A dodgy case of Tourettes

[MarillionFan]

Mrs MF was watching a program on Tourettes as I walked past the kitchen just now and it reminded me of a real life case I came across 10 years back.

I'd decided to cycle to Devon from Hampshire over a few days and had got as far as Glastonbury. It was a nice sunny afternoon and so went to Glastonbury Abbey where they were doing a play of Joseph of Arimathea & the cruxifixion. I settled down with maybe another 100 or so people and the play was presented against the backdrop of the abbey.

Off to the side was a strange chap with a really bad tick. He kept biting his hand & making small noises, he seemed very excited & some people were looking over.

The play continued and started to reach the crucifixion. Jesus came in carrying the cross. The chap seemed agitated and with the exception of a few noises seemed to be coping well.

Jesus was nailed to the cross, the people wept. The chap was biting his hand.

Jesus took his last breath and died on the cross and there was silence.....

All of a sudden from the silence of this solumn moment a loud, very loud shout of C**T echoed around the Abbey crowds. The guy immediately bit his hand muttering 'no no no'. The crowd turned to look, mothers in disgust, the centurions in the play turned to look at this crowd & then a miracle or miracles 'Jesus came back to life looked up from the cross and shook his head'

Still makes me chuckle.

Assuming that wasn't Testmanger, anyone else have any great Tourette stories?

[d000hg]

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[BrilloPad]

I remember a Tourettes protest march in London.

"What do we want?"
"A cure for Tourettes"
"When do we want it?"
"C**T"

[Paddy]

If you edit the auto-correct feature in MS Word you can make your colleague think he has Tourettes

[shaunbhoy]

I often park in the Disabled bays at the local supermarket after 6pm, if I need to pop in there for something.
I am sure I read that it is okay out of normal business hours, and besides, there are always plenty available.
As I was getting out of my car some numpty said "You don't look as though you have a disability?"
I replied "I do. I have Tourettes, so f**k off and mind your own business!!"

[TestMangler]

There was a prog on BBC3 on Monday night apparently, where some geezer is trying to put a group (in the musical sense) together made up of Tourettes sufferers. Was very entertaining apparently, but not seen it yet.

TBH, people walking about with facial ticks and shouting random swearwords doesn't sound like a 'condition' to me. Have a walk round Halifax or Glasgow and you'll see thousands of them.

[d000hg]

Good job you're here to correct the medical world then. They'll be gutted all that science was for nowt.

[KaiserWilly]

Volkswagen Tourette?

[vetran]

Volkswagen Tourette?

known as the VW toerag.

[Mich the Tester]

Dodgy might swear if you say something nasty about Mrs Thatcher, but otherwise I wouldn't say he has Tou-fcking-rettes.