SATAN MAKES ROOM FOR PARENTS WHO COMPLAINED ABOUT DISABLED TV PRESENTER

PARENTS who complained about a one-armed childrens’ TV presenter will have their own very special corner of Hell, Satan confirmed last night.

You can rely on the Daily Mash to come up with goods.

She’s not all there, take her away…

Unbelievable.

The full story here.

Parents have complained that a children’s TV presenter with one hand is prompting awkward questions from young children. So how should you explain this kind of disability to a child?

No-one comes up with wrong-footing questions quite like a young child. And young, curious minds don’t hesitate to point out differences in people they see around them.

A minority of parents expressed concern that Ms Burnell’s appearance was “scaring” children. One father said he feared it would give his daughter nightmares and a mother said her two-year-old girl could not watch because she thought the presenter had been hurt. Ms Burnell, 29, says she doesn’t take this personally but these kind of comments highlight the prejudice that disabled people face.

What is this place, China? Where they keep their disabled people out of sight? Isn’t it about time some of these parents unwrapped the cotton wool they keep their little darlings in and explained to them why this presenter only has one hand?

It is picked up later in the story, but this does paragraph sums it up for me:

The problem lies with the parents, not the children, says Sir Bert Massie from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

I think what’s happening is a number of adults do have prejudices, do have very negative views about disabled people, and instead of admitting the views are their own, they’re projecting them on to their children and saying the children are doing this. And of course they don’t give their names [on message boards], so it’s all anonymous.

To criticise someone who has a physical disability, I think these people need to get over their own disability. A mental disability.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience.

A man who uses his home near Bristol as a studio for adult films has been confronted by neighbours protesting outside his property.

“James Edwards, 42, operates a legal pornographic film studio from his four-bedroom home in Bradley Stoke. People who live in the same cul-de-sac demonstrated outside Mr Edwards’ house with placards claiming his business is affecting the prices of their property.”

“Police said they only have evidence of legal activity and can take no action.”

I did think that setting up that kind of business in a residential are would be a bit unusual, it must happen elsewhere, however when I saw this quote, I realised who’s side I was on:

“If you’ve got pornography here now, you’re going to have prostitution next, you’re going to have drugs. In a residential area?”

You mean that prostitution and drug dealing doesn’t happen in other residential areas? It’s quite a leap to suggest that because someone has a legitimate business albeit a little more unusual than the norm, means that the neighbourhood is going to go to hell.

Moral Outrage, don’t you just love it?

Chao’s. Apparently.

London has been hit by it’s biggest snowfall since 1991.  Of course the whole transport network fell flat on its face as a result. Usually I’d be the first to criticise those who run the privatised transport system in this country for probably thinking that we would never get hit by snow like this, so why should we spend money on snow clearance equipment we may not need?

But I won’t. The heaviest snowfall fell in the Thames valley which has the largest population concentration in this country and as such a transport network to match.

The media made a song and dance about, interviewing the usual disgruntled travellers trying to get to work and businessmen complaining about how much money has been lost in the economy as a result.

As I said before, we haven’t had snow like this for eighteen years, If snow like this was a regular occurrence and everything ground to a halt, then yes there would be cause to complain.

Get over it. The snow will be gone in a few days and it will be business as usual.