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To be pissed off at Michael McIntyre

190 replies

Stayinin · 07/12/2019 22:02

So I just saw the show where they made people who needed glasses take them off and see what they could see (not much), for laughs and prizes.
I have very low eyesight and that really made me really cross that they make fun of peoples disabilities like that. They wouldn't ask someone in a wheelchair to just 'crawl along the floor, go on, just for our amusement '? Aibu to be so sensitive or was it banter? Xx

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lilgreen · 07/12/2019 22:34

Yawn

Tiredandgrumpytonight · 07/12/2019 22:35

I thought it was a bit strange but loved the proposal. I cried!

PickAChew · 07/12/2019 22:35

No, some people do need glasses to be able to see anything useful but still have a lot of blurring (there's a point at which corrective lenses don't help completely due to distortion) or a small field of vision. Those people have a disability.

I didn't see the gag in question but that's because I think MM is a smug twat who is usually about as entertaining as thrush.

Jellykat · 07/12/2019 22:36

YABU for wasting time watching such an irritating shouty twat in the first place

bluebell34567 · 07/12/2019 22:36

i never liked him.neither his jokes-cheap btw- nor his voice. i dont know what people see in him.

bluebell34567 · 07/12/2019 22:36

and never watch his shows.

Moominmammaatsea · 07/12/2019 22:37

@Sayhellotothethings

My daughter is 11 and wears glasses; she is also registered blind - does she qualify for your (extremely ignorant and incredibly disablist) count of people-who-wear-glasses-are-not-disabled?

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Stayinin · 07/12/2019 22:38

@Sayhellotothethings I totally agree with your point. You are absolutely correct. I think I just felt there were a room of people laughing at something I have and can't help. People in a wheelchair can't walk. People with practically zero eye sight can't see. But more than that, making a 'funny game' out of peoples inability to see well. I would be just as enraged if they made a joke about people not being able to walk well, 'for laughs'. But I get I am being over sensitive so thank you for your point.

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Moominmammaatsea · 07/12/2019 22:39

@cstaff can you please advise how my blind child can correct her eyesight? It'd be a Christmas miracle if you could sort it for us!

Hirsutefirs · 07/12/2019 22:40

This wouldn’t offend me because he’s shit and I never watch his act.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 07/12/2019 22:40

I'm with you OP which is a shame as he did a great sketch about who we think deserves a blue badge. I'd have to watch it though to form a proper opinion.

Fwiw I can't bear it when people say something is lame,it rolls so easily off the tongue but I find it so hurtful.

Newmumma83 · 07/12/2019 22:41

Was it a gag aimed at blind people or those who need glasses ( as many do as we get older ) ... I am confused

Ibizafun · 07/12/2019 22:42

I’m deaf and if he put earplugs in his ears to laugh about what he couldn’t hear this wouldn’t cause me particular offence.

user1473878824 · 07/12/2019 22:42

What the fuck is wrong with Mumsnet tonight. I wear glasses. It isn’t comparable to being in a wheelchair. Get a fucking grip.

SexlessBoulderBelly · 07/12/2019 22:43

Is it snowing?..

Butterflycookie · 07/12/2019 22:43

I thought it was hilarious. I wear glasses my self and have eyesight way worse then any of them. I literally wouldn’t be able to see anything! But the whole point was for the proposal!

Snooks1971 · 07/12/2019 22:43

OP I did have a slight niggle bristle when watching this earlier. Then I slapped myself around the face with a wet fish and found it all amusing to be honest. I wear glasses all of the time (Vari focals) and DH wears his spex 24/7 but it was our sense of humour at the end of the day.
Saving grace is MM belittles himself on air (his calves!? His gait?!) and I think he’s pretty savvy

Ladybirdman · 07/12/2019 22:44

My dh who is devastated at his rapidly deteriorating eyesight (completely reliant on very strong - and expensive-glasses, getting stronger every check up) thought this was hilarious. He cries at his failing sight (its been quite sudden), but he came upstairs to tell me (who hates M McI) about how funny and ultimately sweet it was.

Humour is subjective I guess. I'm glad he can see he is not the only one so badly off.

TriciaH87 · 07/12/2019 22:44

It was more so Danielle didn't see Ben come on stage as that would have gave away he was going to propose. I wear glasses and found it hilarious. Be a bit different if they asked someone without legs to hop on to the stage.

pawsies · 07/12/2019 22:45

I usually love him but I thought he made the man with glasses really uncomfortable and didn't back off. That didn't seem right to me.

NewmummytoIsabelleAnne2019 · 07/12/2019 22:45

I wear glasses as I'm short sighted and saw the funny side because, I know how terrible my eyesight is without my glasses so I could relate. Please remember that Michael McIntyre wears glasses himself, so its just a bit of tongue in cheek humour & I understand that its not to everyones taste Xmas Smile Please remember peeps that its 10% of the situation & 90% is how we interpret it.

GlamGiraffe · 07/12/2019 22:46

DH is incredibly short sighted, to the extent it has been really disabling for him in many occasions throughout his life. He felt exactly the same way as you op . I suspect it may upset individuals who have struggled with exceptionally poor eyesight problems more than say, a -2 prescription.

RoomR0613 · 07/12/2019 22:46

Oh @RoomR0613 I'm sure I would have found it hilarious at -3 too. What fun. I'm talking about serious inability to see

But that's the point, they weren't taking the piss out of people with low vision, registered blind or with a 'serious inability to see'. That wouldn't have been 'funny' or have worked with the end aim which was the proposal.

They (on the face if it, I have my doubts if the other contestants were real) deliberately chose people a bit short sighted who could see an item with their glasses in but not without unless they squinted a bit.

Louise91417 · 07/12/2019 22:47

I need singing lessons because i cant sing..does that make me disabledConfused

EveryoneLoves09871 · 07/12/2019 22:50

@Sayhellotothethings the thing is nobody is laughing at you. They are laughing at people who need glasses but aren't disabled and also find it funny. I'm-7 and would find it funny.

They wouldn't do it to you :)