Timmeh!!!!! (disability as a source of comedy)

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Is it OK to find amusement from disabilities? I mean as a kid I found 'spastics' and spastic jokes highly amusing - they were pretty much the standard issue 1980s/1990s playground jokes.

Then there is Timmey from south park - I know it is a bit wrong but when he got introduced to the show I was in hysterics:

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More recently someone sent me a mail relating to this group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCxDZRJKkqY

I'm going to go to hell, probably, because I had a bit of a chuckle at that clip too.

Now I'm not a nasty person nor would I ever stare/poke fun at a disabled person in real life. But for some reason I do find this sort of stuff highly amusing.

Ditto to this (sorry don't want this to be a you tube thread or anything as its the topic of the humour I'm talking about but this kind of illustrates it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYwzEXbj9EU

I mean I find that clip hilarious, though I also do feel a bit guilty for doing so and feel sorry for the poor bloke with the squeaky voice. Is it OK to laugh at this stuff or should I be a bit ashamed of myself?
 
**** you. timmeh made school hell for me :(

and i dont find that stuff funny, its just wrong

actually that guys voice almost killed me with laughter :p poor guy
 
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Depends.

If you went out and you saw 3 disabled guys in wheelchairs would you think of that clip and burst out laughing?

Personally I think people with disability's/down syndrome is the absolute limit and just isn't funny. Theres a picture on here which gets posted every now and again "Congratulations, you won the prize!" - I hate it and angers me a lot when people post it, and find it funny :mad:
 
I find i can have a chuckle at things like the wheelchair guys who obviously made that to make people laugh, and timmeh!!! was also designed to make people laugh,

The squeaky voice guy is just stupidly funny though and what makes me laugh is more the presentators reaction than the voice
 
I find really funny as well.. because its designed to be shocking. Obviously I wouldn't laugh at someone with a disability in real life, that's just wrong.
 
I don't really find the images amusing. I do get annoyed though sometimes when I see people with disabilities knowing that the parents didn't bother to get any genetic testing done.
 
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maybe they did but didn't think it right to abort their baby because it wasn't what they wanted?
 
A lot of people think i am extremely harsh when it comes to disabilities but i honestly think that natural selection should be able to take course, how will we ever evolve/improve as a species if we keep supporting the weak and genetically incorrect offspring?
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
A lot of people think i am extremely harsh when it comes to disabilities but i honestly think that natural selection should be able to take course, how will we ever evolve/improve as a species if we keep supporting the weak and genetically incorrect offspring?
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If Stephen Hawking had been killed for physical defects the whole of mankind would have been affected.
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
A lot of people think i am extremely harsh when it comes to disabilities but i honestly think that natural selection should be able to take course, how will we ever evolve/improve as a species if we keep supporting the weak and genetically incorrect offspring?
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But if that was in use, you wouldn't be here :(
 
Gilly said:
If Stephen Hawking had been killed for physical defects the whole of mankind would have been affected.
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His condition isn't genetic though and didn't appear until adulthood. So he would still have been born.

I'm against people passing on their defective genes and causing suffering through it.

Tefal said:
maybe they did but didn't think it right to abort their baby because it wasn't what they wanted?
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That would defeat the point in testing in the first place, so I doubt it.
 
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