For every "disabled genius" you can find I can find a dozen who just sit in chairs dribbling (and bleeding us dry)

Who says Hawking is a genius anyway?

PS - The IQ test is not just for disabled, it's for anyone who apparently cannot support themselves.

Why should we allow these people to produce further leaches?

JK2006 wrote:
I'm still not aware of why the Olympics Committee chose to hold the Games exactly at Ramadan; isn't it disgraceful for all Muslim athletes? I'm not into any religion but surely - whether or not they get dispensation to drink - it places a terribly unfair burden on Muslims taking part? Nobody in the media seems to have considered this question but it really troubles me.

Maybe they think it will reduce the liklihood of Islamic terrorism during the games?

I'm sure In The Know would be brilliant if he entered the Mong Games.

You'd do well at the 100 meter dribble but I wouldn't enter the String Two Words Together So That They Make Sense competition as you'd fail miserably!

The thing that links people with low IQ's or missing limbs is that they will be more of a human than ITK will ever be.

Disabled people can't bleed you dry quick enough for my liking.

Vince W wrote:
I'm sure In The Know would be brilliant if he entered the Mong Games.

You'd do well at the 100 meter dribble but I wouldn't enter the String Two Words Together So That They Make Sense competition as you'd fail miserably!

The thing that links people with low IQ's or missing limbs is that they will be more of a human than ITK will ever be.

Disabled people can't bleed you dry quick enough for my liking.



Can you possibly guess, dear, how much sleep I will lose over YOUR opinion ?????

But ITK, I think you'd agree that Vince does have a point.

And I know he wouldn't want you to lose any sleep.

HaventAClue's View. (In association with KnowItAll, DoItAll, Bee&Queue)

A few-clicks-more for (who says he/she is not Low-MQ/Moral-Quotient?) ITK/InTheKrap doubtless also trashing morally-and-physically brave emergency services permanently PHYSICALLY disabled protecting the public.

Undoubted genius, Hawking quote: " If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you. One has to have a positive attitude and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in; if one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well. In my opinion, one should concentrate on activities in which one's physical disability will not present a serious handicap. I am afraid that Olympic Games for the disabled do not appeal to me, but it is easy for me to say that because I never liked athletics anyway. On the other hand, science is a very good area for disabled people because it goes on mainly in the mind."

be.bing.com/search?q=wiki+stephen+hawking&src=ie9tr

" Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
FIELDS: Mathematics Theoretical physics
INSTITUTIONS: Cambridge University California Institute of Technology
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
ALMA MATER: Oxford University Cambridge University
KNOWN FOR: Black holes Theoretical cosmology Quantum gravity Hawking radiation
NOTABLE AWARDS: Albert Einstein Award (1978) Wolf Prize (1988) Prince of Asturias Award (1989) Copley Medal (2006) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)

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HaventAClue refs: "I Think Therefore I am" - Descartes; "To Be Is To Do" - Sartre; "Ooh Be Doo Be Doo" - Sinatra.

Frank K wrote:
But ITK, I think you'd agree that Vince does have a point.

And I know he wouldn't want you to lose any sleep.

Not sure at all that he does ... he has an opinion which someone, somewhere may value - but not me !

Which would you rather have, Frank ?

The Olympics ...
..... just so a few people can advance their own careers and a few more people in wheelchairs can pretend to be "athletes" !!!!!

OR

240 new hospitals (roughly) or 20 million extra nurses on a starting salary of £12,000.

It's a no brainer to me (but of course may be more difficult for those with no brain !!!!)

A very dated argument, like:-

Money spent on warships should go to schools. The Queen's jewels and residences sould be sold to fund cancer research. Footballers earning over £100k a week should pay for refuse collection Those earning over £47k a year should pay 75% tax, for the care of the old and disabled.

Sadly, life is not that simple.

The majority of the c200 countries in the world are run on a democratic basis - and most people seem to prefer a balance, with money spent on culture, sport and the arts. As well as on welfare, law enforcement and defense.

Churchill said that democracy is not perfect - simply better than the other options the world has tried.

I note that you EVADE the question !

Well said Churchill & Frank K.

Relax.

Evade?

Frank did not.

Just pointed out that the answer to ITK's OR question is simple.

Its the democratic right of people to decide.

Worldwide, they have chosen to have the Olympics.

For those of us who can walk - and those of us who can't.

Time for bed said Zebedee

Julie wrote:

Its the democratic right of people to decide.

Worldwide, they have chosen to have the Olympics.

For those of us who can walk - and those of us who can't.

WHEN we we asked ??????

Quite right ITK - we were never asked or consulted about this.

Brian H wrote:
we were never asked or consulted

I agree.

And nobody asked or consulted me about the World Cup here in 1966.

Or all the Ryder Cups here every few years!

Trevor

I dont think the Ryder Cup actually costs us (taxpayers) anything.


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