From: The Peeler on
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:42:00 -0700 (PDT), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>On 26 June, 20:26, The Peeler <peeling...(a)invalid.admin> wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:15:43 -0700 (PDT), NM <nik.mor...(a)mac.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >On 26 June, 12:05, The Peeler <peeling...(a)invalid.admin> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:16:52 +0100, Silk <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>> >> >On 26/06/2010 01:59, NM wrote:
>> >> >> On 24 June, 12:28, bod<bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> >> >>> Silk wrote:
>> >> >>>> On 24/06/2010 12:12, The Peeler wrote:
>> >> >>>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:53:36 +0100, Silk<m...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>> >> >>>>>> I don't like paying tax any more than anyone else. That's why I got a
>> >> >>>>>> car in a lower band, so I only pay 35 quid a year. If you can't afford
>> >> >>>>>> 35 quid, you can't afford to maintain a car in good order.
>>
>> >> >>>>> A cheap pikey car, you mean?
>>
>> >> >>>> How we laughed.
>>
>> >> >>> Just paid mine... 245.
>>
>> >> >>> Bod
>>
>> >> >> So did I, it was a real struggle to find zero in one lump.
>>
>> >> >Does this mean you're "disabled"?
>>
>> >> Ahem. The correct expression for cripples is "differently abled".
>>
>> >Who decides what is correct and what isn't?
>>
>> If it offends anyone at all, it isn't.
>
>That's really dumb, whatever phrase you use someone somewhere will
>find it offensive. In this instance to call a disabled person
>"differently abled" is patronising nonsense.

Yes, but at least it doesn't offend anyone.

>Just because they are disabled dosen't make them stupid, they know
>what they are and when someone is using mealy mouthed speak, usually
>such nonsense is to assurge the consience of the utterer not to spare
>the feelings of the disabled.

But most differently abled people *are* stupid.

>As an example, down to you PC nutters, ordering black coffee is
>offensive to blacks, gone are the days when one could call a spade a
>spade.

Indeed, because it offends the ethnically challenged.
From: Adrian on
The Peeler <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

> Are you people 5 years old or something?

<shrug> At least I've been consistent in posting under one identity.
From: Brimstone on

"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message
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> But most differently abled people *are* stupid.

Complete bollocks.

>>As an example, down to you PC nutters, ordering black coffee is
>>offensive to blacks, gone are the days when one could call a spade a
>>spade.
>
> Indeed, because it offends the ethnically challenged.

Woooosh.


From: The Peeler on
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:54:03 +0100, "Brimstone"
<brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message
>news:8r6e26t3qg3517245m88uvd300b5qk5ijv(a)4ax.com...
>
>> But most differently abled people *are* stupid.
>
>Complete bollocks.

If they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be "differently abled".
Mens sana in corpore sano: the opposite is also true.

>>>As an example, down to you PC nutters, ordering black coffee is
>>>offensive to blacks, gone are the days when one could call a spade a
>>>spade.
>>
>> Indeed, because it offends the ethnically challenged.
>
>Woooosh.

You mis-spelled "Whoooosh", Brimstain.
From: Brimstone on

"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:54:03 +0100, "Brimstone"
> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"The Peeler" <peelingthe(a)invalid.admin> wrote in message
>>news:8r6e26t3qg3517245m88uvd300b5qk5ijv(a)4ax.com...
>>
>>> But most differently abled people *are* stupid.
>>
>>Complete bollocks.
>
> If they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be "differently abled".
> Mens sana in corpore sano: the opposite is also true.

There's more to "differently abled" than mental abilities.

>>>>As an example, down to you PC nutters, ordering black coffee is
>>>>offensive to blacks, gone are the days when one could call a spade a
>>>>spade.
>>>
>>> Indeed, because it offends the ethnically challenged.
>>
>>Woooosh.
>
> You mis-spelled "Whoooosh", Brimstain.

It's a variable spelling Mr Pealer.