Saturday - February 11, 2012

spare a thought for lazy doreen

This will be difficult for most Americans to understand. I think. Ya have to listen closely.  She has a midlands accent. Wish an easier one to listen to had been used.

But it’s funny when you can catch it all and it certainly isn’t something I’d post too often.  Altho I might if we had more Brit readers. Which mostly we don’t.

On Saturday we get three papers and spend much of the day reading.  The wife even more then I.  She of almost endless patience.
So, one of the things I read was Damian Thompson. I read him often.  Today he wrote about, among other things, Doreen’s Story.
I’ll let him set the scene for the video.

Doreen’s story: the heart-rending truth about ‘lazy cow syndrome’

By Damian Thompson Politics

A five-minute film called Doreen’s Story went viral this week. It begins with the heart-rending throb of synthesised strings that the BBC reserves for tragic documentaries. “I first noticed it was a problem when I was, like, 20,” says a woman with a strong Black Country accent. She’s fighting back tears.

“I went to the doctors and he sent me to the specialist and he spotted it and I shall never forget his words. He says it’s confirmed.
“I’m a lazy cow. My mother had it, and there’s a good chance I shall pass it on to my kids. ‘Cos it’s genetic.

“Of course, my movements are severely restricted even today after all the therapy. I have trouble shifting me arse, and I’m on loads of drugs. Heroin. Ecstasy. Bit of crack at the weekend.”

I need hardly tell you that this isn’t a BBC film. It’s a “mockumentary” by David Tristram satirising benefit scroungers and the exaggerated respect with which they’re treated by right-on filmmakers. He says it isn’t intended as a political statement, but it will drive the Left bananas.

“Let’s be honest, there’s prejudice,” says Doreen, played with artful sincerity by the actress Gill Jordan. She describes the ordeal of the job interview: “As soon as I tell them I don’t want the job they ain’t interested.” Fortunately, Doreen can rely on the support of her daughter Trojan, who’s expecting a baby – “her fourth, by five different fathers and one of them’s twins…”

FOR THE REST FROM DAMIAN THOMPSON, HERE’S THE SOURCE

And here’s the video.

Posted by peiper     on 02/11/2012 at 11:49 AM   
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