Reposted by Tim Purches
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
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![[Scene is a guy with beard and glasses reading a poetry book in a pub. A screen showing football is behind him]
PRESENTER [TALKING TO CAMERA]:
It's a harrowing sight.
An unsporty person, trying to adjust to a world of sport.
[Show everybody else in the pub watching the World Cup on the screen].
But at one rehab centre in East London, there is hope.
[Cut to interior of a SPORTS HALL. The Presenter is showing us round as coaches try to throw balls towards bookish-looking patients].
PRESENTER:
Here, the chronically sports-repellant are given the skills they need to integrate into society.
[We see a woman in a cardigan waiting for the ball to be thrown at her to catch]
[She stand unmoving as it bounces of her forehead]
COACH:
Nearly
[Cut to a to-camera interview with a UNSPORTINESS THERAPIST, sat next to a pot plant and on the wall are framed pictures of different types of ball with directional instructions - a tennis ball - HIT - a football - KICK - a rugby ball - THROW].
THERAPIST:
We have seen a sharp spike in admissions this summer
People come to us suffering the long term effects of being goths, studying arts degrees or just being shit at P.E.
We try to coach all our patients in basic rules and banter skills.
[Cut to a coach in tracksuit sat at the bar in a pub, on the stool next to him is the same poetry-reading bloke we saw earlier].
GUY:
"Ooh he's hit the woodworm...
COACH:
Woodwork.
THERPIST [V/O]:
And when you see them reintegrate. it just makes it all worthwhile.
[The guy again, still reading poetry while all the other people look at the football, reacting to a missed goal opportunity]
EVERYBODY IN PUB:
OOOOH
GUY [a beat late]:
Ooh... woodworm.
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