"We're the Shelf Side"

[riggi]

My mother was disabled (and a wheelchair user in her later years) and was an early disabled-rights campaigner. She would have loved the idea.

She had a rubber-bulb 'oo-ga' horn mounted on the side of her wheelchair and, if people blocked her way or cut in front of her, she'd honk and scare the shit out of them.

I remember seing a bloke with a pimped out electric wheelchair, neons and blasting out d nd b. I thought I was high.

 

[SteveH]

OK I must be stupid. Whats so funny?

The wheelchair reference?

Please explain.

PS I use a wheelchair.

 

[dagraham]

First time I've seen this thread. Have to say its cheered up an otherwise crappy Monday morning. Classic stuff.

 

[SteveH]

I remember seing a bloke with a pimped out electric wheelchair, neons and blasting out d nd b. I thought I was high.

I did that to an invalid carriage (one of those light blue three wheelers "death traps") drove it all over Europe in the early 70's. We called them "crip wagons". Air horns the lot, I got rear ended by a US tank transporter just outside Heidelberg (Germany).

 

[SteveH]

Its gone quiet in here guys - and we were having such a laugh.

 

[Lufti]

Its gone quiet in here guys - and we were having such a laugh.

Some of us have got work to do mate...













on the other threads.

 

[EnfieldYiddo]

Its gone quiet in here guys - and we were having such a laugh.

Just seen your post and I can't personally explain why it's so funny, it just is.

I think it's the visual I got.

Also the fact that the OP states it as an idea he thinks is so good he just can't shake it and had to share with the world.

The 'wheelchairs' is also a very non-PC way to describe a collective of people in wheelchairs.

So the idea of a said collective chanting it did make me chuckle.

 

[SpursManChris]

I was sat diagonally opposite the Shelf Side corner with Park Lane at the weekend, up at the northern end of the West Stand. And I enjoyed the competitive chanting of "We're the Shelf side" and "We're the Park Lane" etc. And I was wondering how cool it would be if the folk behind the goal at the Paxton Road end were to start singing "We're the wheelchairs, we're the wheelchairs, we're the wheelchairs Tottenham". Hope I don't get flamed for this, but it keeps on rattling around in my head.

OK I must be stupid. Whats so funny?

The wheelchair reference?

Please explain.

PS I use a wheelchair.

We both must be stupid. What the hell do wheelchairs have to do with the Paxton Road end? The only wheelchair users I've ever seen have been in the stand opposite the main camera, they are sitting at the front of the crowd.

 

[Wardy]

First time I've seen this thread. Have to say its cheered up an otherwise crappy Monday morning. Classic stuff.

Same here, a good start to Monday

 

[SteveH]

Just seen your post and I can't personally explain why it's so funny, it just is.

I think it's the visual I got.

Also the fact that the OP states it as an idea he thinks is so good he just can't shake it and had to share with the world.

The 'wheelchairs' is also a very non-PC way to describe a collective of people in wheelchairs.

So the idea of a said collective chanting it did make me chuckle.

Right! The only thing PC about me is what I'm typing this on. I just felt (as I do) you all were a little condescending towards the OP. I quite like the idea of stands chanting, would be like a rock concert in the 80's .

All the wheelchair references left me puzzled - I just can't see a just dozen or so shouting wheelchairs! - Although as I type I do have the picture of a very haphazard and some would say down right dangerous, Mexican wave also taking place!

 

[EnfieldYiddo]

Right! The only thing PC about me is what I'm typing this on. I just felt (as I do) you all were a little condescending towards the OP. I quite like the idea of stands chanting, would be like a rock concert in the 80's .

All the wheelchair references left me puzzled - I just can't see a just dozen or so shouting wheelchairs! - Although as I type I do have the picture of a very haphazard and some would say down right dangerous, Mexican wave also taking place!

Haha no, I think it's a brilliant idea personally albeit slightly odd. I just don't think it will take with the mainstream.

 

[dagraham]

Why stop at wheelchair users? We could pigeon hole everybody into cross sections of the ground...

"we're the accountants, we're the accountants, we're the accountants, tottenham"

"we're the builders, we're the builders, we're the builders, tottenham"

"we're the students, we're the students, we're the students, tottenaham"

"we're the scroungers on benefits taking tax payers money, tottenham"

"we're the slightly racist daily mail readers, tottenham"

Or maybe not........

 

[mark87]

Oh shit the bed I remember this thread very well, was so relieved that I wasn't the only who found it funny.

 

[DiscoD1882]

Why stop at wheelchair users? We could pigeon hole everybody into cross sections of the ground...

"we're the accountants, we're the accountants, we're the accountants, tottenham"

"we're the builders, we're the builders, we're the builders, tottenham"

"we're the students, we're the students, we're the students, tottenaham"

"we're the scroungers on benefits taking tax payers money, tottenham"

"we're the slightly racist daily mail readers, tottenham"

Or maybe not........

Oh that's it. Offend us daily mail readers now!!

 

[Chinaspur]

Oh that's it. Offend us daily mail readers now!!

Can we! Ok then...

You're just a shit daily express reader, a shit daily expreeeeeesss reader, you're just a shit daily express reader!

 

[davidmatzdorf]

OK I must be stupid. Whats so funny?

The wheelchair reference?

Please explain.

PS I use a wheelchair.

I was picturing the whole Paxton end chanting in solidarity with a few fans using wheelchairs - it sounded pleasingly anarchic and reeked of solidarity. Perhaps I misunderstood the OP.

What I was getting at in my post - both paragraphs of it - was that my mum used to revel in spiking people who wanted to go all pious and 'caring' about disability, the effect - of course - being gratingly patronising.

Her job for 20 years was about enabling access to university education for disabled students (and international students, as she was multi-lingual). This was back in the late 60s, the 70s and the early 80s: the days when many disabled people just languished at home and were 'cared for', without access to education or work.

Her whole modus operandi, except when tact was required to secure funding, was about being provocative and often (in the most charming way) confrontational, because that was the only way to to get people to treat disabled students as people instead of as victims - often using her own life and behaviour as an example.

 

[SteveH]

I was picturing the whole Paxton end chanting in solidarity with a few fans using wheelchairs - it sounded pleasingly anarchic and reeked of solidarity. Perhaps I misunderstood the OP.

What I was getting at in my post - both paragraphs of it - was that my mum used to revel in spiking people who wanted to go all pious and 'caring' about disability, the effect - of course - being gratingly patronising.

Her job for 20 years was about enabling access to university education for disabled students (and international students, as she was multi-lingual). This was back in the late 60s, the 70s and the early 80s: the days when many disabled people just languished at home and were 'cared for', without access to education or work.

Her whole modus operandi, except when tact was required to secure funding, was about being provocative and often (in the most charming way) confrontational, because that was the only way to to get people to treat disabled students as people instead of as victims - often using her own life and behaviour as an example.

"confrontational" its the only way to roll in my book, on the subject. Sometimes I go a bit overboard.

I'm still picturing the mexican wave in the wheelchair section.

 

[DiscoD1882]

Can we! Ok then...

You're just a shit daily express reader, a shit daily expreeeeeesss reader, you're just a shit daily express reader!

I prefer

You're from a small town called eastbourne!
Small town called eastbourne


Yours. Furious daily mail reader of eastbourne

 

[MichaelPawson]

It did get locked. Ill try and find it this evening.

Please do. Also, let me know if you do in fact find a contact.

 

[riggi]

It did get locked. Ill try and find it this evening.

Doubt ill be able to find it