21 Apr 06
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Originally posted by StarrmanNow where the heck does anybody get the idea that I "considered him lower than me"???
On the contrary. Ask yourself, if he ever found out that you had let him win, or that you pity him and consider him lower than you using such comments as 'f#cked up guy in a wheelchair', do you think he would thank you? If someone showed me such patronising and belittling behviour, I'd run over their foot in my wheelchair, f#cked up or not.
The statement I made, "...this poor f#cked up guy in a wheelchair" was a descriptive statement - one that I felt would be understood by people in any country.
21 Apr 06
Originally posted by arrakisWell,would you like to be described as "fuc*ed up guy playing chess"?
Now where the heck does anybody get the idea that I "considered him lower than me"???
The statement I made, "...this poor f#cked up guy in a wheelchair" was a descriptive statement - one that I felt would be understood by people in any country.
21 Apr 06
Originally posted by arrakisI understand it perfectly.
The statement I made, "f#cked up guy in a wheelchair" was a descriptive statement - one that I felt would be understood from people in any country.
My mental image of the guy was as a dribbling, incontinent hunchbacked type guy with tiny legs and monstrous hands.
Perfectly clear.
And you did him a good deed. Your sacrifice has inspired me. I shall be treating people less fortunate than me different to everybody else as well. Thanks for the inspiration, arrskis.
D
21 Apr 06
Originally posted by SJ247It's a pity this post was written in defence of arrakis'.
I am so sick of people with their double edged swords; it's wrong to feel pity for a crippled person, but it's right to volunteer for the special olympics events. It's wrong to feel sorry for a blind person, but it's right to check the little organ donation boxes on your driver license. It's wrong to utter a racial slur in jest, unless you're a member of tha ...[text shortened]... It's wrong to look at a deformed person, but it's right to not look the other way.
21 Apr 06
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Originally posted by PalynkaWhy would you say such a thing?
It's a pity this post was written in defence of arrakis'.
I have a great deal of respect for SJ247 because she uses good sound logic when she thinks things through. Perhaps you cannot accept the facts because your mind is already poisioned against me? If that's the case then you and Ravello should start a clan together - call it "The Poisoned Mind Clan".
Kinda has a ring to it.
21 Apr 06
Originally posted by arrakisWhy should my mind be poisoned against you?
Why would you say such a thing?
I have a great deal of respect for SJ247 because she uses good sound logic when she thinks things through. Perhaps you cannot accept the facts because your mind is already poisioned against me? If that's the case then you and Ravello should start a clan together - call it "The Poisioned Mind Clan".
Kinda has a ring to it.
I liked the post, I just don't agree with her last sentence which is the one that could be used to defend you.
As for Ravello, don't worry, he's just another internet tough guy. One can only chuckle.
22 Apr 06
I have been moved to tears by your "story." Seriously, though, did you not realize that this same "story" has been circulating on the internet for a year or two?
If you were any kind of humanitarian, you would have offered the FUG a grocery divider from HoH's clerk store-y. That would have been inspirational.
22 Apr 06
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Originally posted by arrakisI hope we meet so I can put you in a wheelchair, and see how you feel when someone loses on purpose to you to make you feel better.
WOW! Your thinking is really warped guy.
I made the sacrifice (yes, that's what it was) so that another person could feel good about something that he accomplished.
The guy accomplished nothing. All you did was give him a false sense of success, no doubt more for your own good than his. I wonder what you thought when you let him draw. " If I draw it'll make me seem like a really great guy, sacrificial and all that, doing the better thing for humanities sake, then I can boast about it on RHP and everyone will love me for it".
As far as I can see, you're the "f#cked up guy" for believing that you did the right thing. And the fact that you consider that to be a "real" sacrifice just shows what a self-obsessed tw@ you really are.
22 Apr 06
Originally posted by arrakisgood advice. as you discovered yourself, you gain nothing from ever letting anyone else win, regardless of their other misfortunes in life. And just because someones disabled doesn't mean they're not happier in their lives than many abled people. And at the end of the day, it didn't sound like his particular disability would've affected his chess playing abilities either!
I've been playing in professional chess tournaments since 1972 [yuppers, guess I'm older than dirt :-) ]
Well, one year I played in the Detroit Open and in round 1 I was paired against this poor f#cked up guy in a wheelchair, whose only enjoyment in life was to play in chess tournaments...
I was a favorite for the tournament because way back then my ...[text shortened]... that!"
Heh, Rev Lindell Brady. Great guy.
I've never thrown a game since...
22 Apr 06
You know what would be funny?
If the fcuked up guy was really an a$$hole who only got paralyzed in an accident when he killed a family of 4 as he drove over their car parked in the McDonalds drive-thru with a bus, while under the influence of drugs, alcohol, all the while getting 'serviced' by a cheap hooker hunched by his side.
As I type this, he's relating this great chess victory story to a bunch of friends while they're passing a bong around, waiting for some strippers to arrive, in his sweet pad that he paid for by suing McDonalds for not having a stop sign by the drive-thru.