing the wrong clothes.
I also seemed to have picked up 'driving Tourette's' :D However, I have now seen the other side of the coin after reading a blog about a guy who tried committing suicide because of the bullying he was subjected to by ignorant ace holes. |
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The reason for this? They do what they do by an unfortunate chance of nature, YOU do what you do deliberately! |
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I suggest you go have a lie down, your 2 brain cells have done more than enough work for one day ;) |
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Not only are you pathetic but you don't learn from the examples of your betters! What a sad individual of the human species you really are. 10 out of 10 for effort, but as usual, 0 out of 10 for content, you really must try harder. |
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I'm no expert of uncontrollable posts and their causes, you'll have to ask Accyexplorer, why he suffers from it, (but please, don't make a joke of it, whatever his complaint is, it isn't a laughing matter).
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Looks like you've learned to live with it, putsinker, I can imagine the trouble you've got into!
But I'll bet if you two 'got going' and I started 'busting my sides' I'd get a good f-telling off!:hidewall: |
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Accyexplorer, this posting has nothing to do with the subject of the thread, so apologies to other posters. AccyX, you come across as someone who likes to give the impression that your command of the English language and how it is written is of a high standard.
However, you continually refer to your lady on this thread and on others as ‘our peg’ with no capital letter to her name. This makes her seem insignificant which is certainly not the case. Names should begin with a capital letter, which you well know as you do apply the rule to others, including Less, so would you please extend this same courtesy to your Peg. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=our%20peg
Sometimes the Internet can clear confusion. :) |
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Ta for that, Less. Does that mean then that 'peg' is simply the name given to a girlfriend and is not, like I thought it was, a shortened version of Accyexplorer's wife's name? If so, I stand to be corrected and apologise to him. Hadn't heard of peg in this context - but it sounds a bit derogative when used in that way. We live and learn.
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I think that its important that you know the person from who the urine is being extracted though, and can judge their reaction and feelings in order not to upset them. Making fun of someone who you don't know ,would in my opinion, be in very bad taste. |
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As for my English, it's (very) poor compared to most folk on here, if I give the impression it's even good that's not my intent :D "Our peg" is timid in comparison to some of things I call her, 'misery' being a example, it's not meant in a derogatory manner though (far from)...it's my funny bone, you see, it's in the wrong place :) |
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Tics are not just verbal (swearing,whistle or clicks) are they putsinker?
I mean, is it possible for someone with Tourette's to (uncontrollably) swing out or spit at someone especially, if they didn't take enough meds (like the fella in the article in first post). I knew a gent that often collapsed on the floor and had a small seizure and he said is was due to his Tourette's condition (to be honest I thought it was epilepsy). :confused: |
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I know if any of my children came out with profanity like that the last thing I would do is post it on the internet :rolleyes: |
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And yup agree with your comment about posting your kids on the www, 15 minutes of fame and all that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWN3PDUoxE |
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After watching that clip, I stand by my original comment, she's heard that saying quite a few times by the sound of things. |
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It's so lovely to see that AccyWeb has brought together new friends of similar interests.
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....perhaps you could help us set it up :rolleyes: |
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It's like threads, you would only ruin it. |
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Your new friend is far better at snide than you are, he will perhaps come out of change a letter and bravely continue his remarks openly rather than hiding where he thinks I don't look. :( I look forward to his input, his humour is along similar, lines to your own. Actually, I find neither of you humorous, but equally cowardly and in need of friends. |
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So your reaction, in the right conditions, would be to join in the laughter? Good on you. There's a lovely chap in a pub I go in, good to talk to but he'll suddenly make a loud noise or shout( never swears). I never thought why but now I realize why I'll not be caught by surprise any more. |
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Some plainly have tourettes of the qwerty variety- if only they could keep their hands away from the keys
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keys were made for hands ... that's why theres locks ..... :D:D:D |
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Accyexplorer, I only wrote 'someone who LIKES to give the impression' re your command of the English language, I didn't say you succeeded, so that should make you happy.
As for referring to your lady as 'misery' (apparently among other names) I wouldn't boast about such bad manners if I were you. I don't find any humour in that, no respect. Not even remotely amusing. Your funny bone must really be in a strange place! I wonder what she calls you - I have a great word for her to use if she needs one 'schwachkopf'. I tell you this, if my husband called me such names as you call your lady he'd soon be missing a part or two (body parts, that is). He is definitely not a schwachkopf! |
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Yet another rib tickler from the man that knows everything but can't get 'owt right. It's a wonder how you could even stand to be on the same planet as the rest of us. |
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If you are genuinely interested in what 'our peg' calls me, she prefers to use the English translations of your "great word". As for your other half, if he's anything like Less, at least a brain tumour's one medical condition he'll never have to worry about ;) |
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As sick as this thread has been, you now start joking about brain tumors, you really do have a talent for making enemies and proving that you can disgrace yourself even more than we thought. I'm sure you will actually post something worthwhile but I doubt that it will be on this site. |
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Oh, my! Accyexplorer is that really the best you can do. By the way, why are you seemingly obsessed with medical conditions?
On the contrary to what you are insinuating about him, my husband is a very smart and intelligent man - he proved that by marrying me!!!!! |
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Less, when my husband read the posting from AccyX he laughed and said 'who is that d.head?' But I agree with you, it is a cowardly post although him indoors will not be losing any sleep over it. Thanks for your comments though, they were my sentiments exactly.
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I noticed he has read the comments put on since his last little outburst though has neither the wherewithal nor the gonads to continue. Perhaps he's hoping for backup from a friend? |
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Oops a double post, we haven't had one of those for a while!
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I don't need "back up" Less, Im sure between us we could have fun all day throwing insults back and forth, Your not obnoxious like your 'online friends' that you manipulate so well (you are obnoxious in a different and far worse way). The trouble with you, Less, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of childish online 'half-wits' to take sides in your online tirade of abuse against me, you think you're someone. (In your head) you hear them shouting ‘Heil, the grand wizard of the web!’ and you (incorrectly) imagine this to be the voice of the People. That is where your wrong oh great one. What the Voice of the People is really saying is 'Look at that tool with his condescending comments....what a Richard' ;) |
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Please be assured Accyexplorer that I do have a sense of humour, unfortunately I haven't found anything humorous in your postings, only sad and futile attempts to be funny.
I find you have sunk pretty low now with some of your comments and as I don't want to drop to your level I will sign off on this thread. |
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DtheP47 attempts to insult me by picking on a phrase in my profile, something he has always done. You however catch onto his coat tails and attempt an unoriginal repeat of his work. You remind me of the frightened little boy stood behind the school bully and nervously repeating the threat issued by the bigger boy just so you have a friend, so sad, so you. |
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Yup I am taking a leaf out of dotti's book too and clocking off this thread.
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Looks like it's just you and I, Less.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dC6jnHFdqbQ Personally, I'd like to get back on topic or leave this thread to die... ...The balls in your court,however should you wish to continue could we have our own Jason and Less's banter thread? |
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I tell you what, I will leave this thread alone, getting back on topic would be a backward step the subject is even more banal than you are.
In reciprocation is there any chance for my magnanimous gesture, would it be possible for you to leave the site alone? :) |
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Perhaps, I was wrong putting this thread in the anything goes section (since I did genuinely want to have a (light hearted) debate about it).If it has offended some folk, well, There's nothing I can do about that now.
I'll will change my comments etc if I'm wrong, I won't change my comments because folk take the high ground and take offence to them. |
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Well it took you an hour to go back on your word and post yet again in this thread, with a poor excuse for your bad taste, but that is par for the course with all those similar to youself that came before you and are now no longer with us.
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Oh dear. Have we entered the "I'll make the last comment" section of the thread?
I am sorry to inform you there is no known cure for QWERTourretts you just have to think twice before pressing that submit button :) |
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I'm not having any of this. I am having the last word. I will make a note of anyone posting further comments.
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Well write this bloody thing down.:D
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Noted!
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