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Remember when Goram was with Rangers and had just been diagnosed with schizophrenia, when Kilmarnock fans, in a game against Rangers at Ibrox, started chanting "two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams"

[Kenneth]

Thanks for that, isn't it some kind of mental health awareness day today?

[shanks69]

Didn't he get accused of being an uvf sympathiser and wore a black armband at an old firm game a few days after a terrorst had been killed,he said it was for a relative who died but she had died a few months earlier.

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[Alex]

Thanks for that, isn't it some kind of mental health awareness day today?

It can be both things cant it? It can be funny, and equally tragic?

As an example, my mum suffers from Parkinsons. Its a ******* of a disease that will eat away at her until it takes her.

But we call her Shakey and ask her to whip the cream up at Christmas.

[labourRed]

It can be both things cant it? It can be funny, and equally tragic?

As an example, my mum suffers from Parkinsons. Its a ******* of a disease that will eat away at her until it takes her.

But we call her Shakey and ask her to whip the cream up at Christmas.

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[Kenneth]

It can be both things cant it? It can be funny, and equally tragic?

As an example, my mum suffers from Parkinsons. Its a ******* of a disease that will eat away at her until it takes her.

But we call her Shakey and ask her to whip the cream up at Christmas.

I know, but it's not an appropriateness/taboo thing. I know accuracy and comedy don't need to be aligned, but the schizophrenia = multiple personality disorder things is so ****ing hackneyed yet totally incorrect. They are different conditions. At least shakey and Parkinson's are related, and it wouldn't be amusing if they weren't.

It's too lazy to be funny if nothing else. Like going for pun based on the wrong word. I guess it alone demonstrates the need for more mental health awareness, so people can at least get their jokes right.

[Red_Polo]

I know, but it's not an appropriateness/taboo thing. I know accuracy and comedy don't need to be aligned, but the schizophrenia = multiple personality disorder things is so ****ing hackneyed yet totally incorrect. At least shakey and Parkinson's are related, and it wouldn't be amusing if they weren't.

It's too lazy to be funny if nothing else. Like going for pun based on the wrong word. I guess it alone demonstrates the need for more mental health awareness, so people can at least get their jokes right.

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[Alex]

This is going off on a Tangent now. But Shakey and Parkinson's are sort of related....but not really. You can have shakes and not Parkinson's and vice versa. My Mum doesnt shake, shes more of a MJ Fox type.

Point being not all jokes have to be accurate, to be funny.

Anyway, I acknowledge its not a fair example from me to bring my personal experience into it. Thats situational to Her and I. I wouldnt do the same jokes to some of her friends in the support groups. So I take the point.

[Alex]

Also, I think a vast vast majority of people still think Split Personality is the same as Schizophrenia. I did until I just looked into it.

[Red_Polo]

This is going off on a Tangent now. But Shakey and Parkinson's are sort of related....but not really. You can have shakes and not Parkinson's and vice versa. My Mum doesnt shake, shes more of a MJ Fox type.

Point being not all jokes have to be accurate, to be funny.

It is accurate though. Tremor is a very common symptom of Parkinson's. The association is not bunk unlike...

Also, I think a vast vast majority of people still think Split Personality is the same as Schizophrenia. I did until I just looked into it.

...and that's partly because people keep making these jokes innit?

[Shaggy]

It can be both things cant it? It can be funny, and equally tragic?

As an example, my mum suffers from Parkinsons. Its a ******* of a disease that will eat away at her until it takes her.

But we call her Shakey and ask her to whip the cream up at Christmas.

re the bold, yeah, hence my mix of emoji reactions of horror and (guilty) laughter.

[Alex]

It is accurate though. Tremor is a very common symptom of Parkinson's. The association is not bunk unlike...



...and that's partly because people keep making these jokes innit?

Arguably I wouldn't have looked into it, if it wasn't for the joke. So if anything, it was educational

[Red_Polo]

Arguably I wouldn't have looked into it, if it wasn't for Kenneth correcting me after the joke. So if anything, it was educational

[luke]

Can Pogba buy himself out his contract with the Webster ruling?
Been having wonderful arguments this season with a Man U friend of mine and he is fully committed to them selling Pogba for 150 mil and kick starting a rebuild.. personally I don’t think any club has or would spend that on him.

[Roboklopp]

I find the 2 Andy Gorams thing funny & my (foster) brother has paranoid schizophrenia.

Anyways, the point was they already resigned him once in desperation and it was a joke.

Really sorry to hear about your Mum though Alex.