Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Must not mention the strange behavior of Touretters

We read:
"David Cameron [British PM] was forced to apologise yesterday after describing Commons heckling by Labour bruiser Ed Balls as like ‘having someone with Tourette’s sitting opposite you’. He said his jibe at the Shadow Chancellor – someone he has also branded ‘the most annoying person in modern politics’ – had been made ‘off the cuff’.

The remark prompted angry criticism from disability campaigners, who said that the Prime Minister had shown a lack of understanding of the inherited neurological condition which often causes sufferers to swear involuntarily.

Mr Balls has turned his barracking of Mr Cameron during weekly Commons question time into an art form, with carefully rehearsed hand gestures and shouts designed to put him off his stride.

Speaking about the Shadow Chancellor in an interview, Mr Cameron said: ‘He just annoys me. I don’t really hate anyone in life. ‘But I’m very bad, in the House of Commons, at not getting distracted – and the endless, ceaseless banter, it’s like having someone with Tourette’s permanently sitting opposite you.’

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you ever seen anyone with Tourette’s? It's better than the funniest TV show.

Anonymous said...

People need to just stop appologizing for everything (PC crap)... eventually the PC crowd will go away

Anonymous said...

"eventually the PC crowd will go away"

and they will switch to Apple Macs.

President Not Sure said...

In the 6th grade we had a kid with tourettes coming to our school and the administrators thought it would help the entire 6th grade adjust to him by making us watch a special on tourettes.. They followed this homeless guy through the streets of NYC who would yell NI**ER! every time he saw a black person.. Being NYC he was yelling it all the time.. One of the things he did to help curb his outbursts was convert "NI**ER" to "Nickles, dimes, quarters".. It didnt help much so he would be on the subway yelling "NI**ER NI**ER, Nickle dimes,.. NI**ER, nickles dimes quarters. NI**ER, NI**ER, nickles, NI**ER nickles dimes quarters".. So for the entire year this poor kid was tormented by every one yelling "Nickles, dimes quarters" every time he had an outburst.. It was so bad he ended up leaving before the end of 7th grade.. Good thing they showed us that video so we know how compassionate we would need to be..

Anonymous said...

Children will always be cruel. Try and beat (or brainwash) it out of them and they'll just get sneakier about being little bastards.

Anonymous said...

Cruel? Or just honest and not yet infected by political correctness.

Bird of Paradise said...

Make liberals appoligise for foring this multiculteraism on us

Anonymous said...

Fucking with someone that is messed up in some way they can't control or fix is a favorite past time of children and adults that have never matured past childhood. Some of us that have grown up enough to understand the necessity of compassion, but not enough to get past our love of violence, take great pleasure in knocking out stupid thoughtless adults that poke fun at disabled children. Because hey, you think it's funny to pick on handicapped kids, I think it's funny to watch you pick up your teeth after I issue you an elbow to the mouth...