Essex Disabled Golfer

[DTCwordfan]

What's all this about apart from being a load of tosh on both sides, more so on the Brentwood Council side....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45358763

A complete waste of time and money - or is it a case of '"It's been a nice day - think I'll skip my meds tonight and stir things up......' in other words, what money is in it to pay for his golf balls.

[gness]

I don't know you, DT?....Oh yes I do......indeed I do..... :-)

[DTCwordfan]

"When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there." quote from Martin McDonagh.

And that doesn't qualify you to know where I am going (as I don't know), as long as it riles you....lol. .xx

[gness]

Oh sweetie....more pompous piffle!..... Rile me? Never... I just don't get riled but I do cringe a little at comments like the one in your OP.

That was uncalled for and not clever at all....x

[DTCwordfan]

well then we can agree to disagree - as I cringe at some of your attempts to override ABers views - and not pick up on some deliberate throw-aways to incite comments and debate. Tempis.

[DTCwordfan]

and Night on this one.....

[gness]

Pompously scraping now, DT?..... It's amusing though...and expected....... Tempis...honestly!!!......:-))

Why not just apologise for what you said in your last crass sentence in the OP?

[DTCwordfan]

No...as I think he's out to milk the Council and the local rate-payers. On both sides, this could have been snuffed out much sooner than now, that I would agree on.

[gness]

Whatever you think, DT to say he'd skipped his meds to stir things up is, as you don't know this man, crass and unforgivable.....
Not the clever and amusing comment you think it is.

[DTCwordfan]

you have your opinion and I have mind, more cynical mine may be.....leave it at that.

[gness]

Sad to be so cynical..... :-(

[DTCwordfan]

Yep, maybe, but I enjoy it.

[gness]

Oh well.....poor you.....Tant pis....much better than Tempis..... ;-)

[DTCwordfan]

true as I thought that would have fallen foul of the AB censors....

[gness]

Hmmm......I believe you....... :-)))

[Ellipsis]

> In the UK, I have played with the chairman of a UK oil co who played to a handicap of 4 with one arm, his right one, having lost it in his father's butcher shop, aged 12.

LOL. Great image ...

[campbellking]

I spend quite a lot of my time working with amputees. Average additional effort for a middle aged above knee amputee is between 40 and 65% to walk at half the speed of an able bodied person. The majority of my above knee amputee patients do not go onto becoming limb wearers due to effort involved (it's easier for them to get around in wheelchairs).I once went to a talk by an above knee amputee who had won the gold medal at 100m at the paralympics (he lost a leg to bone cancer at the age of 16) - when asked if he had any regrets, he stated it was letting his wife persuade him to buy a house with stairs as he found it such hard work getting up and down them (an he can't have been any older than in his thirties). If that's hard work for an ex-athlete, it doesn't take too much imagination to assume that getting around a golf course is a major slog for this gentleman. Think it just shows a lack of knowledge on the part of those insisting on a doctor's note.

[DTCwordfan]

Ellipsis, a remarkable man - he also ran British Rail for a while....for his sins.

[gness]

Exactly, Campbellking.....and I believe...you'd know better than I...that the type of amputation and the way the stump is reconstructed makes a huge difference to how easy it is to wear a prosthetic and for how long?
This gentleman seems to be able to wear his for a short time but not for the time it takes to complete a round of golf....x

[kvalidir]

Fairly crass and insensitive to expect him to supply a Drs note, not surprised he got shirty, I'd have raised Cain too.