dead Stephen Hawking

[Guest Death=Adder]

It's a shame that he has to use self-deprecating humour though.

[Grim Reaper 186]

[For anyone getting confused by this thread - Guest, Guest, Jack Hough and Death=Adder are all the same poster]

[Guest Dead Right]

Yes, you are quite correct- no subterfuge was intended.

[Grim Reaper 186]

Fair enough Dead Right - it was probably just me getting confused

 

To answer your earlier point ...

 

I reckon anyone whose bestseller is subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" has no trouble with chat up lines

[The Yeti 14]

It's a shame that he has to use self-deprecating humour though.

Why ? Is there some particular reason that you believe that SH, rather than any other person, should refrain from have self-deprecating humour ? (which you're only guessing that he has).

 

Presuming you mean that, because he's disabled, then he should somehow be differently viewed by others, or in viewing himself ? Rather defeats the purpose of equality if a trait most people use at some point is denied to him because of his other incapabilities.

 

Oh how PCism is capable of shooting itself in the foot !

[Guest Death=Adder]

I would say that he is profoundly disabled, rather than just being 'disabled'. It's the right-wing Socialists* (Blair et al) who spout the rhetoric about 'equality'. Well, it's a sad fact of life, that some people are more 'equal' than others. What a harsh world we find ourselves in today...

 

My girlfriend and I looked out of the kitchen window a few years ago, and saw an elderly man who couldn't get back on to his feet after a fall. He therefore attempted to crawl along the pavement, in a vane effort to continue on to his destination. Now, my girlfriend said to me that maybe I shouldn't help him, "...because old people are too proud to accept help..."

 

Should I have not treated him any differently to a man of twenty- i.e. perhaps I should have let him 'retain his dignity' and soldier on?

 

No, I went out and helped him back on to his feet! It didn't end there though, I walked him back to his house. I know, I should have let him stagger on (after helping him up), so he could have kept a modicum of pride.

You see, I have a conscience, and compassion for my fellow man. I feel desparately sorry for people in Stephen Hawkin's predicament. I never forget how lucky I am to have not only my mental faculties, but the use of my:- limbs; eyes; ears etc.

 

It is the 'PC brigade' who are using nefarious Orwellian-esque tactics to 'empower' the less fortunate, by making them 'equal'. If they (the disabled) are equal to able bodied people, then surely one shouldn't feel sorry for people like Stephen Hawkins. I'd wager that he would rather have an IQ of 100, with the full use of his body, than be so devoid of the things that we (I assume that you aren't disabled) take for granted.

 

Fabian Socialism has a lot to answer for.

 

Anyway, it's 4:38am and my baby boy woke me up about thirty minutes ago...

I apologise if my posting doesn't make much sense!!

 

 

 

 

 

*in a Newspeak sense.

[Guest Death=Adder (Edited posting)]

Back onto the topic...

 

He could well die this year, along with a fair few other people! Never forget the perpetual 'War on Terror(ism)', and the inevitable consequences that it will bring!

 

A senior US polititian remarked that the year 2004, will be remembered as the 'summer of terror'. So, get ready for 'Agenda 21' to get into full swing... if you're still around! Loss of civil liberties (in exchange for 'security'), anyone?

 

Anyway, I must put my hat- lined with tin foil- back on!!...

[Stayin Alive 26]

Protect and survive man.

[Teddy 21]

GR says

 

This would suggest that Hawking actually has a sense of humour a little more edgy than Juan Kerz and some others posting to this thread

 

Anyone who has ever read 'A Brief History of Time' will know that Hawking has a good sense of humour - from side bets on the discovery of Black Holes (he bet against findiing them as 'insurance'!) to the countless asides on some of the history of physics, along with explaining little injokes (radio signals being termed LGM's - Little Green Men).

 

My only regret is that despite reading it three times now, I understand most of the jokes, but none of the physics

[Stayin Alive 26]

Is it a good read or is it a heavy read? I've always actually wanted to ask somebody who has read it, Teddy.

[The Yeti 14]

Well I understood it.

 

 

But then again, I do have a degree in astrophysics

[Teddy 21]

Is it a good read or is it a heavy read?

 

Well, both actually. As I said, there is a lot of humour through it, and a lot of physics. On the third read, I started to understand some of it, but not enough that I could have a conversation with Yeti about it

 

I have heard it called the most unread best-seller of all time, as people would give up as soon as they hit the explanation about relativity (Chapter 2!).

 

Having said that, Hawkin in pretty succesful in making very complex ideas understandable (or nearly so, in my case). For a book of 200 pages, it crams quite a lot in. A little more challenging than anything by Jeffrey Archer (lets face it, what isn't!), but short enough that you don't mind picking it up again to re-read, and try to understand.

 

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[Stayin Alive 26]

Clive Dunn was a teenager! Never.

[The Yeti 14]

Clive Dunn - the teenage years (1880-1885)

 

No wonder he lasts so long ... that's at least one year less than the rest of us.

[Teddy 21]

Did I forget to say it was only Vol1??

 

I would like to say it was a deliberate mistake, but as an accountant, I can't lie...

 

So, now you know... can't count, can't lie - which is why I am a bad accountant

[Stayin Alive 26]

Just what is it about accountants and the Deathlist!

[Windsor 2,233]

Sitting here in my chair (just as this guy does most of the time), I began to think - how is Stephen Hawking these days. By all accounts, it seems as though he has been dying since before I was born.

 

I can't find much on his health nowadays at all.

[STEVE DEATH 0]

stephen hawkins, any comments on this guy he,s not that old he was born 8 January 1942 making him a spring chicken at 63.

he looks like death warmed up and im pretty sure that 2005 will see him going into a blackhole, never to return...

hopefully

[Guest Sir Steve Redgrave]

I wish to see this man die soon, because he will therefore not gain a knighthood. And this is very important, as I want to remain the only "Sir Steve" whom the British public is aware of. This is pretty much the most important thing in the history of mankind, I would say.

[Windsor 2,233]

I wish to see this man die soon, because he will therefore not gain a knighthood. And this is very important, as I want to remain the only "Sir Steve" whom the British public is aware of. This is pretty much the most important thing in the history of mankind, I would say.

Ok then.

At present I believe that he is a C.B.E which makes him within touching distance of a knighthood - im afraid your out of luck 'Sir Steve'.

[Dr Strangelove 14]

stephen hawkins, any comments on this guy he,s not that old he was born  8 January 1942 making him a spring chicken at 63.

he looks like death warmed up and im pretty sure that 2005 will see him going into a blackhole, never to return...

hopefully

It's not his age that caused him to come under the DL microscope.

Rather it's his wife's seeming taste for "Munchausen’s by proxy".

 

However he hasn't been admitted to hospital for some time now, so most of us are assuming she's stopped beating him up.

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

Apparently, he has now been fitted with a different machine than previously, due to his only being able to communicate by blinking. I feel he is not much longer for this world. I would suggest he be included in next year's list.

[Harvester Of Souls 40]

Apparently, he has now been fitted with a different machine than previously, due to his only being able to communicate by blinking. I feel he is not much longer for this world. I would suggest he be included in next year's list.

In the interests of equality I'm inclined to agree

[Tempus Fugit 214]

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[millwall32 114]

I can tell you that I saw him in Soho two Saturdays ago (corner of Berwick Street and Broadwick Street to be precise) being pushed in his chair by two women who I took to be his wife and daughter.I couldn't tell you if he loooked well or not.