Originally Posted by lundavra:
“I just don't trust the tabloids!”
“I just don't trust the tabloids!”
Even though there's a clear photo of the disabled bay in the article?
Natalie Lowe parks in disabled bay two days running
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I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.
Originally Posted by katmobile:
“It is that bad but sometimes I think people don't see the consequences they just see a lot of empty spaces that don't get used that often and act accordingly. My mother who is mostly a nice person apart from reading the Fail has expressed irritation on seeing the mostly empty bays at the supermarket. She's never actually parked in one but it's the next stage isn't it especially since although some disabled people probably do use a gym to help improve their fitness it's one step easier to rationalise that they wouldn't. She may also have had some dispensations about three days when she hurt her back and couldn't dance and is finding them hard to give them up now she's fine again.
I'm finding it a bit hard to reconcile that someone who always seemed a nice person on the show could behave like a selfish tit away from it too. She definately gone a few notches down in my opinion of her.”
“It is that bad but sometimes I think people don't see the consequences they just see a lot of empty spaces that don't get used that often and act accordingly. My mother who is mostly a nice person apart from reading the Fail has expressed irritation on seeing the mostly empty bays at the supermarket. She's never actually parked in one but it's the next stage isn't it especially since although some disabled people probably do use a gym to help improve their fitness it's one step easier to rationalise that they wouldn't. She may also have had some dispensations about three days when she hurt her back and couldn't dance and is finding them hard to give them up now she's fine again.
I'm finding it a bit hard to reconcile that someone who always seemed a nice person on the show could behave like a selfish tit away from it too. She definately gone a few notches down in my opinion of her.”
There's a thought - do we know when the pictures were taken?
Natalie missed Strictly last year through injury, remember?
I wouldn't decry a thoroughly nice person just yet on the strength of the Daily Mail
could they not find a sad 90yr old Gurkha with a row of medals and a stick deprived of his parking space to illustrate the story...
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
BIB - I do
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
“I wonder how many of you making excuses are disabled or care for someone who is disabled. Oh and taking your nan to Tesco once a month doesn't count. I mean people who live with it, day in and day out. I mean people who know what it's like not being able to collect your tablets from the pharmacy because lazy people have abused the disabled parking spaces, not being able to use all the shops because the aisles are too narrow for your wheelchair.
I like Natalie but this is categorically wrong and selfish.”
I am sure you are right, but it it has nothing to do with a dance contest. Address your protest to her personally via the BBC. I don't know the circumstances so I am not going to judge her.
Originally Posted by Vodka_Drinka:
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
I don't think so. I think people are just more interested in SCD than in parking bays.
Originally Posted by penelopesimpson:
“I am sure you are right, but it it has nothing to do with a dance contest. Address your protest to her personally via the BBC. I don't know the circumstances so I am not going to judge her.”
“I am sure you are right, but it it has nothing to do with a dance contest. Address your protest to her personally via the BBC. I don't know the circumstances so I am not going to judge her.”
No circumstances warrants Nat using a disabled bay, and thats all there is to it, especially twice, I like her a lot but this isnt on.. My husbands disabled but not as bad as some poor souls who find it so difficult to walk, poeple have to think more.
Maybe she was with someone who is disabled.
It's funny how there are no photo's of the front of the car where a blue badge would be displayed.
It's funny how there are no photo's of the front of the car where a blue badge would be displayed.
Originally Posted by calamity:
“No circumstances warrants Nat using a disabled bay, and thats all there is to it, especially twice, I like her a lot but this isnt on.. My husbands disabled but not as bad as some poor souls who find it so difficult to walk, poeple have to think more.”
“No circumstances warrants Nat using a disabled bay, and thats all there is to it, especially twice, I like her a lot but this isnt on.. My husbands disabled but not as bad as some poor souls who find it so difficult to walk, poeple have to think more.”
Then why not write to her, c/o of the BBC and make your viewpoint known.
Originally Posted by Vodka_Drinka:
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
The unfathomable reason being that she's always treated her celebs with respect and seems to geuninely care about them even if they're rubbish in fairness Karen's done that too but Nat just seems like a nice person. And yes I wouldn't be willing to believe this about Karen or Joanne either or indeed anyone without at least considering everything. The press are invested in making people look bad they just are.
Originally Posted by penelopesimpson:
“Then why not write to her, c/o of the BBC and make your viewpoint known.”
“Then why not write to her, c/o of the BBC and make your viewpoint known.”
For once Pen makes a good point maybe she might reply to you and explain. It'll acheive more than hounding her on social media will.
Originally Posted by Bonnie2012:
“BIB - I do”
“BIB - I do”
So, I suppose you don't mind when you cannot access somewhere because the spaces are taken by non disabled people? That's nice for you. I have a progressive disease that is taking my mobility away and damaging my organs beyond repair. I'd love to think that able bodied people realise their luck and that good health is not a given and hope they'd given people like me a chance to live a life.
She may be nice but she's done something very wrong and selfish and she should apologise. People aren't inherently good or bad. Sometimes people eff up and they should man or woman up and say sorry,
She is foreign so perhaps she couldn't read the signs and the notice? And Strictly must pay very well to afford a car like that too!
Originally Posted by james_von05:
“usually those spaces are not use anyway... so.....”
“usually those spaces are not use anyway... so.....”
Well that's okay then! Explain that to a person who NEEDS to park in a disabled space and I am sure they'll understand.......NOT!
Originally Posted by Vodka_Drinka:
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
“People are making excuses because it's Natalie, and she's a forum favourite for some unfathomable reason. Quite frankly there could be photos of her sacrificing babies and an excuse would be made for it.
How different the responses on here would be if this were Karen or Joanne.”
Personally, it's not because it's Natalie but because the reporter/editor of a rag was too indifferent to check out any potentially pertinent circumstances giving Ms Lowe a reason to be parked there - it wouldn't be such an inflammatory article then, of course.
Such 'journalism' leaves a horrid taste in my mouth.
Have camera - will cause trouble.
Originally Posted by blueabu:
“She is foreign so perhaps she couldn't read the signs and the notice? And Strictly must pay very well to afford a car like that too!”
“She is foreign so perhaps she couldn't read the signs and the notice? And Strictly must pay very well to afford a car like that too!”
I think you will find that Australians are very capable of reading English ?
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“So, I suppose you don't mind when you cannot access somewhere because the spaces are taken by non disabled people? That's nice for you. I have a progressive disease that is taking my mobility away and damaging my organs beyond repair. I'd love to think that able bodied people realise their luck and that good health is not a given and hope they'd given people like me a chance to live a life.”
“So, I suppose you don't mind when you cannot access somewhere because the spaces are taken by non disabled people? That's nice for you. I have a progressive disease that is taking my mobility away and damaging my organs beyond repair. I'd love to think that able bodied people realise their luck and that good health is not a given and hope they'd given people like me a chance to live a life.”
It's not about not minding it's about finding out what's behind it - pretty much everyone agrees that it's bad if she is doing it for no reason but someone once left a shirty message on our car when we parked in a disabled bay for the sake of my Great Aunt who walked with a stick and yes she had a blue badge which we used and had a built up shoe because one leg was shorter than the other through illness. Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes impressions are false I know but she doesn't seem like a person who'd be that inconsiderate.
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“So, I suppose you don't mind when you cannot access somewhere because the spaces are taken by non disabled people? That's nice for you. I have a progressive disease that is taking my mobility away and damaging my organs beyond repair. I'd love to think that able bodied people realise their luck and that good health is not a given and hope they'd given people like me a chance to live a life.”
“So, I suppose you don't mind when you cannot access somewhere because the spaces are taken by non disabled people? That's nice for you. I have a progressive disease that is taking my mobility away and damaging my organs beyond repair. I'd love to think that able bodied people realise their luck and that good health is not a given and hope they'd given people like me a chance to live a life.”
I believe in karma.
I've also been on the receiving end of a very nasty attack because I didn't look disabled but was displaying a badge, so I see it from all angles.
Originally Posted by katmobile:
“It's not about not minding it's about finding out what's behind it - pretty much everyone agrees that it's bad if she is doing it for no reason but someone once left a shirty message on our car when we parked in a disabled bay for the sake of my Great Aunt who walked with a stick and yes she had a blue badge which we used and had a built up shoe because one leg was shorter than the other through illness. Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes impressions are false I know but she doesn't seem like a person who'd be that inconsiderate.”
“It's not about not minding it's about finding out what's behind it - pretty much everyone agrees that it's bad if she is doing it for no reason but someone once left a shirty message on our car when we parked in a disabled bay for the sake of my Great Aunt who walked with a stick and yes she had a blue badge which we used and had a built up shoe because one leg was shorter than the other through illness. Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes impressions are false I know but she doesn't seem like a person who'd be that inconsiderate.”
BIB - This was the attitude I was presented with - my passenger was 86, partially sighted, arthritic and suffering from dementia, but hey, I was able to walk and carry bags so I must be selfish and thoroughly bad.
Originally Posted by katmobile:
“It's not about not minding it's about finding out what's behind it - pretty much everyone agrees that it's bad if she is doing it for no reason but someone once left a shirty message on our car when we parked in a disabled bay for the sake of my Great Aunt who walked with a stick and yes she had a blue badge which we used and had a built up shoe because one leg was shorter than the other through illness. Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes impressions are false I know but she doesn't seem like a person who'd be that inconsiderate.”
“It's not about not minding it's about finding out what's behind it - pretty much everyone agrees that it's bad if she is doing it for no reason but someone once left a shirty message on our car when we parked in a disabled bay for the sake of my Great Aunt who walked with a stick and yes she had a blue badge which we used and had a built up shoe because one leg was shorter than the other through illness. Sometimes there is a reason. Sometimes impressions are false I know but she doesn't seem like a person who'd be that inconsiderate.”
Everyone has an excuse as to why they are super special and the rules don't apply to them. I don't challenge but I've heard other people challenge and it's the same old bull; "oh I just had to pop in and get this" and "it was only a minute". I've had comments despite using my blue badge too (sucks to become disabled in your early twentiea) but I don't see how on earth this applies to a professional dancer using a disabled space.
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“Everyone has an excuse as to why they are super special and the rules don't apply to them. I don't challenge but I've heard other people challenge and it's the same old bull; "oh I just had to pop in and get this" and "it was only a minute". I've had comments despite using my blue badge too (sucks to become disabled in your early twentiea) but I don't see how on earth this applies to a professional dancer using a disabled space.”
“Everyone has an excuse as to why they are super special and the rules don't apply to them. I don't challenge but I've heard other people challenge and it's the same old bull; "oh I just had to pop in and get this" and "it was only a minute". I've had comments despite using my blue badge too (sucks to become disabled in your early twentiea) but I don't see how on earth this applies to a professional dancer using a disabled space.
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Post 78 could be the reason
Originally Posted by Xassy:
“Everyone has an excuse as to why they are super special and the rules don't apply to them. I don't challenge but I've heard other people challenge and it's the same old bull; "oh I just had to pop in and get this" and "it was only a minute". I've had comments despite using my blue badge too (sucks to become disabled in your early twentiea) but I don't see how on earth this applies to a professional dancer using a disabled space.”
“Everyone has an excuse as to why they are super special and the rules don't apply to them. I don't challenge but I've heard other people challenge and it's the same old bull; "oh I just had to pop in and get this" and "it was only a minute". I've had comments despite using my blue badge too (sucks to become disabled in your early twentiea) but I don't see how on earth this applies to a professional dancer using a disabled space.
”
But what isn't there - the blue badge? someone else in the car?
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