That article is very patronising.

This was mentioned here > http://talk.gagajoyjoy.com/dis...t/174390710923065775

However I don't really think there was outrage, certainly not from Steve or his fellow housemates.

Apologies for repeating it, I didn't see it. Bloody stupid isn't it, it's not like he argued doing the task, in fact I think he enjoyed it.

I am not a fan of Steve I am not ouraged by his task but it must have been difficult for him for the obvious reasons,they have given  him an easy time with most of the tasks, I thought the dart task  because of the constant walking back and forward and bending must have been very painful for him  to be fair to him he did not complain and he won the task, but as a HM that is a different story I dont like him and hope he goes ASAP.

I don't agree with the article. But Steve is in pain today he was talking about it to Jo. It's not easy to stand on those legs for really long periods.

Totally agree with you there Marg!

Actually, I agree that it was wrong to make him do it again straight after getting the bull's eye, when he'd been up for 45 min. Why not give him a break after that?

The 'blind' thing is nonsense.      He's got one good eye so his perception of distance will be different to normal, but after all these years he will have adjusted to it.      I knew someone who lost an eye in a work accident and he raced motorbikes in competition (legally).


The legs are a different matter - but then again he managed the task.  Corin's back must've been killing her doing Head, shoulders, knees and toes for all those hours - they all have physical strains put on them at some stage.   I can't stand the guy, but fair play to him for doing that task.

Because the production team had pre-decided that he would fail that challenge.

My friend got told off by friends for having a game of pool with her ex husband who had only one eye and not letting him win.
She was mortally offended that they expected her to patronise him in that way and he wanted to play & win fair & square.

I said this in the earlier thread. I'm staggered that the Mail managed to get an RNIB "spokesperson" to speak out against the task. (Although perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that (s)he remained anonymous...). The RNIB are supposed to be about inclusion.
As I'm sure I said when Mikey was in the house: you ain't seen disabled sports till you've seen blind darts!  Fact is, a few one-eyed players have competed at quite a high level, and the Mail even wrote about one of them a few years back (I linked to it in the earlier thread).


Oh, and anyway: Steve nearly got a bullseye with his first dart...

This is exactly why I'm annoyed by that article. I've got a friend who's only got one good eye, and I have a heck of a job keeping up with him at snooker. I've even seen him hold his own in an exhibition frame against Dennis Taylor!

My friend also plays squash at a reasonable level. Gordon Brown's apparently quite good at tennis. Douglas Bader had similar leg injuries to Steve, but he walked without a stick and could play a decent round of golf.

Disabilities are only show-stoppers if you let them...

Oh please, if he were left in the room for 24 hours people would have been outraged cos BB were treating him far to softly. He didn't complain did he?and even if he did it was a task, they all complain about tasks.So whats the biggy?

Like I said in the other thread...the Mail is a shit rag.

I am outraged!!

I'm not really but I just thought I would see what it felt like.

isn't it just

Pity they didn't spend more column inches on stopping people like Steve getting his injuries in the first place. instead of being a jingoistic, war mongering, inciting race hatred  against any Johnny Foreigner type of chip wrapper

There's always "FURY AMONGST BB FANS!" in Mail-land when one person has a little moan in a thread on DS

Prezackly!

Agreed! Shame they didn't use their colum inches to highlight what shi! Dave is in his wheelchair videos

they're probably jus waiting to find evidence that one of the people pushing the chair is an immigrant

Dave's welsh ain't he? same difference 

I never bothered reading it, I hate the Daily Fail.

I was more outraged because Skippy never made an attempt to do his task. Steve just got on with it, and I'm sure he wouldn't want stuff printed making him out to be helpless.

Don't want to sound patronising but Steve actually looked like he enjoyed the challenge of the task.  I don't think having one eye was a problem but agree about standing up, and that may have limited him in other tasks too.