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Leicester_Hunk
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I do admit to not knowing much if anything about this but something struck me last night. I was watching the lad on the Undateables getting married in Las Vegas.
I wondered why people with Tourettes don't have the urge to shout out carrots, angle grinder or town hall clock. Why is it always swear words?
I wondered why people with Tourettes don't have the urge to shout out carrots, angle grinder or town hall clock. Why is it always swear words?
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Who the spanish fox do you fink you are eh?! If you don't like it m8, you can stick it right up you country walks!
They do shout out some random words too though- you could see Brent's face like WTF when he said special fungus 😬
Sorry
This condition, must lead to a lot of fights and misunderstandings.
This is one of the funniest/worst traits about Tourettes (or at least how it's been portrayed on TV) - the inability to keep thoughts to yourself. Like when they're walking down the street and a ginger person walks by, they shout ginger tos*er!
The most important thing though is that Tourette's doesn't define a person.
As with a lot of things it's individual and different people will present with different behaviours - some more obvious than others.
A cure for Tourettes
When do we want it ?
" p!ss flaps !"
Although my favourite is still Ruth's "peado in a speedo"
Ruth's "kick him in the nuts, send him to space" always cracks me up!
As I am sure a myriad of people have said already, its not always swear words and sometimes is not words at all, just noises and sounds.
As for why swear words do make up a large amount of the verbal tics suffered by tourettes sufferers, I suspect that is to do with the emotive connection with certain words, plenty of studies have been done which shows that we have a physiological reaction to particular words, especially 'bad' words.
Thanks for that. From a ginger.
Charming.
So next for you - documentaries about Down's syndrome? Autism? Cerebral Palsy?
(literally)
To be fair, Tourette's is hilarious and I don't feel bad about laughing out loud every time there's a documentary on. Shouting out competely random combinations of words is the purest form of comedy, there's a build up where you know something is coming but you don't know what, then it's........SPECIAL FUNGUS
It's hardly in the same category as downs syndrome ffs
I guess watching people with CP have a race could provide some laughs.