What numpty chose the music played in the background of the wheelchair Paralympians coming on stage..........Van Halens "Jump". A tad insensitive!
Totally agree....not heroes in any sense of the word....a hero to me is, for example, the person that saves someones life in the street if they had a heart attack. The soldier in a conflict, who saves another life by selflessly putting himself in harms way. The nurse who caught ebola treating others. That, IMO is a hero. Its like the musical phrase anthem....IMO the national anthem is, the national anthem....every fucking cd compilation sold these days has the word anthem on it...
can i go for it? nope i don't think it was inappropriate, disabled people don't want to be told want they cant do, or what they shouldn't hear to protect their delicate souls. are they heroes? whats a hero? if they inspire, motivate, destigmatize highlight the issues faced by a segment of society then yip they're heroes to them.
Bunch of charlatans/ tv star wanna be's. Bring back the old days when the olympians were awarded for town planning and ice sculpture!
Yes but you must agree some music is anthemic in its delivery, for example Elbows throw those curtains wide, but I digress.
The parent of one of the kids in my wife's school, a local roofing contractor, died after falling from a roof. At the funeral his family insisted on playing his favourite R Kelly song, 'I think I can fly'
agreed yes,, but in the greater scale of things,, todays " heroes ",, every tom dick seems to be a hero,, just how long is it going to be before the whole american militerisation culture of the term " hero " is denegrated to the insignificant.
Sit in a tent in Iraq. Hero. Get up early every day and excercise along with a few other then beat some of them. Hero. Oh and have someone pay you to go it, although there is no ROI. Hero. Be born or inflicted with something wrong with you, physical or mental, get on with life the best you can. Hero Wear a uniform (except a copper, who funnily enough probably face the most risk and abuse every day). Hero. Overcome family tragedy to win a game of some kind or, in some cases, just take part. Hero. Would seem that overcoming any adversity these days makes you a hero.
Agreed Bradders - definately true....society today had made it that way devaluing the word. Ironically my kids when they started school used to come home with card's saying "thumbs up" etc etc...just for turning up to school...they always used to come home with stickers for the most mediocre things...my youngest (and fair play to him) cottoned on - he was only 5 or so at the time, that when he came home with a sticker - we'd just glance at it say well done and give him some sweets...that kind of thing...anyway. He kept coming home with stickers on his t-shirt and we were plying him to chocolate/treats thinking "bloody hell, he must be doing really well at school to get all this.." When what he was doing was peeling the little stickers off of the fruit in his sandwich box (y'know the ones on the bananas with the cartoon banana doing the thumbs up for example) coming home and saying " i did well today look what i got!" we werent even looking, and just saying well done until the other half twigged.... Even now i still tip my hat to the little lad for thinking on his feet....good blag...
quite possibly, the amount of times i get called a hero in a week just for doing my job almost out numbers the amount of times i get called a robbing barsteward.:Angelic::smileys: but related to this topic and having a little hindsight as to the trials and tribulations of a disabled sister (thalidomide) disabled people dont get upset at the words "jump" they are much more likely to get upset when some says you canny jump so just dont try. if anything they should be roll models and hero's to the so called able bodied. :smileys:
Believe it or not, I do restrain myself on the occasional subject as I don't purposely like to upset people. Unlike some others
