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I'm offended that you think dwarves shouldn't be picked up for human amusement.
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I disagree, it may be ordinary, in that some people don't really think about it so everyone says it...but saying things like 'don't pick up a dwarf', or 'Miley Cyrus spanks a dwarf', are reducing a person to a label. We're talking about a person with a medical condition, not an animal. Why should they be defined by it?
Yes, I'm from the PC Brigade. Do you have a uniform and a tambourine? |
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who picked him up? must have missed that
I loved the little alien he was so funny |
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So pointing out that people who are very small and could well be insecure about how easily someone could pick them up as if they were still a child might not want to just be picked up like that by strangers makes people on here depressing? Its just common sense.
Seriously, any piece of fun that happens you get a group of kill joys who try and tell us all that it is wrong to be laughing or enjoying it. I found it funny to watch, and what they did wasn't offensive in the slightest. They were taking part in a task and have a bit of fun with the people involved in the task. |
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Do you have a uniform and a tambourine?
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So if two big 6 foot men who you'd only just met picked you up and carried you off somewhere whilst laughing, you wouldn't feel degraded or powerless?
I was drunk and incapable and the blokes were the arresting police officers. I've no idea why they were laughing. |
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No, it's depressing because people on here are offended by almost every little thing that happens in that house.
Seriously, any piece of fun that happens you get a group of kill joys who try and tell us all that it is wrong to be laughing or enjoying it. I found it funny to watch, and what they did wasn't offensive in the slightest. They were taking part in a task and have a bit of fun with the people involved in the task. |
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So if two big 6 foot men who you'd only just met picked you up and carried you off somewhere whilst laughing, you wouldn't feel degraded or powerless?
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If the guy was upset he would have said an the two of them would of got a warning..... Stop been so PC over somthing that never happned to you. The BB forum has tunred into moaners
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No, it's depressing because people on here are offended by almost every little thing that happens in that house.
Seriously, any piece of fun that happens you get a group of kill joys who try and tell us all that it is wrong to be laughing or enjoying it. I found it funny to watch, and what they did wasn't offensive in the slightest. They were taking part in a task and have a bit of fun with the people involved in the task. |
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That actually happened to me.
I was drunk and incapable and the blokes were the arresting police officers. I've no idea why they were laughing. Put it down to one of life's rich experiences.
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[quote=abarthman;70695474]I think it's OK as long as you don't toss them.
No, It seems Lee is better at that sort of thing. |
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I disagree, it may be ordinary, in that some people don't really think about it so everyone says it...but saying things like 'don't pick up a dwarf', or 'Miley Cyrus spanks a dwarf', are reducing a person to a label. We're talking about a person with a medical condition, not an animal. Why should they be defined by it?
Yes, I'm from the PC Brigade. Saying they have a 'medical condition' might be seen as offensive. After all, they're damn good at drinking, fighting and mining precious stones. |
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I doubt they'd have picked the person up if they could see them - but in the alien costume it was funny. And I suspect that whoever was playing the part would have been able to take it for what it was even if they'd not be so thrilled at being picked up in a pub by a stranger.
Context matters. Yes, it's generally a bit of a social faux pas. But there were aliens standing in a spaceship parked in the middle of the Big Brother garden. It wasn't a few pints down at the local pub. |
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Who's to say that dwarves aren't a legitimate sub-group in their own right?
Saying they have a 'medical condition' might be seen as offensive. After all, they're damn good at drinking, fighting and mining precious stones. |
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If the guy was upset he would have said an the two of them would of got a warning..... Stop been so PC over somthing that never happned to you. The BB forum has tunred into moaners
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So if two big 6 foot men who you'd only just met picked you up and carried you off somewhere whilst laughing, you wouldn't feel degraded or powerless?
And it's not like they are thinking, "oh he's a little person, let's pick him and walk around with him because he is small" Maybe the housemates should complain and say they are offended because they are being made to look ridiculous on tv as well. |
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I doubt they'd have picked the person up if they could see them - but in the alien costume it was funny. And I suspect that whoever was playing the part would have been able to take it for what it was even if they'd not be so thrilled at being picked up in a pub by a stranger.
Context matters. Yes, it's generally a bit of a social faux pas. But there were aliens standing in a spaceship parked in the middle of the Big Brother garden. Touch first ask questions later? Be respectful of people's space and then be sure you're not offending them? |
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That is totally different, this was just a silly little task in the BB house. The farthest they were going to take him was a few steps. If they ran around the garden with him then yeah that could be seen as wrong, but all they did was pick him up, walk a few steps and then put him down.
And it's not like they are thinking, "oh he's a little person, let's pick him and walk around with him because he is small" Maybe the housemates should complain and say they are offended because they are being made to look ridiculous on tv as well. |
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Some people with dwarfism would be offended by being picked up without consent. Just like you wouldn't like someone pulling down your trousers in the street/pulling your hood over your head/tripping you up, or any other manner of things someone who doesn't know you could possibly do without your consent. All in the spirit of 'fun'.
Your fun and someone else's fun are two different things,so best keep your hands to yourself. |
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Anyone losing the will to ever dare to have a giggle?
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That is totally different, this was just a silly little task in the BB house. The farthest they were going to take him was a few steps. If they ran around the garden with him then yeah that could be seen as wrong, but all they did was pick him up, walk a few steps and then put him down.
And it's not like they are thinking, "oh he's a little person, let's pick him and walk around with him because he is small" Maybe the housemates should complain and say they are offended because they are being made to look ridiculous on tv as well. The fact that it occurred in the Big Brother house is completely irrelevant. It was still two people picking someone (who they have never met)up and carrying him off. You seem to think that's okay because it was only a few steps, yet if they'd have carried him further then it ''could have been seen as wrong.'' And of course they picked him up because he is little! Did they do it to the taller alien? No, of course not. And they wouldn't have done. |
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What's really depressing is that, as an adult, you're clearly not capable of understanding that what may be funny for you, might not be funny for the person who's the butt of the joke.
We are all going to be dead some day so why the hell would i constantly be thinking that someone might be offended by something that someone did or said to that person ? i have better things to do with my time then constantly feel offended for somebody. |
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Anyone losing the will to ever dare to have a giggle?
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I know that I will now think twice before I lift up a dwarf without their prior consent.
It will be hard, but me too.
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