The answer of course is that the BBC weather service no longer uses the Met Office but now gets its forecasts from MeteoGroup. I know what your answer would be. Lucy is no doubt included in the group you project “people don’t want to see that”.
Lucy was born without her lower right arm, a “pre-existing condition” you are so fond of insisting you are protecting by fighting in the courts to abolish coverage in Obamacare. Talking of the person you inadequately replaced; here he is honoring another loser like her with a pre-existing condition. Somone whose voice synthesiser had more intelligence than you.
Come to that, the ratings for Stephen Hawking’s appearances on the “Big Bang Theory” are probably higher than all your fake “Apprentice” shows put together. His remains are interred in Westminster Abbey alongside such luminaries as Sir Isaac Newton — the guy who invented that gravity thing you seem to have such problems with. Your brief history will be buried in January.
But silly me, it’s wounded veterans who are losers that you don’t want to see. Here are some British veterans who are literally losers. They belong to BLESMA, originally the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association which now of course includes injured servicewomen.
It’s a bit strange you think “nobody wants to see that” when the picture shows the BLESMA delegation waiting to go on parade at the annual Remberance Sunday march in Whitehall. Along with their compatriots from “St Dunstans”, the establishment for blind veterans, they receive some of the loudest applause from the crowds.
Of course not all use wheelchairs these days with advances in prosthetics. Here’s snowboard para-athlete and wounded ex-serviceman Owen Pick having rather less trouble on slopes with an artificial leg than you do with two of your own.
Wounded warriors are to be celebrated and some of the greatest British heroes are “losers”. Horatio Lord Nelson lost the sight in one eye at 35, an arm at the age of 40 and his life at 47, expiring as his officers told him of his victory at Trafalgar — the naval battle not the Square in London.
Wounded warriors do not wallow in Trumpian self-pity. Admittedly not alway with the sange froid of Henry Paget at Waterloo (not the train terminus).
One of the last cannon shots fired that day hit Paget in the right leg, necessitating its amputation. According to anecdote, he was close to Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!" — to which Wellington replied, "By God, sir, so you have!" According to his aide-de-camp, Thomas Wildman, during the amputation Paget smiled and said, "I have had a pretty long run. I have been a beau these 47 years and it would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer."
Wounded warriors, the injured and those born with challenges gain the respect and admiration of others for overcoming their difficulties. They cannot use bankruptcies to get them out of facing up to them.
Douglas Bader lost his legs in a flying accident in 1931 but challenged the authorities and rejoined the RAF in WWII as fighter pilot. In 1941 he was shot down over France. The Germans respected him enough to arrange a drop of new “tin legs” but on occasions had to confiscate them to stop his escape bids.
As for not wanting to see them, the people of Wooton Bassett became famous for lining the streets to welcome home and salute the dead from Afghanistan as they passed though on their way from the nearby airbase.
Nelson’s state funeral brought London to a halt when he was carried in a great black marble sarcophagus to St.Paul’s cathedral.
Henry Paget’s amputated leg is buried in Belgium.
You, “Sir”, will be buried in ignominy.