In The Know wrote:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40667991


Hmm. He might well have the injury. I could probably climb a mountain but I wouldn't be walking for several weeks afterwards. If ever.

erm, perhaps if he had walked to work - instead of climbing a mountain ?

There was a ridiculour statistic bandied about a couple of weeks ago - saying there were 13 million "disabled" in Britain.

13 million?
A quarter of the population?

What they mean is that there are a few genuinely disabled and many millions walking about with sticks (or riding about in mongility scooters) pretending to be disabled !

Oh, but he's so brave!

One of the former approved school pupils who appeared in ITV's/MWT's bombshell 2012 programme about Jimmy Savile and who provided the BBC with a forged police letter won a bravery award from a women's magazine in 2014 for her Savile allegations and appeared in a photo on the magazine's website front and centre of a group of its bravery award winners sitting in a wheelchair. Apart from the wheelchair she looked perfectly normal and there was no sign of a wheelchair in the TV programme.

www.dailymotion.com/video/xv03is (she appears starting at 32m 50secs)
rabbitaway.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-few-brave-women.html

In The Know wrote:
erm, perhaps if he had walked to work - instead of climbing a mountain ?

There was a ridiculour statistic bandied about a couple of weeks ago - saying there were 13 million "disabled" in Britain.

13 million?
A quarter of the population?

What they mean is that there are a few genuinely disabled and many millions walking about with sticks (or riding about in mongility scooters) pretending to be disabled !

Ah, but he would have to walk to work every day, wouldn't he? Which might not be possible.
With some injuries, the spinal fluid slowly bulges out and presses on a nerve, making walking impossible, but you do get a days notice. (to climb mountains?)
So people arrange their activities around overdoing it and being flat out after it.

I think the disability figures must include things like dyslexia and mild asthma.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I think the disability figures must include things like dyslexia and mild asthma.

... and Idleitis ?

I'm disabled - mentally disabled.

.... you can probably claim something for that!!!