# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/41 "2016-07-04T13:23:59Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > You know who else was antisemitic? Jeremy Corbyn? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/42 "2016-07-04T13:37:26Z")
Joey Barton? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/43 "2016-07-04T15:16:06Z")
Yes and yes. Hey! I wanna play the cripple this time! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/44 "2016-07-04T15:44:42Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > someone left the cake out in the rain. It took so long to bake it! ---
**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 4, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/45 "2016-07-04T16:15:28Z")
I’ll never have that recipe again ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/46 "2016-07-04T16:24:56Z")
I found the person dropzone was talking about. Let’s just say they’re not playing anymore. ---
**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 4, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/47 "2016-07-04T16:25:23Z")
Grasping what gist of the OP I can, I am reminded of a good friend who married a woman whose health was as frail as a soap bubble - for years she teetered on the edge of oblivion, having to be helped totter from the car to a chair and back again, endless special diet needs. Unable to work, of course, and he had to shape his limited work windows around her care. Once my daughter bumped into her at a Fourth of July party - bumped gently against her, what most of us would call brushing by - and she slowly collapsed in a heap, needing twenty minutes of help and rest to stand up and totter to a chair. It always smelled like complete bullshit, as she could walk just fine when she thought no one was watching and did all kinds of things if necessary/motivated. I talked to him about ten years later, and they’d divorced… because she had been sued by Unca Sammy for millions in Medicare fraud. Couldn’t repay twenty years of a good man’s life, though. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/48 "2016-07-04T16:31:33Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I’ll never have that recipe again Have you tried googling it? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/49 "2016-07-04T16:40:53Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Have you tried googling it? You realize Google is a female right? Proof, try completing a sentence before she doesn’t start making suggestions. ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/50 "2016-07-04T17:03:20Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > It could be more a mental issue - a [centipede’s dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centipede%27s_Dilemma). Oh God, that’s me, stairs, and bifocals. A stick helps. But I’m complaining about my wife, who has become more disabled since becoming disabled two years ago, seemingly by choice. I have left messages on her nurse/social worker’s voicemail saying, “This woman is suicidally depressed. It’s how she got to this state. Ignore her chipperness. She’s lying. Do something because I can’t.” She thinks she knows medicine. I know mental illness. ---
**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, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/51 "2016-07-04T17:48:22Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > It could be more a mental issue - a [centipede’s dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centipede%27s_Dilemma). Didn’t Gregor Samsa awake one morning to find that he’d been transformed into a giant centipede? ---
**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 5, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/52 "2016-07-05T15:31:42Z")
A translation for the retarded: > [@dropzone](#): > > Our daughter is having a party. _ **Our** _ daughter–note the relationship? Or is that too subtle for you? It’s like this. When a mommy and a daddy… :smack: > [@](#): > > You are required to walk maybe fifty feet. Roughly the distance from the sofa to the car, then from the car to daughter’s living room. > [@](#): > > You are not so disabled to do that. Get off your dead ass, Thought it was obvious. Still do. _Too_ woulda been a better choice than\* so\*. I was angrily frustrated. > [@](#): > > FFS. For fuck sake, I thought that was obvious, too. Y’all are just messing with me, aintcha? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/53 "2016-07-05T15:45:17Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > A translation for the retarded: _ **Our** _ daughter–note the relationship? Or is that too subtle for you? It’s like this. When a mommy and a daddy… :smack: Yep. You’re saying that you and some other person have a daughter. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the next sentence is about that person. In fact, those two sentences work just as well if you are addressing your mom or MIL. > [@](#): > > Y’all are just messing with me, aintcha? They must be with the FFS part but the WTF were also in regard to your ambiguous OP. ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/54 "2016-07-05T16:00:00Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Yep. You’re saying that you and some other person have a daughter. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the next sentence is about that person. In fact, those two sentences work just as well if you are addressing your mom or MIL. Didn’t know first person, plural, possessive pronouns worked like that. You’ve edumacated me. ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/55 "2016-07-05T16:04:09Z")
Okay, it can. I understand. I should’ve addressed the person I was addressing more clearly. It’s the Pit. I’m me. Of course I’m griping about my wife. ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/56 "2016-07-05T16:08:21Z")
Or my kids. Or coworkers. Probably not my mom or my MIL, but it’s still a big tent. I’m just glad that English is not more heavily gendered. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/57 "2016-07-05T17:53:52Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Didn’t Gregor Samsa awake one morning to find that he’d been transformed into a giant centipede? Cockroach. Not you, Gregor Samsa. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/58 "2016-07-05T18:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Jackmannii > Are you referring to Johnny Damon? He was a pretty good center fielder but hardly warrants being called “God”. Speaking of Damon, I just saw him on Tanked. They put in two fish tanks. Did you know he has 5 daughters and his wife was pregnant again at the time of the show? I covet his house especially the awesome swimming pool. Anyway,hijack over-back to your scheduled rant. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/59 "2016-07-05T18:43:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > A translation for the retarded: O, the fucking irony of using the word retarded in this discussion about disability. ---
**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 5, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-tired-of-you-playing-the-cripple/759032/60 "2016-07-05T19:01:38Z")
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