Rather than acting as a tool to unearth the fragility of the human psyche, the effect is the equivalent to Dirty Dancing if Johnny Castle was crippled by, say, Tourette syndrome.
'Our party was crippled by the merger,' said another during the morning debate over whether to have a debate on the constitution, 'now it's going to shoot itself in both feet.' It is often said that people like this can be jogged out of their amnesia and trauma by familiar faces from the past, doing typical things from their previous lives.
And there's Mrs Nipper, starching her Anderson shelter - good for you, Mrs Nipper, Rommel won't know what's hit him!" It was patronising and designed to give citizens enough self-esteem to die, or be crippled, to lose their homes and those they loved, for the sake of their country, or something quite like it.
We walked into town once and were crippled.
Without educating its children the country has little hope of eradicating the poverty that has crippled this generation.
For all their recent superstar fawning coverage, Adams and McGuinness headed an organisation for three decades that slaughtered and crippled thousands in the Irish people's name.
That has crippled the Palestinian budget and led to deep pay cuts for state workers.
It means sophisticated surgical operations that rely on antibiotics – heart transplants, for one – being crippled.
I spoke to people in the know about how he might feel at certain points – like when his kids get shit at school because of him; when his wife threatens to leave on the day of a looming leadership challenge; of not being able to get it up because he's so crippled by paranoia.
Where Occupy Sandy has been an efficient prosthesis for a community crippled more by capitalism than by a hurricane, UK Uncut has become the strong arm of a state too weak to enforce its own laws.
Unknown to the voting public, their fit young president was, in fact, crippled with back pain from Addison's disease, taking industrial quantities of drugs to get through the day.
