Does Stephen Crabb look like Ricky Gervais?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I think DWP secretary looks like Ricky Gervais. Only Stephen Crabb has a better record with people with disabilities.

[SqueakyVoice]

Parkinson’s sufferers ‘able to work’, says the new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/work-pensions-secretary-stephen-crabb-disability-able-fit-a6951946.html

Do you suffer from a facial recognition disorder that means you can't tell the difference between faces with beards?

Or have you just created yet another thread so you can run away from your own idiocy on a different thread?

[Nearly Sane]

Leaving aside Crabb's ideas that Christians should 'cure' gays' because Crabb is a Christian Tory.

[Sebastian Toe]

Only Stephen Crabb has a better record with people with disabilities.

..does that include people who have disabilities and are also gay?

It has also been reported that Crabb began his political career as a CARE intern.

CARE has, in the past, sponsored events which called gay and bisexual people ‘sexually broken’ and promoted the idea that they could become ‘ex-gay

 http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/19/new-work-and-pensions-secretary-linked-to-gay-cure-organisation-5762718/#ixzz44FGw4gCo

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Parkinson’s sufferers ‘able to work’, says the new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/work-pensions-secretary-stephen-crabb-disability-able-fit-a6951946.html

Do you suffer from a facial recognition disorder that means you can't tell the difference between faces with beards?

No. For instance Gervais has no resemblance to the bearded Vlad the impaler....I'm not sure whether Vlad had a better record with the disabled.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Parkinson’s sufferers ‘able to work’, says the new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/work-pensions-secretary-stephen-crabb-disability-able-fit-a6951946.html

Do you suffer from a facial recognition disorder that means you can't tell the difference between faces with beards?

Or have you just created yet another thread so you can run away from your own idiocy on a different thread?

No Gervais is the head court Jester in the entourage of King Richard Dawkins. Apparently his record on the disabled is worth interested scrutiny.

[Brownie]

I voted 'yes' because he does, a bit.  Not sure he has the chutzpah of Ricky Gervais though;  I mean, Ricky Gervais has true gravitas!

[Sebastian Toe]

No Gervais is the head court Jester in the entourage of King Richard Dawkins. Apparently his record on the disabled is worth interested scrutiny.

Stephen Crabb?  Apparently his record on homosexuality is worth interested scrutiny.
I wonder if that extends to homosexual disabled people?
Using his alleged logic now that he is in a higher office he might promote the idea that they could become 'ex-disabled' as well? 

[Hope]

..does that include people who have disabilities and are also gay?

It has also been reported that Crabb began his political career as a CARE intern.

CARE has, in the past, sponsored events which called gay and bisexual people ‘sexually broken’ and promoted the idea that they could become ‘ex-gay

 http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/19/new-work-and-pensions-secretary-linked-to-gay-cure-organisation-5762718/#ixzz44FGw4gCo

And, of course, there are examples of such people who have changed from being gay to straight.  I'd be interested to know whether that was, perhaps, the influence of peer pressure when young making them believe that they were gay - because they weren't interested in girls when they were growing up (perhaps they were 'too' interested in non-sexual activites - such as sport - and were judged to be gay by a society that is overly sexualised).

[Hope]

I voted 'yes' because he does, a bit.  Not sure he has the chutzpah of Ricky Gervais though;  I mean, Ricky Gervais has true gravitas!

Comic gravitas, of course   

[Shaker]

And, of course, there are examples of such people who have changed from being gay to straight.  I'd be interested to know whether that was, perhaps, the influence of peer pressure when young making them believe that they were gay ...

Peer pressure making youngsters believe they're gay?

For somebody who claims to be a teacher you demonstrate remarkably little knowlege of the young.

[Rhiannon]

And, of course, there are examples of such people who have changed from being gay to straight.  I'd be interested to know whether that was, perhaps, the influence of peer pressure when young making them believe that they were gay - because they weren't interested in girls when they were growing up (perhaps they were 'too' interested in non-sexual activites - such as sport - and were judged to be gay by a society that is overly sexualised).

You do realise how utterly ridiculous that is, right?

'My peers think I'm a homosexual because I'm too busy cycling to have a girlfriend, oh well, better start shagging boys then even though I prefer the ones with the jumper bumps.'

Wtf?

[Shaker]

The best thing about this thread is that it has introduced me to the term jumper bumps, which I shall start using forthwith.

[Leonard James]

The best thing about this thread is that it has introduced me to the term jumper bumps, which I shall start using forthwith.

The worst thing about this thread is that it completely ignores the fact that similarity, like beauty, is solely in the eye of the beholder.

[Sebastian Toe]

And, of course, there are examples of such people who have changed from being gay to straight.

I'd be interested to know whether that was, perhaps, pressure making them believe that they were straight due to family/peers/other groups with a 'cause'.

Because that would be a really bad thing if it was true, wouldn't it Hope?

[Sebastian Toe]

(perhaps they were 'too' interested in non-sexual activites - such as sport - and were judged to be gay by a society that is overly sexualised).

That's right Hope, because rugby/football/tennis/golf/cricket are a a hotbed of rampant homosexuality as portrayed in the media etc, aren't they? 

[Hope]

That's right Hope, because rugby/football/tennis/golf/cricket are a a hotbed of rampant homosexuality as portrayed in the media etc, aren't they? 

Seb, when I was young and spending more time doing sports than doing academic stuff, and showing little or no interest in the opposite sex there were those who assumed that I was gay.  As far as I was concerned, they had no idea about what motivated me because they had been brought up to assume that the only thing that could motivate anyone was sex.

Now, I have no idea whether this attitude has rubbed off into the thinking of sportsfolk, but I have sometimes wondered whether the attitude towards sexuality within sport has anything to do with this.

[Hope]

I'd be interested to know whether that was, perhaps, pressure making them believe that they were straight due to family/peers/other groups with a 'cause'.

Because that would be a really bad thing if it was true, wouldn't it Hope?

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a degree of both, Seb.  I've seen the way in which teachers and peers assume that children and young people are involved in sexual behaviour because of the way in which PSHE teaching materials are worded.  I remember one headteacher I worked with who told all those involved in teaching PSHE (in those days, anyone who was a form-teacher) to skip the sex education section of the material until he and the governors had had a chance to question the group who had written the material as to the evidence they had used to underpin the material.  When it became clear that it had been little more than hearsay, the material was rewritten (and in the opinion of many of the students made more honest), and the re was a fairly concentrated month or two of sex ed PHSE sessions at the end if the summer term.

[Sebastian Toe]

Seb, when I was young and spending more time doing sports than doing academic stuff, and showing little or no interest in the opposite sex there were those who assumed that I was gay.  As far as I was concerned, they had no idea about what motivated me because they had been brought up to assume that the only thing that could motivate anyone was sex.

Hope, when I was young I had the same interests as you, as did many of my friends.
Nobody ever assumed that we were gay because of those interests.

I would suggest that their 'motivation' might have been based on some other factor(s) perhaps?

Now, I have no idea whether this attitude has rubbed off into the thinking of sportsfolk, but I have sometimes wondered whether the attitude towards sexuality within sport has anything to do with this.

What attitude towards sex is that?

[Brownie]

Comic gravitas, of course   

..and is a better dancer.

[Jack Knave]

He's a sycophantic twit, that's why he has been given the job. And I bet he had to do the dance to get it!!!