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[Closed] Mocking the afflicted

cakeandcheese · 2020-10-15T22:34:58Z

I’ve just been reading the coronavirus thread and one of the latest posts is a clip from family guy where Peter has had a stroke and crashes his car. I’m starting to reach a threshold where I’ve had enough of this. On a daily basis I hear/see jokes on TV along the lines of “are you having a stroke or something”. Its just not funny. I might be sensitive to this as my GF had a stroke three years ago at the age of 32. It has been life changing, and even I, who has been with her every step of the way, cannot comprehend how it must feel to have your injury laughed at on a daily basis. I really wish it would stop. We don’t laugh at people with cancer, we’ve stopped using the term spastic. Why is it ok to laugh at someone’s unfortunate brain damage? It would be nice to think that having read this post, you might reconsider laughing at strokes and remember that some people are carrying the injuries for the rest of their lives.

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CountZero

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What about ~~bass players~~ drummers?

Ok, education time, what’s the origin of window licker, ironically it’s a phrase I picked up on here

So you’ve never heard this, then?

Posted : 05/11/2020 10:08 pm

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