# I am tired of you playing the cripple **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032 "2016-07-03T22:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/1 "2016-07-03T22:43:32Z")
Our daughter is having a party. You are required to walk maybe fifty feet. You are not so disabled to do that. Get off your dead ass, FFS. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/2 "2016-07-03T22:49:50Z")
You know Gwen, too? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/3 "2016-07-03T22:50:20Z")
Whachu talkin bout Willis. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/4 "2016-07-03T22:59:30Z")
I assume someone like Gwen, a hypochondriac who managed to convince herself she absolutely needs a wheelchair after one too many hospital visits. She’s perfectly capable of walking and using stairs unaided but prefers to be doted on by her boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Sampsiceramos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Sampsiceramos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampsiceramos)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/5 "2016-07-03T23:04:27Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I assume someone like Gwen, a hypochondriac who managed to convince herself she absolutely needs a wheelchair after one too many hospital visits. She’s perfectly capable of walking and using stairs unaided but prefers to be doted on by her boyfriend. I vaguely recall having read a book about an old-timey English boarding school where one of the main characters is a hypochondriac named Gwendolyn. Are we perchance thinking of the same thing? And if we are, what was the name of the goddamned book? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/6 "2016-07-03T23:07:30Z")
> [@Sampsiceramos](#): > > Are we perchance thinking of the same thing? The Gwen to whom I refer is a real person whose mental status took one hell of a decline after her husband died. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/7 "2016-07-03T23:16:15Z")
This is like that other Pit thread. You know, the one where that long-time user called a person an angry name, and everyone got to fill in their own interpretation of what he was actually angry with. You know the one I mean? Oh, wait, that was another board. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/8 "2016-07-03T23:24:24Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … You are required to walk maybe fifty feet… Without knowing all (ok, most of the) details, I think it’s fair to ask: 50 feet of what? You know, like “50 feet of a walk on hot coals”? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/9 "2016-07-03T23:25:20Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This is like that other Pit thread. You know, the one where that long-time user called a person an angry name, and everyone got to fill in their own interpretation of what he was actually angry with. You know the one I mean? > > Oh, wait, that was another board. Never mind. I just assumed he was talking about you. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/10 "2016-07-03T23:30:50Z")
Is this about my ex? The crazy lazy added count that threw a God Damon fit if I parked 20 feet farther than the absolute closest spot possible Buttttt could spend two tucking hours walking around the store greeting over which olives where the best? This tucking kindle auto duck up sucks ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/11 "2016-07-03T23:41:55Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This is like that other Pit thread. You know, the one where that long-time user called a person an angry name, and everyone got to fill in their own interpretation of what he was actually angry with. You know the one I mean? > > Oh, wait, that was another board. Never mind. No. It was here. But it wasn’t the one poster, it was the other and they didn’t call someone a name, they did that other thing. You remember, right? ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/12 "2016-07-03T23:50:40Z")
I’m pretty sure this pitting is about an under-performing exotic dancer that buddy hired for his daughter’s party. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/13 "2016-07-04T00:10:12Z")
> [@Palooka](#): > > I’m pretty sure this pitting is about an under-performing exotic dancer that buddy hired for his daughter’s party. You’re thinking about that time the drunk step-mother tried karaoke and sang that one song. No, not that song, the other one. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/14 "2016-07-04T00:10:24Z")
No, it’s about mine Goodwife who stopped doing that before I met her. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/15 "2016-07-04T00:11:43Z")
Current or ex? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/16 "2016-07-04T00:14:00Z")
Well if my wife used to pole dance but no longer did I would be listed too ---
**Author:** ![Sampsiceramos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Sampsiceramos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampsiceramos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/17 "2016-07-04T00:21:00Z")
Since this thread is already well and truly derailed (not that it was ever on rails in the first place), I’d just like to add that the book which escaped my mind at the time was _Malory Towers_, by the venerable Enid Blyton. For an 8-year-old boy I had some truly odd tastes in literature. Almost as odd as this thread. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/18 "2016-07-04T00:22:59Z")
Current, though we’ve been estranged in the same house for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/19 "2016-07-04T01:06:17Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > The crazy lazy added count that threw a God Damon fit Are you referring to Johnny Damon? He was a pretty good center fielder but hardly warrants being called “God”. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/20 "2016-07-04T01:10:47Z")
C’mon, stop teasing us Droppy…what’s going on?? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032.md?page=2)