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Breaking Records 🫣
May 30
Arsenal LOSE the Champions League final! ❌
The Gunners have now played the most Champions League/European Cup games in history WITHOUT winning the competition... 😬
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Gutted for Hearts... Been great all season. Cruel end.
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Absolute corruption to keep the old firm winning. Disgusted.
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Absolutely no question about it... this would be a cricket score.
Apr 4
Theo Walcott: “How does your 2008 [#mufc] team compare to this Arsenal team?”
Wayne Rooney: “Yeah we’d batter them!” [@primevideosport]
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Feb 25
“Maybe the problem isn’t Tourette’s maybe the problem is people don’t know enough about Tourette’s”
How relevant is that right now
What a film
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I keep hearing that Americans aren’t aware of Tourette’s.
Not convinced.
I remembered seeing an episode of LA Law about Tourette’s and I managed to find it. This is from 1991. So 25 years ago.
Interestingly it uses the “n word” and the explains that the person can’t help it.
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Feb 23
Biggest point of ‘I Swear’ inspired by John Davidson, that goes viral was this scene, for a reason. It's trying to normalize tourettes and explain to people that they can't control it. Forcing a person who has tourettes to apologize for every single thing is hell, shame on you.
Feb 23
Does Tourette’s make you unable to apologize tho?
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Feb 24
The last 24 hours have taught me I am so much less offended by Tourette’s than I am by incredibly, painfully stupid people.
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Feb 23
Actually super racist guy with tourettes, but he never tic-shouts the n-word because it doesn't seem inappropriate to him.
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Black people being called the n-word by non-Black people will always be painful b/c that word carries a very heavy painful weight for us. But people should also understand that a person with Corprolalia specifically isn't making an intentional racial or gendered attack, either.
Feb 23
It might be hurtful if you dont understand Tourette's.
If I had the honour of meeting this man, and he called me the most abhorrent thing you could possibly call someone, I would take it as a badge of honour for even being in the presence of this amazing man.
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Sometimes people really disappoint me.
Let's all do a bit better - some free resources:
Tourettes Action
tourettes-action.org.uk/
Tourette Association of America
tourette.org
CDC Tourette info
cdc.gov/tourette
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Feb 23
Apparently there are a lot of people around today who are under the impression that Tourette’s is something that can be controlled. I wonder if these are the same people who would tell someone with chronic depression to just 'cheer up'?
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Feb 23
Tourette's making you shout really offensive things seems to have surprised people who have no idea what Tourette's actually is.
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Feb 23
John's not mad. A seminal documentary on extreme Tourettes that thankfully shaped the conversation in this nation in the 80's
To our pig ignorant American cousins and those ignoring a severe disability and its consequences, take 28 minutes to watch it.
Then accept your fucking ignorant musings are so wrong it's frightening.
youtu.be/wxfJDpd3XcY?si=dynp…
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Tell me you know nothing about Tourettes without explicitly saying so 🤦
Feb 22
What happened at the BAFTAs was reprehensible. My heart goes out to Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo—they handled it with incredible grace.
John Davidson can fuck off. I don’t care that he has Tourette’s syndrome. Most people with the disorder do NOT scream racist epithets.
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