…but at least Bunny will be there to keep me company! She sent me this video this afternoon, with a note that said, “I know I shouldn’t laugh at this but I can’t help it” to which I replied, “OMG! Tourrette’s is Mr. Mock’s most favorite disease ever! I love this!” and then she said, “I know. Tourrette’s and Narcolepsy are the two handiest diseases to have ever.”
And this whole video is made only MORE hilarious because it’s Tourrette’s with a British accent. I’m sorry, but That. Is. FUNNY. Even though it’s a disease. It just IS. It’s like a built-in MEDICAL EXCUSE to say whatever you want whenever you want. In fact, if I ever run into Heidi Montag, I will blurt out a string of obscene insults at her and then just tell her I have Tourrette’s.
Or maybe I’ll just blurt out the insults. You really don’t need an excuse when you’re dealing with Heidi Montag.
P.S. I guarantee you that The Mock Dock is the only website you will come to that will discuss Tourrette’s Syndrome and Heidi Montag in the SAME POST.
I really want to watch this but I’m at work. I know I’ll laugh and everyone will think I’m some sort of evil sadist or something.
Zachary, just tell them you have Tourrette’s.
The kids think it is funny too, except at the end, where Jenny took it to heart….that was sad for her. I cannot imagine having a child do this…why can’t they cover their mouth when something inappropriate comes out?
How do they know these words and phrases-if they’re not said at home? What do small children say before they are exposed to vulgar talk? So many questions!
I found it very odd how often the word “nigger” came up. And that first girl’s explanation, that she might be thinking it but doesn’t mean to say it, speaks volumes, if it’s true of all Tourette’s and not just her. What I mean is, the excuse that they don’t “mean” it kind of goes flat after that girl’s explanation, at least in some cases. I mean, I “get” that they might not mean to say the word, that it’s something that flashes in their brains, and they lack the inhibition to say it, but I have to tell you, I don’t have even a “flash” of the word “nigger” when I see a black person. I will admit to occasionally flashing on “FAT” when I see someone that’s a landbeastm, or “slut” when I see someone dressed like a … well, a slut, but that’s about it. Or is it perhaps that their mind plays tricks on them and deliberately flashes first on the word that’s forbidden, regardless of whether it reflects prejudice or not?
Hatch, I have no idea how it works but your question is interesting!
Mock, Bunny, you may join me in hell – I have seats next to the fire! I giggled so much!
It sounds like they have hiccups. Hiccups that are swear words.
so…black people are the cause of Tourette?
We were laughing at this at work about a year ago when this first went viral…someone said I know a sure fire cure for the girl with the ‘nigger’ tick, put her British butt on Fulton Ave in Flatbush Brooklyn for about 5 minutes!. I guarantee you the women on that block will cure her of that poor debilitating disease in no time!!!LOL Smack Smack Smack-CURED!
I followed the links and watched all the way up to part 5…some of the kids have physical rather than verbal tics…
I agree with Jordon and Hatchetwoman. If somebody would just teach that girl a lesson, that it’s not even okay to THINK “nigger” (let alone say it) and give her some consequences as opposed to excuses, she’d be much better off. I understand that Tourrette’s isn’t something that you can just turn off, but there need to be boundaries.
Take, for instance, the little boy who made a sexual slur about one of the girls. Everyone, himself included, laughed. That encourages him, even if it’s just subconsciously, to do it again. Plus, he obviously thinks it’s funny and not serious, which is the exact opposite of the case.
I also find it curious that the really little girl even knows some of those words.
This is indeed hilarious. It’s the kid inside us that finds the naughty words taboo that makes it funny.
I went to high school with a boy who had tourette’s syndrome. His was a physical tic rather than verbal, and his head shook in an odd manner when he was upset about something, or sometimes just randomly. I had never heard of the syndrome until then, and that was in the mid-80s.
I’ve known a couple of people with Tourette’s and neither of them had vocal tics. One was a lady who could hardly walk or function because of the limb movements.
The other is my step-nephew, who is 14 and has been on extremely heavy doses of anti-psychotic drugs for several years to help control the tics. His are all physical, too, like shrugging his shoulder. He’s paid a heavy price physically and emotionally just to try to appear normal every day.
For this show it looks like they’ve taken all vocal-tics and put them together just to exploit them. That makes me sad, Mock.
From watching real people with T’s, I don’t think it’s latent racism – it’s knowing that it’s the most repugnant thing a person could say & that they don’t want to say it.
If you’d ever known a real person who’d had to struggle with this, I don’t think you would find this clip very funny at all, just sad.
I have a talking gadget called Funny Word with 4 buttons that say exactly what these kids say. I should call it “Tourettes Box”.