Thpathtic Thothiety

December 4, 2007 | Filed under Politics

“Would you like to donate to the thpathtic thothiety?”

“… … … I’m sorry?”

“Would you like to donate to the thpathtic thothiety?”

“… Oh! Um…sure…?”

I thought the word thpathtic spastic was very un-PC these days? And what’s with the ironic cruelty in sending someone with a pronounced lisp out to collect for a society that they can’t pronounce correctly?

10 Responses to Thpathtic Thothiety

  1. So who exactly were they collecting for? The only Spastic[s] Society I know of is SCOPE (a cerebral palsy charity), before it was renamed..

    Reply: I get the feeling that I was jibbed. He looked kinda shady, but I was too embarrassed for him and his lisp to even think about saying anything other than yes…

    Jem on December 4, 2007 #

  2. First thing I thought was “Telepathic Society”??!? What in the world?!?! Yeah I’m lame.

    And yes, I think you were jibbed

    Noemi on December 4, 2007 #

  3. I was too embarrassed for him and his lisp

    I guess that’s the kind of thing those sort of people count on…

    I hope you didn’t give too much?

    Jem on December 4, 2007 #

  4. It is a shame that you were probably jibbed, but having a speech impediment should not stop a person from performing a job like that. Persons with speech impediments are just like me and you, but their line of communication is blurred a bit.

    You probably shouldn’t have given his money simply because he has a lisp. That’s not respectful to either of you.

    Reply: That’s the problem with being confronted with something that doesn’t fall within the ‘norm’ – it’s unusual, so you react not in the way you, in a PC manner should, but by instinct.

    Jennifer on December 5, 2007 #

  5. Ah, I “hate” it when I don’t understand someone and have to ask more than twice what they said.

    We have a woman on tv (too lazy to look up the english word of her profession) who speaks the news, she has a pronounced lisp and it’s just terrible!

    Nice new layout btw.

    Tracy on December 5, 2007 #

  6. I was going to say that I think you’d been conned… I think most people have to have ID if they’re collecting, ones asking me for money have done…

    I hate HATE hate it when people ask me for money, I avoid them like the plauge…

    Carly on December 5, 2007 #

  7. I thought it was the “Telepathic Society”, too :P

    I know I would have probably given him money as well.

    Kaylee on December 5, 2007 #

  8. Haha I thought Pathetic Society, even more wrong than Telepathic!

    Spastic isn’t actually a derogatory word, I think it’s just seen as one because you go through primary school hearing “NERRRR YA SPASTIC” everytime you screwed something up.

    Doesn’t change the fact that I used to find it hillarious that my dad worked across the road from a building called ‘The Spastic Centre’…. (I now realise it’s not really that funny at all).

    Paddy on December 5, 2007 #

  9. For another example if ironic cruelty, consider that the word ‘lisp’ has an ‘s’ in it.
    I suppose the function of that is that anyone claiming that they have a lisp will prove or disprove the statement in saying it.

    Tim on December 10, 2007 #

  10. Reallyyyy? Yeah, I thought spastic was politically incorrect. It’s like calling a special needs person “retarded” =/

    Felisa on December 10, 2007 #

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