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Quote: Marc P @ August 19 2008, 2:51 PM BST

I wrote a lot of sketches around sports for a two forty five minute German programme going out at the time of the olympics before last. One of the series I did was around the notion of a local version of paralympics. A sign reading Wheelchair Discus.. 3 O'clock. Then cutting to man in the net swirling round and then throwing a wheelchair, whilst officals run out to mark the length. They didnt go with those particular sketches as they thought it might offend. I didn't think they were offensive... but what do you think?

:)

I can see why it would seem offensive as it may undermine the fact that disabled people are part of the olympics too and it kinda makes them seem less important but that's going into it deeply, I am studying psychology after all. I hope that makes sense as even I didnt feel comfortable reading the sketch but I'm glad you involved the paralympics in your work! :)

To me it was just a play on words, but I would certainly never want to offend anyone, unless it was intentional, so was happy they didn't use it. Out of interest, what sort of paralmypic sketch would work do you feel?

Quote: Aaron @ August 19 2008, 2:52 PM BST

Least. Interesting. Post. Of. The. Day. \o/

Really?

Almost certainly.

Well, we still have another eight hours to beat it.

As soon as Chapman comes online...

:D

I can't believe we're third in the medals table. Three Olympics ago, we were 36th!
Weird.

But have you actually seen the medal count? For us top three? We're pitiful!

Don't care!

Hardly pitiful. We're much smaller than America or China and we're beating everyone else!
Huzzah!

Look!

# Country    Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 43 14 19 76
2 USA 26 26 27 79
3 Great Britain 16 9 8 33
4 Australia 11 12 12 35

So really, we're fourth.

Quote: Aaron @ August 19 2008, 4:31 PM BST

So really, we're fourth.

It's always been done by gold medals! Always!

We're third!
And tiny!
Therefore, we're actually the best.

Well we're the best anyway.

Yep!
But it's nice if everyone else knows it.

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