7/7 survivor begins 200-mile trek on prosthetic legs
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skunkboy69
Reverend of Eternal Light
Too right.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
+pukes+
JHE
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Why?
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
Call me a cynical product of postmodern Western civilisation, but this whole inspiring struggle against physical adversity in search of common humanity is totally cliched.
trashpony
Hag
for thatAnd you're a cunt.
I bet if this was done by a Palestinian who had her legs blown off by Israeli helicopter fire, you'd be more sympathetic.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
You reckon?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
You really are going to get flamed to hell and gone for this, unless you happen to have some VERY solid point to make.
I'll reserve judgment until you've at least made some effort to justify this remark.
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
Throwing down the gauntlet there man?
XP
I don't resent the message, just the format. Too tried...
Being brought up in the generation of aspirational disabled folks achieving against the odds docs and dramas just brutalises you to these larks - Sorry, just don't inspire.
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I don't resent the message, just the format. Too tried...
Being brought up in the generation of aspirational disabled folks achieving against the odds docs and dramas just brutalises you to these larks - Sorry, just don't inspire.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Funny, I was brought up on stories of people like Douglas Bader, Archie Scott Brown, Simon Weston and others who suffered dreadful things and still went on to perform feats that many so-called 'able-bodied' people couldn't manage even on their best day.
Next to people like that, what have you done that gives you the right to type garbage like that?
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
G-lo said:
lololololllz
It's not just whippersnapper natter - I genuinely resent having heroic tales of stoic endurance forced down my throat as supposed proof of society's crude sartorial perception of itself. Wow, how 'heroic' - woman with no legs goes for a walk. Talk about challenging social prejudices. Hey, ain't it just so, in western capitalist society anybody can achieve if they set their mind to it...
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
You reckon?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Yes, naturally, looking down from the Olympian heights of your own vast achievements, such things must seem positively paltry to you.
The people I mentioned before and the likes of Stephen Hawking, and all the non-famous disabled people who have such great difficulties that they deserve a bloody medal just for managing to survive their daily lives don't hold a candle to your good self, oh no.
Down here in Plymouth we've got an ex-Marine who lost both legs and one arm in Afghanistan only a few months ago and he's just done a tandem parachute jump for charity, something that even the most able-bodied of fundraisers have been known to avoid. But I suppose the fact that he only lost three of his limbs only a few months ago, and is up walking again and skydiving for a good cause doesn't rank very highly next to selling a few papers, now does it?
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
lol - I get accused of being insensitive... obviously the solution should be to 'hand out medals' to cripples for 'living through the night'. I don't know a single incapacitated person who wouldn't be horrified at the prospect.
I hope your ex-marine mate had a fun sky-dive - but I'm sorry, I'm not gonna get all 'wow, well if even he can do it' about things. And at the end of the day, that's really what you're asking me to do, isn't it?
I hope your ex-marine mate had a fun sky-dive - but I'm sorry, I'm not gonna get all 'wow, well if even he can do it' about things. And at the end of the day, that's really what you're asking me to do, isn't it?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
I worked, marched and helped plan direct action against both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and I still oppose them despite coming from a forces family of long standing. But I'll show the proper respect to anyone who is, in whatever way, braver than I am and can do things I couldn't or wouldn't do.
And anyone who loses three limbs and is walking and skydiving for charity within six months is entitled to that respect, be they a soldier or civilian.
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hiraethified
At a rough guess, I'd calculate that one Gill Hicks is equal to about a thousand of sneering do-nothings like you when it comes to calculating someone's contribution to humanity.
But my figures could be out. Maybe it's ten thousand. Or more.
Pah. They'd be more useful to humanity if they tried selling Socialist Worker and ran fake petitions on a Saturday morning.
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hiraethified
But she's not just any old 'aspirational disabled person' whatever they are. She had her legs blown off by a terrorist and instead of turning into a bitter, dull, sneering curmudgeonly bore like you, she's decided to try add do something positive.
But seeing as you're finding the format oh so tired for your sophisticated tastes, why not tell us what you've done recently to try and make a difference?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I happen to be listed as disabled, numbnuts, in that my various illnesses mean I'm permanently unemployable. I know as much as anyone about how bad life can get for those who aren't blessed with perfect health because I happen to be one of them.
I'm not asking for a fucking medal out of it, nor is anyone else in my position. And I'm not going to claim that there aren't people a damn sight worse off than me either, because there are and I've met a good few of them.
What I would expect is that those who have greater disadvantages in life, however they may have suffered them, be given a little respect for having had further to come than others when it comes to living as 'normal' a life as they can and, in some cases, doing things that would far surpass many achievements of their able-bodied peers.
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